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A podcast about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era.
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.
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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 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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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 — 👍 5 🔁 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 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
William Hope “Spirit Photography.”
30.06.2025 22:43 — 👍 7 🔁 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 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
23.06.2025 21:12 — 👍 4 🔁 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 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Aww, thank you!
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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 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 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 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A few more images from today's show
19.05.2025 15:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A few images from today's show:
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
I'm delighted to announce that I've brought back the most eerily romantic, hauntingly beautiful podcast, Dark Poetry! I include some of my favorite bone chilling and enchanting works from the Victorian era's most beloved poets like Poe, Dickinson, Wilde, Coleridge, and many more.
13.05.2025 23:52 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Images from today's show:
1. Sarah (Sallie) Winchester
2. The “Winchester Mystery House”
3. A “door to nowhere”
4. Ms. Winchester’s grave
On today’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing the Winchester Mystery House. She will thoroughly debunk all of the falsehoods, embellishments and downright lies about its very generous, very kind creator, Sarah Winchester, and her weird and wonderful house.
12.05.2025 14:14 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
A few images from today's episode
05.05.2025 16:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss ghosts frightening country bumpkins, really spooky skeleton encounters, a hatchet attack by a blind man, a man trying to slice his own head off and a young lady with enough pluck and presence of mind to save the very day.
05.05.2025 16:54 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
A few photos from today's episode:
1. Belle Gunness' dentures
2. The basement of Belle’s house
3. Belle Gunness
4. The hog pen where up to 40 bodies were found - and a random kid who came by to take a look
On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the all-female Victorian gang, the 40 Elephants, as well as the thieving, poisoning, barbarous, butchering Belle Gunness: Hell’s Belle herself.
28.04.2025 15:21 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Images from today’s episode!
1. The alleged photograph of The Brown Lady of Raynham, the ghost of Dorothy Walpole
2. Opera Singer, Christina Nilsson
3. A Magdalene Laundry
4. An illustration of smallpox
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 stalker, a lamp light disaster, a gory game of cards, a nearly naked man frozen to death in a sinkhole, and more!
22.04.2025 02:24 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1
A few images from today's show:
1. Madame Tussaud’s wax sculpture of Kate Webster
2. A depiction of the trial and conviction of Kate Webster.
3. A depiction of Webster’s execution.
4. The Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record - Saturday, April 26th, 1870.
On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the case of “The Richmond Murderess,” Kate Webster. This story has a brutal murder, a dismembering, mysterious skulls, ghost nuns, cutting edge execution techniques and David Attenborough intricately knitted into the very fabric of this bone chilling saga.
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