A Fake Pregnancy, a Reborn Doll, and 500 Years of the Same Lie
Investigation Chancla por Mama Chancla
Notas del episodio
Picture this: it's 1726, and a woman in a tiny English town starts giving birth to rabbits. The whole country believes her. Doctors travel to see it. The king sends his own surgeon. Now jump almost 300 years to Scotland, where a 22-year-old faked an entire pregnancy the bump, the ultrasounds, the gender reveal, the baby shower, the birth announcement with a reborn doll named Bonnie Lee. There was never a baby. But when I actually pulled the thread, this stopped being one weird little story and turned into something about grief, shame, girlhood, the internet, and why human beings have spent centuries believing women who were never pregnant at all. So get you a snack, get comfortable, and let's fall all the way in. This is Investigation Chancla, where we're nosy, but nuanced. We don't just ask what happened. We ask what the hell is going on, and ...