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On Today’s’s episode, Genevieve is diving back into the Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record: everyone’s favorite bananas, blood-soaked, spooky little tabloid from the 1800s. She will have a hat-wafting seance, a thrilling search for a dead body, wax necks, jealous husbands, mayhem, a shocking discovery in a penitentiary, an alarming growth of intoxication among young ladies, and more!
References for Today's Show:
https://www.magicianmasterclass.com/post/how-do-magicians-levitate#viewer-aqfts
“The Last “Thing” in Fashion, The Wax Neck” Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.
“Spiritual Manifestations at a Seance in Boston on New Year’s Eve” Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.
“Thrilling Search for the Body of a Murdered Man in MacDonald Co, Mo.,” Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.
“A Young Lady Outraged and Then Murdered in Arkansas,” Illustrated Police News, Dec, 28 1871.
“A Leap to Death in Cincinnati - An Unknown Unfortunate Jumps From a Bridge to Eternity,” Illustrated Police News, August, 28 1873.
“Taking a Farmer’s Wife, Baby and Potatoes to Market,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872.
“How a Jealous Husband in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Returned Home and What He Found There,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872.
“Alarming Growth of Intoxication Among Young Ladies - Sad Scene in a New Jersey Ferry Boat,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872.
“Extra Penance in a Penitentiary,” Illustrated Police News, Nov 30th, 1871.
“Mayhem,” Illustrated Police News, July 6th, 1876.
“A New Jersey Cannibal Gormandizes a Policeman’s Cheek,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 21st, 1871.
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On todays episode, Genevieve will return to 19th century London to discuss the Jack the Ripper murders case. She'll discuss the timeline, the victims, the suspects, and a few little known facts about the still open Whitechapel murders case. She’ll also discuss a very courageous photo shoot, and give her fairly coherent review of “The Monkey.”
References for today's episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper
https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/kate-eddowes-last-night.htm
https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/jack-the-ripper-victim-elizabeth-stride.htm
https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/mary-kelly.htm
https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/suspects.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Eddowes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Stride
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane_Kelly
"Bolton Spiritualists Vision of the Whitechapel Murderer "- The Bolton News, Oct 8, 1888
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On todays episode, Genevieve will dive deep into the Jack The Ripper case and guide you down the cold, damp, cobblestone streets of 19th century Whitechapel. She'll discuss the timeline, the victims, the suspects, and a few little known facts about the still open Whitechapel murders case.
References for today's episode:
https://www.science.org/content/article/does-new-genetic-analysis-finally-reveal-identity-jack-ripper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper
https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/emma-smith.htm
https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/martha-tabram-jack-the-ripper-victim.htm
https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/life-and-death-of-mary-nichols.htm
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/jack-the-rippers-victims-were-not-prostitutes-says-historian-who-claims-sexist-victorian-policemen-unfairly-labelled-them/JSQ3BCTKULMV7LZVZTCVGEAISQ/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Elizabeth_Smith
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Tabram
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Nichols
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On today’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing the very macabre ways in which French Victorians would entertain themselves: the death-themed cabarets, horror shows in old gothic chapels, and the very upsetting and morbid curiosities that Parisians would literally trample over each other to get a glimpse of.
References for today's episode:
https://daily.jstor.org/the-cabarets-of-heaven-and-hell/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Guignol
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/paris-morgue-public-viewing
https://dianamarin.com/tag/the-uncanny-cabaret-du-neant/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_de_L%27Enfer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_du_Ciel
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On today's episode, we will have butchery with banjos, naked maniacs decapitating people, Lesbians, more butchery, some charming insults that Victorians liked to send to one another on Valentines day, and a very special love poem.
References for today's episode:
“A Naked Man's Horrible Deeds,” Illustrated Police News, December 18, 1880
"Butchered" With a Banjo,” Illustrated Police News, July 3, 1880
“Bloody Butchery,” Illustrated Police News, January 31, 1880
https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/misogyny-created-a-space-for-women-to-f-ck-in-the-19th-century-d32f6ab34e48
https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/misogyny-created-a-space-for-women-to-f-ck-in-the-19th-century-d32f6ab34e48
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-same-sex-valentines-day
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On today's episode, Genevieve takes you on a tour of the Victorian Lunatic Asylum. She'll discuss the history of the institution, surprising and spine-chilling facts, as well as her very own terrifying experience of the time she broke into the Overbrook Asylum in New Jersey.
References for today's episode:
https://cpp-college.netlify.app/programs/education-blog/victorian-mental-health-and-women-part-one-american-asylums
https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/victorian-mental-asylum
https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/netflix-2017/how-victorian-women-were-oppressed-through-the-use-of-psychiatry/1607/
https://www.talkspace.com/blog/history-inhumane-mental-health-treatments/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly
https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-places/americas-most-haunted-hospitals-and-asylums/overbrook-asylum/
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/8bcb0263e26f4ceeb6d41a00cfc72b7a?item=1
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On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss the 5 Points slum, a church lunatic, a woman that takes investment advice from her dead husband, a cannibalistic affair between 2 ladies, the curious caper of an unruly cow, a locomotive disaster, mayhem, mysterious tragedies and a man who saved an entire New Hampshire town because he loved his girlfriend a little too much.
References for today's episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_the_Scapular%E2%80%93St._Stephen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points,_Manhattan#:~:text=The%20local%20politics%20of%20%22the,racial%20integration%20in%20American%20history
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In today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the grisly history of the graveyard that is London, and the subterranean train system built in the Victorian era within and around the final resting places of literally millions of tightly packed Londoners.
References for today’s episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enon_Chapel
https://gizmodo.com/how-corpses-helped-shape-the-london-underground-1493312117
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-66507599
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/london-crossrail-bedlam-big-dig
https://www.timeout.com/london/news/londons-victorian-necropolis-railway-station-is-for-sale-060424
https://www.mylondon.news/news/nostalgia/london-underground-station-built-right-21001175
https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/where-we-go/blog/the-forgotten-story-of-london-necropolis-railway
https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/the-forgotten-men-of-the-london-underground/
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On today's show, Genevieve has a robber who becomes a raving maniac in prison, a very shocking confession followed by a very grisly request, a woman poisoned by laudanum and nearly frozen to death, a footrace between a phrenologist and a zippy young lady, a thief who nearly blows his own head off, a wife’s vengeance with a pen knife, murder, blackmail, and an unfortunate sled accident on an historic Boston Street, among a few others.
References for today's episode:
https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2015/06/the-murder-of-pet-halsted.html
https://pages.vassar.edu/realarchaeology/2017/03/05/phrenology-and-scientific-racism-in-the-19th-century/
https://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/shields.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Exposition
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In this week's episode, Genevieve gives a full, very dramatic review of Nosferatu, and dives into the truly diabolical murders of H.H. Holmes.
References for todays episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes
https://www.newspapers.com/image/668069816/?terms=h.h.%20holmes
https://www.history.com/news/murder-castle-h-h-holmes-chicago
https://www.ranker.com/list/hh-holmes-origin-story/hannah-gilham
https://www.bustle.com/p/quotes-from-hh-holmes-memoir-provide-insight-into-the-american-ripper-69194
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/enduring-mystery-hh-holmes-americas-first-serial-killer-180977646/
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Today, Genevieve will discuss a Lunatic Asylum escapee in a washtub boat, a steamboat slaughter, a tragic murder on a lovely evening, a clergyman’s narrow escape from certain death, a fit of apoplexy, hatchets, razors, insanity, and a somewhat tragic ice skating accident that luckily has a meet-cute happy ending.
References for Today's Episode:
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2022/11/nellie-bly-blackwells-island/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)
https://genealogytrails.com/ill/woodford/tradgies.html
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On today's episode, we’re still celebrating the Holiday season with some weird, wonderful, and downright irresponsible Victorian Christmas traditions!
References for today's episode:
https://www.history.com/news/christmas-tradition-ghost-stories
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/652043/victorian-christmas-traditions
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/12/shock-of-the-old-11-murderous-and-macabre-victorian-christmas-cards
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-34988154
https://historycollection.com/strange-and-delightful-holiday-traditions-of-the-victorian-era/
https://www.marthastewart.com/1097532/decorative-past-tradition-christmas-pickle-ornament
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Today's episode is Christmas themed! Genevieve will be discussing a family hatchet fight, an assault with a pot roast, an assault with a teapot, a fruit and nut plundering, an insane chimney sweep, a grizzly Christmas day murder, A tragic Christmas Day train disaster, a Chamber of Horrors, and a few more truly horrific Christmas day events.
References for today's episode:
https://www.measuringworth.com/blog/?p=256
https://www.postalmuseum.org/blog/victorian-christmas-boxes/#:~:text=These%20tokens%20were%20known%20as,form%20of%20money%20or%20alcohol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_railroad_accidents
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/toxmetal/arsenic/arsenic-a-murderous-history/#:~:text=Beginning%20in%20the%20eighteenth%20century,common%20in%20the%20market%20place
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In today's episode, Genevieve keeps with Victorian Christmas tradition, and tells a terrifying ghost story: The Signal Man, by Charles Dickens.
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On today's episode, Genevieve dives back into the salacious, at times terrifying, at times, grisly, at times charming Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record, from which she will read about Bleecker Street harpies punching cops in the face, some discomfiture of an older gentleman who gets a parasol stuck in his mouth, a madhouse ax murder, a man on a smashing spree, a saloon slaying, a murderously jealous lover, and a man killed by a coffin.
References for today's episode:
https://cemeteryclub.wordpress.com/2020/03/02/killed-by-a-coffin/
https://www.loc.gov/item/ca07000366/
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In today's episode, Genevieve digs deep into the murder trial of Mary Ann Mailman at the hands of her husband, Peter Mailman in 1873. The trial was full of salacious accusations of affairs, jealous husbands, heartbreaking testimony, flagrant slut shaming from the defense, and details of the murder that shook Nova Scotia to the core.
The Trial of Peter Mailman:
https://ia600201.us.archive.org/10/items/cihm_09620/cihm_09620.pdf
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In this very short episode Genevieve waxes on the current state of affairs. We will return to the 1800s next week, and especially in 2 months.
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On today's episode, Genevieve pulls out a few articles from the Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record: volumes between 1871 and 1875. She'll provide you with your Weekly Dose of Blood, a very concerning case of 2 men either infected with rabies, or turning into werewolves - it’s a bit unclear, a Frenchman nearly eaten alive by rats, a grizzly wedding party, a blood-thirsty maniac, a woman melting down exquisitely on stage, and a damsel giving an impromptu acrobatic performance on the streets of Chicago
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On today's minisode, Genevieve reads her 3 favorite spooky Victorian Halloween poems! Edgar Allan Poe's, The Raven, Lake of the Dismal Swamp by Thomas Moore, and The Broomstick Train or the Return of the Witches by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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Today’s episode will contain absolutely delightful, bone-chillingly fascinating Victorian Halloween traditions, as well as a few more creepy-eepy Victorian house histories and hauntings.
References for today's episode:
https://gaslampfoundation.org/victorian-halloween-traditions-now-thats-scary/
https://www.grunge.com/1056548/what-victorian-halloween-was-really-like/
https://mix108.com/is-this-home-the-most-haunted-estate-in-minnesota/
https://www.huntingdondailynews.com/daily_herald/news/spooktacular-stories-the-haunting-of-baker-mansion/article_7370709e-6ff2-5d04-a92a-9853bc26b288.html
https://hauntedhouses.com/minnesota/forepaughs-restaurant/
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