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, according to a Spiritualist newspaper from the 1800s.

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References for today’s episode:

“IT SCARED HIM”- Helena Evening Herald, Mar. 1st, 1897.

(Blurb) - The Brooklyn Citizen, Mar. 28th, 1897.

“How to Form Spirit Circles” - The Spiritualist, Nov. 19th, 1869.

“Bloody Benders” - Weekly Rocky Mountain Gazette, June 4th, 1873.

“The Bloody Benders” - The Washington Post, Aug. 5th, 1880.

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2024/10/bloody-benders/

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

https://www.wsaw.com/2024/05/29/150-years-later-archeologists-still-work-find-what-happened-alleged-violent-family-bloody-benders/

https://kansasalumnimagazine.org/magazine-article/bloody-benders-property/

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ks-benders/

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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 maintain their deathly visages while others do not.

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References for today’s episode:

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2021/10/a-great-burly-broad-shouldered-bully.html

“Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881.

"HOW MR. S. C. HALL SAW A SPIRIT!" - The Spiritualist, Nov. 19th, 1869.

"FREE LOVE AND POISON" - The Illustrated Police News, Dec. 7th 1871.

"A Man Accused of Rape Leaves the World With a Razor” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 18th, 1872.

“A Wife Murderer Hanged by a Mob in Richmond, KY.” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

"Jealous Quarrels Ended by a Frail Woman's Suicide" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

"Reception of the Grand Duke Alexi in New York" - The Illustrated Police News, Nov. 30th, 1871.

“Another Horrible Murder” - Central Missouri Herald, Feb. 1st, 1877.

“The Last of Mabel Hall” - St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Mar. 9th, 1876.

"A Lady’s Clothing Becomes Entangled in the Machinery of a Mill in Westmoreland County, Pa., and She has a Narrow Escape from Death" - The Illustrated Police News, May 20th, 1875.

"A Baker Booted in Boston" - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th, 1872.

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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.

References for today’s episode:

https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/12/mary-shelleys-grief/#:~:text=The%20summer%20of%201816%20is%20no%20summer,take%20up%20residence%20in%20a%20nearby%20cottage.

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

https://www.bustle.com/p/frankenstein-author-mary-shelley-was-goth-before-it-was-cool-these-15-surprising-facts-prove-it-2918285

“Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881.

The Spiritualist - Nov. 19th, 1869.

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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. She will also explain why you don’t see caveman ghosts anymore and why rooms go cold when a spirit has arrived.

References for today’s episode:

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/01/freda-ward-girl-slays-girl.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Germany#:~:text=Capital%20punishment%20in%20Germany%20has,at%20Leipzig%20Prison%20in%201981.

“Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881.

The Spiritualist - Nov. 19th, 1869.

“THE COLD RIGHT HAND!” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Has No Use For Men - Miss Alice Mitchell’s Perverted Love for Miss Freda Ward”- The Illustrated Police News, Jul. 30th, 1892.

“The Floor of a Millinery Establishment at Hornellsville, NY Falls Through During an Auction Sale and Precipitates a Dense Crowd of Women into the Cellar” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Love-Cracked Solomon Waring” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1872.

Sickening Scene on a Scaffold at Desau, Germany - Two Female Murderers Decapitated - Piteous Appeals of the Condemned Ones for Mercy - Aug. 28th, 1873.

“A Companion of the Murdered Professor Panormo Commits Suicide in Brooklyn, NY.” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“A Female ‘Makes Up’ in Ghostly Apparel, Frightens Another Woman Almost to Death, and Collapses in a Swoon at Davenport, Iowa” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

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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. 

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References for today's episode:

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/woolfolk-murder-case/

https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/woolfolk-thomas.htm

https://www.gpb.org/news/2024/07/19/macon-graves-linked-infamous-georgia-murder-were-vandalized-investigation-underway

https://rosehillcemeterymacongeorgia.blogspot.com/2010/10/remarkable-funeral-burial-of-victims-of.html

“The Red Hand” - The Atlanta Constitution, Aug. 7th, 1887.

“Bloody Woolfolk” - The Atlanta Constitution, Aug. 8th, 1887.

“Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881.

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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.

References for today's Episode:

“Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881.

“Charge of Imposture” - The Spiritualist, Nov. 19, 1869.

“John Costello Encounters Jack Glass and Mangles Him with a Carving Knife in a Saloon on Nassau Street, New York,” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st. 1872.

“Whose Girls Are They” - The Illustrated Police News, Dec. 14, 1871

“Discovery of a Skeleton at Oxford” - The Illustrated Police News, Aug. 5th, 1871.

“Effect of David Dicky’s Victory Eating for a Wager - The Coroner’s Name was Smith” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

“A Baby Boiled by an Insane Mother” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

“Death of a Woman From Starvation”- The Recorder, May 27th, 1872.

“A Rum-Crazed Dentist Shoots Four of his Neighbors” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

“How a Kalamazoo Grocer Lost His Eggs and Where They Went” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb.1st, 1872.

https://nyupress.org/blog/2009/10/27/the-ghosts-of-14th-st/

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

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/adolescent/chapter/history-of-developmental-psychology/

https://nemasket.blogspot.com/2010/02/

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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.

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“The Ghost of Sarah Duckett - Shropshire” - The Illustrated Police News, Nov. 25th, 1882.

“Mystery of the Walled-Up ‘Spook’ of Borely Rectory” - The San Francisco Examiner, Sep. 29th, 1929.

“The Bogey of a ‘Walled-Up’ Nun” - The Catholic Weekly,  Dec. 5th, 1929.

“Bating Tragedy” - The Essex County Standard, Etc., Aug. 08th, 1862

“The Philosophy of Death” - The Spiritualist, Nov. 19th, 1869.

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

https://burialsandbeyond.com/2021/01/15/the-most-haunted-house-in-england-borley-rectory/

https://www.ufoinsight.com/supernatural/ghosts-hauntings/the-english-amityville-house

https://iapsop.com/archive/materials/spiritualist/#:~:text=Summary:,%2C%20William%20Crookes%2C%20Alfred%20R.

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss a family that is a complete disaster, the absurdities of hypnosis, a hatchet murder, a man who luckily couldn’t quite properly operate a firearm, utter pandemonium at a spiritualist lecture, a corpse sent to a candy maker, a man frozen to a boat, yet another man killed by a coffin, and the single worst death ever discussed on any show up until today, hands down. Nothing comes close. Consider yourselves warned.

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In this very special collaborative episode between SIGHTINGS and MY VICTORIAN NIGHTMARE, venture into an eerie haunted house from the 19th century, and discover why some doors were meant to stay sealed shut. 

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On Monday’s episode, Genevieve will discuss not 1, not 2, but FOUR grisly train murders from the Victorian era – one with a wild twist! All complete with frick’n sound effects and everything: The murder of Issac Gold (1881), William Pearson (1901), Elizabeth Camp (1897), and Mary Money (1905).

References for Today's Episode:

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