Episode 10
The House on Second Street
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- On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered with a hatchet in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
- Lizzie Borden was tried in 1893 and acquitted. The case is officially unsolved.
- The house is now a bed-and-breakfast and museum.
- Overnight guests report weeping in the halls, cold spots, and apparitions, most often between three and four in the morning.
The Draugr does not invent. He documents.
Episode 10 case file
The facts
- On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered with a hatchet in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
- Lizzie Borden was tried in 1893 and acquitted. The case is officially unsolved.
- The house is now a bed-and-breakfast and museum.
- Overnight guests report weeping in the halls, cold spots, and apparitions, most often between three and four in the morning.
The evidence
- Lizzie Borden was tried in 1893 and acquitted. The case is officially unsolved.
- The house is now a bed-and-breakfast and museum.
- Overnight guests report weeping in the halls, cold spots, and apparitions, most often between three and four in the morning.
Sources
- Sources are being gathered for this file. The facts above are documented.
The words, as I spoke them.
Transcript
True story: Lizzie Borden House, Fall River MA, Aug 4 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden murdered; Lizzie tried and acquitted 1893; officially unsolved; now a B&B/museum with reported overnight-guest phenomena. No graphic murder detail. Draugr narrates all beats (no character lines, no documented verbatim wording). TOTAL NARRATION: 143 words (Draugr). Spoken estimate ~65s. First frame = the Borden house facade at night, every window dark, the front door standing open.
BEAT 1 (25 words) "August 4th, 1892. Fall River, Massachusetts. Two people murdered in their home, with a hatchet. The killer was never found. The house is still open." [Visual: the Borden house at night, all windows dark, the front door standing open; first frame is the most arresting, the open door framing total blackness inside.]
BEAT 2 (17 words) "Andrew: eleven blows. Abby: nineteen. The trial of the century, and the jury said not guilty." [Visual: 1892 courtroom, flashbulb-popping press, a stern adult woman in Victorian dress at the defense table; newspaper headlines spinning past.]
BEAT 3 (21 words) "Today the house is a bed-and-breakfast. Guests pay to sleep in the murder rooms. And my Dreaded... they do not sleep." [Visual: the same house reborn as a cozy B&B by day; a guest's suitcase on a period bed; the room's shadows lengthening wrongly fast.]
BEAT 4, OPEN LOOP (30 words) "Guests report weeping in the halls, cold spots in summer, apparitions at the foot of the bed. Always between three and four AM. What is still awake in that house?" [Visual: 3AM hallway, a weeping woman's silhouette dissolving; a guest's breath fogging in a freezing bedroom in July; bind-rune carved on the upstairs bedroom doorframe.]
BEAT 5 (18 words) "The courts closed the case in 1893. But every night, someone checks in, and the house keeps... answering." [Visual: the front desk register signing itself in flickering lamplight; a bedroom door creaking open on its own at 3:33 AM.]
BEAT 6, STITCH DARE + FOLLOW + SIGN-OFF (29 words) "Stitch this video if you'd sleep one night in the Lizzie Borden House. Follow for a new true nightmare every day. Sleep with the lights on, if you can." [Visual: the house facade at night, one window suddenly lit from within; end card: title over the darkest frame, "Tomorrow's nightmare... 😱" beneath.]
Dramatized for the telling. The facts above are documented; the narration is the Draugr’s retelling of them.
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