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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, grizzly, 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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In today's episode, Genevieve will be diving back into your favorite grizzly, hideous, at times very witty, and fabulously illustrated Victorian publication - The Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record. She'll discuss a creepy German law, Revolutionary war skeletons found in walls, coffins for lifeboats, and a journalist’s detailed report on what it was like to walk around a surgical school in the middle of the night in 1871.
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On today's episode, Genevieve discusses the creepiest Victorian haunted house she could find: The Villisca Axe murder house. She talks about both the chilling backstory and the hauntings.
References for today's episode:
https://adelaidehauntedhorizons.com.au/haunted-villisca-ax-murder-house-ghosts/
https://murderhouse.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghosts/comments/eldrm7/stayed_the_night_at_the_villisca_axe_murder_house/
https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-places/villisca-ax-murder-house/
https://villisca.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=moore&i=f&d=06011912-12311929&m=between&ord=k1&fn=the_villisca_review_usa_iowa_villisca_19120613_english_6&df=1&dt=10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villisca_axe_murdershttps://coronertalk.com/28
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On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss coffin-shaped boxes in mysterious huts, a case of suspended animation, a struggle in an elevator with a lunatic, and some other disturbing, little “Items of interest” as they’re called in the 1878 volume of The Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record which are indeed very interesting items. We’ll also enjoy a pumpkin smash.
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On today's episode, Genevieve discusses "America's most haunted house®" - The Whaley House of San Diego California. She'll dive into the bone chilling back story, as well as the spooky hauntings that delight (and seriously creep out) visitors today.
References for today's episode include:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaley_House_(San_Diego,_California)
https://yourtahoeguide.com/2021/07/gold-rush-vigilantes-jim-ugly-and-yankee-jim/
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Whaley-1836
https://www.kcghosts.com/california-whaley-house
https://sdghosts.com/the-whaley-house/
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/jul/03/history-san-diego-1850/
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDDU18850820.2.29&srpos=26&e=-------en--20-SDDU-21--txt-txIN-thomas+Whaley-------
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In today's (first!) minisode, Genevieve reads articles from the "Weekly Dose of Blood" in an 1873 volume of The Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record publication, as well as a spooky little article about a thieving somnambulist.
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In today's episode, Genevieve will discuss Mediums getting attacked by spirits, men drinking their own blood, live burials, nuns getting struck with lightning and rising from the dead – it’s going to be a spooky rollercoaster.
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In today's episode, Genevieve talks about Victorian circus horrors.
References for today's episode:
https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/post/freak-shows
https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2011/septemberoctober/statement/the-circus-you-never-knew
https://victorian-era.org/victorian-era-circus-performances.html
https://boroughsofthedead.com/barnum-museum-fire-july-13-1865/
https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/greatest-show-earth-freak-shows-pt-barnum-tom-thumb/
https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=DMST18851009.2.46&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
https://www.historyireland.com/the-wee-est-little-man-that-ever-was-general-tom-thumb-in-ireland/
https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-lost-original-madison-square-garden.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_mermaid
https://jvc.oup.com/2021/05/20/lost-circuses-of-victorian-leeds/
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In today’s episode, Genevieve dives back into the Illustrated Police News from 1871 - the insane Victorian publication full of grizzly murders, body snatchers, mice in donuts – it was a publication full of complete chaos.
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In today's episode, Genevieve discusses how Tuberculosis influenced fashion, hazardous beauty routines, deadly hatpins, the dangers of corsets, and strange, kind of gross beauty trends, as well as some really weird and intriguing facts about Victorian fashion.
References for today's episode:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-tuberculosis-shaped-victorian-fashion-180959029/
https://www.thecollector.com/tuberculosis-art/
https://thevictorianhistorian.com/beauty-fashion/
https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2015/05/29/did-corsets-harm-womens-health/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-leeds-mercury-death-of-matilda/30613252/?locale=en-US
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hatpins-mashers-self-defense-history-women-hats-fashion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheele%27s_green
https://hyperallergic.com/329747/death-by-wallpaper-alluring-arsenic-colors-poisoned-the-victorian-age/
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Today’s episode is going to be a little different. Genevieve will be reading horrifying stories from the Illustrated Police News from 1871, and giving context to the stories.
References for today's show:
https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-875?d=%2F10.1093%2Facrefore%2F9780199329175.001.0001%2Facrefore-9780199329175-e-875&p=emailAamzPoP9dB6io
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/266/oa_monograph/chapter/3065998#:~:text=This%20doctrine%2C%20called%20%E2%80%9Cspiritual%20affinity%2C%E2%80%9D%20swept%20the%20ranks%20of%20spiritualism%20in%20the%20early%201850s.&text=As%20sages%20of%20this%20world%20and%20the%20next%20one https://time.com/6107025/victoria-woodhull-free-love-movement/
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In today's episode, Genevieve dives into the spine tingling world of Victorian Spiritualism. She'll talk about where it all began, what a Victorian materializing seance would entail, the ways mediums would trick people into believing they were talking to dead people, and the history of the Ouija board.
References for today's episode:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-john-brown-was-queen-victorias-channel-to-alberts-ghost
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-fox-sisters-and-the-rap-on-spiritualism-99663697/
https://www.grunge.com/665457/the-strange-truth-about-ectoplasm-explained/
https://www.ranker.com/list/victorian-medium-seance-tricks/olivia-pasquarelli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism_(movement)
https://husheduphistory.com/post/653477933416120320/calling-the-unknown-by-name-helen-peters
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In today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the wild world of Victorian vampires. She'll discuss vampire panic and vampire autopsies of the 1800s, real vampires - or at least, folks who were believed to be real vampires, and the inspirations for everyone's favorite vampire, Dracula.
References for today's episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_vampire_panichttps://www.cdc.gov/tb/worldtbday/history.htm
https://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/vampire-myths-originated-real-blood-disorder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Westenra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Paolehttps://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/dracula-bram-stoker-inspiration
https://lithub.com/on-the-victorian-science-and-prejudices-behind-bram-stokers-dracula/
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