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.
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
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Ep. 51 - The Woolfolk Family Massacre
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.
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Ep. 50 - He Dropped Dead With a Peach in His Mouth
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.
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/
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Ep. 49 - England's Most Haunted Houses
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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“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.
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Ep. 48 - A Corpse Sent to a Candy Maker
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.
“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
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Here you’ll find mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian Era. If you consider yourself an enthusiast of creepy Victorian history, you probably already know about the age of spiritualism, the grisly murders, the grave robbers, twisted pseudo psychotherapy, and memento mori – But I try to dig a little deeper. This was a time full of lace corsetry, romantic poetry, and a deep reverence and affection for the dead. It was a culture of shared sorrow, ornament and elegance, prudishness and scandal, bone chilling children’s stories, and for whatever reason, I just feel at home there. There’s something strangely comforting about the heebie jeebies this era gives me. If you find yourself equally enchanted by things that most people would find horrifying, this podcast is probably for you. Join the community Instagram @myvictoriannightmare
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