My Victorian Nightmare

On today's episode, Genevieve discusses the creepiest Victorian haunted house she could find: The Villisca Axe murder house. She talks about both the chilling backstory and the hauntings. 

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References for today's episode:

https://adelaidehauntedhorizons.com.au/haunted-villisca-ax-murder-house-ghosts/

https://murderhouse.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghosts/comments/eldrm7/stayed_the_night_at_the_villisca_axe_murder_house/

https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-places/villisca-ax-murder-house/

https://villisca.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=moore&i=f&d=06011912-12311929&m=between&ord=k1&fn=the_villisca_review_usa_iowa_villisca_19120613_english_6&df=1&dt=10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villisca_axe_murdershttps://coronertalk.com/28

On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss coffin-shaped boxes in mysterious huts, a case of suspended animation, a struggle in an elevator with a lunatic, and some other disturbing, little “Items of interest” as they’re called in the 1878 volume of The Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record which are indeed very interesting items. We’ll also enjoy a pumpkin smash.

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On today's episode, Genevieve discusses "America's most haunted house®" - The Whaley House of San Diego California. She'll dive into the bone chilling back story, as well as the spooky hauntings that delight (and seriously creep out) visitors today. 

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References for today's episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaley_House_(San_Diego,_California)

https://yourtahoeguide.com/2021/07/gold-rush-vigilantes-jim-ugly-and-yankee-jim/

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Whaley-1836

https://www.kcghosts.com/california-whaley-house

https://sdghosts.com/the-whaley-house/

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/jul/03/history-san-diego-1850/

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDDU18850820.2.29&srpos=26&e=-------en--20-SDDU-21--txt-txIN-thomas+Whaley-------

In today's (first!) minisode, Genevieve reads articles from the "Weekly Dose of Blood" in an 1873 volume of The Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record publication, as well as a spooky little article about a thieving somnambulist.

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In today's episode, Genevieve will discuss mediums getting attacked by spirits, men drinking their own blood, live burials, nuns getting struck with lightning and rising from the dead – it’s going to be a spooky rollercoaster.

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In today's episode, Genevieve talks about Victorian circus horrors; The freak shows, the fires, kidnappings, train wrecks, morbid taxidermy,– as well as PT Barnum’s American Museum of Curiosities which met a particularly tragic.

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References for today's episode:

https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/post/freak-shows

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2011/septemberoctober/statement/the-circus-you-never-knew

https://victorian-era.org/victorian-era-circus-performances.html

https://boroughsofthedead.com/barnum-museum-fire-july-13-1865/

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/greatest-show-earth-freak-shows-pt-barnum-tom-thumb/

https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=DMST18851009.2.46&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------

https://www.historyireland.com/the-wee-est-little-man-that-ever-was-general-tom-thumb-in-ireland/

https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-lost-original-madison-square-garden.html

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

https://jvc.oup.com/2021/05/20/lost-circuses-of-victorian-leeds/

In today’s episode, Genevieve dives back into the Illustrated Police News from 1871 - the insane Victorian publication full of grisly murders, body snatchers, mice in donuts – it was a publication full of complete chaos.

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In today's episode, Genevieve discusses how Tuberculosis influenced fashion, hazardous beauty routines, deadly hatpins, the dangers of corsets, and strange, kind of gross beauty trends, as well as some really weird and intriguing facts about Victorian fashion. 

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References for today's episode:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-tuberculosis-shaped-victorian-fashion-180959029/ 

https://www.thecollector.com/tuberculosis-art/ 

https://thevictorianhistorian.com/beauty-fashion/ 

https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2015/05/29/did-corsets-harm-womens-health/ 

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-leeds-mercury-death-of-matilda/30613252/?locale=en-US 

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hatpins-mashers-self-defense-history-women-hats-fashion 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheele%27s_green 

https://hyperallergic.com/329747/death-by-wallpaper-alluring-arsenic-colors-poisoned-the-victorian-age/

Today’s episode is going to be a little different. Genevieve will be reading horrifying stories from the Illustrated Police News from 1871, and giving context to the stories. 

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References for today's show:

https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-875?d=%2F10.1093%2Facrefore%2F9780199329175.001.0001%2Facrefore-9780199329175-e-875&p=emailAamzPoP9dB6io 

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/266/oa_monograph/chapter/3065998#:~:text=This%20doctrine%2C%20called%20%E2%80%9Cspiritual%20affinity%2C%E2%80%9D%20swept%20the%20ranks%20of%20spiritualism%20in%20the%20early%201850s.&text=As%20sages%20of%20this%20world%20and%20the%20next%20one https://time.com/6107025/victoria-woodhull-free-love-movement/

In today's episode, Genevieve dives into the spine tingling world of Victorian Spiritualism. She'll talk about where it all began, what a Victorian materializing seance would entail, the ways mediums would trick people into believing they were talking to dead people, and the history of the Ouija board. 

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References for today's episode:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-john-brown-was-queen-victorias-channel-to-alberts-ghost

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-fox-sisters-and-the-rap-on-spiritualism-99663697/

https://www.grunge.com/665457/the-strange-truth-about-ectoplasm-explained/

https://www.ranker.com/list/victorian-medium-seance-tricks/olivia-pasquarelli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism_(movement)

https://husheduphistory.com/post/653477933416120320/calling-the-unknown-by-name-helen-peters