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My Victorian NightmareEp. 52 - Living in the Company of Departed SpiritsThe 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.
References for today’s episode:
https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/01/freda-ward-girl-slays-girl.html
https://en.wikipe...2025-07-2146 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 51 - The Woolfolk Family MassacreOn 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...2025-07-1444 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 50 - He Dropped Dead With a Peach in His MouthOn 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.
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...2025-07-0746 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 49 - England's Most Haunted HousesOn 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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“The Ghost of Sarah Duckett - Shro...2025-06-3051 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 48 - A Corpse Sent to a Candy MakerOn 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.
“True Stories About Ghosts” - The Illustrated Police News, Oct. 29th 1881.
“A Very Unfortunate Family” - The Illustrated Police News, Jul. 6...2025-06-2343 min
My Victorian NightmareThe Willington Mill Haunting With SIGHTINGS PodcastIn 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.
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices2025-06-1645 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 46 - Murder on the Victorian RailwaysOn 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...2025-06-0943 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 45 - Shot by a Spirit HandIt’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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Go to factormeals.com/VICTORIAN50OFF and use code VICTORIAN50OFF to get 50% off free shipping on your first bo...2025-06-0248 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 44 - The Gruesome History of Corpse MedicineOn 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.
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/Me...2025-05-2644 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 43 - The Witching Time of NightOn 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.
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...2025-05-2045 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 42 - The Winchester Mystery HouseOn 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.
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/Wincheste...2025-05-1242 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 41 - Bitten by a SkeletonOn 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.
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"...2025-05-0547 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 40 - The Blackest Black WidowOn 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.
References for today’s show:
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/triflers-need-not-apply-the-story-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.
Learn more a...2025-04-2847 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 39 - In a Malicious and Diabolical MannerOn 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!References for today’s episode:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Lady_of_Raynham_Hallhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Nilssonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdal...2025-04-2148 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 38 - The Richmond MurderessOn 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.References for today's episode:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Julia_Martha_Thomashttps://www.theregister.com/2011/07/06/barnes_mystery/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14374296#:~:text=Nowadays%20it%20would%20seem%20almost,crime...2025-04-1441 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 37 - They Died With Their Boots OnOn 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.References for today's episode:https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2022/07/dr.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fisk_(financier)“Matricide and Self-Murder” - The Illustrated Police News, November 30th, 1871....2025-04-0745 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 36 - Victorian Cults: Messiahs, Manipulation & Custom Tea BlendsEp. 36 - Victorian Cults: Messiahs, Manipulation & Custom Tea BlendsOn 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.References for today’s episode:https://medium.com/@pau1morgan/the-lampeter-brethren-a-victorian-sex-cult-e318213d7b7fhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agapemoniteshttps://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/pages/abode%20of%2...2025-03-3153 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 35 - Where the Dead Delight to Help the LivingOn 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!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 Cr...2025-03-2446 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 34 - Coffin Torpedos for Body SnatchersOn tonday’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.References for today’s episode:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murdershttps://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24794https://www.civilwarmed.org/bodysnatching/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coffin-tor...2025-03-1750 minMy Victorian NightmareEp. 33 - Talk to Dead People with Your FriendsOn 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!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...2025-03-1044 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 32 - The Ripper: Part 2On 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.”References for today's episode:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripperhttps://www.jack-the-ripper.org/kate-eddowes-last-night.htmhttps://www.jack-the-ripper.org/jack-the-ripper-victim-elizabeth-stride.htmhttps://www.jack-the-ripper.org/mary-kelly.htm2025-03-0346 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 31 - The Ripper : Part 1On 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.References for today's episode:https://www.science.org/content/article/does-new-genetic-analysis-finally-reveal-identity-jack-ripperhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripperhttps://www.jack-the-ripper.org/emma-smith.htmhttps://www.jack-the-ripper.org/martha-tabram-jack-the-ripper-victim.htmhttps://www.jack-the-ripper.org/life-and-death-of-mary-nichols.htm2025-02-2442 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 30 - Welcome to the Cabaret of DeathOn 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.References for today's episode:https://daily.jstor.org/the-cabarets-of-heaven-and-hell/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Guignolhttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/paris-morgue-public-viewinghttps://dianamarin.com/tag/the-uncanny-cabaret-du-neant/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_de_L%27Enfer...2025-02-1742 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 29 - Butchery with Banjos and Vinegar ValentinesOn 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.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, 1880https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/misogyny-created-a-space-for-women-to-f-ck-in-the-19th-century-d32f6ab34e48https://medium.com/equality-i...2025-02-1047 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 28 - Horrors of the Victorian Lunatic AsylumOn 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.
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...2025-02-0340 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 27 - Curious Capers and Spiritual SpeculationsOn 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.
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...2025-01-2742 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 26 - The Grave Trains of LondonIn 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.
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
http...2025-01-2044 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 25 - Murder, Blackmail, and Raving ManiacsOn 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.
References for today's episode:
https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2015/06/the-murder-of-pet-halsted.html
ht...2025-01-1342 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 24 - Welcome to the Murder CastleIn this week's episode, Genevieve gives a full, very dramatic review of Nosferatu, and dives into the truly diabolical murders of H.H. Holmes.
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/
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My Victorian NightmareEp. 23 - Hatchets, Razors, Narrow Escapes, and NosferatuToday, 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.
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
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My Victorian NightmareEp. 22 - Sweet Messages of Calm DecayOn today's episode, we’re still celebrating the Holiday season with some weird, wonderful, and downright irresponsible Victorian Christmas traditions!
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
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My Victorian NightmareEp. 21 - A Chamber of HorrorsToday'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.
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...2024-12-1640 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 20 - They'll Be Scary Ghost StoriesIn 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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My Victorian NightmareEp. 19 - Killed By a CoffinOn 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.
References for today's episode:
https://cemeteryclub.wordpress.com/2020/03/02/killed-by-a-coffin/
https...2024-12-0237 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 18 - Until You Are DeadIn 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.The Trial of Peter Mailman:https://ia600201.us.archive.org/10/items/cihm_09620/cihm_09620.pdf
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My Victorian NightmareMinisode 3 - The Miniest of SodesIn this very short episode Genevieve waxes on the current state of affairs. We will return to the 1800s next week, and especially in 2 months.
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My Victorian NightmareEp. 17 - Marvelous and Alarming MadnessOn today's episode, Genevieve pulls out a few articles from the Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record: volumes between 1871 and 1875. She'll provide you with your Weekly Dose of Blood, a very concerning case of 2 men either infected with rabies, or turning into werewolves - it’s a bit unclear, a Frenchman nearly eaten alive by rats, a grizzly wedding party, a blood-thirsty maniac, a woman melting down exquisitely on stage, and a damsel giving an impromptu acrobatic performance on the streets of Chicago
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My Victorian NightmareBonus Episode! - A little Hallowe'en CandyOn today's minisode, Genevieve reads her 3 favorite spooky Victorian Halloween poems! Edgar Allan Poe's, The Raven, Lake of the Dismal Swamp by Thomas Moore, and The Broomstick Train or the Return of the Witches by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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My Victorian NightmareEp. 16 - Happy Hallowe'en!Today’s episode will contain absolutely delightful, bone-chillingly fascinating Victorian Halloween traditions, as well as a few more creepy-eepy Victorian house histories and hauntings.References for today's episode:https://gaslampfoundation.org/victorian-halloween-traditions-now-thats-scary/https://www.grunge.com/1056548/what-victorian-halloween-was-really-like/https://mix108.com/is-this-home-the-most-haunted-estate-in-minnesota/https://www.huntingdondailynews.com/daily_herald/news/spooktacular-stories-the-haunting-of-baker-mansion/article_7370709e-6ff2-5d04-a92a-9853bc26b288.htmlhttps://hauntedhouses.com/minnesota/forepaughs-restaurant/
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My Victorian NightmareEp. 15 - Among the Dead MenIn today's episode, Genevieve will be diving back into your favorite grisly, hideous, at times very witty, and fabulously illustrated Victorian publication - The Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record. She'll discuss a creepy German law, Revolutionary war skeletons found in walls, coffins for lifeboats, and a journalist’s detailed report on what it was like to walk around a surgical school in the middle of the night in 1871.
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My Victorian NightmareEp. 14 - Mannequins in the AtticOn today's episode, Genevieve discusses the creepiest Victorian haunted house she could find: The Villisca Axe murder house. She talks about both the chilling backstory and the hauntings. References for today's episode:https://adelaidehauntedhorizons.com.au/haunted-villisca-ax-murder-house-ghosts/https://murderhouse.com/https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghosts/comments/eldrm7/stayed_the_night_at_the_villisca_axe_murder_house/https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-places/villisca-ax-murder-house/https://villisca.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=moore&i...2024-10-1441 min
My Victorian NightmareMinisode 2 - Coffin-Shaped Boxes and Unbearable CliffhangersOn today's episode, Genevieve will discuss coffin-shaped boxes in mysterious huts, a case of suspended animation, a struggle in an elevator with a lunatic, and some other disturbing, little “Items of interest” as they’re called in the 1878 volume of The Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record which are indeed very interesting items. We’ll also enjoy a pumpkin smash.
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My Victorian NightmareEp. 13 - The Most Haunted House in AmericaOn today's episode, Genevieve discusses "America's most haunted house®" - The Whaley House of San Diego California. She'll dive into the bone chilling back story, as well as the spooky hauntings that delight (and seriously creep out) visitors today. References for today's episode include:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaley_House_(San_Diego,_California)https://yourtahoeguide.com/2021/07/gold-rush-vigilantes-jim-ugly-and-yankee-jim/https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Whaley-1836https://www.kcghosts.com/california-whaley-househt...2024-09-3039 min
My Victorian NightmareMinisode 1 - Broad Blown as Fresh as HellIn today's (first!) minisode, Genevieve reads articles from the "Weekly Dose of Blood" in an 1873 volume of The Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record publication, as well as a spooky little article about a thieving somnambulist.
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My Victorian NightmareEp. 12 - Morbid Curiosity and Murderous SpiritsIn today's episode, Genevieve will discuss Mediums getting attacked by spirits, men drinking their own blood, live burials, nuns getting struck with lightning and rising from the dead – it’s going to be a spooky rollercoaster.
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My Victorian NightmareEp. 11 - Horrors of the Victorian CircusIn today's episode, Genevieve talks about Victorian circus horrors. References for today's episode:https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/post/freak-showshttps://www.neh.gov/humanities/2011/septemberoctober/statement/the-circus-you-never-knewhttps://victorian-era.org/victorian-era-circus-performances.htmlhttps://boroughsofthedead.com/barnum-museum-fire-july-13-1865/https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/greatest-show-earth-freak-shows-pt-barnum-tom-thumb/https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=DMST18851009.2.46&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------https://www...2024-09-0241 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 10 - Body Snatchers and Women on the RampageIn today’s episode, Genevieve dives back into the Illustrated Police News from 1871 - the insane Victorian publication full of grisly murders, body snatchers, mice in donuts – it was a publication full of complete chaos.
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My Victorian NightmareEp. 9 - Dangerous and Deadly Victorian FashionIn today's episode, Genevieve discusses how Tuberculosis influenced fashion, hazardous beauty routines, deadly hatpins, the dangers of corsets, and strange, kind of gross beauty trends, as well as some really weird and intriguing facts about Victorian fashion. References for today's episode:https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-tuberculosis-shaped-victorian-fashion-180959029/ https://www.thecollector.com/tuberculosis-art/ https://thevictorianhistorian.com/beauty-fashion/ https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2015/05/29/did-corsets-harm-womens-health/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-leeds-mercury-death-of-matilda/30613252/?locale=en-US ...2024-08-0736 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 8 - Coffin-Shaped TablesToday’s episode is going to be a little different. Genevieve will be reading horrifying stories from the Illustrated Police News from 1871, and giving context to the stories. References for today's show:https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-875?d=%2F10.1093%2Facrefore%2F9780199329175.001.0001%2Facrefore-9780199329175-e-875&p=emailAamzPoP9dB6io https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/266/oa_monograph/chapter/3065998#:~:text=This%20doctrine%2C%20called%20%E2%80%9Cspiritual%20affinity%2C%E2%80%9D%20swept%20the%20ranks%20of%20spiritualism%20in%20the%20early%201850s.&text=As%20sages%20of%20this%20world%20and...2024-07-2940 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 7 - The Dawn of Victorian SpiritualismIn today's episode, Genevieve dives into the spine tingling world of Victorian Spiritualism. She'll talk about where it all began, what a Victorian materializing seance would entail, the ways mediums would trick people into believing they were talking to dead people, and the history of the Ouija board. References for today's episode:https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-john-brown-was-queen-victorias-channel-to-alberts-ghosthttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-fox-sisters-and-the-rap-on-spiritualism-99663697/https://www.grunge.com/665457/the-strange-truth-about-ectoplasm-explained/https://www.ranker.com/list/victorian-medium-seance-tricks/o...2024-07-1540 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 6 - The Wild World of Victorian VampiresIn today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the wild world of Victorian vampires. She'll discuss vampire panic and vampire autopsies of the 1800s, real vampires - or at least, folks who were believed to be real vampires, and the inspirations for everyone's favorite vampire, Dracula. References for today's episode:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_vampire_panichttps://www.cdc.gov/tb/worldtbday/history.htmhttps://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/vampire-myths-originated-real-blood-disorderhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Westenra2024-07-0839 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 5 - The Life and Times of Typhoid MaryOn today's episode, Genevieve talks about the life and times of a Ms. Mary Mallon, otherwise known as Typhoid Mary – much to her chagrin. References for today's show:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallonhttps://the-line-up.com/north-brother-islandhttps://www.atlasobscura.com/places/north-brother-islandhttps://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2019/03/28/are-victorian-diseases-making-a-comeback/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/typhoid/letter.htmlhttps://www.americanhauntingsink.com/typ...2024-07-0131 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 4 - The Horror of Victorian Children’s StoriesIn today's episode, Genevieve talks about the deeply disturbing world of Victorian Children’s stories and the twisted origins of some nursery rhymes of the time that we still enjoy today.References for today's episode:https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/04/the-creepy-and-harsh-lessons-of-early-childrens-books/https://news.ufl.edu/archive/1996/10/todays-scary-stories-are-tame-compared-to-victorian-age-tales.htmlhttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/penny-dreadfuls-victorian-children-literacyhttps://www.representingchildhood.pitt.edu/victorian.htmhttps://writingtoberead.com/2023/04/26/dark-origins-the-creepy-true-story-behind-alice-in-wonderland-darkorigins-aliceinwonderland/ht...2024-06-2429 min
My Victorian NightmareEp. 3 - The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan PoeIn today's episode, Genevieve covers the life and mysterious death of beloved gothic fiction writer, Edgar Allan Poe.My Main References:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Edgar_Allan_Poehttps://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a45782209/edgar-allan-poe-death-mystery/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/still-mysterious-death-edgar-allan-poe-180952936/
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My Victorian NightmareEp. 2 - The Victorian Cult of DeathIn this week's episode, Genevieve talks about elaborate Victorian funeral traditions, what was, and was not, acceptable mourning fashion of the day, Queen Victoria’s obsession with her dead husband that sparked the trends, the hardship and power of 19th-century widowhood, as well as the almost fetishistic keepsaking of the deceased.
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My Victorian NightmareEp. 1 - The Legend of Octavia HatcherIn this episode, Genevieve covers the mysterious death of Octavia Hatcher – a women who died in 1891 who, according to legend, was buried alive.
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4thSpace ConcordiaUntangling The Blurry Lines - Geneviève Grégoire-Labrecque In Conversation"These blurry lines, how can we disentangle them? How can we do quality research but also make a difference?"
Geneviève Grégoire-Labrecque in conversation with Vivek Venkatesh, Jennifer Danquah & Kathleen Manion.
For this episode, Geneviève Grégoire-Labrecque, Concordia public scholar and PhD candidate in the Indi program brings three scholars -- Vivek Venkatesh, Jennifer Danquah and Kathleen Manion together at 4thSpace.
The idea was to ask scholars from different horizons how they attempt to balance the roles, privileges, boundaries, benefits, dilemmas and challenges of being an "engaged" scholar in the hope of doing more quality research while also havi...2022-02-0218 min