In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the funeral industry of the 19th century and a few of her favorite death-centered professions that are no longer in high demand today, but were positively fascinating: funeral cookie bakers, corpse-watchers, mutes and professional mourners. 

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References:

https://funeral.com/blogs/the-journal/funeral-biscuits-in-the-1800s-what-they-were-why-they-were-served-and-how-to-make-them-today?srsltid=AfmBOorry4RZkCYT3pQ2iGryb0LGfYJ-xZYnlhN6e4pYP5dl7Jb_SHwo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin-eater

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_edition_of_the_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica

https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/england/englishness-funeral-food.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_biscuit

https://www.victorianlondon.org/death/characteroffunerals.htm

https://austins.co.uk/blog/the-history-of-the-victorian-mute/

https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/tag/professional-mourners

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/alma%3A99127049613408651

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15792/pg15792-images.html

https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/category/buried-alive/

“Prematurely Buried” - Kilmore Free Press, Jan. 18th 1883.

“Narrowly Escaped Burial Alive” - The Clinton Independent, Thursday Feb. 18th, 1892.

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss verifiable accounts of tragedies that many believe explain the hauntings of 2 London Underground stations: Bank and Farringdon. She will also discuss a few unusual omens that Victorians believed predicted certain doom.

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References:

https://www.davidcastleton.net/london-underground-haunted-stations-ghosts-tube/

https://freetoursbyfoot.com/ghosts-london-underground-stations/

https://www.paranormaldatabase.com/reports/underground.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground

https://www.ghosthuntertours.co.uk/post/whispers-of-the-past-the-gruesome-tale-of-anne-naylor-s-poltergeist-at-farringdon-station

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-crime-and-execution-of-the-metyards-70c6824bae

https://www.executedtoday.com/2015/07/19/1762-sarah-metyard-and-sally-metyard-mother-and-daughter/

https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2023/04/03/sarah-whitehead-the-bank-nun-ghost/

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10118/pg10118.html

https://www.wisdomportal.com/Poems2010/AppleSymbolism.html

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the Paris Charity Bazaar fire of 1897: how an event devoted to gaiety, high society socializing and generosity became one of the deadliest fire tragedies in French history.

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References:

https://www.geriwalton.com/the-tragic-1897-charity-bazaar-fire-or-the-bazar-de-la-charite-in-paris/

https://www.broadhistory.com/the-fire-that-started-a-victorian-gender-war/

https://education.persee.fr/doc/magen_1257-5593_1897_num_64_33_31454

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazar_de_la_Charit%C3%A9

https://doctorfire.com/pages/Paris_fire.pdf

https://parishistoryofourstreets.com/2021/04/29/the-bazaar-de-la-charite-disaster-part-one/

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the shocking, little-known disasters and tragedies that began to unfold even before the smoke had cleared: the psychological unraveling of Mary Todd Lincoln, The Ford Theater collapse of 1893, the unthinkable murder/attempted suicide of the Rathbones and the numerous hauntings of the Ford Theater that still linger to this very day.

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References:

https://ghostcitytours.com/washington-dc/haunted-washington-dc/fords-theatre/

https://dcghosts.com/fords-theatre/

https://www.nps.gov/foth/learn/historyculture/the-collapse-of-ford-s-theatre.htm

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/06/07/henry-reed-rathbone/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/abraham-lincoln-funeral

https://fords.org/an-african-american-hero-emerges-from-the-tragic-fords-theatre-collapse-of-1893/

https://msmagazine.com/2012/12/05/mary-todd-lincoln-a-lunatic-or-just-grieving/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Todd_Lincoln

The_assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln_%28IA_assassxxxxxx00linc%29.pdf

https://www.americanheritage.com/haunted-major

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the murder case of Dr. Hawley Crippen: one of the most sensational murder cases in English history. We’ll discuss The glitz and glamour, the torrid affairs, the astounding escape attempt by sea, and the modern scientific discoveries that have raised serious concerns that maybe, they got the wrong guy.

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References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawley_Harvey_Crippen

https://prashganendran.com/the-notorious-dr-crippen-and-the-hilldrop-crescent-murder/

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-10802059

https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/the-notorious-case-of-dr-crippen/

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss two Victorian theater tragedies, the lives and deaths of illusionist Sigmund Neuberger, otherwise known as the Great Lafayette, and actor William Terriss, as well as their alleged hauntings of the theaters where they met their tragic ends; The Adelphi Theater in London, and the Festival Theater in Edinburgh.

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References:

https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/the-great-lafayette/

https://folkhorrorrevival.com/2017/01/08/the-great-lafayette

https://www.whatsonstage.com/news/explore-the-uks-most-haunted-theatres-with-ghost-stories_1661281/

https://sancass.medium.com/the-man-who-had-two-funerals-bf740ad6a0fe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Neuberger

https://www.victorianvoices.net/ARTICLES/STRAND/1893B/S1893B-DogCemetery.pdf

“Lafayette’s Funeral - Great Gathering in Edinburgh” - Liverpool Daily Post, May 15th, 1911.

https://london-beyond-time-and-place.com/william-terriss-the-ghost-of-a-murdered-actor/

https://bowstreetmuseum.org.uk/adelphi-murder/

https://www.thomaswhodgkinson.com/features/hello/

https://www.haunted-britain.com/the-ghost-of-william-terriss.htm

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss one the 19th century’s most shocking maritime murder cases, the massacre on the Mary Russell in 1828: a story of the slow unraveling of a captain’s sanity, bloodshed, and survival against all odds on the open seas. 

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References:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/crime/mary-russell-19th-century-massacre-legal-case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Russell_murders

https://historyireland.com/forced-from-this-world-massacre-on-the-mary-russell/

https://whyhorror.blog/2022/11/18/why-mary-russell/

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4921892/4899086/5181471

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the cast iron Fisk coffins of the mid-19th century, and the shockingly bizarre and disturbing proposals to electroplate dead bodies so that they may become golden, silver, brass or bronze statues that you could keep in your home forever.

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References:

https://katieisms.substack.com/p/the-true-history-behind-the-stunning-coffins-in-frankenstein

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-fisk-mummy-case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroplating

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-electroplating-corpses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Holmes_(mortician)

https://mthistoryrevealed.blogspot.com/2013/10/polishing-mothers-silverand-mother-too.html?m=1

“Explosion of a Metallic Coffin” - The New York Times, Nov. 6th, 1858.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-the-quest-to-preserve-lenins-body-helps-the-living

https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/survival-of-rare-anglo-saxon-coffins/

https://www.agweb.com/news/business/farmland/who-was-lady-red-farm-mystery-lingers-over-woman-iron-coffin

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the dark histories and meanings behind three 19th century masterpieces: Edvard Munch’s electrifying “The Scream,” Théodore Géricault’s devastating “Raft of the Medusa,” and John William Waterhouse’s haunting Pre-Raphaelite work, “The Lady of Shalott.”

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References:

https://www.artandobject.com/news/horrifying-history-behind-raft-medusa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa

https://smarthistory.org/theodore-gericault-raft-of-the-medusa/

https://www.singulart.com/blog/en/2019/09/10/the-scream-the-story-behind-edvard-munchs-haunting-masterpiece/?srsltid=AfmBOooUh2TbUknjf3baVjDXU3qOX0O3MxRlNQAnqPUMFwS7st60Qb67

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream

https://smarthistory.org/munch-the-scream/

https://elephant.art/the-lady-of-shalott-taught-me-that-female-power-exists-beyond-fairytales-waterhouse-nabihah-iqbal-08122020/

https://chatgpt.com/c/6a3ae6cc-3698-83ea-b510-7f8e7c458bfd

https://mydailyartdisplay.uk/2019/06/06/john-william-waterhouse-part-2/

In this, our 100th EPISODE, Genevieve will discuss the paranormal and downright bizarre events that have taken place in Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery in Chicago. We will also travel back to some of our favorite horrifying events, and we might run into some friends along the way!

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References:

https://www.bachelorsgrove.com/paranormal-history

https://www.bachelorsgrove.com/history

https://ghostcitytours.com/chicago/haunted-chicago/bachelors-grove-cemetery/

https://ghostwalks.com/articles/bachelors-grove-cemetery-graveyard-ghosts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_Grove_Cemetery

https://www.uicradio.net/post/bachelor-s-grove-cemetery-one-of-illinois-most-haunted-places

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