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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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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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss ghost sightings in the Old Salem Jail, The 1856 Wakemanite cult killing of Justus Mathews and their connection to the “maniac murderer” Charles Stanton.

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References:

https://www.demandinggenealogist.com/uploads/7/3/3/0/7330460/news05-04.pdf

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2020/05/the-wakemanite-murder.html

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2013/03/murdered-by-maniac-guest-post-by-james.html

https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/archives/uncoveringnewhaven/blog/That-he-had-surrendered-his-reason-to-her-control-The-intriguing-ca

https://ghostcitytours.com/salem/haunted-salem/old-salem-jail/

https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-cities/salems-most-haunted/the-old-salem-jail/

“Horrible Murders Resulting From Fanaticism” - Franklin Repository and Transcript, Jan 9th, 1856.

“The Wakemanite Delusion - Indictment of the Murderers” - The Cleveland Leader, Jan 28th, 1856

“Another Tragedy” - Semi-Weekly Spectator

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the “alleged” New England vampire, Nellie Vaughn as well as the murders of Albert N. McVicar and Elsie Sigel, two victims mysteriously found in trunks.

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References:

https://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/ccca/emma-ledoux-housewife-prostitute-bigamist-murderess/

https://www.209magazine.com/departments/in-the-know/the-lady-and-the-trunk/

https://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/ccca/the-murder-of-elsie-sigel-by-her-chinese-lover-1909/

https://www.tenement.org/blog/where-miss-sigel-met-her-slayer/#:~:text=They%20arrested%20three%20men%20in,police%20and%20reporters%20in%201909.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meet-the-real-life-vampires-of-new-england-and-abroad-42639093/

https://skepticalhumanities.com/2011/07/21/nellie-vaughn-the-vampire-who-wasnt-a-vampire/

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss not one, not 2, but 3 different topics that are all creepy for different reasons: the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876, the Dagg Family Poltergeist of 1889, and the most terrifying public menace of the 1830s, Spring-Heeled Jack.

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References:

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

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/running-ponies/the-great-kentucky-meat-shower-mystery-unwound-by-projectile-vulture-vomit/

https://705blackfly.com/craig-bairds-haunted-history-the-dagg-poltergeist/

https://arlenestaffordwilson.wordpress.com/tag/dagg-poltergeist/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring-heeled_Jack

https://waterfordtreasures.com/spring-heeled-jack-notorious-urban-legend-or-the-work-of-the-mad-marquess-of-waterford/

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss “temporary insanity” in the Victorian era, men demanding to be executed, the horrifying history of Niagara Falls, shocking murders, women falling out of windows, New York’s westside cowboys on the avenues of death and much, much more.

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References:

“A Wife Murderer Wants to be Hung Right Off” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 2nd, 1872.

“Compelled to Marry or Become a Corpse” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 25th, 1872.

“A BRUTAL BOSTON TRAGEDY” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 25th, 1872.

“A St. Louis Woman Checks the Insults of a Drunken Ruffian with an Umbrella” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 25th, 1872.

“A VIRGINIA BORGIA” - The Illustrated Police News,  Apr. 25th, 1872. 

“Three Men Swept Over Niagara Falls” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 2nd, 1872.

“Perilous Descent by a Lady from a Third Story Window in New Orleans” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 2nd, 1872.

“Murder Made Easy” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 2nd, 1872.

“A Young Lady Rescued from Imminent Peril upon Fourth Avenue, New York” - The Illustrated Police News - Apr. 25th, 1872.

“A Father Brained by His Son in Kentucky” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 25th, 1872.

"The Tragedy of Life" - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 25th, 1872.

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the horrific, Jack-The-Ripper-adjacent serial killer murder cases, the Thames Torso Murders.

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References:

“THE WHITECHAPEL TRAGEDY”-  East London Advertiser, Saturday, 21 September 1889.

“THE LONDON TRAGEDIES” - The Daily Telegraph, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1888.

“The Whitehall Mystery” - Hull Evening News, Sat, Oct 13, 1888.

“The Thames Mystery” - The Illustrated Police News, etc., Sat, Jun 22, 1889.

“The Thames Mystery” - Birmingham Evening Mail, Thu, Sep 13, 1888.

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18870723.2.70.11

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

https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/introducing-a-new-prime-suspect-as-the-thames-torso-killer/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/963217933/?match=1&terms=The%20Whitehall%20Mystery

https://www.casebook.org/victims/jackson.html

https://www.casebook.org/dissertations/thames-torso-murders.html

https://www.casebook.org/victims/pinchin.html

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In this episode, we discuss how to work with the raw, vulnerable and painful feelings that eclipse season reveals, we'll discuss why and how to do shadow work: allowing our darkest parts to have their say, and we'll have a gentle, heart opening meditation to make shadow work easier.

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the “criminal lunatic murderer” and master painter of fairies, Richard Dadd, the ballsiest, fraudulent mediums of all: the Davenport brothers, men attacked with swords, the tough lives of newsboys, and blood-thirsty female whisky-slingers, all this and much much more.

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References:

http://nineduane.queenitsy.com/

https://livingwithschizophreniauk.org/richard-dadd/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fairy_Feller%27s_Master-Stroke

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

“The Haunted House” - The Jeffersonian, Sat, Dec 03, 1859.

The Spiritualist - Feb 15th, 1870.

“A Man Fearfully Cut with Swords in Brooklyn” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 18th, 1872.

“The Grand Executioner Dead”- The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 18th, 1872.

“Attempted Suicide of a Married Lady in Third Street, Allegheny, Pa.” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 18th, 1872.

“The Newsboys’ Home, in New York City” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 18th, 1872.

“A BLOOD-THIRSTY FEMALE WHISKEY-SLINGER” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 18th, 1872.

“A Harrisburg Woman Sits Beside her Lazy Husband in a Bar-Room, and is Resolved to Remain as Long as he Does”-  The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 18th, 1872.

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss Madame Vesta la Viesta, the galactic mystic and clairvoyant, suicidal ghosts, mediums in spirit cabinets, and the horrifying Meeks family murder of 1894. 

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References:

“The Haunted House” - The Jeffersonian, Dec. 3rd, 1859.

“THE APPEARANCE OF SPIRITS AT PUBLIC MEETINGS” - The Spiritualist, Feb. 15th, 1870.

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2014/02/get-rich-magic-astral-adventures-of.html

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2011/04/meeks-family-murder.html

https://sullivan.mogenweb.org/meeksmurders.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62455822/nellie_l-spray

https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/850.pdf