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My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

Here you’ll find mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian Era. If you consider yourself an enthusiast of creepy Victorian history, you probably already know about the age of spiritualism, the grisly murders, the grave robbers, twisted pseudo psychotherapy, and memento mori – But I try to dig a little deeper. This was a time full of lace corsetry, romantic poetry, and a deep reverence and affection for the dead. It was a culture of

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Ep. 32 - The Ripper: Part 2

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2025/03/03

On todays episode, Genevieve will return to 19th century London to discuss the Jack the Ripper murders case. She'll discuss the timeline, the victims, the suspects, and a few little known facts about the still open Whitechapel murders case. She’ll also discuss a very courageous photo shoot, and give her fairly coherent review of “The Monkey.”References for today's

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Ep. 31 - The Ripper : Part 1

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2025/02/24

On todays episode, Genevieve will dive deep into the Jack The Ripper case and guide you down the cold, damp, cobblestone streets of 19th century Whitechapel. She'll discuss the timeline, the victims, the suspects, and a few little known facts about the still open Whitechapel murders case.References for today's

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Ep. 30 - Welcome to the Cabaret of Death

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2025/02/17

On today’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing the very macabre ways in which French Victorians would entertain themselves: the death-themed cabarets, horror shows in old gothic chapels, and the very upsetting and morbid curiosities that Parisians would literally trample over each other to get a glimpse of.References for today's

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Ep. 29 - Butchery with Banjos and Vinegar Valentines

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2025/02/10

On today's episode, we will have butchery with banjos, naked maniacs decapitating people, Lesbians, more butchery, some charming insults that Victorians liked to send to one another on Valentines day, and a very special love poem.References for today's episode:“A Naked Man's Horrible Deeds,” Illustrated Police News, December 18, 1880"Butchered" With a Banjo,” Illustrated Police News, July 3, 1880“Bloody Butchery,” Illustrated Police News, January 31,

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Ep. 28 - Horrors of the Victorian Lunatic Asylum

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2025/02/03

On today's episode, Genevieve takes you on a tour of the Victorian Lunatic Asylum. She'll discuss the history of the institution, surprising and spine-chilling facts, as well as her very own terrifying experience of the time she broke into the Overbrook Asylum in New Jersey.References for today's

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Ep. 27 - Curious Capers and Spiritual Speculations

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2025/01/27

On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss the 5 Points slum, a church lunatic, a woman that takes investment advice from her dead husband, a cannibalistic affair between 2 ladies, the curious caper of an unruly cow, a locomotive disaster, mayhem, mysterious tragedies and a man who saved an entire New Hampshire town because he loved his girlfriend a little too much. References for today's

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Ep. 26 - The Grave Trains of London

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2025/01/20

In today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the grizzly 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

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Ep. 25 - Murder, Blackmail, and Raving Maniacs

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2025/01/13

On today's show, Genevieve has a robber who becomes a raving maniac in prison, a very shocking confession followed by a very grizzly 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

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Ep. 24 - Welcome to the Murder Castle

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2025/01/06

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

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00:39:53

Ep. 23 - Hatchets, Razors, Narrow Escapes, and Nosferatu

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2024/12/30

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

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Ep. 22 - Sweet Messages of Calm Decay

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2024/12/23

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

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Ep. 21 - A Chamber of Horrors

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2024/12/16

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

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Ep. 20 - They'll Be Scary Ghost Stories

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2024/12/09

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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Ep. 19 - Killed By a Coffin

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2024/12/02

On today's episode, Genevieve dives back into the salacious, at times terrifying, at times, grizzly, 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

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Ep. 18 - Until You Are Dead

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2024/11/25

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.The Trial of Peter Mailman:https://ia600201.us.archive.org/10/items/cihm_09620/cihm_09620.pdf

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Minisode 3 - The Miniest of Sodes

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2024/11/11

In this very short episode Genevieve waxes on the current state of affairs. We will return to the 1800s next week, and especially in 2 months.

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Ep. 17 - Marvelous and Alarming Madness

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2024/11/04

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 grizzly wedding party, a blood-thirsty maniac, a woman melting down exquisitely on stage, and a damsel giving an impromptu acrobatic performance on the streets

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Bonus Episode! - A little Hallowe'en Candy

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2024/10/31

On today's minisode, Genevieve reads her 3 favorite spooky Victorian Halloween poems! Edgar Allan Poe's, The Raven, Lake of the Dismal Swamp by Thomas Moore, and The Broomstick Train or the Return of the Witches by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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Ep. 16 - Happy Hallowe'en!

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2024/10/28

Today’s episode will contain absolutely delightful, bone-chillingly fascinating Victorian Halloween traditions, as well as a few more creepy-eepy Victorian house histories and hauntings.References for today's

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Ep. 15 - Among the Dead Men

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2024/10/21

In today's episode, Genevieve will be diving back into your favorite grizzly, hideous, at times very witty, and fabulously illustrated Victorian publication - The Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record. She'll discuss a creepy German law, Revolutionary war skeletons found in walls, coffins for lifeboats, and a journalist’s detailed report on what it was like to walk around a surgical school in the middle of the night in 1871.

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