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.
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Ep. 52 - Living in the Company of Departed Spirits
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.
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Ep. 43 - The Witching Time of Night
On Today’s’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing a young girl caught in a waterwheel, stonings, pickaxings, a harrowing coal oil disaster, a ludicrous fall in a church, a man’s head blown to atoms, men in drag wreaking havoc upon street harassers, a man who visit’s his wife’s grave and leaves with her - it’s not what you think, booby traps gone terribly wrong and so much more.
References for today’s episode:
“The Frenzied Lover's Murder In Boston” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th 1872.
“Ludicrous Fall of a Young Lady in a Church at Lyons, NY” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th 1872.
“Summary Vengeance on an Insulter of Females at Bridgeport Conn.” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th 1872.
“A Lunatic Assaults the Statue of Franklin in Printing House Square” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th 1872.
“A Postmaster Shot by His Own Burglar Trap - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th 1872.
“Bloody Work in John Street” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th 1872.
“Another Martyr to Coal Oil” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th 1872.
“The Newfoundland Horror” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th 1872.
“A Man Stoned to Death in Columbus Ohio” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th 1872.
“A Young Daughter of Mr. Villiton of Centerport Caught in a Water Wheel,” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th 1872.
“A Mans Head Blown to Atoms” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th 1872.
“Double Murder in Newfoundland - Hanging of a Beautiful Woman.” - The San Fransisco Examiner, Mar. 14th, 1872.
https://www.farmcollector.com/farm-life/water-wheels-zmlz12novzbea/
http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_lamp_accidents.htm
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Ep. 51 - The Woolfolk Family Massacre
On this week’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing the Woolfolk family massacre: the annihilation of a family of 9 that occurred in 1887. The details are harrowing, horrible, heartbreaking, and some are truly…strange.
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References for today's episode:
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/woolfolk-murder-case/
https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/woolfolk-thomas.htm
https://www.gpb.org/news/2024/07/19/macon-graves-linked-infamous-georgia-murder-were-vandalized-investigation-underway
https://rosehillcemeterymacongeorgia.blogspot.com/2010/10/remarkable-funeral-burial-of-victims-of.html
“The Red Hand” - The Atlanta Constitution, Aug. 7th, 1887.
“Bloody Woolfolk” - The Atlanta Constitution, Aug. 8th, 1887.
“Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881.
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Ep. 50 - He Dropped Dead With a Peach in His Mouth
On this week’s episode of My Victorian Nightmare, Genevieve will discuss a man mangled with a carving knife, another skeleton where it does not belong, the growing evil that is young women leaving their homes, a rum-crazed lunatic dentist, a man killed by a jar of peaches, and a couple of rats that exhibited an admirable commitment to teamwork.
References for today's Episode:
“Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881.
“Charge of Imposture” - The Spiritualist, Nov. 19, 1869.
“John Costello Encounters Jack Glass and Mangles Him with a Carving Knife in a Saloon on Nassau Street, New York,” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st. 1872.
“Whose Girls Are They” - The Illustrated Police News, Dec. 14, 1871
“Discovery of a Skeleton at Oxford” - The Illustrated Police News, Aug. 5th, 1871.
“Effect of David Dicky’s Victory Eating for a Wager - The Coroner’s Name was Smith” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.
“A Baby Boiled by an Insane Mother” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.
“Death of a Woman From Starvation”- The Recorder, May 27th, 1872.
“A Rum-Crazed Dentist Shoots Four of his Neighbors” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.
“How a Kalamazoo Grocer Lost His Eggs and Where They Went” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb.1st, 1872.
https://nyupress.org/blog/2009/10/27/the-ghosts-of-14th-st/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_writing
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/adolescent/chapter/history-of-developmental-psychology/
https://nemasket.blogspot.com/2010/02/
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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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