My Victorian Nightmare

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. 

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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.
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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.”

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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.
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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.

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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/
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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.

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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.
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