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My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion | Daylight Media

Here you’ll find mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian Era. For ad-free listening, witchy content, Victorian True Crime Extras and Dark Poetry, join The Fan Coven! 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

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48:29

Ep. 39 - In a Malicious and Diabolical Manner

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2025/04/21

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

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Ep. 38 - The Richmond Murderess

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2025/04/14

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

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Ep. 37 - They Died With Their Boots On

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2025/04/07

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”

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Ep. 36 - Victorian Cults: Messiahs, Manipulation &...

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2025/03/31

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

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Ep. 35 - Where the Dead Delight to Help the Living

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2025/03/24

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

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Ep. 34 - Coffin Torpedos for Body Snatchers

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2025/03/17

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

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Ep. 33 - Talk to Dead People with Your Friends

My Victorian Nightmare ·

2025/03/10

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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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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