@victoriannightmare.bsky.social
A podcast about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era.
13.10.2025 16:40 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On today’s episode, Genevieve will be talking about the disturbing history and hauntings of the Crescent Hotel. She will also receive a reading from Medium, Jennifer Page, from the "I Talk to Ghosts Podcast," and she will also discuss the horrifying haunted history of Leap Castle in Ireland.
13.10.2025 16:40 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It was such a lovely experience, and Jennifer is such a peach!! So grateful for that experience!
13.10.2025 16:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thank you @dreadfulk.bsky.social and @periodragscostumes.bsky.social for such lovely gifts! Toby loves his new bandana!
26.09.2025 18:13 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
25.08.2025 18:10 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the Greenbrier Ghost. The only ghost, supposedly, who ever helped to solve her own murder. She will also discuss how to avoid becoming a Chinese hopping vampire, and exactly who – and who should not, attempt a “Dark Séance.”
25.08.2025 18:10 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0
19.08.2025 16:16 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
On this week’s episode, we will discuss a number of brutal murders, throat slittings, girls getting shot in the face, girls shooting themselves in the face horse burglars - meaning burglars who are horses - swallowed pen knives and disembodied spirits pretending to drown.
19.08.2025 16:16 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Aww yay!
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On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the Bloody Benders, a Victorian era family of serial killers who were confirmed to have murdered at least 11 people in their Kansas home, but it’s estimated that that number was more likely closer to 20.
12.08.2025 15:11 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
On this week’s episode of My Victorian Nightmare, Genevieve will discuss the life of Mary Shelley. The mother of science fiction. We will discuss her tragic life, her poetic romance, her monster, and the ways she spun the most unimaginable grief, like a silken web, into a masterpiece.
28.07.2025 16:15 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
21.07.2025 13:26 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On this week’s episodeGenevieve will discuss a particularly terrifying seance held in 1869, murderously presumed witchcraft, a deadly lesbian love affair, love-cracked raving lunatics, collapsing floors, revolting decapitations, and a lady, dressed up as a ghost who nearly scared herself to death.
21.07.2025 13:26 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
14.07.2025 17:39 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On this week’s episode of My Victorian Nightmare, Genevieve will be discussing the Woolfork family massacre: the annihilation of a family of 9 that occurred in 1887.
14.07.2025 17:39 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
On this week’s episode of My Victorian Nightmare, Genevieve will discuss a man mangled with a carving knife, another skeleton where it does not belong, the growing evil that is young women leaving their homes, a rum-crazed lunatic dentist, and a man killed by a jar of peaches.
07.07.2025 13:44 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
William Hope “Spirit Photography.”
30.06.2025 22:43 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
1. The Borely Rectory
2. The Cage in St. Osyth as it is now as a quaint Essex cottage
3. Illustration from “The Ghost of Sarah Duckett - Shropshire” - The Illustrated Police News, Nov. 25th, 1882.
4. Harry Price who exposed William Hope to be a fraud.
On today's episode of My Victorian Nightmare, Genevieve will discuss not one, but 2 of the most haunted Victorian homes in England: The Borley Rectory, as well as a little unsuspecting cottage in Essex that was once known as The Cage of St. Osyth - the site of a medieval witch prison.
30.06.2025 22:43 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
23.06.2025 21:12 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On this week’s episode of My Victorian Nightmare, Genevieve will discuss a terrible a hatchet murder, utter pandemonium at a spiritualist lecture, a corpse sent to a candy maker, a man frozen to a boat, a man killed by a coffin, and the worst death ever discussed on the show.
23.06.2025 21:12 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Aww, thank you!
23.06.2025 21:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this very special collaborative episode between SIGHTINGS and MY VICTORIAN NIGHTMARE, venture into an eerie haunted house from the 19th century, and discover why some doors were meant to stay sealed shut.
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26.05.2025 12:06 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
On today’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing corpse medicine; the century’s old practice of using dead bodies to treat everything from jaundice to infertility to cataracts – and when you hear about how they specifically treated that last one, it’s really gonna bum you out.
26.05.2025 12:06 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
On today's episode, Genevieve has a forsaken garden, somber dimensions of love, a moment of solemn reflection in the forrest, a deep longing for home amid turmoil at sea, mysterious demons in the sky, the bittersweet nature of dreams and a message of brighter days to come.
19.05.2025 15:12 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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19.05.2025 15:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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19.05.2025 15:09 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
On Today’s’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing a young girl caught in a waterwheel, stonings, pickaxings, a harrowing coal oil disaster, a ludicrous fall in a church, a man’s head blown to atoms, men in drag wreaking havoc upon street harassers and so much more!
19.05.2025 15:09 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
