Beyond Haunted UK: Ghosts, Mysteries & True Crime
Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min · 3 segments
Lizzie Borden took an axe... More than 130 years later, almost everyone knows the rhyme. But the rhyme isn't the truth. On 4 August 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered inside their home in…
[gentle music] "Lizzie Borden Took an Axe" is one of the most famous murder rhymes in history, and almost everything about it is wrong.
When she-
Despite more than a century of retellings, nobody has ever proved that Lizzie Borden killed anyone.
Sun sank-
On the morning of August 24th 1892, inside a house in Fall River, Massachusetts, Andrew Borden was found dead on the sitting room sofa.
One lay silent upstairs.
One would never leave his chair.
Two were dead before the day, and truth began to slip away.
Both had suffered devastating injuries from a bladed weapon, and suspicion soon turned towards Andrew's daughter, Lizzie.
That's the rhyme that history has.
But songs can change what people see, and legends aren't always history.
Was she guilty? Was she not?
More than 130 years later, people still travel to the house where Andrew and Abby died.
Some even spend the night there, and alongside the history have come stories of footsteps, voices, and apparitions, and something apparently remaining within the rooms where the murders took place.
[gentle music] "Lizzie Borden Took an Axe" is one of the most famous murder rhymes in history, and almost everything about it is wrong.
When she-
Despite more than a century of retellings, nobody has ever proved that Lizzie Borden killed anyone.
Sun sank-
On the morning of August 24th 1892, inside a house in Fall River, Massachusetts, Andrew Borden was found dead on the sitting room sofa.
One lay silent upstairs.
One would never leave his chair.
Two were dead before the day, and truth began to slip away.
Both had suffered devastating injuries from a bladed weapon, and suspicion soon turned towards Andrew's daughter, Lizzie.
That's the rhyme that history has.
But songs can change what people see, and legends aren't always history.
Was she guilty? Was she not?
More than 130 years later, people still travel to the house where Andrew and Abby died.
Some even spend the night there, and alongside the history have come stories of footsteps, voices, and apparitions, and something apparently remaining within the rooms where the murders took place.
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