What really happened inside the Borden house that bloody summer morning — and could Lizzie’s silence have been hiding more than just guilt?
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https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mb5xas3dFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: She looms large in the annals of American crime lore. A romantic relationship gone awry and troubles at home could explain why many still believe Lizzie Borden killed her parents. (Spending The Night With Lizzie Borden) *** Many years before Adolph Hitler and Germany’s Nazis created Auschwitz, there was another concentration camp that experienced deaths in tens of thousands. But this encampment of turpitude wasn’t located in Germany – or anywhere near Europe. It was located in the land of the free… the home of the brave. The USA. (The Devil’s Punchbowl) *** Several people have returned from their near-death experiences reporting they were briefly in the fiery pits of hell. Is there any truth to their claims? (They Escaped Hell’s Clutches) *** Have you ever seen what appears to be a shadow person or dark figure (stationary or moving) with your own eyes, close up or far away, maybe even in your peripheral vision or dream state? Perhaps you have felt the sensation of someone standing behind you and then you turn around but no one was there? What is it that you are seeing when this happens? (Who Are The Shadow People?)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:00:50.704 = Show Open
00:02:54.240 = Spending The Night With Lizzie Borden
00:20:37.798 = They Escaped Hell’s Clutches ***
00:27:49.967 = The Devil’s Punchbowl: America’s Concentration Camp
00:35:51.569 = Who Are The Shadow People? ***
01:03:24.576 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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“Spending The Night With Lizzie Borden” written by Darren Marlar ***Sources include Aliza Polkes:
http://bit.ly/2X60g70, Zillow:
http://bit.ly/2X6TmOM, Kelly McClure:
http://bit.ly/2KDy3hj, Catherine Phelan:
http://bit.ly/2xkNsdv, Sarah Mangiola:
http://bit.ly/2xdVd55. Lizzie Borden monologue written by Brandy Purdy:
https://amzn.to/2IRCCTb, female narration by voice actor Katrina Carpenter:
http://bit.ly/2Jdd8hZ“The Devil’s Punchbowl: America’s Concentration Camp” by Claire Bernish:
http://bit.ly/2YeAlqd“They Escaped Hell’s Clutches” posted at Earth Chronicles:
http://bit.ly/2xoGl49“Who Are The Shadow People?” by Natalia Kuna:
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Originally aired: June 05, 2022
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https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIALWeird Darkness host Darren Marlar spends this episode on the 1892 Borden murders in Fall River, Massachusetts, visions of hell brought back from near-death experiences, a disputed Union Army camp for freed slaves in Natchez, Mississippi, and the dark figures known as shadow people.
It opens in Fall River, where the Second Street house in which Andrew and Abby Borden were killed on August 4th, 1892, now takes overnight guests as the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast. Andrew's daughter, Lizzie Borden, was tried and acquitted in June 1893, and the episode covers the dress she burned days after the murders, the real count of 18 or 19 blows for Abby and 10 or 11 for Andrew against the rhyme's 40 and 41, and author Brandy Purdy's novel The Secrets of Lizzie Borden, which builds a motive around a suitor named David
