On today’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing a topic that she’s said numerous times she would never cover: The Winchester Mystery House. She will thoroughly debunk all of the falsehoods, embellishments and downright lies about its very generous, very kind creator, Sarah (Sallie) Winchester, and her weird and wonderful house. You’ll also learn some great trivia night factoids in the process.

References for today’s episode:

“The Frenzied Lover’s Murder in Boston” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872.

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2024/08/the-truth-about-sallie-winchester-and-the-mystery-house-that-never-was/

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

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/real-story-behind-the-winchester-house

https://www.7x7.com/the-top-10-lies-about-the-winchester-mystery-house-1786563456.html

https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/a27481666/winchester-mystery-house/

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss ghosts frightening country bumpkins, really spooky skeleton encounters, a hatchet attack by a blind man, a man trying to slice his own head off and a young lady with enough pluck and presence of mind to save the very day.

References for today’s episode:

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the all-female Victorian gang, the 40 Elephants, as well as the thieving, poisoning, barbarous, butchering Belle Gunness: Hell’s Belle herself. 

References for today’s show:

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss a ghost sighting of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, an insane hatchet murder, a brass burglar blown away by a buckshot, a demented opera singer’s stalker, a lamp light disaster, a gory game of cards, a nearly naked man frozen to death in a sinkhole, and much, much more!

References for today’s episode:

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

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

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

https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/history-of-vaccination/history-of-smallpox-vaccination

“Murder at Louisville” - The Oregonian, January, 10th 1872.

“A Swedish Horror” - The Sioux City Journal, September 25th, 1885.

"Mother in Lawlessness" - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

"A Burglar Killed by a Trap Gun" - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

"Miss Nilsson's Demented Lover" - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

"A Life of Shame Quickly Ended " - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

"An Affecting Scene"- The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

"A Gory Game of Cards" - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

"A Doctor Insane with Smallpox Freezes to Death on an Iowa Prairie"- The Illustrated Police News, January 11th, 1872.

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the case of “The Richmond Murderess,” Kate Webster. This story has everything: a brutal murder, a dismembering, mysterious skulls, ghost nuns, cutting edge execution techniques and Sir David Attenborough intricately knitted into the very fabric of this bone chilling saga.

References for today's episode:

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

https://www.theregister.com/2011/07/06/barnes_mystery/

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14374296#:~:text=Nowadays%20it%20would%20seem%20almost,crime%20in%20England%20and%20Wales.

“Influence of Kate Webster” - The Illustrated Police News, August 23rd, 1879.

“The Richmond Murder” - Daily News, July 4th, 1879.

“The Richmond Murder, Trial of Catherine Webster” - The Guardian, July 4th 1879.

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On Today’s episode, Genevieve will have a number of love-sick murderers, bad words that we’re allowed to use, so many gun fights, so many brains, a corpse concealed in a glen, Rasputin’s favorite sex cult, waxed mustaches, a dead robber baron at a seance, and much more.

References for today's episode:

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2022/07/dr.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fisk_(financier)

“Matricide and Self-Murder” - The Illustrated Police News, November 30th, 1871.

“Bad Tom” Smith - The Illustrated Police News, July 6th, 1895.

“It’s Not Use Trying to be Good” - The Illustrated Police News, May 20th, 1875.

“Criminal Capers” - The Illustrated Police News, July 6th, 1876.

“A Married Man, After Cohabiting with a Young Lady, Kills Her With Poison” - The Illustrated Police News, November 30th, 1871.

“A Father Taken At His Word - What Whisky Did for a Young Man in Kansas” - The Illustrated Police News, November 16th, 1871.

“How the Liquor Law is Enforced in New Bedford, Mass.” - The Illustrated Police News, December, 7th 1871.

“A Lovesick Sunday Superintendent Blows His Brains Out” - The Illustrated Police News, November 23, 1871.

“Mysteries of Spiritualism” - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

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Ep. 36 - Victorian Cults: Messiahs, Manipulation & Custom Tea Blends

On today’s episode, Genevieve is talking about Victorian era cults: the bonkers beliefs, the scandals, manipulation, devil children, corpses in bath tubs, custom tea blends, and what inspired these cults to come about in the first place.

References for today’s episode:

https://medium.com/@pau1morgan/the-lampeter-brethren-a-victorian-sex-cult-e318213d7b7f

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

https://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/pages/abode%20of%20love.htm

https://headstuff.org/culture/history/terrible-people-from-history/henry-james-prince-john-hugh-smyth-pigott-agapemonite-messiahs/

https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/acsq/article/1490/&path_info=ACSQ_2021.02_130.pdf

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreshan_Unity

https://floridatraveler.com/koreshan-state-park/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/917741876/?match=1&terms=Agapemonite

https://medium.com/illumination/blurred-lines-how-our-culture-echoes-cult-like-patterns-181bcb9b600a

https://conflicttransformation.substack.com/p/responding-to-cults-as-a-social-conflict

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On Today’s episode, Genevieve will have a deathbed confession, the accidental death of a horse fancier, a horrific elevator accident, a horrific mowing machine accident, naughty picture book advertisements, a butchered brother in law, a case of Victorian cat fishing, a hairbreadth escape, and more!

References for today’s episode:

“The Avondale Horror. A Deathbed Confession” - The Illustrated Police News, November 30, 1871.

“A Bottle of Horse Medicine Kills a Horse Fancier” - The Illustrated Police News, December 21, 1871.

“A Chambermaid Crushed by an Elevator” - The Illustrated Police News, December 14, 1871.

“A Man Butchers his Brother In Law in Tippecanoe, Ohio - Tragical Result of a Whisky Quarrel” - The Illustrated Police News, November 9th, 1871.

“Marrying By a Photographic Proxy - An innocent Nebraskan Ensnared by a Touched-Up Picture” - The Illustrated Police News, December 28, 1871.

“A Truly Terrible Death - A mowing machine Literally Slices a Man to Pieces” - The Illustrated Police News, August 29th, 1873.

“Affray Between Two Ladies of Fashion in the Streets of St. Louis” - The Illustrated Police News, December 7, 1871.

“A Saddening Story” - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

“A Hairbreadth Escape - A Mississippi Girl Saves a Drowning Man in a Curious Manner” - The Illustrated Police News, August 28, 1873.

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2022/09/fifth-avenue-hotel-opulence-atop.html

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2010/10/i-sit-on-your-grave-new-yorks-hidden.html

https://wynninghistory.com/2019/03/04/avondale/

https://thetroyhistoricalsociety.org/obits/John%20Aston.htm

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On tonday’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the repugnant trade of body snatching in the Victorian era, she’ll discuss the ways families fought back, she’ll introduce you to the 2 most infamous body snatchers of all time; Burke and Hare, and we’ll run into a few friends along the way.

References for today’s episode:

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

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24794

https://www.civilwarmed.org/bodysnatching/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coffin-torpedos

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028490/1881-01-20/ed-1/seq-8/

https://wellcomecollection.org/stories/beating-the-bodysnatchers

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/grave-guns-coffin-torpedoes-vintage-defenses-aimed-foil-grave-robbers/

https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=history

https://history.utk.edu/from-grave-robbing-to-giving-your-own-body-to-science-a-short-history-of-where-medical-schools-get-cadavers/

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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!

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.

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