On today’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing the very macabre ways in which French Victorians would entertain themselves: the death-themed cabarets, horror shows in old gothic chapels, and the very upsetting and morbid curiosities that Parisians would literally trample over each other to get a glimpse of.

References for today's episode:

https://daily.jstor.org/the-cabarets-of-heaven-and-hell/

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

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/paris-morgue-public-viewing

https://dianamarin.com/tag/the-uncanny-cabaret-du-neant/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_de_L%27Enfer

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

On today's episode, we will have butchery with banjos, naked maniacs decapitating people, Lesbians, more butchery, some charming insults that Victorians liked to send to one another on Valentines day, and a very special love poem.

References for today's episode:

“A Naked Man's Horrible Deeds,” Illustrated Police News, December 18, 1880

"Butchered" With a Banjo,” Illustrated Police News, July 3, 1880

“Bloody Butchery,” Illustrated Police News, January 31, 1880

https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/misogyny-created-a-space-for-women-to-f-ck-in-the-19th-century-d32f6ab34e48

https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/misogyny-created-a-space-for-women-to-f-ck-in-the-19th-century-d32f6ab34e48

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-same-sex-valentines-day

On today's episode, Genevieve takes you on a tour of the Victorian Lunatic Asylum. She'll discuss the history of the institution, surprising and spine-chilling facts, as well as her very own terrifying experience of the time she broke into the Overbrook Asylum in New Jersey.

References for today's episode:

https://cpp-college.netlify.app/programs/education-blog/victorian-mental-health-and-women-part-one-american-asylums

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/victorian-mental-asylum

https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/netflix-2017/how-victorian-women-were-oppressed-through-the-use-of-psychiatry/1607/

https://www.talkspace.com/blog/history-inhumane-mental-health-treatments/

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

https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-places/americas-most-haunted-hospitals-and-asylums/overbrook-asylum/

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/8bcb0263e26f4ceeb6d41a00cfc72b7a?item=1

On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss the 5 Points slum, a church lunatic, a woman that takes investment advice from her dead husband, a cannibalistic affair between 2 ladies, the curious caper of an unruly cow, a locomotive disaster, mayhem, mysterious tragedies and a man who saved an entire New Hampshire town because he loved his girlfriend a little too much.

References for today's episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_the_Scapular%E2%80%93St._Stephen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points,_Manhattan#:~:text=The%20local%20politics%20of%20%22the,racial%20integration%20in%20American%20history

In today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the grisly history of the graveyard that is London, and the subterranean train system built in the Victorian era within and around the final resting places of literally millions of tightly packed Londoners.

References for today’s episode:

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

https://gizmodo.com/how-corpses-helped-shape-the-london-underground-1493312117

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-66507599

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/london-crossrail-bedlam-big-dig

https://www.timeout.com/london/news/londons-victorian-necropolis-railway-station-is-for-sale-060424

https://www.mylondon.news/news/nostalgia/london-underground-station-built-right-21001175

https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/where-we-go/blog/the-forgotten-story-of-london-necropolis-railway

https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/the-forgotten-men-of-the-london-underground/

On today's show, Genevieve has a robber who becomes a raving maniac in prison, a very shocking confession followed by a very grisly request, a woman poisoned by laudanum and nearly frozen to death, a footrace between a phrenologist and a zippy young lady, a thief who nearly blows his own head off, a wife’s vengeance with a pen knife, murder, blackmail, and an unfortunate sled accident on an historic Boston Street, among a few others.

References for today's episode:

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2015/06/the-murder-of-pet-halsted.html

https://pages.vassar.edu/realarchaeology/2017/03/05/phrenology-and-scientific-racism-in-the-19th-century/

https://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/shields.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Exposition

In this week's episode, Genevieve gives a full, very dramatic review of Nosferatu, and dives into the truly diabolical murders of H.H. Holmes.

References for todays episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes

https://www.newspapers.com/image/668069816/?terms=h.h.%20holmes

https://www.history.com/news/murder-castle-h-h-holmes-chicago

https://www.ranker.com/list/hh-holmes-origin-story/hannah-gilham

https://www.bustle.com/p/quotes-from-hh-holmes-memoir-provide-insight-into-the-american-ripper-69194

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/enduring-mystery-hh-holmes-americas-first-serial-killer-180977646/

Today, Genevieve will discuss a Lunatic Asylum escapee in a washtub boat, a steamboat slaughter, a tragic murder on a lovely evening, a clergyman’s narrow escape from certain death, a fit of apoplexy, hatchets, razors, insanity, and a somewhat tragic ice skating accident that luckily has a meet-cute happy ending.

References for Today's Episode:

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2022/11/nellie-bly-blackwells-island/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)

https://genealogytrails.com/ill/woodford/tradgies.html

On today's episode, we’re still celebrating the Holiday season with some weird, wonderful, and downright irresponsible Victorian Christmas traditions!

References for today's episode:

https://www.history.com/news/christmas-tradition-ghost-stories

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/652043/victorian-christmas-traditions

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/12/shock-of-the-old-11-murderous-and-macabre-victorian-christmas-cards

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-34988154

https://historycollection.com/strange-and-delightful-holiday-traditions-of-the-victorian-era/

https://www.marthastewart.com/1097532/decorative-past-tradition-christmas-pickle-ornament

Today's episode is Christmas themed! Genevieve will be discussing a family hatchet fight, an assault with a pot roast, an assault with a teapot, a fruit and nut plundering, an insane chimney sweep, a grizzly Christmas day murder, A tragic Christmas Day train disaster, a Chamber of Horrors, and a few more truly horrific Christmas day events.

References for today's episode:

https://www.measuringworth.com/blog/?p=256

https://www.postalmuseum.org/blog/victorian-christmas-boxes/#:~:text=These%20tokens%20were%20known%20as,form%20of%20money%20or%20alcohol

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

https://sites.dartmouth.edu/toxmetal/arsenic/arsenic-a-murderous-history/#:~:text=Beginning%20in%20the%20eighteenth%20century,common%20in%20the%20market%20place