On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss not one but 2 female poisoners of the 19th century. Adelaide Bartlett and Mary Ann Cotton. This episode will be dripping with chloroform and arsenic.

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References For Today's Episode:

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

https://mayfairtimes.co.uk/2022/04/the-pimlico-poisoning/

https://www.historicmysteries.com/history/pimlico-poisoning/24405/

https://thethreepennyguignol.com/2024/04/17/the-impossible-case-of-the-pimlico-poisoning/

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

https://www.historyhit.com/who-was-mary-ann-cotton/

https://www.wired.com/2012/02/arsenic-and-the-forgotten-serial-killer/

https://www.visitheritage.co.uk/things-to-do/cultural-history/true-crime/mary-ann-cotton

“CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES” - The Sidney Journal, Feb. 25th, 1870.

“SEANCES AT THE SPIRITUAL LIBRARY” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 31st, 1869.

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On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss the ghosts of The Tower of London, Welsh fasting girls, rabid brides, maniacs with razors, an attempted murder at a christening, a great deal of homicidal arson and a fatal masquerade.

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References For Today's Episode:

“The Tower Ghost” - The Sydney Mail, Feb. 26th, 1870.

“THE WELSH FASTING GIRL” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 31st 1869.

“A Rabid Bride” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 28th, 1872.

“A Truant Wife in a House of Ill-Fame at Washington” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

Josephine Creamer vs. Charles Creamer - Petition for Divorce - Puget Sound Dispatch, Aug. 1st 1872.

“A Man and His Wife Murdered and Burned in Indiana” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Struggle for Life in the Grasp of the Madman Purdy, at Newburg, N.Y.” — The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

“A Bloody Christening in Boston — Timothy Cannon Stabs His Cousin”- The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

“A Deserted Maiden of St. Louis Attempts to Burn Her Recreant Lover Alive” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

“Fatal Result of a Masquerading Joke at Millerton, New York” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

https://www.walks.com/blog/tower-of-london-ghosts/

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

https://ghil.hypotheses.org/2151

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On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss the Yule Cat, Krampus and the Yule Goat, as well as a few other deeply disturbing monsters that roam the countryside, looking to slice children open and replace their insides with straw and rocks every Christmas. Some of these creatures have ancient origins, but they all really shined in the Victorian era.

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Instagram Post For Today's Episode:

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References For Today's Episode:

“Ghost Story” - The Halifax Courier and Guardian, Nov. 19th, 1853.

“The Human “Double” - The Spiritualist, Jan. 14th, 1870.

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

https://education.turpentinecreek.org/2023/12/09/the-spooky-legend-of-the-yule-cat/

https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2025/12/krampus-origins-and-development-of-a-winter-devil/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Fouettard

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BDla

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

https://www.tumblr.com/themousefromfantasyland/635704522538450945/the-creatures-of-yuletide-the-yule-goat

https://www.wisfarmer.com/story/life/2018/12/20/yule-goat-holidays-and-good-crops/2369257002/

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/storey/the-yule-goat/

https://london-overlooked.com/chelsea/

https://www.curiousarchive.com/emilie-sagee-bilocation-doppelganger/

https://english.nepalnews.com/s/explainers/the-rise-fall-and-acquittal-of-nepals-buddha-boy-everything-you-need-to-know/

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On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss corpse-related practical jokes, jealousy and suicide, an insane pioneer pistol murderess, a religious maniac family annihilation, men bitten by mad dogs and the madcap frolic of a cross-dressing widow in New York City.

Instagram Post For Today's Episode:

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References For Today's Episode:

“A BUDGET OF GHOST STORIES” - Cheshire Observer,  Mar. 6th, 1869.

“What Is The Use of Spiritualism" - The Spiritualist, Dec. 3rd, 1869. 

"A Ghastly Practical Joke" — The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

"A Termagant Hangs Herself in Brooklyn, N.Y." - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

“Jealousy and Suicide” - The Wheeling Daily Register, Mar. 16th, 1872.

"The Pioneer Pistol Murderess Insane" - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

"A Drunkard’s Baby Gnawed by a Dog" - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

"A BLOODY DOMESTIC DRAMA" - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

"Men Bitten by a Mad Dog in Kansas" — The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

"MADCAP FROLIC OF A BEAUTIFUL NEW YORK WIDOW" - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 21st, 1872.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Harris_%28murderer%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madstone_(folklore)

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On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss the dark, macabre, heart-wrenching and fascinating inspirations for classical music pieces from the 19th century. From Beethoven to Berlioz; romantic, brooding, frightening pieces of music that we all know, we’ve heard in movies, studied in school, or listen to every day.

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Live Performance of Chopin's Raindrop Prelude:

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References For Today's Episode:

https://www.science.org/content/article/fr-d-ric-chopins-madness-diagnosed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21593243/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude,_Op._28,_No._15_(Chopin)#:~:text=Some%20of%20Op.,of%20the%20actual%20external%20sounds.

https://www.marisamusicstudio.com/a-look-at-chopins-raindrop-prelude/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_of_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin

https://crosseyedpianist.com/2020/07/18/he-was-not-like-other-men-chopin-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries/

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky#:~:text=Also%2C%20the%20medical%20opinion%20printed,had%20little%20cause%20for%20worry.

https://www.tmc.edu/news/2019/10/tchaikovskys-mental-anguish-informed-his-work/

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/17/beethoven-ode-to-joy/

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

https://www.vialma.com/en/articles/266/Niccolo-Paganini-The-Devils-Violinist

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

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

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On today's episode, Genevieve will have nearly naked women clinging to lampposts, throat-slittings, self-shootings, women choking out would-be burglars, Dante’s Hell of ice, men chopped to pieces, a man named "Chicken" sentenced to hang, and a serenading lover nearly drowned - but he’s OK, that one turns out OK, thank God.

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References for today’s episode:

“John Devin, the California “Chicken,” Sentenced to be Hanged” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

“THE GHOST AT THE CHESHIRE INN” - Cheshire Observer,  Mar. 6th, 1869.

"The Medium Mr. Morse" - The Spiritualist, Dec. 17th, 1869.

“A Crazy Woman Struggles With Policemen at Midnight on Washington Bridge, Williamsburgh, L.I” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

"The Kate Slade Case Again - A Woman Who Trusts in the Gods Believes All Men Are Devils, and Will Keep Her Mouth Hermetically Sealed" - The Brooklyn Union, Feb. 24th, 1872.

“MURDER AND SELF-MURDER DOWN EAST” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

“A Plucky Woman of New Jersey Holds a Robber at Bay Until the Arrival of Her Husband” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

“JACK FROST. WINTER RENEWED WITH TEN-FOLD VENGEANCE” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

“Determined to Strangle” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 7th, 1872.

“A Man Chopped to Pieces by His Wife and Her Paramour”- The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

“A Serenading Lover Comes to Grief in Lafayette, Indiana.” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

https://www.weather.gov/media/okx/Climate/Almanacs/nyc/nycmar.pdf

https://www.sbnm.org/Portals/NMBAR/AboutUs/committees/Historical/Crime_and_Punishment_In%20Colonial_New_Mexico.pdf?ver=i1lIcY1_Ia45yNDeXaM9DQ%3D%3D#:~:text=Finally%2C%20the%20death%20penalty%20was,%2C%20desertion%2C%20and%20premeditated%20murder.

https://lldc.mainelegislature.org/Open/Rpts/PubDocs/PubDocs1872-73/PD1872-73_16.pdf

https://grokipedia.com/page/Shanghaiing

https://www.executedtoday.com/tag/1872/#:~:text=For%20about%20four%20minutes%20there,yet%20be%20brought%20to%20punishment

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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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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:

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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!

Today’s Instagram Post:

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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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