My Victorian Nightmare

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. Thank you to today’s sponsors! Go to LumiGummies.com and use code VICTORIAN for 30% off your first order. Try Gusto today at gusto.com/VICTORIAN, and get three months free when you run your first payroll. Visit Rula.com/VICTORIAN — mental healthcare that’s actually built to last. Subscribe to the Patreon free trial for ad-free listening! https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Listen to Murder, She Told: an award-winning true-crime podcast created by victim’s advocate, Kristen Seavey, that covers lesser-known true crime cases. This is a preview of the episode about Peggy Mortimer on Murder, She Told originally published February 10, 2026. On the eve of Thanksgiving in 1937, 46-year-old Peggy Mortimer, was just steps from her front door when she was attacked and killed by an unknown assailant. The murder shocked the industrial town of Mexico, Missouri. Peggy was well known and widely liked, with no clear enemies. But on that cold November night, someone was waiting—and the question remains: who? Listen to the full episode on Peggy: on Apple, Spotify, or anywhere else! Sources and photos: https://www.murdershetold.com/episodes/margaret-peggy-mortimer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Subscribe to the Patreon free trial for ad-free listening! https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWXTme4DrLM/?igsh=MW1jeDFpMXhyZ2VxMw== 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWHBLM9jt-1/?igsh=dXIyMGVzaDdhdG01 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss not one, not 2, but 3 different topics that are all creepy for different reasons: the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876, the Dagg Family Poltergeist of 1889, and the most terrifying public menace of the 1830s, Spring-Heeled Jack. Thank you to today’s sponsors! Go to LumiGummies.com and use code VICTORIAN for 30% off your first order. Try Gusto today at gusto.com/VICTORIAN, and get three months free when you run your first payroll. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVzIfF6EWfK/?igsh=NWZkcHJ4Z3lxaWgy References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_meat_shower https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/running-ponies/the-great-kentucky-meat-shower-mystery-unwound-by-projectile-vulture-vomit/ https://705blackfly.com/craig-bairds-haunted-history-the-dagg-poltergeist/ https://arlenestaffordwilson.wordpress.com/tag/dagg-poltergeist/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring-heeled_Jack https://waterfordtreasures.com/spring-heeled-jack-notorious-urban-legend-or-the-work-of-the-mad-marquess-of-waterford/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Thank you to today’s sponsors! Visit Flamingo to get the Flamingo Starter Set for just $7! Make sure to use code VICTORIAN. Wake up with clearer skin, smoother hair, and cooler sleep. Use code MVNPOD for an extra 30% off at Blissy. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVjSxj4DvvH/?igsh=aGhndHE0bTV3MnE5 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the horrific, Jack-The-Ripper-adjacent serial killer murder cases, the Thames Torso Murders. Thank you to today’s sponsors! Try Gusto today at gusto.com/VICTORIAN, and get three months free when you run your first payroll. Visit Rula.com/VICTORIAN — mental healthcare that’s actually built to last. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVRaouUEcl_/?igsh=MXB6MHBmZnZpNnR0cA== 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Here's a little sneak peak of the content that is offered in the Fan Coven! Click here for more info! 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DU9UXELDI4B/?igsh=N3lrN244bnJraHpp 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Thank you to today’s sponsor, Lumi Gummies! Go to LumiGummies.com and use code VICTORIAN for 30% off your first order. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUrLObMjoHq/?igsh=MTZrOGd2MnkwdzVoNQ== 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Thank you to today’s sponsor, Blissy! Wake up with clearer skin, smoother hair, and cooler sleep. Use code MVNPOD for an extra 30% off at blissy.com/MVNPOD. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUa9VvBjhmS/?igsh=bmR0b2dnZ2hmaXdy 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Thank you to today’s sponsor, Rula! Visit Rula.com/VICTORIAN — mental healthcare that’s actually built to last. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram Post For Today's Episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUHRXODjPtg/?igsh=MWFiMXJ4ZGNwM2M5bA== 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Thank you to today’s sponsor, Lumi Gummies! Go to LumiGummies.com and use code VICTORIAN for 30% off your first order. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram Post For Today's Episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/DT3aJBdke9T/?igsh=NzlyNmkya213cG95 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.” Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Dark Poetry: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1943582?view=condensed Instagram Post For Today's Episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTlYa-QkUpy/?igsh=MW1mZmxweDAwcjJuMg== 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Thank you to today’s sponsors! Go to LumiGummies.com and use code VICTORIAN for 30% off your order. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram Post For Today's Episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTTE_9iDqQr/?igsh=MTVkYXNmN2NsNnoxcA== 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram Post For Today's Episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTBqddbDhAs/?img_index=1 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram Post For Today's Episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSvme5Zjvd5/?igsh=MTliYThpZDMyajl6OA== 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram Post For Today's Episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSc6zghjr3L/?img_index=1 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram Post For Today's Episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSIx7cZEfye/?igsh=Zm1ubjB1eGdnaDl5 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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss the dark, macabre, heart-wrenching and fascinating inspirations for classical music pieces from the 19th century. From Beethoven to Berlioz; romantic, brooding, frightening pieces of music that we all know, we’ve heard in movies, studied in school, or listen to every day. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram Post For Today's Episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/DR5gvLlDh41/?igsh=ZzhtdWxuaGk1MzI= Live Performance of Chopin's Raindrop Prelude: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP6OKEwDUgX/?igsh=MXF3MWQ3cWg2MHpmZg== References For Today's Episode: https://www.science.org/content/article/fr-d-ric-chopins-madness-diagnosed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21593243/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude,_Op._28,_No._15_(Chopin)#:~:text=Some%20of%20Op.,of%20the%20actual%20external%20sounds. https://www.marisamusicstudio.com/a-look-at-chopins-raindrop-prelude/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_of_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin https://crosseyedpianist.com/2020/07/18/he-was-not-like-other-men-chopin-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Lake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky#:~:text=Also%2C%20the%20medical%20opinion%20printed,had%20little%20cause%20for%20worry. https://www.tmc.edu/news/2019/10/tchaikovskys-mental-anguish-informed-his-work/ https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/17/beethoven-ode-to-joy/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven https://www.vialma.com/en/articles/266/Niccolo-Paganini-The-Devils-Violinist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_Joy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Thank you to today’s sponsors, Choomi Naturals and Rula! Go to http://choominaturals.com and use coupon code “VICTORIAN20” for 20% off your order. Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts at Rula who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/victorian. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Today’s Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DRngoGBDum3/?igsh=MTNqM2w5czJ5cndhaQ== 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Today’s Instagram Post: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/p/DRU5rfVDsNb/?igsh=Zjc1bmFzejljbTFq⁠ 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Today's Instagram Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DRCnucLDsxi/?igsh=bGpyNnFucTdicnRj 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Today’s Instagram Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQxVI0fjqCV/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Today’s Instagram Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQfFlTjkXnF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This sneak peak is one of the EXTRAS that you receive every week when you join The Fan Coven at myvictoriannightmare.com! 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. My Halloween Party Playlist: Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6kOUlSZbILIuVsM3vJnoPR?si=ZUcPCjmySaaPTG4Jh_do8g Today’s Instagram Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQNNNMnkZQW/?igsh=MXdzcW13Z3lnYWwzYw== 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Today’s Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DP6csKxDqkW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Today’s Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPomjatjrOc/?igsh=MXM5dnhkYjJsNmgzag== 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 of gymnastics for an adoring crowd. She will also discuss Spiritualist philosophy of the 1800s and a family’s terrifying ghost encounter. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPEkfI-DrYn/?igsh=MTNtNmNvOXF1azd0Zg== 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DO1CSYsjoio/?img_index=1&igsh=bTgxcG05c3Nvc3k3 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram post for today’s episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOgfZduDhYh/?igsh=Ym01NzIwNG0wYWxw 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram post for today’s episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOOcJtaDtTW/?igsh=MXBmNzJ1Nml5ZnlwMw== 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.” Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven Instagram post with photos for today's episode: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/p/DNvvYEzXGV3/?img_index=1⁠ 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Join the Fan Coven: https://www.myvictoriannightmare.com/the-fan-coven 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices