"Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks;When she saw what she had done,She gave her father forty-one."  ~Author Unknown, Circa 1893.

Today on Encounters, join hosts Dakota & Amanda on a Bed and Breakfast excursion in Fall Rivers, Massachusetts. Learn the infamous story of the Andrew & Abby Borden Murders of the 1890s, meet the woman behind the rhyme, Lizzie Borden, who stood trial for the accused murder of her parents but walked away acquitted of all charges. Then learn of the residual and intelligent specters that haunt the halls of the 'Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast". 

It was the story of the decade that gave us a nursery rhyme that would be whispered down thru the ages, as a reminder of the dark atrocities that money and derangement can inspire. Come listen to the episode that shows all the angles and leave you with the question... did Lizzie take that axe? and if not.... then who did?

  Intro / Outro: Strange Stuff by Matt Harris   Additional Music:   Hostile Planet by Quincas Moreira   Voices in My Head by Quincas Moreira   Spirit of the Dead by Aakash Ghandi