Fall River’s historical past is stuffed with fascinating tales and legends — typically stories that become legends.
You possibly can’t beat the value of podcasts relating to getting bite-sized bits of historical past. Most podcasts are free, they’re instructional and entertaining, and as shut as your smartphone. Podcasts are what makes a commute bearable, maintain you firm throughout a stroll or on the gymnasium, or transport you to the depths of your creativeness whereas doing chores round the home.
Listed here are eleven-plus podcast episodes about Fall River to maintain your ears occupied.
Swindled: Jasiel Correia
This show, hosted by an nameless man identified solely as A Involved Citizen, seems to be at con artists and white collar crime. Episode 111 tells the story of former Fall River mayor Jasiel Correia, at present serving a six-year federal jail sentence for defrauding traders in a smartphone app and extorting enterprise homeowners trying to open pot outlets.
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Hear on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or on its website.
Tenfold Extra Depraved: Tragedies in Fall River historical past
Host Kate Winkler Dawson, a journalist and true crime creator, ties collectively a number of horrific episodes from Fall River’s historical past, together with the Nice Fireplace, Lizzie Borden and the Satanic Panic, right into a six-episode season titled “A Blessing and a Curse.”
Hear on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or on its website.
True crime tales:From body parts in Tiverton to murderous moms, local mysteries unsolved
You’re Unsuitable About: Lizzie Borden
Author Sarah Marshall’s present goes under the floor of city myths and tales generally informed within the media to disclose what’s beneath. On this episode, she’s joined by YouTuber Princess Weekes, who explains the story of Lizzie Borden past the “40 whacks” nursery rhyme.
Hear on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or on its website.
Lizzie Borden Podcast: Fall River historical past
Hosted by native creator and historian Stef Koorey, this deeply researched present talks to writers, historians about every kind of subjects from SouthCoast historical past — from our metropolis’s devastating fires to in-depth primers on what’s truth about Lizzie Borden and what’s fiction.
Discover the Lizzie Borden Podcast on YouTube.
Extra true crime tales:Poisoned Jell-O, a killer mom, and a career-criminal murderer
Crime Junkie: Lizzie Borden
Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat host this engaging look at the macabre, investigating serial killers, kidnappings, on-line scams and unsolved mysteries all through historical past. Their episode “Notorious” is a short look into the Borden murders, probably the most infamous chilly instances of all time.
Hear on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on its website.
Lights Out: The Carl Drew and Robin Murphy killings
The ugly killings of Doreen Levesque, Barbara Raposa and Karen Marsden in Fall River in 1979 and 1980 fed into an ethical panic about Satanism sweeping the nation on the time. Lights Out tells horrifying tales of cults, demonic possessions, exorcisms and different unsavory subjects.
Hear on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on its website.
Is Fall River cursed?Podcast Tenfold More Wicked investigates city’s true crime tales
RedHanded: The Carl Drew and Robin Murphy killings
Hosts Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala create this podcast, an audience-beloved, award-winning British present that they are saying delivers “a weekly dose of homicide, wit and ‘WTFs,’” with subjects as assorted as Atlantis, Aleister Crowley and British cryptids. Additionally they had an episode investigating the triple murder that shook the SouthCoast.
Hear on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on its website.
Spooky Southcoast: The paranormal
This present strikes far, far past true crime to discover the supernatural — every thing from vampires and Bigfoot to the Bridgewater Triangle — with a definite southeastern New England taste. Tim Weisberg hosts the present.
Take heed to it on Apple Podcasts or YouTube.
Stuff You Missed in Historical past Class: King Philip’s Warfare
This long-running show hosted by Tracy V. Wilson and Holly Frey on the iHeartRadio community has a extra grounded foundation in historical past, with an emphasis on the weird. They’ve an episode on Lizzie Borden (after all), and one other on King Philip’s Warfare, a little-appreciated chapter in America’s early historical past that passed off in our backyards.
Take heed to it on Apple Podcasts or iHeartRadio.
Final Podcast on the Left: Lizzie Borden two-parter
One of many definitive true-crime podcasts, LPOTL wanted multiple episode to dig into the story of Lizzie Borden. The episodes get into not solely the backstory and the crime and the media sensation surrounding the trial however the Bertha Manchester axe homicide case in 1893.
Take heed to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, on YouTube, or on its website.
Ever heard of it?It’s Called Culture podcast explores, celebrates growing up Portuguese and millennial
It’s Referred to as Tradition: Fall River and Portuguese tradition
Lifelong pals and Fall River natives Kelly Ferreira and Melissa Cole have been podcasting since 2022, sharing tales of rising up millennial within the Fall River space, with a particular deal with the quirks of their Portuguese heritage. In between, they talk about all kinds of subjects, all with a light-weight contact and SouthCoast taste.
Take heed to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on its website.
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