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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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss women buried in wedding dresses, dismembered bodies in trunks, shawl disputes leading to knife attacks, a death by kicking written in flabbergasting detail, and a lady blitzed out of her bloomers on laughing gas, attempting all manner of gymnastics for an adoring crowd. She will also discuss Spiritualist philosophy of the 1800s and a family’s terrifying ghost encounter.

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Instagram Post:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPEkfI-DrYn/?igsh=MTNtNmNvOXF1azd0Zg==

References for today's episode:

“SPIRIT-RAPPING IN JOHN WESLEY’S FAMILY” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 3rd, 1869.

“The Philosophy of Spiritual Manifestations” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 3rd, 1869.

“A Father’s Meanness” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th 1872.

“A TRUNK HORROR IN FRANCE” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 29th, 1872.

“A Woman's Arm Cut to the Bone in a Quarrel About a Shawl in New York City” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 8th, 1872.

“John Cannon, a Railroad Engineer, Pounded and Kicked to Death by a Party of Germans in St. Louis” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 8th, 1872.

“A Highly Exhilarated Young Lady under the Influence of Laughing Gas at Cooper Institute, New York” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 8th, 1872.

https://www.geriwalton.com/nitrous-oxide-or-laughing-gas/

https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2019/01/23/sewing-shrouds-19th-century-burial-clothing-2/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.funeralbasics.org/8-intriguing-funeral-customs-victorian-era/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.eterneva.com/resources/mourning-dress?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/04/queen-victoria-royal-wedding?srsltid=AfmBOoqX-HLxm4XN36H-oTzpmF0ptpI_sGjQbGe60HWQtuyLG0uh3FaN&utm_source=chatgpt.com

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss one of the most confounding and eery nautical mysteries of all time: The Ghost ship, Mary Celeste. This was a brigantine ship owned by Captain Benjamin Briggs that was found floating all by its lonesome in the Atlantic in 1872, with all of its crew, the captain, his wife and baby - nowhere to be found.

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Instagram Post:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DO1CSYsjoio/?img_index=1&igsh=bTgxcG05c3Nvc3k3

The Best Scone Recipe:

https://www.shekeepsalovelyhome.com/lavender-lemon-scones-honey-butter/

Squid Attacks:

https://backyardhistory.ca/f/giant-squid-attacks-in-newfoundland

References for today's episode:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abandoned-ship-the-mary-celeste-174488104/

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

https://www.modelerscentral.com/maritime-history/story-of-the-mary-celeste/?srsltid=AfmBOoqyF9ufbWn45U-NMst1M9JDATRjhZjSl75oqiD7dob_99CJHqiC

https://www.thecluecollective.com/single-post/2017/12/05/mystery-history-the-top-10-theories-explaining-why-the-mary-celestes-crew-disappeared

https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/the-mystery-of-the-mary-celeste-supernatural-event-or-fatal-accident-d26584c02cd4

https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/2004/07/08/author-probes-maritime-mystery/50442951007/

https://ladybookdragon.com/2019/05/24/friday-poetry-29

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On today's episode, Genevieve will have a series of mysterious and tragic murders in the southwest, men frozen to death, dogs playing with dead bodies in basements, nose pullers, lost wigs, and highly inappropriate sarcasm regarding incredibly violent vigilante justice. We'll also have a haunted house in 1878 with too many skeletons buried in the basement to know who's who.

Instagram post for today’s episode:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DOgfZduDhYh/?igsh=Ym01NzIwNG0wYWxw

References:

"That Spook Roots" - The Boston Globe, Apr. 8th, 1878.

"A GHOST STORY" - Kansas City Journal, Mar. 15th, 1878.

"A FEARFUL VERDICT" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

"Bloody Crimes at the Southwest" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

"DRIVEN TO DESPAIR AND DEATH" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

"PROBABLE INFANTICIDE IN CHARLESTOWN" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 23rd, 1872.

"Dora Walsh gets her Nose Pulled by a Shoe Dealer in New York" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 23rd, 1872.

"A WOMAN'S TONGUE CUT OUT" - The Illustrated Police News, Oct. 28th 1878.

"How a Kokomoo Church Member Lost his Wig During Service" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

"An Old Story" - Pontiac Sentinel, Nov. 6th, 1878.

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