My Victorian Nightmare

• Ep. 57 - Dark Séances & The Greenbrier Ghost

  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

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• Ep. 56 - All Sorts of Strange Apparitions

  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

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• Ep. 55 - Homestead of Horrors: The Bloody Benders

  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

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• Ep. 54 - A Series of Diabolical Groans

  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

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• Ep. 53 - The Exquisite Grief of Mary Shelley

  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

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