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.

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References For Today’s Episode:

“A Budget of Ghost Stories” - Cheshire Observer,  Mar. 6th, 1869.

“Mr. Morse” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 1869.

“The Murder at Salthill” - The Bath Chronicle and Herald, Mar. 20th, 1845.

“Funeral of Sarah Hart” - Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic, Jan. 16th 1845.

https://moonmausoleum.com/the-philip-experiment-the-spirit-created-by-scientists/

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_M%C3%BCller

https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/about-us/about-us/our-history/crime-history/first-railway-murder/

https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/about-us/about-us/our-history/crime-history/murder-of-sarah-hart/

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

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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.

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Today's Instagram Post:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DRCnucLDsxi/?igsh=bGpyNnFucTdicnRj

References:

“Christmas Ghosts and Scientific Ghosts” - The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Weekly Messenger, County Journal and General Advertiser, Dec. 26th, 1863.

"Mr. Woolnough" - The Spiritualist, Dec. 17th, 1869.

“Unpleasant Stabbing Affray Between Italians in New York”- The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

“The Mulberry Street Butchery” - New York Daily Herald, Mar. 2nd, 1872.

"The Poisoning Mania"- The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

"Horrible Accident to a Woman in Canal Street, N.Y." - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

“More New York Justice” - The St. Louis Republic, Nov. 20th 1872.

"Another Mystery" - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

"A Bridegroom in Cleveland Swallows his Wedding Ring" - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

“Mr. Pepper’s Last Ghost” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 1869.

"One More Indiana Horror" - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

"A New Social Evil — The Male and Female “Opium Eaters” of New York" - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

“Young Gentlemen of Boston Submitting Their Arms to a Charming Female Vaccinator” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Ladies in the Medical Profession” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 17th, 1869.

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

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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.

Today’s Instagram Post:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQxVI0fjqCV/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

References:

https://www.undercliffecemetery.co.uk/gallery/funerary-art/

https://www.vintageviews.org/vv-tl/pages/Cem_Symbolism.htm

https://arnosvale.org.uk/secrets-and-symbols-the-grave-language-of-the-victorian-cemetery/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moberly%E2%80%93Jourdain_incident

https://www.ranker.com/list/moberly-jourdain-incident-and-time-travel/genevieve-carlton

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/10/31/ghost-club-yeats-dickens-secret-society-spirits/

https://www.openculture.com/2017/05/the-ghost-club.html

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

https://dickenssociety.org/archives/4679

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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!

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Today’s Instagram Post:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQfFlTjkXnF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

References:

“Virginian Ghosts” - The Times-Picayune, Nov. 23, 1874.

“Mr. J. Davis” - The Spiritualist, - The Spiritualist, Dec. 17th, 1869.

“A Woman Poisons Her Husband’s Food in Stark County, Indiana” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“A Murderer’s Body on Exhibition” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“A Prisoner Leaps from a Court Room Window in Kansas City, Mo., and Escapes” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 8th, 1872.

“Horrible Uxoricide” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“An Inconsiderate Parent” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“A Wrangle Over the Remains of Botts the Murderer” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 8th, 1872.

“Miss Eva G. Vallee, the Pretty Female Prisoner, Simulates a Fit and Attempts Suicide in the Central Police Station, New York City” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“A Sad Story” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“The She-Gamblers of San Francisco” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

"Police Report" - The Leavenworth Times, Jul. 30th, 1872. 

"Forestalling the Gallows" - The Courier-Journal, Mar. 27th, 1872

"Confidence Woman Convicted" - The Daily Evening Herald, Apr. 13th, 1872

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon%27s_Lake_House

https://deathpenaltyusa.org/usa1/date/1872.htm

https://publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Blume-final.pdf

https://mrsdaffodildigresses.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/women-gamblers-of-new-york-1884/

https://www.victorianweb.org/history/leisure/gambling1.html

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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!

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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.

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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.

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My Halloween Party Playlist:

Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6kOUlSZbILIuVsM3vJnoPR?si=ZUcPCjmySaaPTG4Jh_do8g

Today’s Instagram Post:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQNNNMnkZQW/?igsh=MXdzcW13Z3lnYWwzYw==

References:

“Ghosts Ghosts!” - Richmond Independent Telegram, Sept. 1st, 1871.

"Mr. Avery" - The Spiritualist, Dec. 17th, 1869.

https://usghostadventures.com/americas-most-haunted-hotels-and-inns/hauntings-of-the-stanley-hotel/

https://www.uncovercolorado.com/stanley-hotel-haunted-history/

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

https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/carrie-welton

https://www.lakecountypubliclibrary.org/lake-county-cemetery-records

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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.

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Today’s Instagram post:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DP6csKxDqkW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

References:

“A Haunted House in Brooklyn” - The Times-Picayune, Nov. 23rd, 1874.

"Mr. J.S. Steele" - The Spiritualist, Dec. 1869.

"Chicago Hyenas" - Chicago Tribune, Mar. 4th, 1872.

"Mrs. Lincoln Seeking the Spirit of Her Husband in Boston" - Illustrated Police News, Feb. 29th, 1872.

"The Late Railroad Accident" - The Daily Journal, Jan. 11th, 1856.

"Halloween" - Anaheim Gazette, Nov. 4th, 1876.

https://www.thoughtco.com/supernatural-and-spooky-events-1773802#:~:text=The%20Bell%20Witch%20Terrorized%20a,The%20animal%20ran%20off.

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

https://www.ourstate.com/maco-light/

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/seances-in-the-red-room

https://web.archive.org/web/20111228012923/http://www.wilmingtonrailroadmuseum.org/content/joebaldwin.php

https://www.historicrailpark.com/otr-blog/the-haunting-of-the-ln-line-the-legend-of-the-ghost-train/

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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.

Today’s Instagram post:

References:

https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/leap-castle/

https://crescent-hotel.com/about/history/

https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-stories/the-crescent-hotel-americas-most-haunted-hotel/

https://steemit.com/history/@winstonwolfe/the-macabre-history-of-the-crescent-hotel-in-eureka-springs-arkansas

https://www.ozarksalive.com/stories/crescenthoteleurekasprings

https://horroraddicts.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/it-came-from-the-vault-ghost-hunting-with-rhonda-carpenter-the-crescent-hotel/

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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!

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