My Victorian Nightmare

In this episode, Genevieve will do a deep dive into Bram Stoker’s notes, interviews and musings about the inspiration behind his vampiric creation, Dracula, and then she will discuss the inspiration behind some of the most iconic costume designs in film history: Eiko Ishioka’s richly inspired, deeply symbolic costumes for Francis Ford Coppola’s film, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. 

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References:

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/whitby-abbey/history-and-stories/dracula/?source=science20.com

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/08/dracula-was-not-from-exeter-insists-bram-stoker-descendant

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/06/bram-stokers-dracula-inspired-by-writings-of-maverick-scotswoman

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/21l-310-bestsellers-out-for-the-count-fall-2018/pages/readings/dracula-notes/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/last-voyage-of-the-demeter-dracula-dmitry

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36394788/

https://www.supernaturalstudies.com/previous-journal-issues/vol-7-issue-1/cade

⁠https://archive.org/details/bramstokersnotes0000stok⁠

https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en/exhibitions/eiko-ishioka/

https://www.gothickeatspress.com/dracula-essays/eiko-ishiokas-costume-design

https://www.oscars.org/news/how-apocalypse-now-poster-led-oscar-winning-costumes-bram-stokers-dracula

In this episode, Genevieve will bring us back to the murder scenes, the time-slips, the haunted lunatic asylums and hotels of past episodes, and share the back stories to their creations.

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In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the tragic history of the Kreischer family, the many deaths, mob murders and truly creepy hauntings of the Kreischer family mansion that still stands to this very day. She will also discuss the recent discovery of a body that received a vampire burial in the 16th century and what other “deviant” and “anti-revenant” burial practices entailed.

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References:

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/21/science/vampire-burial-young-woman-poland

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7458347

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_burial

https://nyghosts.com/the-kreischer-house/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreischer_House

https://medium.com/@cosmicseasstar/staten-islands-cursed-kreischer-mansion-saga-that-ended-in-fire-death-and-murder-24048f4c80be

https://www.storiesofthesupernatural.info/kreischermansion.html

https://historygoesbump.blogspot.com/2025/11/hgb-ep-613-kreischer-mansion.html

https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nye/pr/2008/2008oct27.html

https://abc7ny.com/archive/6445552/

In this episode, Genevieve will dive back into the Illustrated Police News, The 19th century’s worst newspaper. She will discuss horrifying murder attempts with hot pokers, deadly champagne suppers, the science of decapitation, men falling dead at funerals, ghosts with guns, cannibal cats and much, much more. 

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“The Science of Decapitation” – The Illustrated Police News, May 7th, 1872.

“What Befel a New York Swell Who Persisted in Laughing at a “Dolly Varden” – The Illustrated Police News, May 7th, 1872.

“A Woman in New York Thrusts a Red Hot Iron down Her Husband’s Throat” – The Illustrated Police News, May 7th, 1872.

“Sewed in a Sheet—An Injured Wife’s Revenge on an Indolent Husband at Louisville, Ky.” – The Illustrated Police News, May 7th, 1872.

“A CORPSE AT THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS” – The Illustrated Police News, May 7th, 1872.

“How They Drink in England” – The Illustrated Police News, May 7th, 1872.

“CURIOUS CASUALTIES” – The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1879.

“Cremated Alive—The Fatal Sequel of a Champagne Supper—Terrible Revenge of a Harlot” – The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1879.

“A Live Turkey Loose in a Drug Store” – The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1879.

“Crazed by the Blow of an Icicle—Remarkable Accident to an English Tourist Behind the Cataract of Niagara” – The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1879.

“A STRANGE SUICIDE”– The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1879.

“Cannibal Cats—How They Feasted Off the Corpse of a Dead Man” – The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1879.

“A Ghost With a Revolver” – The Illustrated Police News, Oct. 10th, 1885.

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the funeral industry of the 19th century and a few of her favorite death-centered professions that are no longer in high demand today, but were positively fascinating: funeral cookie bakers, corpse-watchers, mutes and professional mourners. 

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References:

https://funeral.com/blogs/the-journal/funeral-biscuits-in-the-1800s-what-they-were-why-they-were-served-and-how-to-make-them-today?srsltid=AfmBOorry4RZkCYT3pQ2iGryb0LGfYJ-xZYnlhN6e4pYP5dl7Jb_SHwo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin-eater

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_edition_of_the_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica

https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/england/englishness-funeral-food.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_biscuit

https://www.victorianlondon.org/death/characteroffunerals.htm

https://austins.co.uk/blog/the-history-of-the-victorian-mute/

https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/tag/professional-mourners

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/alma%3A99127049613408651

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15792/pg15792-images.html

https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/category/buried-alive/

“Prematurely Buried” - Kilmore Free Press, Jan. 18th 1883.

“Narrowly Escaped Burial Alive” - The Clinton Independent, Thursday Feb. 18th, 1892.

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss verifiable accounts of tragedies that many believe explain the hauntings of 2 London Underground stations: Bank and Farringdon. She will also discuss a few unusual omens that Victorians believed predicted certain doom.

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References:

https://www.davidcastleton.net/london-underground-haunted-stations-ghosts-tube/

https://freetoursbyfoot.com/ghosts-london-underground-stations/

https://www.paranormaldatabase.com/reports/underground.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground

https://www.ghosthuntertours.co.uk/post/whispers-of-the-past-the-gruesome-tale-of-anne-naylor-s-poltergeist-at-farringdon-station

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-crime-and-execution-of-the-metyards-70c6824bae

https://www.executedtoday.com/2015/07/19/1762-sarah-metyard-and-sally-metyard-mother-and-daughter/

https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2023/04/03/sarah-whitehead-the-bank-nun-ghost/

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10118/pg10118.html

https://www.wisdomportal.com/Poems2010/AppleSymbolism.html

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the Paris Charity Bazaar fire of 1897: how an event devoted to gaiety, high society socializing and generosity became one of the deadliest fire tragedies in French history.

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References:

https://www.geriwalton.com/the-tragic-1897-charity-bazaar-fire-or-the-bazar-de-la-charite-in-paris/

https://www.broadhistory.com/the-fire-that-started-a-victorian-gender-war/

https://education.persee.fr/doc/magen_1257-5593_1897_num_64_33_31454

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazar_de_la_Charit%C3%A9

https://doctorfire.com/pages/Paris_fire.pdf

https://parishistoryofourstreets.com/2021/04/29/the-bazaar-de-la-charite-disaster-part-one/

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the shocking, little-known disasters and tragedies that began to unfold even before the smoke had cleared: the psychological unraveling of Mary Todd Lincoln, The Ford Theater collapse of 1893, the unthinkable murder/attempted suicide of the Rathbones and the numerous hauntings of the Ford Theater that still linger to this very day.

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References:

https://ghostcitytours.com/washington-dc/haunted-washington-dc/fords-theatre/

https://dcghosts.com/fords-theatre/

https://www.nps.gov/foth/learn/historyculture/the-collapse-of-ford-s-theatre.htm

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/06/07/henry-reed-rathbone/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/abraham-lincoln-funeral

https://fords.org/an-african-american-hero-emerges-from-the-tragic-fords-theatre-collapse-of-1893/

https://msmagazine.com/2012/12/05/mary-todd-lincoln-a-lunatic-or-just-grieving/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Todd_Lincoln

The_assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln_%28IA_assassxxxxxx00linc%29.pdf

https://www.americanheritage.com/haunted-major

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the murder case of Dr. Hawley Crippen: one of the most sensational murder cases in English history. We’ll discuss The glitz and glamour, the torrid affairs, the astounding escape attempt by sea, and the modern scientific discoveries that have raised serious concerns that maybe, they got the wrong guy.

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References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawley_Harvey_Crippen

https://prashganendran.com/the-notorious-dr-crippen-and-the-hilldrop-crescent-murder/

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-10802059

https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/the-notorious-case-of-dr-crippen/

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss two Victorian theater tragedies, the lives and deaths of illusionist Sigmund Neuberger, otherwise known as the Great Lafayette, and actor William Terriss, as well as their alleged hauntings of the theaters where they met their tragic ends; The Adelphi Theater in London, and the Festival Theater in Edinburgh.

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References:

https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/the-great-lafayette/

https://folkhorrorrevival.com/2017/01/08/the-great-lafayette

https://www.whatsonstage.com/news/explore-the-uks-most-haunted-theatres-with-ghost-stories_1661281/

https://sancass.medium.com/the-man-who-had-two-funerals-bf740ad6a0fe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Neuberger

https://www.victorianvoices.net/ARTICLES/STRAND/1893B/S1893B-DogCemetery.pdf

“Lafayette’s Funeral - Great Gathering in Edinburgh” - Liverpool Daily Post, May 15th, 1911.

https://london-beyond-time-and-place.com/william-terriss-the-ghost-of-a-murdered-actor/

https://bowstreetmuseum.org.uk/adelphi-murder/

https://www.thomaswhodgkinson.com/features/hello/

https://www.haunted-britain.com/the-ghost-of-william-terriss.htm

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss one the 19th century’s most shocking maritime murder cases, the massacre on the Mary Russell in 1828: a story of the slow unraveling of a captain’s sanity, bloodshed, and survival against all odds on the open seas. 

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References:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/crime/mary-russell-19th-century-massacre-legal-case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Russell_murders

https://historyireland.com/forced-from-this-world-massacre-on-the-mary-russell/

https://whyhorror.blog/2022/11/18/why-mary-russell/

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4921892/4899086/5181471

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the cast iron Fisk coffins of the mid-19th century, and the shockingly bizarre and disturbing proposals to electroplate dead bodies so that they may become golden, silver, brass or bronze statues that you could keep in your home forever.

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References:

https://katieisms.substack.com/p/the-true-history-behind-the-stunning-coffins-in-frankenstein

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-fisk-mummy-case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroplating

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-electroplating-corpses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Holmes_(mortician)

https://mthistoryrevealed.blogspot.com/2013/10/polishing-mothers-silverand-mother-too.html?m=1

“Explosion of a Metallic Coffin” - The New York Times, Nov. 6th, 1858.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-the-quest-to-preserve-lenins-body-helps-the-living

https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/survival-of-rare-anglo-saxon-coffins/

https://www.agweb.com/news/business/farmland/who-was-lady-red-farm-mystery-lingers-over-woman-iron-coffin

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the dark histories and meanings behind three 19th century masterpieces: Edvard Munch’s electrifying “The Scream,” Théodore Géricault’s devastating “Raft of the Medusa,” and John William Waterhouse’s haunting Pre-Raphaelite work, “The Lady of Shalott.”

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References:

https://www.artandobject.com/news/horrifying-history-behind-raft-medusa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa

https://smarthistory.org/theodore-gericault-raft-of-the-medusa/

https://www.singulart.com/blog/en/2019/09/10/the-scream-the-story-behind-edvard-munchs-haunting-masterpiece/?srsltid=AfmBOooUh2TbUknjf3baVjDXU3qOX0O3MxRlNQAnqPUMFwS7st60Qb67

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream

https://smarthistory.org/munch-the-scream/

https://elephant.art/the-lady-of-shalott-taught-me-that-female-power-exists-beyond-fairytales-waterhouse-nabihah-iqbal-08122020/

https://chatgpt.com/c/6a3ae6cc-3698-83ea-b510-7f8e7c458bfd

https://mydailyartdisplay.uk/2019/06/06/john-william-waterhouse-part-2/

In this, our 100th EPISODE, Genevieve will discuss the paranormal and downright bizarre events that have taken place in Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery in Chicago. We will also travel back to some of our favorite horrifying events, and we might run into some friends along the way!

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References:

https://www.bachelorsgrove.com/paranormal-history

https://www.bachelorsgrove.com/history

https://ghostcitytours.com/chicago/haunted-chicago/bachelors-grove-cemetery/

https://ghostwalks.com/articles/bachelors-grove-cemetery-graveyard-ghosts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_Grove_Cemetery

https://www.uicradio.net/post/bachelor-s-grove-cemetery-one-of-illinois-most-haunted-places

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On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss one of the most unsettling true crime stories in English history: The (seriously) true story of Thomas Bedworth, a man who claimed to be compelled to confess to murder by the ghost of his victim, Elizabeth Beesmore.

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References:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/63018/63018-h/63018-h.htm

https://hauntedpalaceblog.com/2020/01/11/jealousy-bigamy-gin-and-a-ghost-the-murder-of-elizabeth-beesmore

On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the rise and steep fall of the Lemp dynasty; the heartbreak and mysteries that surrounded the family, and the alleged hauntings of the Victorian mansion they made their home.

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References:

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/mo-lempmansion/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemp_Mansion

https://ghostcitytours.com/st-louis/haunted-st-louis/lemp-mansion-haunted/

https://www.stlmag.com/history/william-lemp-sr/

https://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/historic-beer-birthday-william-j-lemp-jr/

https://www.stlmag.com/history/more-mysteries-uncovered-in-the-lemp-family-history/

https://www.stlmag.com/history/profiles/unveiling-the-real-johann-adam-lemp/

On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss The death – or murder, of Charles Bravo. More than a century later, his death remains one of England’s most chilling unsolved mysteries; a case tangled in forbidden affairs, social ambition, horrifying abuse and whispers of revenge. Was it suicide, was it a mistake or cold blooded murder?

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References:

https://shadowsflyaway.blog/2017/01/18/horrible-murder-part-1-of-the-mysterious-and-unsolved-killing-of-charles-bravo/

https://london-overlooked.com/charles-bravo/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bravo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Bravo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Manby_Gully

The Balham Mystery - The Liverpool Weekly Mercury, Aug. 5th, 1876

The Death of Mr. Bravo. The Balham Mystery - Reynold’s Newspaper, Aug. 13th, 1876

The Bravo Mystery - Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, Sat, Jul 29, 1876

The Bravo Case - Daily News, Fri, Jul 28, 1876

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss fascinating superstitions and beliefs that Victorians held about death and cemeteries, as well as some of the origins of those beliefs. And we will discuss how medical science in the 19th century wasn’t just horrific, it was groundbreaking, and not only developed cures, treatments and techniques that we still use today to save lives, but how medical science in the Victorian era led to astounding developments in forensic science that we still use to catch killers, and exonerate the innocent.

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References:

https://friendsofoakgrovecemetery.org/victorian-funeral-customs-fears-and-superstitions

https://nashvillehistoricalnewsletter.com/2022/01/16/funeral-customs-of-the-1800s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition_in_Great_Britain

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Why-Do-People-Throw-Salt-Over-Their-Shoulder

https://www.mortonsalt.com/article/salt-history

https://people.howstuffworks.com/why-do-people-throw-salt-over-shoulders.htm

https://www.forensicscolleges.com/blog/history-of-forensics

https://boroughsofthedead.com/poisonous-prohibition-brooklyn-heights/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2010/sep/23/forensic-science-murder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Norris_(medical_examiner)

A Dictionary of Superstitions by Iona Pie and Moira Tatum

The Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore by Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the elegant and insulting language of flowers, Victorian Floriography and the demonically haunted Sallie House in Atchison, Kansas.

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References:

A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Chicago : Lewis, 1918

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens

https://usghostadventures.com/americas-most-haunted-trending/sallie-house/

https://associationofparanormalstudy.com/2023/09/20/the-haunting-of-the-sallie-house/

https://strangeandtwisted.com/blogs/stories/the-sallie-house-haunting-america-s-most-scary-paranormal-case?srsltid=AfmBOoo8PtAjh7i2WxK1TFGSPpYOQ080t_ZgT0siw8cPZ3xViOkt2SMF

https://www.ksgenweb.org/archives/1918ks/biof/finneycc.html

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ks-hauntedatchison

https://theclio.com/entry/187138

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_flowers

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-language-of-flowers-an-alphabet-of-floral-emblems-1857/

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the case of the Hammersmith Ghost, The Hope Street Body Snatching Scandal of 1826, as well as little-known, strange, disturbing and silly Victorian fads.

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References:

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2015/10/the-case-of-a-ghost-haunted-england-for-over-two-hundred-years/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammersmith_Ghost_murder_case

https://www.icysedgwick.com/hammersmith-ghost/

https://mymacabreroadtrip.com/the-hope-street-body-snatching-affair-liverpool/

https://bodyartforms.com/blog/victorian-nipple-rings?srsltid=AfmBOorl2S_72ZTUej_m4alj0heFYvEp7RVnseQtTwzaCBwsdCOIb8Tg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_headless_portrait

https://medium.com/promptly-written/the-victorians-wore-nipple-rings-4589a9b69bd4

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zander-gym/m

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the terrifying Victorian St. Mark’s Eve practice of waiting for wraiths (the ghosts of future dead people) to reveal themselves and walk through church doors at midnight. She will also discuss haunted and cursed objects like the Delhi Purple Sapphire, The Conjured Chest and the lost Franklin Exhibition-inspired painting, “Man Proposes, God Disposes.”

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References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark%27s_Eve

https://www.telelib.com/authors/I/IrvingWashington/prose/bracebridgehallvol1/bracebridgehall021.html

https://www.vice.com/en/article/doomed-to-die-on-st-marks-eve/

https://allpoetry.com/St.-Mark's-Eve---A-Fragment

https://whatliesbeyond.boards.net/thread/10973/watching-nearly-departed-marks-eve

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cursed-amethyst-natural-history-museum

https://history.ky.gov/news/new-details-about-the-cursed-chest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Proposes,_God_Disposes

https://stephenliddell.co.uk/2018/09/10/the-tale-of-the-cursed-amethyst-at-the-natural-history-museum-in-london/

http://heronallensociety.co.uk/the-purple-sapphire-mystery-solved.html

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the numerous failed assassination attempts made on Queen Victoria’s life, and the simply horrifying history of Griffith Park in Los Angeles California.

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References:

https://www.ebiketoursla.com/blog/zovbltqpf6w9m8nsgs9vbjmyz9kfgm

https://laghosttour.com/the-old-zoo-at-griffith-park/

https://patch.com/california/northhollywood/griffith-park-haunted-cursed-heart-los-angeles

https://pepperbough.com/uncategorized/2019/12/17/the-strange-case-of-griffith-park/

https://laghosttour.com/the-spirits-of-griffith-park/

https://creepyla.com/2016/10/04/haunted-curse-ghosts-monsters-griffith-park/

https://vintagelosangeles.org/griffithpark/

https://revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/04/16/mass-murder-in-griffith-park-by-jennie-grey-from-western-worker-vol-2-no-42-october-16-1933/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.latirnes.com/news/local/la-me-haunted30oct30/

https://www.revolt.tv/article/2022-08-09/185295/burning-body-found-hanging-from-a-tree-in-los-angeles?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Queen-Victoria-Eight-Assassination-Attempts/

https://www.history.com/articles/eight-times-queen-victoria-survived-attempted-assassinations

This is a sneak peek of the Victorian True Crime Extras episodes that Patreon subscribers receive each week! To receive My Victorian Nightmare ad-free, and receive Victorian True Crime Extras, visit Patreon to find out how!

In this episode, we will have a tale of ghostly revelations, prophetic dreams, jailbird snitches, dogs digging up bones and a twist you won’t see coming. This is the murder case of Russell Colvin in 1812.

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the dark history of Cleopatra’s Needle and the most haunted cemetery in Edinburgh, Greyfriars Kirkyard.

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References:

https://hauntedpalaceblog.com/2022/06/07/the-curse-of-cleopatras-needle/

https://greyfriarskirk.com/community/history-heritage/

https://eatdrinktravel.com/most-haunted-graveyard/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Kirkyard

https://edinburgh.org/blog/tales-from-beyond-the-grave-in-edinburgh/

https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/greyfriars-kirkyard/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Porteous_(soldier)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147056916/george-lockhart

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/apr/24/ukcrime.scotland?utm

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the terribly haunted Cheesman Park in Denver, Colorado, and the unthinkable murder of Emily Harrison Coombes, otherwise known as The Plaistow Horror.

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References:

https://denverterrors.com/cheesman-park/

https://visitdenver.com/blog/post/haunted-cheesman-park/

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/co-cheesemanpark/

https://www.denverpost.com/2010/11/01/four-preserved-skeletons-unearthed-at-denvers-cheesman-park-once-a-cemetery/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Coombes_(murderer)

https://www.historicmysteries.com/major-crimes/robert-coombes/34645/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/05/the-wicked-boy-the-mystery-of-a-victorian-child-murderer-kate-summerscale-review

https://www.murdermayhem.uk/p/the-boy-murderer-who-became-a-war

https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/matricide-in-plaistow-1895/

On today’s episode, Genevieve will take us back to creepy field trips of yore: the murder scenes, spooky cemeteries and cult compounds of episodes past, and give a little more dimension to each episode where we took these trips.

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss ghost sightings in the Old Salem Jail, The 1856 Wakemanite cult killing of Justus Mathews and their connection to the “maniac murderer” Charles Stanton.

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References:

https://www.demandinggenealogist.com/uploads/7/3/3/0/7330460/news05-04.pdf

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2020/05/the-wakemanite-murder.html

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2013/03/murdered-by-maniac-guest-post-by-james.html

https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/archives/uncoveringnewhaven/blog/That-he-had-surrendered-his-reason-to-her-control-The-intriguing-ca

https://ghostcitytours.com/salem/haunted-salem/old-salem-jail/

https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-cities/salems-most-haunted/the-old-salem-jail/

“Horrible Murders Resulting From Fanaticism” - Franklin Repository and Transcript, Jan 9th, 1856.

“The Wakemanite Delusion - Indictment of the Murderers” - The Cleveland Leader, Jan 28th, 1856

“Another Tragedy” - Semi-Weekly Spectator

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the “alleged” New England vampire, Nellie Vaughn as well as the murders of Albert N. McVicar and Elsie Sigel, two victims mysteriously found in trunks.

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References:

https://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/ccca/emma-ledoux-housewife-prostitute-bigamist-murderess/

https://www.209magazine.com/departments/in-the-know/the-lady-and-the-trunk/

https://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/ccca/the-murder-of-elsie-sigel-by-her-chinese-lover-1909/

https://www.tenement.org/blog/where-miss-sigel-met-her-slayer/#:~:text=They%20arrested%20three%20men%20in,police%20and%20reporters%20in%201909.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meet-the-real-life-vampires-of-new-england-and-abroad-42639093/

https://skepticalhumanities.com/2011/07/21/nellie-vaughn-the-vampire-who-wasnt-a-vampire/

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss “temporary insanity” in the Victorian era, men demanding to be executed, the horrifying history of Niagara Falls, shocking murders, women falling out of windows, New York’s westside cowboys on the avenues of death and much, much more.

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References:

“A Wife Murderer Wants to be Hung Right Off” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 2nd, 1872.

“Compelled to Marry or Become a Corpse” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 25th, 1872.

“A BRUTAL BOSTON TRAGEDY” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 25th, 1872.

“A St. Louis Woman Checks the Insults of a Drunken Ruffian with an Umbrella” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 25th, 1872.

“A VIRGINIA BORGIA” - The Illustrated Police News,  Apr. 25th, 1872. 

“Three Men Swept Over Niagara Falls” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 2nd, 1872.

“Perilous Descent by a Lady from a Third Story Window in New Orleans” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 2nd, 1872.

“Murder Made Easy” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 2nd, 1872.

“A Young Lady Rescued from Imminent Peril upon Fourth Avenue, New York” - The Illustrated Police News - Apr. 25th, 1872.

“A Father Brained by His Son in Kentucky” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 25th, 1872.

"The Tragedy of Life" - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 25th, 1872.

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the horrific, Jack-The-Ripper-adjacent serial killer murder cases, the Thames Torso Murders.

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References:

“THE WHITECHAPEL TRAGEDY”-  East London Advertiser, Saturday, 21 September 1889.

“THE LONDON TRAGEDIES” - The Daily Telegraph, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1888.

“The Whitehall Mystery” - Hull Evening News, Sat, Oct 13, 1888.

“The Thames Mystery” - The Illustrated Police News, etc., Sat, Jun 22, 1889.

“The Thames Mystery” - Birmingham Evening Mail, Thu, Sep 13, 1888.

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18870723.2.70.11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Torso_Murders

https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/introducing-a-new-prime-suspect-as-the-thames-torso-killer/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/963217933/?match=1&terms=The%20Whitehall%20Mystery

https://www.casebook.org/victims/jackson.html

https://www.casebook.org/dissertations/thames-torso-murders.html

https://www.casebook.org/victims/pinchin.html

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In this episode, we discuss how to work with the raw, vulnerable and painful feelings that eclipse season reveals, we'll discuss why and how to do shadow work: allowing our darkest parts to have their say, and we'll have a gentle, heart opening meditation to make shadow work easier.

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the “criminal lunatic murderer” and master painter of fairies, Richard Dadd, the ballsiest, fraudulent mediums of all: the Davenport brothers, men attacked with swords, the tough lives of newsboys, and blood-thirsty female whisky-slingers, all this and much much more.

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References:

http://nineduane.queenitsy.com/

https://livingwithschizophreniauk.org/richard-dadd/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fairy_Feller%27s_Master-Stroke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_brothers

“The Haunted House” - The Jeffersonian, Sat, Dec 03, 1859.

The Spiritualist - Feb 15th, 1870.

“A Man Fearfully Cut with Swords in Brooklyn” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 18th, 1872.

“The Grand Executioner Dead”- The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 18th, 1872.

“Attempted Suicide of a Married Lady in Third Street, Allegheny, Pa.” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 18th, 1872.

“The Newsboys’ Home, in New York City” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 18th, 1872.

“A BLOOD-THIRSTY FEMALE WHISKEY-SLINGER” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 18th, 1872.

“A Harrisburg Woman Sits Beside her Lazy Husband in a Bar-Room, and is Resolved to Remain as Long as he Does”-  The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 18th, 1872.

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss Madame Vesta la Viesta, the galactic mystic and clairvoyant, suicidal ghosts, mediums in spirit cabinets, and the horrifying Meeks family murder of 1894. 

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References:

“The Haunted House” - The Jeffersonian, Dec. 3rd, 1859.

“THE APPEARANCE OF SPIRITS AT PUBLIC MEETINGS” - The Spiritualist, Feb. 15th, 1870.

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2014/02/get-rich-magic-astral-adventures-of.html

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2011/04/meeks-family-murder.html

https://sullivan.mogenweb.org/meeksmurders.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62455822/nellie_l-spray

https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/850.pdf

On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss Madame Tussaud's macabre origin story, haunted houses, fatal theater accidents, murder in a row boat, murder in a furnace, death in a dentist’s chair, and a courageous, life-saving dog - all this and much, much more.

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References:

https://www.delish.com/food-news/a70248518/toxic-levels-arsenic-found-in-candy/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber_of_Horrors_(Madame_Tussauds)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tussaud

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/04/madame-tussaud-edward-carey-little

“A Haunted House” - The Jeffersonian, Dec. 3rd, 1859.

The Spiritualist, Feb. 15th, 1870.

“Terrible & Fatal Accident At The New Theatre” - The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post, Western Countries and South Wales Advertiser, Jan 1st, 1870.

A Girl Pursues her Faithless Lover and Shoots him in a Row-Boat while Crossing the Sound to Elizabethport, N. J. - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 11th, 1872.

Death Laughs at the Laughing Gas, Behind the Dentist’s Chair - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 11th, 1872.

“A Well-to-do Jerseyman’s Wife Begging in the Streets of New York” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

“MADE HER OWN SHROUD” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

“A MOTHER-IN-LAW’S SACRIFICE” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 11th, 1872.

Extraordinary Shipwreck and Wonderful Sagacity of a Dog - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 18th, 1872.

Which the Human and which the Brute—Wonderful Sagacity of a Mare which Assists her Drunken Owner Home by the Coat Collar - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 11th, 1872

On today's episode, Genevieve will be discussing legal cases brought about by hauntings, the legendary and mysterious exhumation of Elizabeth Siddal, otherwise known as Ophelia, ghost globules, spirit photography, and the utterly tragic Bradford Sweets poisonings of 1858. 

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References For Today's Episode:

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Dying-for-Humbug-the-Bradford-Sweets-Poisoning-1858/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hope_(paranormal_investigator)

https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/spirit-photography-occult-images

⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen⁠

https://burialsandbeyond.com/2019/02/12/elizabeth-siddal-the-exhumed-muse/

On today's episode, Genevieve will have little known, strange and unusual facts about Nikola Tesla, ghosts with deep and ghastly wounds, a woman smoking a pipe in a hearse, corpse flinging, pickax murders and a woman’s revenge with a rolling pin. All this and much, much more. 

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References For Today's Episode:

https://www.zillowgroup.com/news/selling-a-haunted-house/

"A HAUNTED HOUSE IN WESTMINSTER" - South Bourke and Mornington Journal, Nov. 17, 1880. 

"SCENERY IN THE SPIRIT WORLD" - The Spiritualist, Dec. 1869.

“A Quebec Woman Creates a Sensation, Riding Through St. John Street in a Hearse, Reclining on the Coffin-Bed, and Smoking a Pipe” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 11th, 1872.

"A GHASTLY CORPSE FLUNG INTO A NEW YORK ALLEY." - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 11th, 1872.

"A San Francisco Wife Shoots her Husband and is Sorry she didn’t Kill Him" - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 11th, 1872.

“A Dying Husband Witnesses the Death Struggles of his Wife and Dies from an Overdose of Laudanum, in Boston, Mass” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 4th, 1872.

“Two Railroad Firemen Have a Friendly Scuffle which Ends in a Murder” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 4th, 1872.

“Miraculous Escape From a Mistaken Murderer” - The Illustrated Police News, 1871.

“A Pickaxe Driven Through a Boy’s Intestines in New York City”  - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 11th, 1872.

“A Kansas City Tragedy — A Strange Lady Shot and Killed in a Hotel” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 11th, 1872.

"A Lady of Atlanta, Ga., Ties her Husband’s Hands and Feet and Searches his Pockets for a Love-Letter" - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 11th, 1872.

On today's episode, Genevieve will have the tragic tale of the Donner Party, the group of 87 pioneers who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1847, who were driven to commit acts of cannibalism to survive. She will also discuss the séances of “The Naked Medium,” Eva Carrière, as well as how the dead define “space.”

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References For Today's Episode:

https://www.kqed.org/news/11844011/donner-party-pt-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-donnerparty/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Donner-party

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Carri%C3%A8re

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/11/22/eva-carriere-the-lying-spiritualist-ectoplasm-was-said-to-come-from-every-orifice-of-her-body/

“Spirit Wrapping in John Wesley’s Family” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 17th 1869.

“A Spirit on SPACE” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 17th 1869.

On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss astral projecting souls, an interview with a dead woman, skeletons found in a beer vat, terrible mutilations, an unexpected corpse - a number of unexpected corpses, actually, diamond studded murder weapons, and much, much more.

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References For Today's Episode:

“CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES” - The Sidney Journal, Feb. 25th, 1870.

The Spiritualist - Dec. 31st, 1869.

“Two Dead Men Found at the Bottom of a Beer Vat in a Brewery in Baltimore, Md.” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 28th, 1872.

“ARIZONA’S HORRORS” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 28th, 1872.

“BOUGHT A CORPSE” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 28th, 1872.

“O’Connell, the Celtic Blunderer, Pulls the Wrong Tooth from Mrs. McCarty, and what He Received for His Services, at Hyde Park, - Mass” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 28th, 1872.

“A Bloody Fight in a Saloon on Mulberry Street, New York” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 28th, 1872.

“THE MURDERED PRINCESS” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 28th, 1872.

“CHARGE AGAINST A MEDICAL MAN” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 28th, 1872.

https://www.mdhistory.org/here-at-last-he-is-happy-the-death-and-burial-of-edgar-allan-poe/

On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss not one but 2 female poisoners of the 19th century. Adelaide Bartlett and Mary Ann Cotton. This episode will be dripping with chloroform and arsenic.

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References For Today's Episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimlico_Mystery

https://mayfairtimes.co.uk/2022/04/the-pimlico-poisoning/

https://www.historicmysteries.com/history/pimlico-poisoning/24405/

https://thethreepennyguignol.com/2024/04/17/the-impossible-case-of-the-pimlico-poisoning/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Cotton

https://www.historyhit.com/who-was-mary-ann-cotton/

https://www.wired.com/2012/02/arsenic-and-the-forgotten-serial-killer/

https://www.visitheritage.co.uk/things-to-do/cultural-history/true-crime/mary-ann-cotton

“CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES” - The Sidney Journal, Feb. 25th, 1870.

“SEANCES AT THE SPIRITUAL LIBRARY” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 31st, 1869.

On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss the ghosts of The Tower of London, Welsh fasting girls, rabid brides, maniacs with razors, an attempted murder at a christening, a great deal of homicidal arson and a fatal masquerade.

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References For Today's Episode:

“The Tower Ghost” - The Sydney Mail, Feb. 26th, 1870.

“THE WELSH FASTING GIRL” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 31st 1869.

“A Rabid Bride” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 28th, 1872.

“A Truant Wife in a House of Ill-Fame at Washington” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

Josephine Creamer vs. Charles Creamer - Petition for Divorce - Puget Sound Dispatch, Aug. 1st 1872.

“A Man and His Wife Murdered and Burned in Indiana” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Struggle for Life in the Grasp of the Madman Purdy, at Newburg, N.Y.” — The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

“A Bloody Christening in Boston — Timothy Cannon Stabs His Cousin”- The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

“A Deserted Maiden of St. Louis Attempts to Burn Her Recreant Lover Alive” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

“Fatal Result of a Masquerading Joke at Millerton, New York” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

https://www.walks.com/blog/tower-of-london-ghosts/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Jacob

https://ghil.hypotheses.org/2151

On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss the Yule Cat, Krampus and the Yule Goat, as well as a few other deeply disturbing monsters that roam the countryside, looking to slice children open and replace their insides with straw and rocks every Christmas. Some of these creatures have ancient origins, but they all really shined in the Victorian era.

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References For Today's Episode:

“Ghost Story” - The Halifax Courier and Guardian, Nov. 19th, 1853.

“The Human “Double” - The Spiritualist, Jan. 14th, 1870.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_cat

https://education.turpentinecreek.org/2023/12/09/the-spooky-legend-of-the-yule-cat/

https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2025/12/krampus-origins-and-development-of-a-winter-devil/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Fouettard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knecht_Ruprecht

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BDla

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perchta

https://www.tumblr.com/themousefromfantasyland/635704522538450945/the-creatures-of-yuletide-the-yule-goat

https://www.wisfarmer.com/story/life/2018/12/20/yule-goat-holidays-and-good-crops/2369257002/

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/storey/the-yule-goat/

https://london-overlooked.com/chelsea/

https://www.curiousarchive.com/emilie-sagee-bilocation-doppelganger/

https://english.nepalnews.com/s/explainers/the-rise-fall-and-acquittal-of-nepals-buddha-boy-everything-you-need-to-know/

On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss corpse-related practical jokes, jealousy and suicide, an insane pioneer pistol murderess, a religious maniac family annihilation, men bitten by mad dogs and the madcap frolic of a cross-dressing widow in New York City.

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References For Today's Episode:

“A BUDGET OF GHOST STORIES” - Cheshire Observer,  Mar. 6th, 1869.

“What Is The Use of Spiritualism" - The Spiritualist, Dec. 3rd, 1869. 

"A Ghastly Practical Joke" — The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

"A Termagant Hangs Herself in Brooklyn, N.Y." - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

“Jealousy and Suicide” - The Wheeling Daily Register, Mar. 16th, 1872.

"The Pioneer Pistol Murderess Insane" - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

"A Drunkard’s Baby Gnawed by a Dog" - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

"A BLOODY DOMESTIC DRAMA" - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

"Men Bitten by a Mad Dog in Kansas" — The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

"MADCAP FROLIC OF A BEAUTIFUL NEW YORK WIDOW" - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Harris_%28murderer%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madstone_(folklore)

On today's episode, Genevieve will have nearly naked women clinging to lampposts, throat-slittings, self-shootings, women choking out would-be burglars, Dante’s Hell of ice, men chopped to pieces, a man named "Chicken" sentenced to hang, and a serenading lover nearly drowned - but he’s OK, that one turns out OK, thank God.

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References for today’s episode:

“John Devin, the California “Chicken,” Sentenced to be Hanged” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

“THE GHOST AT THE CHESHIRE INN” - Cheshire Observer,  Mar. 6th, 1869.

"The Medium Mr. Morse" - The Spiritualist, Dec. 17th, 1869.

“A Crazy Woman Struggles With Policemen at Midnight on Washington Bridge, Williamsburgh, L.I” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

"The Kate Slade Case Again - A Woman Who Trusts in the Gods Believes All Men Are Devils, and Will Keep Her Mouth Hermetically Sealed" - The Brooklyn Union, Feb. 24th, 1872.

“MURDER AND SELF-MURDER DOWN EAST” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

“A Plucky Woman of New Jersey Holds a Robber at Bay Until the Arrival of Her Husband” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

“JACK FROST. WINTER RENEWED WITH TEN-FOLD VENGEANCE” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

“Determined to Strangle” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

“A Man Chopped to Pieces by His Wife and Her Paramour”- The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

“A Serenading Lover Comes to Grief in Lafayette, Indiana.” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

https://www.weather.gov/media/okx/Climate/Almanacs/nyc/nycmar.pdf

https://www.sbnm.org/Portals/NMBAR/AboutUs/committees/Historical/Crime_and_Punishment_In%20Colonial_New_Mexico.pdf?ver=i1lIcY1_Ia45yNDeXaM9DQ%3D%3D#:~:text=Finally%2C%20the%20death%20penalty%20was,%2C%20desertion%2C%20and%20premeditated%20murder.

https://lldc.mainelegislature.org/Open/Rpts/PubDocs/PubDocs1872-73/PD1872-73_16.pdf

https://grokipedia.com/page/Shanghaiing

https://www.executedtoday.com/tag/1872/#:~:text=For%20about%20four%20minutes%20there,yet%20be%20brought%20to%20punishment

On today’s episode, Genevieve will be taking you back to the blood-smeared Victorian railways. She will be discussing the murders of Sarah Hart and Thomas Briggs, as well as the “Philip Experiment” where scientists believed they conjured a ghost out of thin air.

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References For Today’s Episode:

“A Budget of Ghost Stories” - Cheshire Observer,  Mar. 6th, 1869.

“Mr. Morse” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 1869.

“The Murder at Salthill” - The Bath Chronicle and Herald, Mar. 20th, 1845.

“Funeral of Sarah Hart” - Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic, Jan. 16th 1845.

https://moonmausoleum.com/the-philip-experiment-the-spirit-created-by-scientists/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_M%C3%BCller

https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/about-us/about-us/our-history/crime-history/first-railway-murder/

https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/about-us/about-us/our-history/crime-history/murder-of-sarah-hart/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tawell

On today's episode, Genevieve will have unpleasant stabbings, poison mania, an accident that will ruin your week, women mysteriously delivered in coffins, men swallowing wedding rings, opium eaters, charred, lifeless remains and much, much more.

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References:

“Christmas Ghosts and Scientific Ghosts” - The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Weekly Messenger, County Journal and General Advertiser, Dec. 26th, 1863.

"Mr. Woolnough" - The Spiritualist, Dec. 17th, 1869.

“Unpleasant Stabbing Affray Between Italians in New York”- The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

“The Mulberry Street Butchery” - New York Daily Herald, Mar. 2nd, 1872.

"The Poisoning Mania"- The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

"Horrible Accident to a Woman in Canal Street, N.Y." - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

“More New York Justice” - The St. Louis Republic, Nov. 20th 1872.

"Another Mystery" - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

"A Bridegroom in Cleveland Swallows his Wedding Ring" - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

“Mr. Pepper’s Last Ghost” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 1869.

"One More Indiana Horror" - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

"A New Social Evil — The Male and Female “Opium Eaters” of New York" - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

“Young Gentlemen of Boston Submitting Their Arms to a Charming Female Vaccinator” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Ladies in the Medical Profession” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 17th, 1869.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiana_Edmunds

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss Victorian grave stone symbolism, The Moberly-Jourdain Incident, a tale of time-slipping, potentially residually haunted, deeply respected academics in 1901, and Ghost clubs of the 19th century.

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References:

https://www.undercliffecemetery.co.uk/gallery/funerary-art/

https://www.vintageviews.org/vv-tl/pages/Cem_Symbolism.htm

https://arnosvale.org.uk/secrets-and-symbols-the-grave-language-of-the-victorian-cemetery/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moberly%E2%80%93Jourdain_incident

https://www.ranker.com/list/moberly-jourdain-incident-and-time-travel/genevieve-carlton

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/10/31/ghost-club-yeats-dickens-secret-society-spirits/

https://www.openculture.com/2017/05/the-ghost-club.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Club

https://dickenssociety.org/archives/4679

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have ghosts throwing potato chips, female poison serial killers, the body of a murderer on display for the general public, a horrible uxoricide, a naked women in prison attempting to "dash her brains out," a life of romance and suffering and fancy, lady's-only gambling parlors. No boys allowed!

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References:

“Virginian Ghosts” - The Times-Picayune, Nov. 23, 1874.

“Mr. J. Davis” - The Spiritualist, - The Spiritualist, Dec. 17th, 1869.

“A Woman Poisons Her Husband’s Food in Stark County, Indiana” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“A Murderer’s Body on Exhibition” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“A Prisoner Leaps from a Court Room Window in Kansas City, Mo., and Escapes” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 8th, 1872.

“Horrible Uxoricide” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“An Inconsiderate Parent” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“A Wrangle Over the Remains of Botts the Murderer” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 8th, 1872.

“Miss Eva G. Vallee, the Pretty Female Prisoner, Simulates a Fit and Attempts Suicide in the Central Police Station, New York City” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“A Sad Story” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“The She-Gamblers of San Francisco” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

"Police Report" - The Leavenworth Times, Jul. 30th, 1872. 

"Forestalling the Gallows" - The Courier-Journal, Mar. 27th, 1872

"Confidence Woman Convicted" - The Daily Evening Herald, Apr. 13th, 1872

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_chips

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon%27s_Lake_House

https://deathpenaltyusa.org/usa1/date/1872.htm

https://publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Blume-final.pdf

https://mrsdaffodildigresses.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/women-gamblers-of-new-york-1884/

https://www.victorianweb.org/history/leisure/gambling1.html

I decided to re-record my favorite gothic poem of all time, Edgar Allan Poe's, The Raven, for Halloween this year. I hope you enjoy this spooky bonus episode!

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In this episode, Burned in a Furnace, we will have a tale of cold blooded murder, ashes, bones, bombshell accusations in the courtroom, and not one but two foiled prison escape attempts. This is the murder of William Bachman.

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will conclude haunted Halloween hotel month with the dark, haunted history of the infamous Stanley Hotel that inspired Steven King’s, The Shining. She will be sharing the true and untrue tragedies that folks claim to be the origins of the spectral guests that inhabit the hotel to this day.

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References:

“Ghosts Ghosts!” - Richmond Independent Telegram, Sept. 1st, 1871.

"Mr. Avery" - The Spiritualist, Dec. 17th, 1869.

https://usghostadventures.com/americas-most-haunted-hotels-and-inns/hauntings-of-the-stanley-hotel/

https://www.uncovercolorado.com/stanley-hotel-haunted-history/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanley_Hotel

https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/carrie-welton

https://www.lakecountypubliclibrary.org/lake-county-cemetery-records

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have ghosts, ghosts and more spooky ghosts, including ghost trains! As well as the capture of 2 midnight grave robbers, Mary Todd Lincoln incognito at a seance, and Scottish Halloween traditions from 1876.

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References:

“A Haunted House in Brooklyn” - The Times-Picayune, Nov. 23rd, 1874.

"Mr. J.S. Steele" - The Spiritualist, Dec. 1869.

"Chicago Hyenas" - Chicago Tribune, Mar. 4th, 1872.

"Mrs. Lincoln Seeking the Spirit of Her Husband in Boston" - Illustrated Police News, Feb. 29th, 1872.

"The Late Railroad Accident" - The Daily Journal, Jan. 11th, 1856.

"Halloween" - Anaheim Gazette, Nov. 4th, 1876.

https://www.thoughtco.com/supernatural-and-spooky-events-1773802#:~:text=The%20Bell%20Witch%20Terrorized%20a,The%20animal%20ran%20off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maco_light

https://www.ourstate.com/maco-light/

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/seances-in-the-red-room

https://web.archive.org/web/20111228012923/http://www.wilmingtonrailroadmuseum.org/content/joebaldwin.php

https://www.historicrailpark.com/otr-blog/the-haunting-of-the-ln-line-the-legend-of-the-ghost-train/

On today’s episode, Genevieve will be talking about the disturbing history and hauntings of the Crescent Hotel, built in Eureka Springs, Arkansas in 1886. She will also receive a reading from Medium, Jennifer Page, from the I Talk to Ghosts Podcast, and she will also discuss the horrifying haunted history of Leap Castle in Ireland.

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References:

https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/leap-castle/

https://crescent-hotel.com/about/history/

https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-stories/the-crescent-hotel-americas-most-haunted-hotel/

https://steemit.com/history/@winstonwolfe/the-macabre-history-of-the-crescent-hotel-in-eureka-springs-arkansas

https://www.ozarksalive.com/stories/crescenthoteleurekasprings

https://horroraddicts.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/it-came-from-the-vault-ghost-hunting-with-rhonda-carpenter-the-crescent-hotel/

On today’s episode, Genevieve will be taking you back to some of our favorite cemeteries, public hangings, creepy seances and ax murders that we’ve enjoyed together in episodes of yore!

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss women buried in wedding dresses, dismembered bodies in trunks, shawl disputes leading to knife attacks, a death by kicking written in flabbergasting detail, and a lady blitzed out of her bloomers on laughing gas, attempting all manner ofgymnastics for an adoring crowd. She will also discuss Spiritualist philosophy of the 1800s and a family’s terrifying ghost encounter.

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References for today's episode:

“SPIRIT-RAPPING IN JOHN WESLEY’S FAMILY” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 3rd, 1869.

“The Philosophy of Spiritual Manifestations” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 3rd, 1869.

“A Father’s Meanness” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th 1872.

“A TRUNK HORROR IN FRANCE” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 29th, 1872.

“A Woman's Arm Cut to the Bone in a Quarrel About a Shawl in New York City” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 8th, 1872.

“John Cannon, a Railroad Engineer, Pounded and Kicked to Death by a Party of Germans in St. Louis” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 8th, 1872.

“A Highly Exhilarated Young Lady under the Influence of Laughing Gas at Cooper Institute, New York” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 8th, 1872.

https://www.geriwalton.com/nitrous-oxide-or-laughing-gas/

https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2019/01/23/sewing-shrouds-19th-century-burial-clothing-2/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.funeralbasics.org/8-intriguing-funeral-customs-victorian-era/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.eterneva.com/resources/mourning-dress?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/04/queen-victoria-royal-wedding?srsltid=AfmBOoqX-HLxm4XN36H-oTzpmF0ptpI_sGjQbGe60HWQtuyLG0uh3FaN&utm_source=chatgpt.com

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss one of the most confounding and eery nautical mysteries of all time: The Ghost ship, Mary Celeste. This was a brigantine ship owned by Captain Benjamin Briggs that was found floating all by its lonesome in the Atlantic in 1872, with all of its crew, the captain, his wife and baby - nowhere to be found.

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The Best Scone Recipe:

https://www.shekeepsalovelyhome.com/lavender-lemon-scones-honey-butter/

Squid Attacks:

https://backyardhistory.ca/f/giant-squid-attacks-in-newfoundland

References for today's episode:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abandoned-ship-the-mary-celeste-174488104/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste

https://www.modelerscentral.com/maritime-history/story-of-the-mary-celeste/?srsltid=AfmBOoqyF9ufbWn45U-NMst1M9JDATRjhZjSl75oqiD7dob_99CJHqiC

https://www.thecluecollective.com/single-post/2017/12/05/mystery-history-the-top-10-theories-explaining-why-the-mary-celestes-crew-disappeared

https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/the-mystery-of-the-mary-celeste-supernatural-event-or-fatal-accident-d26584c02cd4

https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/2004/07/08/author-probes-maritime-mystery/50442951007/

https://ladybookdragon.com/2019/05/24/friday-poetry-29

On today's episode, Genevieve will have a series of mysterious and tragic murders in the southwest, men frozen to death, dogs playing with dead bodies in basements, nose pullers, lost wigs, and highly inappropriate sarcasm regarding incredibly violent vigilante justice. We'll also have a haunted house in 1878 with too many skeletons buried in the basement to know who's who.

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References:

"That Spook Roots" - The Boston Globe, Apr. 8th, 1878.

"A GHOST STORY" - Kansas City Journal, Mar. 15th, 1878.

"A FEARFUL VERDICT" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

"Bloody Crimes at the Southwest" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

"DRIVEN TO DESPAIR AND DEATH" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

"PROBABLE INFANTICIDE IN CHARLESTOWN" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 23rd, 1872.

"Dora Walsh gets her Nose Pulled by a Shoe Dealer in New York" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 23rd, 1872.

"A WOMAN'S TONGUE CUT OUT" - The Illustrated Police News, Oct. 28th 1878.

"How a Kokomoo Church Member Lost his Wig During Service" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

"An Old Story" - Pontiac Sentinel, Nov. 6th, 1878.

Just a little example of the kind of content posted on the Fan Coven, along with ad-free My Victorian Nightmare episodes, Dark Poetry, and weekly Victorian True Crime Extras!

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will be taking you to the haunted Victorian era-built Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. She will discuss its horrifying history and its present-day spectral inhabitants. She will also discuss the Cock Lane Ghost story, as well as a 19th century, Groucho Marks-style mishap that occurred at a seance.

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References for today’s episode:

“The Cock Lane Ghost” - The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle,May 10th, 1873. 

“Reichenbach at a Spirit Circle” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 3rd, 1869.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Allegheny_Lunatic_Asylum

https://www.roadunraveled.com/blog/trans-allegheny-lunatic-asylum/

https://www.medlink.com/news/the-evolution-of-electroconvulsive-therapy-from-controversial-beginnings-to-a-safe-and-effective-treatment

https://www.uniquetravelphoto.com/trans-allegheny-lunatic-asylum/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_Lane_ghost

https://usghostadventures.com/americas-most-haunted-trending/terrors-of-the-trans-allegheny-lunatic-asylum/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/xivpop/for_a_decade_i_was_a_paranormal_tour_guide_at_an/?rdt=32916

https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/trans-allegheny-lunatic-asylum/

https://midatlanticdaytrips.com/2021/10/what-lurks-in-the-halls-of-transallegheny-lunatic-asylum-at-night/

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have bullets – right between the eyes, mysterious throat slittings, diabolical plots involving corn pipes, buffalo hunters frozen to death, mysterious suicides, mangled men caught in cow-catchers and Spanish men falling out of windows, cursing all the way down. 

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References for today’s episode:

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2022/01/i-caught-them-in-act.html

https://www.instagram.com/chrisnetzelofficial?igsh=b3NmY2hoMzQ4aTZn

"A True Ghost Story" - The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Jan. 19th, 1879.

"Solomon, King of Israel" - The Spiritualist, Nov 19th, 1869.

"One Dead, the Other Dying" - The Atlanta Constitution, Jul. 13th, 1892. 

"A Beautiful Young Kentucky Girl Cuts Her Own Throat" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

"Effect of a Diabolical Plot to Burn a Man by Charging His Pipe With Gunpowder at Cincinnati" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb 22nd, 1872.

"A Kansas Horror" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb 15th, 1872.

"A Spaniard at Terre Haute, Indiana, Mistakes the Noise of a Serenading Party for an Earthquake and Jumps out of a Window" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb 22nd, 1872.

"Ghastly Freight on a Camden and Amboy Locomotive in Lawrence, N.J." - The Illustrated Police News, Feb 22nd, 1872.

"A Bloody Mystery in Cincinnati" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Coroners Inquest” - The Cincinnati Enquirer, May 7th, 1872.

"The Brooklyn “What Is It.” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb 22nd, 1872.

On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the Greenbrier Ghost; the only ghost, supposedly, who ever helped to solve her own murder. She will also discuss how to avoid becoming a Chinese hopping vampire, and exactly who, and who should not, attempt a “Dark Séance.”

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References for today’s episode:

“MONGOLIAN GHOSTS” - St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 28th, 1876.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangshi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenbrier_Ghost

https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2018/01/greenbrier-ghost.html

https://www.greenbrierhistorical.org/blog/the-greenbrier-ghost-reexamined

https://www.gothichorrorstories.com/gothic-travel/the-death-resurrection-and-retribution-of-zona-heaster-shue-the-greenbrier-ghost/

https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/greenbrier

https://wvexplorer.com/2024/01/20/greenbrier-ghost-zona-heaster-shue-west-virginia-wv/

On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss a number of brutal murders, throat slittings, girls shooting themselves in the face, sleighing accidents, smallpox in a corn-crib, horse burglars - meaning burglars who are horses - scenes from a scaffold, swallowed pen knives and so much more.

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References for today’s episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supernatural_beings_in_Chinese_folklore#:~:text=to%20snatch%20babies.-,Wutou%20gui%20(%E6%97%A0%E5%A4%B4%E9%AC%BC),her%20head%20on%20the%20side

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_in_Chinese_culture#:~:text=Ghosts%20without%20means%20(%E7%84%A1%E8%B2%A1,distressing%20to%20themselves%20and%20others

https://www.dharmadrum.org/portal_d8_cnt_page.php?folder_id=56&cnt_id=259&up_page=1#:~:text=In%20Buddhism%2C%20the%20Yogacara%20Flaming,the%20Burning%2DMouth%20Hungry%20Ghosts

https://www.bkwaterfronthistory.org/story/unsung-builders/

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medical-examination-immigrants-ellis-island/2008-04#:~:text=Control%20of%20infectious%20agents%20also,Island%20and%20other%20U.S.%20immigration

“Mongolian Ghosts” - St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 28th, 1876.

“Thought-Reading and Physical Manifestations” - The Spiritualist, Nov. 19th 1869.

“Love, Murder and Suicide at Bozrah, Conn.” -The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Accidental Shooting of a Young Girl in Batesville, Arkansas” -The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Awful Fate of a Pauper” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“A Horse Turned Burglar at New London, Conn.” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Peculiar Filial Love” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Singular Sleighing Accident to a Lady in Worcester, Mass.” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“The Scaffold” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Roasted To a Crisp” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 22nd, 1872.

“What Sort of a Woman will this Girl Be” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 22nd, 1872.

On today’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing The Bloody Benders, a Victorian era family of serial killers who were confirmed to have murdered at least 11 people in their Kansas home, but it’s estimated that that number was more likely closer to 20. She will also discuss a police officer’s deadly encounter with a ghost, as well as exactly how to perform a seance without a trained medium, according to a Spiritualist newspaper from the 1800s.

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References for today’s episode:

“IT SCARED HIM”- Helena Evening Herald, Mar. 1st, 1897.

(Blurb) - The Brooklyn Citizen, Mar. 28th, 1897.

“How to Form Spirit Circles” - The Spiritualist, Nov. 19th, 1869.

“Bloody Benders” - Weekly Rocky Mountain Gazette, June 4th, 1873.

“The Bloody Benders” - The Washington Post, Aug. 5th, 1880.

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2024/10/bloody-benders/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Benders

https://www.wsaw.com/2024/05/29/150-years-later-archeologists-still-work-find-what-happened-alleged-violent-family-bloody-benders/

https://kansasalumnimagazine.org/magazine-article/bloody-benders-property/

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ks-benders/

On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss onion syrup poisonings, vigilante justice, razor suicides, jealous quarrels, horrible… truly horrible murders, Russian piggy-back rides and a narrow escape from death that ends in quite a significant amount of blushing. She will also discuss why executions are usually done at the crack of dawn, a little about spirit photography and why some ghosts maintain their deathly visages while others do not.

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References for today’s episode:

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2021/10/a-great-burly-broad-shouldered-bully.html

“Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881.

"HOW MR. S. C. HALL SAW A SPIRIT!" - The Spiritualist, Nov. 19th, 1869.

"FREE LOVE AND POISON" - The Illustrated Police News, Dec. 7th 1871.

"A Man Accused of Rape Leaves the World With a Razor” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 18th, 1872.

“A Wife Murderer Hanged by a Mob in Richmond, KY.” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

"Jealous Quarrels Ended by a Frail Woman's Suicide" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

"Reception of the Grand Duke Alexi in New York" - The Illustrated Police News, Nov. 30th, 1871.

“Another Horrible Murder” - Central Missouri Herald, Feb. 1st, 1877.

“The Last of Mabel Hall” - St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Mar. 9th, 1876.

"A Lady’s Clothing Becomes Entangled in the Machinery of a Mill in Westmoreland County, Pa., and She has a Narrow Escape from Death" - The Illustrated Police News, May 20th, 1875.

"A Baker Booted in Boston" - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th, 1872.

On this week’s episode of My Victorian Nightmare, Genevieve will discuss the life of Mary Shelley. The mother of science fiction. The mother of gothic horror. We will discuss her tragic life, her poetic romance, her monster, and the ways she spun the most unimaginable grief, like a silken web, into a masterpiece.

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References for today’s episode:

https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/12/mary-shelleys-grief/#:~:text=The%20summer%20of%201816%20is%20no%20summer,take%20up%20residence%20in%20a%20nearby%20cottage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley

https://www.bustle.com/p/frankenstein-author-mary-shelley-was-goth-before-it-was-cool-these-15-surprising-facts-prove-it-2918285

“Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881.

The Spiritualist - Nov. 19th, 1869.

The Fan Coven is officially available at myvictoriannightmare.com! And on this week’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing a particularly terrifying seance held in 1869, murderously presumed witchcraft, a deadly lesbian love affair, love-cracked raving lunatics, collapsing floors, revolting decapitations, and a lady who dressed up as a ghost and nearly scared someone else, and herself, to death. She will also explain why you don’t see caveman ghosts anymore and why rooms go cold when a spirit has arrived.

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References for today’s episode:

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/01/freda-ward-girl-slays-girl.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Germany#:~:text=Capital%20punishment%20in%20Germany%20has,at%20Leipzig%20Prison%20in%201981.

“Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881.

The Spiritualist - Nov. 19th, 1869.

“THE COLD RIGHT HAND!” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Has No Use For Men - Miss Alice Mitchell’s Perverted Love for Miss Freda Ward”- The Illustrated Police News, Jul. 30th, 1892.

“The Floor of a Millinery Establishment at Hornellsville, NY Falls Through During an Auction Sale and Precipitates a Dense Crowd of Women into the Cellar” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Love-Cracked Solomon Waring” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1872.

Sickening Scene on a Scaffold at Desau, Germany - Two Female Murderers Decapitated - Piteous Appeals of the Condemned Ones for Mercy - Aug. 28th, 1873.

“A Companion of the Murdered Professor Panormo Commits Suicide in Brooklyn, NY.” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“A Female ‘Makes Up’ in Ghostly Apparel, Frightens Another Woman Almost to Death, and Collapses in a Swoon at Davenport, Iowa” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

On this week’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing the Woolfolk family massacre: the annihilation of a family of 9 that occurred in 1887. The details are harrowing, horrible, heartbreaking, and some are truly…strange. 

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References for today's episode:

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/woolfolk-murder-case/

https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/woolfolk-thomas.htm

https://www.gpb.org/news/2024/07/19/macon-graves-linked-infamous-georgia-murder-were-vandalized-investigation-underway

https://rosehillcemeterymacongeorgia.blogspot.com/2010/10/remarkable-funeral-burial-of-victims-of.html

“The Red Hand” - The Atlanta Constitution, Aug. 7th, 1887.

“Bloody Woolfolk” - The Atlanta Constitution, Aug. 8th, 1887.

“Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881.

On this week’s episode of My Victorian Nightmare, Genevieve will discuss a man mangled with a carving knife, another skeleton where it does not belong, the growing evil that is young women leaving their homes, a rum-crazed lunatic dentist, a man killed by a jar of peaches, and a couple of rats that exhibited an admirable commitment to teamwork.

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References for today's Episode:

“Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881.

“Charge of Imposture” - The Spiritualist, Nov. 19, 1869.

“John Costello Encounters Jack Glass and Mangles Him with a Carving Knife in a Saloon on Nassau Street, New York,” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st. 1872.

“Whose Girls Are They” - The Illustrated Police News, Dec. 14, 1871

“Discovery of a Skeleton at Oxford” - The Illustrated Police News, Aug. 5th, 1871.

“Effect of David Dicky’s Victory Eating for a Wager - The Coroner’s Name was Smith” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

“A Baby Boiled by an Insane Mother” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

“Death of a Woman From Starvation”- The Recorder, May 27th, 1872.

“A Rum-Crazed Dentist Shoots Four of his Neighbors” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

“How a Kalamazoo Grocer Lost His Eggs and Where They Went” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb.1st, 1872.

https://nyupress.org/blog/2009/10/27/the-ghosts-of-14th-st/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_writing

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/adolescent/chapter/history-of-developmental-psychology/

https://nemasket.blogspot.com/2010/02/

On today's episode, Genevieve will be discussing not one, but two of the most haunted Victorian homes in England: The Borley Rectory as well as a little unsuspecting cottage in Essex that was once known as The Cage of St. Osyth, which was once the site of a medieval witch prison. We will also learn exactly what happens when you die, according to a Spiritualist newspaper from the 1800s.

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References for today's episode:

“The Ghost of Sarah Duckett - Shropshire” - The Illustrated Police News, Nov. 25th, 1882.

“Mystery of the Walled-Up ‘Spook’ of Borely Rectory” - The San Francisco Examiner, Sep. 29th, 1929.

“The Bogey of a ‘Walled-Up’ Nun” - The Catholic Weekly,  Dec. 5th, 1929.

“Bating Tragedy” - The Essex County Standard, Etc., Aug. 08th, 1862

“The Philosophy of Death” - The Spiritualist, Nov. 19th, 1869.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borley_Rectory

https://burialsandbeyond.com/2021/01/15/the-most-haunted-house-in-england-borley-rectory/

https://www.ufoinsight.com/supernatural/ghosts-hauntings/the-english-amityville-house

https://iapsop.com/archive/materials/spiritualist/#:~:text=Summary:,%2C%20William%20Crookes%2C%20Alfred%20R.

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss a family that is a complete disaster, the absurdities of hypnosis, a hatchet murder, a man who luckily couldn’t quite properly operate a firearm, utter pandemonium at a spiritualist lecture, a corpse sent to a candy maker, a man frozen to a boat, yet another man killed by a coffin, and the single worst death ever discussed on any show up until today, hands down. Nothing comes close. Consider yourselves warned.

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References for Today's Episode:

“True Stories About Ghosts” - The Illustrated Police News, Oct. 29th 1881.

“A Very Unfortunate Family” - The Illustrated Police News, Jul. 6th, 1876.

“One of the Absurdities of the Age - Pretended Effects of Mesmerism as Exhibited at Brackett Hall” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb 1st, 1872.

“A Horrible Death” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th, 1872.

“A Man Frozen to the Cross-Trees of a Chicago Vessel” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1872.

“Ineffectual Attempt of a Discarded Lover to Shoot Himself in Chicago” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb 1st, 1872.

“A Row Among the Spiritualists at Cooper Institute” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

“Murder of a Wife and Child by a German in Ann Arbor Michigan” - The Illustrated Police News, Nov. 9th, 1871.

“A Corpse Sent to a Cincinnati Candy Maker” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Edmund Sweeny Falls Dead While Lifting the Coffin Lid from the Body of His Father” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

“A Chambermaid Turns an Involuntary Somersault Out of a Second Story Window at Bangor” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

https://www.bbc.com/bbcthree/article/f8ce7277-5945-470a-b1ad-0c637d8265c1

https://historyofhypnosis.org/19th-century/

https://vintagehairstyling.com/bobbypinblog/2019/11/adding-hair-pieces-to-your-vintage-hairstyle-a-history-of-the-hair-switch.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_brothers

In this very special collaborative episode between SIGHTINGS and MY VICTORIAN NIGHTMARE, venture into an eerie haunted house from the 19th century, and discover why some doors were meant to stay sealed shut. 

Check out SIGHTINGS on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to Podcasts!

Story Music tracks used by kind permission of CO.AG

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On Monday’s episode, Genevieve will discuss not 1, not 2, but FOUR grisly train murders from the Victorian era – one with a wild twist! All complete with frick’n sound effects and everything: The murder of Issac Gold (1881), William Pearson (1901), Elizabeth Camp (1897), and Mary Money (1905).

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References for Today's Episode:

https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/about-us/about-us/our-history/crime-history/murder-of-issac-gold/

https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/about-us/about-us/our-history/crime-history/murder-of-william-pearson-1901/

https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/campaigns/our-history/crime-history/murder-of-elizabeth-camp-1897/

https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/campaigns/our-history/crime-history/murder-of-mary-money-1905/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hicks_Murray

“True Stories About Ghosts” - The Illustrated Police News, Oct. 29th 1881.

"Miss Money's Funeral" - The Daily Telegraph, Oct. 4th, 1905.

"Funeral of Miss Camp" - Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, Feb. 21st, 1897.

"The Murder on the Brighton Railway" - The Morning Post, Jul. 5th, 1881.

"The Railway Murder" - Evening Post, Jan. 23rd, 1901.

It’s our 1 year anniversary episode!!!! Today, Genevieve will have some brutal vigilante justice, deadly vengeance, another spooky skeleton discovery, a hammer murder, 1800s red pill propaganda, a mysterious murder-suicide, a clairvoyant shot by a spirit hand, and a devout, salvation-seeking rooster, named Cochin - all courtesy of the Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record, our favorite goopy, gloppy, murdery, marvelous tabloid from the 1800s.

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References for Today's Episode:

“The Summary Execution of a Murderer” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 3rd, 1873.

“A Frontier Horror” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th, 1872.

"Deadly Vengeance of a Woman's Relatives Upon Her Husband" - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th, 1872.

"A Couple of Skeletons Found at Bradford" - The Illustrated Police News, Jul. 30, 1870.

“Terrible Tragedy - Dr. Merriman Cole Found Murdered in His Office” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 18th, 1872.

“A Young Man Belabored by Two Young Ladies for Endorsing Victoria Woodhull's Free Love Sentiments” - The Illustrated Police News, Dec. 21st, 1871.

“Mysterious Taking Off of a Young Housekeeper, He Drowns Himself” - The Illustrated Police News, Dec. 14st, 1871.

“Shot by a Sprit Hand” - The Illustrated Police News, Oct. 28th, 1876.

“Avarice Kills a Man, and Then Follows the Corpse Several Hundred Miles”  - The Illustrated Police News, Dec. 21st, 1871.

“A Rooster Attends Religious Worship in a Family at Cayuga NY” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th, 1872.

On today’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing corpse medicine; the century’s old practice of using dead bodies to treat everything from jaundice to infertility to cataracts – and when you hear about how they specifically treated that last one, it’s really gonna bum you out.

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References for today’s episode:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-eating-medical-cannibalism-gory-history

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/corpse-medicine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_cannibalism

https://theconversation.com/why-did-people-start-eating-egyptian-mummies-the-weird-and-wild-ways-mummy-fever-swept-through-europe-177551

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia

https://www.mdlinx.com/article/ancient-medicines-and-procedures-still-used-today/lfc-4453

https://www.texaschildrens.org/content/wellness/7-myths-about-placenta-consumption

https://burialsandbeyond.com/2023/11/05/the-weird-world-of-mummy-parties

On today’s’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing a young girl caught in a waterwheel, stonings, pickaxings, a harrowing coal oil disaster, a ludicrous fall in a church, a man’s head blown to atoms, men in drag wreaking havoc upon street harassers, a man who visit’s his wife’s grave and leaves with her - it’s not what you think, booby traps gone terribly wrong and so much more.

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References for today’s episode:

“The Frenzied Lover's Murder In Boston” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th 1872.

“Ludicrous Fall of a Young Lady in a Church at Lyons, NY” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th 1872.

“Summary Vengeance on an Insulter of Females at Bridgeport Conn.” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th 1872.

“A Lunatic Assaults the Statue of Franklin in Printing House Square” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th 1872.

“A Postmaster Shot by His Own Burglar Trap - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th 1872.

“Bloody Work in John Street” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th 1872.

“Another Martyr to Coal Oil” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th 1872.

“The Newfoundland Horror” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th 1872.

“A Man Stoned to Death in Columbus Ohio” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th 1872.

“A Young Daughter of Mr. Villiton of Centerport Caught in a Water Wheel,” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th 1872.

“A Mans Head Blown to Atoms” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th 1872.

“Double Murder in Newfoundland - Hanging of a Beautiful Woman.” - The San Fransisco Examiner, Mar. 14th, 1872.

 https://www.farmcollector.com/farm-life/water-wheels-zmlz12novzbea/

http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_lamp_accidents.htm

On today’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing a topic that she’s said numerous times she would never cover: The Winchester Mystery House. She will thoroughly debunk all of the falsehoods, embellishments and downright lies about its very generous, very kind creator, Sarah (Sallie) Winchester, and her weird and wonderful house. You’ll also learn some great trivia night factoids in the process.

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References for today’s episode:

“The Frenzied Lover’s Murder in Boston” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2024/08/the-truth-about-sallie-winchester-and-the-mystery-house-that-never-was/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/real-story-behind-the-winchester-house

https://www.7x7.com/the-top-10-lies-about-the-winchester-mystery-house-1786563456.html

https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/a27481666/winchester-mystery-house/

https://www.biography.com/personality/sarah-winchester

Ignoffo, Mary Jo. 2010. Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.

Nickell, Joe. 2002. Winchester Mystery House: Fact vs. fiction. Skeptical Inquirer (September/October).

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss ghosts frightening country bumpkins, really spooky skeleton encounters, a hatchet attack by a blind man, a man trying to slice his own head off and a young lady with enough pluck and presence of mind to save the very day.

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References for today’s episode:

“A Ghost at Large” - The Illustrated Police News, Sept. 10th, 1881.

“A Baltimore Woman Killed by a Blind Man” - The Illustrated Police News, Dec. 14th, 1871

"A Burglar Bitten by a Skeleton" The Illustrated Police News - Jun. 27th, 1874.

"The Discovery of Skeletons at Birmingham" - The Illustrated Police News - Jun. 21st, 1879.

"Extraordinary Discovery of a Skeleton" - The Illustrated Police News - Jul. 16th, 1870.

"A Horrible Story From the Sea" - The Illustrated Police News - Oct. 26th, 1872.

“Foreign Arrivals and Sailings” - Glasgow Herald - Apr. 4th, 1872.

“A Brother of the Baltimore Borgia Attempts Suicide” - The Illustrated Police News - Nov. 30th, 1871. 

“Pluck and Presence of Mind” - The Illustrated Police News - May. 20th, 1875.

“Foreign Arrivals and Sailings” - Glasgow Herald - Apr. 4th, 1872.

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2021/08/a-baltimore-borgia.html

https://www.tasanet.com/Knowledge-Center/Articles/ArtMID/477/ArticleID/338920/Forensic-Analysis-of-Injury-and-Death-by-Asphyxiation#:~:text=Postmortem%20examinations%2C%20review%20of%20medical,the%20skin%20and%20the%20scalp.

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the all-female Victorian gang, the 40 Elephants, as well as the thieving, poisoning, barbarous, butchering Belle Gunness: Hell’s Belle herself. 

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References for today’s show:

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/triflers-need-not-apply-the-sNexttory-of-deadly-belle-gunness

https://www.nydailynews.com/2014/11/30/belle-gunness-queen-of-black-widows-murdered-dozens-and-planted-victims-around-farm/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gunness

https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/history/gunness/index_1.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-100-year-mystery-of-lady-bluebeard/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Khlysty 

https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gunness-belle.htm

“A Headless Ghost in Buckinghamshire” - The Illustrated Police News, January 8th, 1898.

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss a ghost sighting of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, an insane hatchet murder, a brass burglar blown away by a buckshot, a demented opera singer’s stalker, a lamp light disaster, a gory game of cards, a nearly naked man frozen to death in a sinkhole, and much, much more!

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References for today’s episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Lady_of_Raynham_Hall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Nilsson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_laundry

https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/history-of-vaccination/history-of-smallpox-vaccination

“Murder at Louisville” - The Oregonian, January, 10th 1872.

“A Swedish Horror” - The Sioux City Journal, September 25th, 1885.

"Mother in Lawlessness" - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

"A Burglar Killed by a Trap Gun" - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

"Miss Nilsson's Demented Lover" - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

"A Life of Shame Quickly Ended " - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

"An Affecting Scene"- The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

"A Gory Game of Cards" - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

"A Doctor Insane with Smallpox Freezes to Death on an Iowa Prairie"- The Illustrated Police News, January 11th, 1872.

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the case of “The Richmond Murderess,” Kate Webster. This story has everything: a brutal murder, a dismembering, mysterious skulls, ghost nuns, cutting edge execution techniques and Sir David Attenborough intricately knitted into the very fabric of this bone chilling saga.

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References for today's episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Julia_Martha_Thomas

https://www.theregister.com/2011/07/06/barnes_mystery/

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14374296#:~:text=Nowadays%20it%20would%20seem%20almost,crime%20in%20England%20and%20Wales.

“Influence of Kate Webster” - The Illustrated Police News, August 23rd, 1879.

“The Richmond Murder” - Daily News, July 4th, 1879.

“The Richmond Murder, Trial of Catherine Webster” - The Guardian, July 4th 1879.

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have a number of love-sick murderers, bad words that we’re allowed to use, so many gun fights, so many brains, a corpse concealed in a glen, Rasputin’s favorite sex cult, waxed mustaches, a dead robber baron at a seance, and much more.

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References for today's episode:

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2022/07/dr.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fisk_(financier)

“Matricide and Self-Murder” - The Illustrated Police News, November 30th, 1871.

“Bad Tom” Smith - The Illustrated Police News, July 6th, 1895.

“It’s Not Use Trying to be Good” - The Illustrated Police News, May 20th, 1875.

“Criminal Capers” - The Illustrated Police News, July 6th, 1876.

“A Married Man, After Cohabiting with a Young Lady, Kills Her With Poison” - The Illustrated Police News, November 30th, 1871.

“A Father Taken At His Word - What Whisky Did for a Young Man in Kansas” - The Illustrated Police News, November 16th, 1871.

“How the Liquor Law is Enforced in New Bedford, Mass.” - The Illustrated Police News, December, 7th 1871.

“A Lovesick Sunday Superintendent Blows His Brains Out” - The Illustrated Police News, November 23, 1871.

“Mysteries of Spiritualism” - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

On today’s episode, Genevieve is talking about Victorian era cults: the bonkers beliefs, the scandals, manipulation, devil children, corpses in bath tubs, custom tea blends, and what inspired these cults to come about in the first place.

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References for today’s episode:

https://medium.com/@pau1morgan/the-lampeter-brethren-a-victorian-sex-cult-e318213d7b7f

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agapemonites

https://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/pages/abode%20of%20love.htm

https://headstuff.org/culture/history/terrible-people-from-history/henry-james-prince-john-hugh-smyth-pigott-agapemonite-messiahs/

https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/acsq/article/1490/&path_info=ACSQ_2021.02_130.pdf

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreshan_Unity

https://floridatraveler.com/koreshan-state-park/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/917741876/?match=1&terms=Agapemonite

https://medium.com/illumination/blurred-lines-how-our-culture-echoes-cult-like-patterns-181bcb9b600a

https://conflicttransformation.substack.com/p/responding-to-cults-as-a-social-conflict

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have a deathbed confession, the accidental death of a horse fancier, a horrific elevator accident, a horrific mowing machine accident, naughty picture book advertisements, a butchered brother in law, a case of Victorian cat fishing, a hairbreadth escape, and more!

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References for today’s episode:

“The Avondale Horror. A Deathbed Confession” - The Illustrated Police News, November 30, 1871.

“A Bottle of Horse Medicine Kills a Horse Fancier”-The Illustrated Police News, December 21, 1871.

“A Chambermaid Crushed by an Elevator” - The Illustrated Police News, December 14, 1871.

“A Man Butchers his Brother In Law in Tippecanoe, Ohio - Tragical Result of a Whisky Quarrel”-The Illustrated Police News, November 9th, 1871.

“Marrying By a Photographic Proxy - An innocent Nebraskan Ensnared by a Touched-Up Picture”- The Illustrated Police News, December 28, 1871.

“A Truly Terrible Death - A mowing machine Literally Slices a Man to Pieces” - The Illustrated Police News, August 29th, 1873.

“Affray Between Two Ladies of Fashion in the Streets of St. Louis” - The Illustrated Police News, December 7, 1871.

“A Saddening Story” - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

“A Hairbreadth Escape - A Mississippi Girl Saves a Drowning Man in a Curious Manner” - The Illustrated Police News, August 28, 1873.

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2022/09/fifth-avenue-hotel-opulence-atop.html

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2010/10/i-sit-on-your-grave-new-yorks-hidden.html

https://wynninghistory.com/2019/03/04/avondale/

https://thetroyhistoricalsociety.org/obits/John%20Aston.htm

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the repugnant trade of body snatching in the Victorian era, she’ll discuss the ways families fought back, she’ll introduce you to the 2 most infamous body snatchers of all time; Burke and Hare, and we’ll run into a few friends along the way.

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References for today’s episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24794

https://www.civilwarmed.org/bodysnatching/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coffin-torpedos

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028490/1881-01-20/ed-1/seq-8/

https://wellcomecollection.org/stories/beating-the-bodysnatchers

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/grave-guns-coffin-torpedoes-vintage-defenses-aimed-foil-grave-robbers/

https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=history

https://history.utk.edu/from-grave-robbing-to-giving-your-own-body-to-science-a-short-history-of-where-medical-schools-get-cadavers/

On today’s’s episode, Genevieve is diving back into the Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record: everyone’s favorite bananas, blood-soaked, spooky little tabloid from the 1800s. She will have a hat-wafting seance, a thrilling search for a dead body, wax necks, jealous husbands, mayhem, a shocking discovery in a penitentiary, an alarming growth of intoxication among young ladies, and more!

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References for Today's Show:

https://www.magicianmasterclass.com/post/how-do-magicians-levitate#viewer-aqfts

“The Last “Thing” in Fashion, The Wax Neck”Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

“Spiritual Manifestations at a Seance in Boston on New Year’s Eve”Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

“Thrilling Search for the Body of a Murdered Man in MacDonald Co, Mo.,”Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

“A Young Lady Outraged and Then Murdered in Arkansas,” Illustrated Police News, Dec, 28 1871.

“A Leap to Death in Cincinnati - An Unknown Unfortunate Jumps From a Bridge to Eternity,” Illustrated Police News, August, 28 1873.

“Taking a Farmer’s Wife, Baby and Potatoes to Market,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872.

“How a Jealous Husband in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Returned Home and What He Found There,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872.

“Alarming Growth of Intoxication Among Young Ladies - Sad Scene in a New Jersey Ferry Boat,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872.

“Extra Penance in a Penitentiary,” Illustrated Police News, Nov 30th, 1871.

“Mayhem,” Illustrated Police News, July 6th, 1876.

“A New Jersey Cannibal Gormandizes a Policeman’s Cheek,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 21st, 1871.

On todays episode, Genevieve will return to 19th century London to discuss the Jack the Ripper murders case. She'll discuss the timeline, the victims, the suspects, and a few little known facts about the still open Whitechapel murders case. She’ll also discuss a very courageous photo shoot, and give her fairly coherent review of “The Monkey.”

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References for today's episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/kate-eddowes-last-night.htm

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/jack-the-ripper-victim-elizabeth-stride.htm

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/mary-kelly.htm

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/suspects.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Eddowes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Stride

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane_Kelly

"Bolton Spiritualists Vision of the Whitechapel Murderer "- The Bolton News, Oct 8, 1888

On todays episode, Genevieve will dive deep into the Jack The Ripper case and guide you down the cold, damp, cobblestone streets of 19th century Whitechapel. She'll discuss the timeline, the victims, the suspects, and a few little known facts about the still open Whitechapel murders case.

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References for today's episode:

https://www.science.org/content/article/does-new-genetic-analysis-finally-reveal-identity-jack-ripper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/emma-smith.htm

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/martha-tabram-jack-the-ripper-victim.htm

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/life-and-death-of-mary-nichols.htm

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/jack-the-rippers-victims-were-not-prostitutes-says-historian-who-claims-sexist-victorian-policemen-unfairly-labelled-them/JSQ3BCTKULMV7LZVZTCVGEAISQ/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Elizabeth_Smith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Tabram

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Nichols

On today’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing the very macabre ways in which French Victorians would entertain themselves: the death-themed cabarets, horror shows in old gothic chapels, and the very upsetting and morbid curiosities that Parisians would literally trample over each other to get a glimpse of.

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References for today's episode:

https://daily.jstor.org/the-cabarets-of-heaven-and-hell/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Guignol

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/paris-morgue-public-viewing

https://dianamarin.com/tag/the-uncanny-cabaret-du-neant/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_de_L%27Enfer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_du_Ciel

On today's episode, we will have butchery with banjos, naked maniacs decapitating people, lesbians, more butchery, some charming insults that Victorians liked to send to one another on Valentines day, and a very special love poem.

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References for today's episode:

“A Naked Man's Horrible Deeds,” Illustrated Police News, December 18, 1880

"Butchered" With a Banjo,” Illustrated Police News, July 3, 1880

“Bloody Butchery,” Illustrated Police News, January 31, 1880

https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/misogyny-created-a-space-for-women-to-f-ck-in-the-19th-century-d32f6ab34e48

https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/misogyny-created-a-space-for-women-to-f-ck-in-the-19th-century-d32f6ab34e48

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-same-sex-valentines-day

On today's episode, Genevieve takes you on a tour of the Victorian lunatic asylum. She'll discuss the history of the institution, surprising and spine-chilling facts, as well as her very own terrifying experience of the time she broke into the Overbrook asylum in New Jersey.

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References for today's episode:

https://cpp-college.netlify.app/programs/education-blog/victorian-mental-health-and-women-part-one-american-asylums

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/victorian-mental-asylum

https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/netflix-2017/how-victorian-women-were-oppressed-through-the-use-of-psychiatry/1607/

https://www.talkspace.com/blog/history-inhumane-mental-health-treatments/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly

https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-places/americas-most-haunted-hospitals-and-asylums/overbrook-asylum/

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/8bcb0263e26f4ceeb6d41a00cfc72b7a?item=1

On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss the 5 Points slum, a church lunatic, a woman that takes investment advice from her dead husband, a cannibalistic affair between 2 ladies, the curious caper of an unruly cow, a locomotive disaster, mayhem, mysterious tragedies and a man who saved an entire New Hampshire town because he loved his girlfriend a little too much.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠References for today's episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_the_Scapular%E2%80%93St._Stephen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points,_Manhattan#:~:text=The%20local%20politics%20of%20%22the,racial%20integration%20in%20American%20history

In today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the grisly history of the graveyard that is London, and the subterranean train system built in the Victorian era within and around the final resting places of literally millions of tightly packed Londoners.

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References for today’s episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enon_Chapel

https://gizmodo.com/how-corpses-helped-shape-the-london-underground-1493312117

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-66507599

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/london-crossrail-bedlam-big-dig

https://www.timeout.com/london/news/londons-victorian-necropolis-railway-station-is-for-sale-060424

https://www.mylondon.news/news/nostalgia/london-underground-station-built-right-21001175

https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/where-we-go/blog/the-forgotten-story-of-london-necropolis-railway

https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/the-forgotten-men-of-the-london-underground/

On today's show, Genevieve has a robber who becomes a raving maniac in prison, a very shocking confession followed by a very grisly request, a woman poisoned by laudanum and nearly frozen to death, a footrace between a phrenologist and a zippy young lady, a thief who nearly blows his own head off, a wife’s vengeance with a pen knife, murder, blackmail, and an unfortunate sled accident on an historic Boston Street, among a few others.

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References for today's episode:

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2015/06/the-murder-of-pet-halsted.html

https://pages.vassar.edu/realarchaeology/2017/03/05/phrenology-and-scientific-racism-in-the-19th-century/

https://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/shields.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Exposition

In this week's episode, Genevieve gives a full, very dramatic review of Nosferatu, and dives into the truly diabolical murders of H.H. Holmes.

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References for todays episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes

https://www.newspapers.com/image/668069816/?terms=h.h.%20holmes

https://www.history.com/news/murder-castle-h-h-holmes-chicago

https://www.ranker.com/list/hh-holmes-origin-story/hannah-gilham

https://www.bustle.com/p/quotes-from-hh-holmes-memoir-provide-insight-into-the-american-ripper-69194

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/enduring-mystery-hh-holmes-americas-first-serial-killer-180977646/

Today, Genevieve will discuss a lunatic asylum escapee in a washtub boat, a steamboat slaughter, a tragic murder on a lovely evening, a clergyman’s narrow escape from certain death, a fit of apoplexy, hatchets, razors, insanity, and a somewhat tragic ice skating accident that luckily has a meet-cute happy ending.

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References for Today's Episode:

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2022/11/nellie-bly-blackwells-island/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)

https://genealogytrails.com/ill/woodford/tradgies.html

On today's episode, we’re still celebrating the Holiday season with some weird, wonderful, and downright irresponsible Victorian Christmas traditions!

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References for today's episode:

https://www.history.com/news/christmas-tradition-ghost-stories

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/652043/victorian-christmas-traditions

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/12/shock-of-the-old-11-murderous-and-macabre-victorian-christmas-cards

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-34988154

https://historycollection.com/strange-and-delightful-holiday-traditions-of-the-victorian-era/

https://www.marthastewart.com/1097532/decorative-past-tradition-christmas-pickle-ornament

Today's episode is Christmas themed! Genevieve will be discussing a family hatchet fight, an assault with a pot roast, an assault with a teapot, a fruit and nut plundering, an insane chimney sweep, a grizzly Christmas day murder, A tragic Christmas Day train disaster, a Chamber of Horrors, and a few more truly horrific Christmas day events.

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References for today's episode:

https://www.measuringworth.com/blog/?p=256

https://www.postalmuseum.org/blog/victorian-christmas-boxes/#:~:text=These%20tokens%20were%20known%20as,form%20of%20money%20or%20alcohol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_railroad_accidents

https://sites.dartmouth.edu/toxmetal/arsenic/arsenic-a-murderous-history/#:~:text=Beginning%20in%20the%20eighteenth%20century,common%20in%20the%20market%20place

In today's episode, Genevieve keeps with Victorian Christmas tradition, and tells a terrifying ghost story: The Signal Man, by Charles Dickens.

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On today's episode, Genevieve dives back into the salacious, at times terrifying, at times, grisly, at times charming Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record, from which she will read about Bleecker Street harpies punching cops in the face, some discomfiture of an older gentleman who gets a parasol stuck in his mouth, a madhouse ax murder, a man on a smashing spree, a saloon slaying, a murderously jealous lover, and a man killed by a coffin.

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References for today's episode:

https://cemeteryclub.wordpress.com/2020/03/02/killed-by-a-coffin/

https://www.loc.gov/item/ca07000366/

In today's episode, Genevieve digs deep into the murder trial of Mary Ann Mailman at the hands of her husband, Peter Mailman in 1873. The trial was full of salacious accusations of affairs, jealous husbands, heartbreaking testimony, flagrant slut shaming from the defense, and details of the murder that shook Nova Scotia to the core.

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Reference:

The Trial of Peter Mailman