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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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.  open.spotify.com/episode/5OwV...

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

On 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.

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!

On today’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.

On today’s’s episode, Genevieve 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!

On today’s episode, Genevieve will return to Whitechapel to discuss the Jack the Ripper case: the victims, the suspects, the seances and a few more little known facts.

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.

On today’s episode, Genevieve discusses the 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.

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.

Hello Bluesky! Welcome to the official account for My Victorian Nightmare. A podcast about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era.