My Victorian Nightmare

On today’s’s episode, Genevieve is diving back into the Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record: everyone’s favorite bananas, blood-soaked, spooky little tabloid from the 1800s. She will have a hat-wafting seance, a thrilling search for a dead body, wax necks, jealous husbands, mayhem, a shocking discovery in a penitentiary, an alarming growth of intoxication among young ladies, and more!

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References for Today's Show:

https://www.magicianmasterclass.com/post/how-do-magicians-levitate#viewer-aqfts

“The Last “Thing” in Fashion, The Wax Neck” Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

“Spiritual Manifestations at a Seance in Boston on New Year’s Eve” Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

“Thrilling Search for the Body of a Murdered Man in MacDonald Co, Mo.,” Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

“A Young Lady Outraged and Then Murdered in Arkansas,”  Illustrated Police News, Dec, 28 1871.

“A Leap to Death in Cincinnati - An Unknown Unfortunate Jumps From a Bridge to Eternity,” Illustrated Police News, August, 28 1873.

“Taking a Farmer’s Wife, Baby and Potatoes to Market,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872.

“How a Jealous Husband in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Returned Home and What He Found There,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872.

“Alarming Growth of Intoxication Among Young Ladies - Sad Scene in a New Jersey Ferry Boat,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872.

“Extra Penance in a Penitentiary,” Illustrated Police News, Nov 30th, 1871.

“Mayhem,” Illustrated Police News, July 6th, 1876.

“A New Jersey Cannibal Gormandizes a Policeman’s Cheek,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 21st, 1871.

On todays episode, Genevieve will return to 19th century London to discuss the Jack the Ripper murders case. She'll discuss the timeline, the victims, the suspects, and a few little known facts about the still open Whitechapel murders case. She’ll also discuss a very courageous photo shoot, and give her fairly coherent review of “The Monkey.”

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References for today's episode:

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

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/kate-eddowes-last-night.htm

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/jack-the-ripper-victim-elizabeth-stride.htm

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/mary-kelly.htm

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/suspects.htm

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

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

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

"Bolton Spiritualists Vision of the Whitechapel Murderer "- The Bolton News, Oct 8, 1888

On todays episode, Genevieve will dive deep into the Jack The Ripper case and guide you down the cold, damp, cobblestone streets of 19th century Whitechapel. She'll discuss the timeline, the victims, the suspects, and a few little known facts about the still open Whitechapel murders case.

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References for today's episode:

https://www.science.org/content/article/does-new-genetic-analysis-finally-reveal-identity-jack-ripper

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

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/emma-smith.htm

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/martha-tabram-jack-the-ripper-victim.htm

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/life-and-death-of-mary-nichols.htm

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/jack-the-rippers-victims-were-not-prostitutes-says-historian-who-claims-sexist-victorian-policemen-unfairly-labelled-them/JSQ3BCTKULMV7LZVZTCVGEAISQ/

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠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.

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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.

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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.

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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/