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.

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/

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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.

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

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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.

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/

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Today, Genevieve will discuss a lunatic asylum escapee in a washtub boat, a steamboat slaughter, a tragic murder on a lovely evening, a clergyman’s narrow escape from certain death, a fit of apoplexy, hatchets, razors, insanity, and a somewhat tragic ice skating accident that luckily has a meet-cute happy ending.

References for Today's Episode:

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2022/11/nellie-bly-blackwells-island/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)

https://genealogytrails.com/ill/woodford/tradgies.html

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On today's episode, we’re still celebrating the Holiday season with some weird, wonderful, and downright irresponsible Victorian Christmas traditions!

References for today's episode:

https://www.history.com/news/christmas-tradition-ghost-stories

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/652043/victorian-christmas-traditions

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/12/shock-of-the-old-11-murderous-and-macabre-victorian-christmas-cards

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-34988154

https://historycollection.com/strange-and-delightful-holiday-traditions-of-the-victorian-era/

https://www.marthastewart.com/1097532/decorative-past-tradition-christmas-pickle-ornament

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Today's episode is Christmas themed! Genevieve will be discussing a family hatchet fight, an assault with a pot roast, an assault with a teapot, a fruit and nut plundering, an insane chimney sweep, a grizzly Christmas day murder, A tragic Christmas Day train disaster, a Chamber of Horrors, and a few more truly horrific Christmas day events.

References for today's episode:

https://www.measuringworth.com/blog/?p=256

https://www.postalmuseum.org/blog/victorian-christmas-boxes/#:~:text=These%20tokens%20were%20known%20as,form%20of%20money%20or%20alcohol

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

https://sites.dartmouth.edu/toxmetal/arsenic/arsenic-a-murderous-history/#:~:text=Beginning%20in%20the%20eighteenth%20century,common%20in%20the%20market%20place

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In today's episode, Genevieve keeps with Victorian Christmas tradition, and tells a terrifying ghost story: The Signal Man, by Charles Dickens.

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On today's episode, Genevieve dives back into the salacious, at times terrifying, at times, grisly, at times charming Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record, from which she will read about Bleecker Street harpies punching cops in the face, some discomfiture of an older gentleman who gets a parasol stuck in his mouth, a madhouse ax murder, a man on a smashing spree, a saloon slaying, a murderously jealous lover, and a man killed by a coffin.

References for today's episode:

https://cemeteryclub.wordpress.com/2020/03/02/killed-by-a-coffin/

https://www.loc.gov/item/ca07000366/

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In today's episode, Genevieve digs deep into the murder trial of Mary Ann Mailman at the hands of her husband, Peter Mailman in 1873. The trial was full of salacious accusations of affairs, jealous husbands, heartbreaking testimony, flagrant slut shaming from the defense, and details of the murder that shook Nova Scotia to the core.

Reference:

The Trial of Peter Mailman

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On today's episode, Genevieve pulls out a few articles from the Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record: volumes between 1871 and 1875. She'll provide you with your Weekly Dose of Blood, a very concerning case of 2 men either infected with rabies, or turning into werewolves - it’s a bit unclear, a Frenchman nearly eaten alive by rats, a grisly wedding party, a blood-thirsty maniac, a woman melting down exquisitely on stage, and a damsel giving an impromptu acrobatic performance on the streets of Chicago.

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