My Victorian Nightmare

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the elegant and insulting language of flowers, Victorian Floriography and the demonically haunted Sallie House in Atchison, Kansas.

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References:

A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Chicago : Lewis, 1918

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

https://usghostadventures.com/americas-most-haunted-trending/sallie-house/

https://associationofparanormalstudy.com/2023/09/20/the-haunting-of-the-sallie-house/

https://strangeandtwisted.com/blogs/stories/the-sallie-house-haunting-america-s-most-scary-paranormal-case?srsltid=AfmBOoo8PtAjh7i2WxK1TFGSPpYOQ080t_ZgT0siw8cPZ3xViOkt2SMF

https://www.ksgenweb.org/archives/1918ks/biof/finneycc.html

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

https://theclio.com/entry/187138

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

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-language-of-flowers-an-alphabet-of-floral-emblems-1857/

Check out Hidden History! In this preview, Dr. Harini Bhat discusses the Dancing plague of 1518. The city of Strasbourg was overtaken by one of the strangest epidemics in recorded history. It wasn't the plague, it wasn't a war, it was dancing.

Dr. Harini Bhat is a clinical pharmacist and storyteller obsessed with the moments in history that still can't be fully explained. Every week she investigates real events that defy easy explanation. Mass hysterias. Vanished civilizations. Medical oddities. Strange signals. Unexplained phenomena that keep repeating across centuries, as if history is trying to tell us something.

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the case of the Hammersmith Ghost, The Hope Street Body Snatching Scandal of 1826, as well as little-known, strange, disturbing and silly Victorian fads.

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References:

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2015/10/the-case-of-a-ghost-haunted-england-for-over-two-hundred-years/

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

https://www.icysedgwick.com/hammersmith-ghost/

https://mymacabreroadtrip.com/the-hope-street-body-snatching-affair-liverpool/

https://bodyartforms.com/blog/victorian-nipple-rings?srsltid=AfmBOorl2S_72ZTUej_m4alj0heFYvEp7RVnseQtTwzaCBwsdCOIb8Tg

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

https://medium.com/promptly-written/the-victorians-wore-nipple-rings-4589a9b69bd4

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zander-gym/m

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the terrifying Victorian St. Mark’s Eve practice of waiting for wraiths (the ghosts of future dead people) to reveal themselves and walk through church doors at midnight. She will also discuss haunted and cursed objects like the Delhi Purple Sapphire, The Conjured Chest and the lost Franklin Exhibition-inspired painting, “Man Proposes, God Disposes.”

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References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark%27s_Eve

https://www.telelib.com/authors/I/IrvingWashington/prose/bracebridgehallvol1/bracebridgehall021.html

https://www.vice.com/en/article/doomed-to-die-on-st-marks-eve/

https://allpoetry.com/St.-Mark's-Eve---A-Fragment

https://whatliesbeyond.boards.net/thread/10973/watching-nearly-departed-marks-eve

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cursed-amethyst-natural-history-museum

https://history.ky.gov/news/new-details-about-the-cursed-chest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Proposes,_God_Disposes

https://stephenliddell.co.uk/2018/09/10/the-tale-of-the-cursed-amethyst-at-the-natural-history-museum-in-london/

http://heronallensociety.co.uk/the-purple-sapphire-mystery-solved.html

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the numerous failed assassination attempts made on Queen Victoria’s life, and the simply horrifying history of Griffith Park in Los Angeles California.

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References:

https://www.ebiketoursla.com/blog/zovbltqpf6w9m8nsgs9vbjmyz9kfgm

https://laghosttour.com/the-old-zoo-at-griffith-park/

https://patch.com/california/northhollywood/griffith-park-haunted-cursed-heart-los-angeles

https://pepperbough.com/uncategorized/2019/12/17/the-strange-case-of-griffith-park/

https://laghosttour.com/the-spirits-of-griffith-park/

https://creepyla.com/2016/10/04/haunted-curse-ghosts-monsters-griffith-park/

https://vintagelosangeles.org/griffithpark/

https://revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/04/16/mass-murder-in-griffith-park-by-jennie-grey-from-western-worker-vol-2-no-42-october-16-1933/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.latirnes.com/news/local/la-me-haunted30oct30/

https://www.revolt.tv/article/2022-08-09/185295/burning-body-found-hanging-from-a-tree-in-los-angeles?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Queen-Victoria-Eight-Assassination-Attempts/

https://www.history.com/articles/eight-times-queen-victoria-survived-attempted-assassinations

This is a sneak peek of the Victorian True Crime Extras episodes that Patreon subscribers receive each week! To receive My Victorian Nightmare ad-free, and receive Victorian True Crime Extras, visit Patreon to find out how!

In this episode, we will have a tale of ghostly revelations, prophetic dreams, jailbird snitches, dogs digging up bones and a twist you won’t see coming. This is the murder case of Russell Colvin in 1812.

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the dark history of Cleopatra’s Needle and the most haunted cemetery in Edinburgh, Greyfriars Kirkyard.

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References:

https://hauntedpalaceblog.com/2022/06/07/the-curse-of-cleopatras-needle/

https://greyfriarskirk.com/community/history-heritage/

https://eatdrinktravel.com/most-haunted-graveyard/

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

https://edinburgh.org/blog/tales-from-beyond-the-grave-in-edinburgh/

https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/greyfriars-kirkyard/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Porteous_(soldier)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147056916/george-lockhart

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/apr/24/ukcrime.scotland?utm

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the terribly haunted Cheesman Park in Denver, Colorado, and the unthinkable murder of Emily Harrison Coombes, otherwise known as The Plaistow Horror.

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References:

https://denverterrors.com/cheesman-park/

https://visitdenver.com/blog/post/haunted-cheesman-park/

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/co-cheesemanpark/

https://www.denverpost.com/2010/11/01/four-preserved-skeletons-unearthed-at-denvers-cheesman-park-once-a-cemetery/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Coombes_(murderer)

https://www.historicmysteries.com/major-crimes/robert-coombes/34645/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/05/the-wicked-boy-the-mystery-of-a-victorian-child-murderer-kate-summerscale-review

https://www.murdermayhem.uk/p/the-boy-murderer-who-became-a-war

https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/matricide-in-plaistow-1895/

On today’s episode, Genevieve will take us back to creepy field trips of yore: the murder scenes, spooky cemeteries and cult compounds of episodes past, and give a little more dimension to each episode where we took these trips.

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Listen to Murder, She Told: an award-winning true-crime podcast created by victim’s advocate, Kristen Seavey, that covers lesser-known true crime cases.

This is a preview of the episode about Peggy Mortimer on Murder, She Told originally published February 10, 2026.

On the eve of Thanksgiving in 1937, 46-year-old Peggy Mortimer, was just steps from her front door when she was attacked and killed by an unknown assailant. The murder shocked the industrial town of Mexico, Missouri. Peggy was well known and widely liked, with no clear enemies. But on that cold November night, someone was waiting—and the question remains: who?

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Sources and photos: https://www.murdershetold.com/episodes/margaret-peggy-mortimer

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