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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The Willington Mill Haunting With SIGHTINGS Podcast
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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Ep. 46 - Murder on the Victorian Railways
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.
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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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