Gaslight Ghost Stories and Victorian Murders Podcast

Welcome to the Gaslight Ghost Stories and Victorian Murders podcast. In this episode we are listening to the second and last part of our story,  Wandering Spirits.  A party of young English travelers have adventured to Egypt in search of a mysterious and powerful treasure.  They are led by a young brothers sworn to help them find it.  

In tonight's exotic tale, we hear of the English abroad. Throughout the nineteenth century, England's aristocrats freed their children to wander to France, to Italy, and even to Egypt and India. And why should they not, when they ruled an empire upon which the sun did not set.  Not all such adventures ended in joy, for the world then, as now, was filled with many evils, none worse than ignorance a...

Welcome to Gaslight Ghost Stories and Victorian Murders, where the dead do not rest quietly, and the past is never as civilized as it pretends to be. In this episode we learn about a serial mass murderer well known in 19th century England but largely forgotten now.  Thanks once again to our sponsor, AudioIron.com.

Who are the most famous pair of serial murderers in Britain in the 19th century? That would likely be Burke and Hare. What you'll find most interesting is their motive and their method of disposing of their victim's bodies. Thanks once again to AudioIron.com for their sponsorship. 

In tonight's episode, a passionate young woman fights to protect her brother's position, unaware that ancient evils and trusted enemies are poised to destroy him and all he holds dear.  Some of the biggest mistakes we make are born from our very best intentions.

Welcome to Gaslight Ghost Stories and Victorian Murders. In tonight's tale we remember a harder time, when food was quite scarce, staying warm was expensive, and a good future was hard to come by.  In the 19th century, millions of young men left farms and set off to cities, desperate to find paying work and a way to feed a family. A good many didn't survive.  And yet, as this story illustrates, ev...

Welcome to the Gaslight Ghost Stories and Victorian Murders Podcast.  Sometimes a desire to do the right thing turns into the biggest mistake you've ever made. In this tale of a family blessing that becomes a family curse, a parish priest faces and impossible choice. 

An ancient family manor, love, lust, horror, and a spirit that will never rest until it sees justice done. The nineteenth century liked to call itself civilized. It built railways, factories, grand estates, and glittering cities. It spoke of duty, obedience, God, progress, and respectability. But beneath the lace collars and polished mahogany, cruelty lived easily. It was not an accident. It was p...