My Victorian Nightmare

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! Thank you to today’s sponsor, Rula.com! Go to Rula.com/victorian to get started today. You deserve mental healthcare that works with you, not against your budget. 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. Thank you to today’s sponsor, Lumi Gummies! Lumi Gummies are available nationwide! Go to LumiGummies.com/VICTORIAN to get 30% off your order! 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. Thank you to today’s sponsors, Pride and Prejudice and Hello Fresh! Listen to the new Pride and Prejudice at http://audible.com/janeausten Go to http://hellofresh.com/victorian10fm for 10 Free Meals + a Free Item for Life! 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. Today’s Instagram post: 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! Thank you to today’s sponsor, Rula.com Go to Rula.com/victorian to get started today with convenient therapy that’s covered by insurance. 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. Thank you to today’s sponsor, Hello Fresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/VICTORIAN10FM now to Get 10 free meals + a free item for life! 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. Thank you to today’s sponsors, Pride and Prejudice and Lumi Gummies! Listen to the new Pride and Prejudice at http://audible.com/janeausten  Find Lumi Gummies at LumiGummies.com and use code: VICTORIAN for 30% off your first order. 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. 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, and weekly creepy story extras! You can just the Fan Coven at myvictoriannightmare.com! 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. 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.  Thank you to today’s sponsor, Rula! Go to Rula.com/victorian to get started today, for quality therapy that’s covered by insurance.  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.” Thank you to today’s sponsor, Lumi Gummies! Go to LumiGummies.com and use code VICTORIAN for 30% off your first order! 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. 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. Thank you to today's sponsor, Honeylove! Save 20% Off Honeylove at honeylove.com/victorian. Treat yourself to the most advanced bras and shapewear on the market. 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. Thank you to today's sponsors! Go to Rula.com/VICTORIANto get started today. That’s R-U-L-A dot com slashVICTORIANfor quality therapythat’s covered by insurance. Get better sleep, hair and skin with Blissyand use MVNPOD to get an additional 30% off athttp://blissy.com/MVNPOD 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. 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. 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

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.  Get better sleep, hair and skin with Blissy and use MVNPOD to get an additional 30% off at http://blissy.com/MVNPOD 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices