My Victorian Nightmare

On today’s episode, Genevieve will be taking you back to the blood-smeared Victorian railways. She will be discussing the murders of Sarah Hart and Thomas Briggs, as well as the “Philip Experiment” where scientists believed they conjured a ghost out of thin air. Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflodesk.com/myukzmys04 ⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Patreon free trial for ad-free l...

On today's episode, Genevieve will have unpleasant stabbings, poison mania, an accident that will ruin your week, women mysteriously delivered in coffins, men swallowing wedding rings, opium eaters, charred, lifeless remains and much, much more. Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflodesk.com/myukzmys04⁠ ⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Patreon free trial for ad-free listening! ⁠⁠h ⁠...

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss Victorian grave stone symbolism, The Moberly-Jourdain Incident, a tale of time-slipping, potentially residually haunted, deeply respected academics in 1901, and Ghost clubs of the 19th century. Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflodesk.com/myukzmys04⁠ ⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Patreon free trial for ad-free listening! ⁠htps://www.pa...

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have ghosts throwing potato chips, female poison serial killers, the body of a murderer on display for the general public, a horrible uxoricide, a naked women in prison attempting to "dash her brains out," a life of romance and suffering and fancy, lady's-only gambling parlors. No boys allowed! Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflode...

I decided to re-record my favorite gothic poem of all time, Edgar Allan Poe's, The Raven, for Halloween this year. I hope you enjoy this spooky bonus episode! Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflodesk.com/myukzmys04⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Patreon free trial for ad-free listening! ⁠⁠htps://www.patreon.com/cw/MyVictorianNightmare/membership⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad ch...

This sneak peak is one of the EXTRAS that you receive every week when you join The Fan Coven at myvictoriannightmare.com! In this episode, Burned in a Furnace , we will have a tale of cold blooded murder, ashes, bones, bombshell accusations in the courtroom, and not one but two foiled prison escape attempts. This is the murder of William Bachman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoi...

On today’s episode, Genevieve will conclude haunted Halloween hotel month with the dark, haunted history of the infamous Stanley Hotel that inspired Steven King’s, The Shining. She will be sharing the true and untrue tragedies that folks claim to be the origins of the spectral guests that inhabit the hotel to this day. Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflodesk.com/myu...

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have ghosts, ghosts and more spooky ghosts, including ghost trains! As well as the capture of 2 midnight grave robbers, Mary Todd Lincoln incognito at a seance, and Scottish Halloween traditions from 1876. Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflodesk.com/myukzmys04⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Patreon free trial for ad-free listening! ⁠⁠⁠htp...

On today’s episode, Genevieve will be talking about the disturbing history and hauntings of the Crescent Hotel, built in Eureka Springs, Arkansas in 1886. She will also receive a reading from Medium, Jennifer Page, from the I Talk to Ghosts Podcast, and she will also discuss the horrifying haunted history of Leap Castle in Ireland. Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myf...

On today’s episode, Genevieve will be taking you back to some of our favorite cemeteries, public hangings, creepy seances and ax murders that we’ve enjoyed together in episodes of yore! Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflodesk.com/myukzmys04⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Patreon free trial for ad-free listening! ⁠⁠⁠htps://www.patreon.com/cw/MyVictorianNightmare/membership⁠...

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss women buried in wedding dresses, dismembered bodies in trunks, shawl disputes leading to knife attacks, a death by kicking written in flabbergasting detail, and a lady blitzed out of her bloomers on laughing gas, attempting all manner of gymnastics for an adoring crowd. She will also discuss Spiritualist philosophy of the 1800s and a family’s terrifying g...

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss one of the most confounding and eery nautical mysteries of all time: The Ghost ship, Mary Celeste. This was a brigantine ship owned by Captain Benjamin Briggs that was found floating all by its lonesome in the Atlantic in 1872, with all of its crew, the captain, his wife and baby - nowhere to be found. Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myvictorian...

On today's episode, Genevieve will have a series of mysterious and tragic murders in the southwest, men frozen to death, dogs playing with dead bodies in basements, nose pullers, lost wigs, and highly inappropriate sarcasm regarding incredibly violent vigilante justice. We'll also have a haunted house in 1878 with too many skeletons buried in the basement to know who's who. Subscribe to the Newsle...

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will be taking you to the haunted Victorian era-built Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. She will discuss its horrifying history and its present-day spectral inhabitants. She will also discuss the Cock Lane Ghost story, as well as a 19th century, Groucho Marks-style mishap that occurred at a seance. Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflodes...

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have bullets – right between the eyes, mysterious throat slittings, diabolical plots involving corn pipes, buffalo hunters frozen to death, mysterious suicides, mangled men caught in cow-catchers and Spanish men falling out of windows, cursing all the way down.  Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflodesk.com/myukzmys04⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Subscr...

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.” Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflodesk.com/myukzmys04⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Patreon free tri...

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. Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflodesk.com/myukzmys04⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Subscribe to...

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, accord...

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 mai...

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. Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflodesk.com/myukzmy...

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....

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.  Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflodesk.com/myukzmys04⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Patreon free trial for ad-free listening! ⁠⁠⁠⁠htps://www.patreon.c...

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. Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoria...

On today's episode, Genevieve will be discussing not one, but two of the most haunted Victorian homes in England: The Borley Rectory as well as a little unsuspecting cottage in Essex that was once known as The Cage of St. Osyth, which was once the site of a medieval witch prison. We will also learn exactly what happens when you die, according to a Spiritualist newspaper from the 1800s. Subscribe t...