Ep. 42 - The Winchester Mystery House

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing a topic that she’s said numerous times she would never cover: The Winchester Mystery House. She will thoroughly debunk all of the falsehoods, embellishments and downright lies about its very generous, very kind creator, Sarah (Sallie) Winchester, and her weird and wonderful house. You’ll also learn some great trivia night factoids in the process. Thank you to today's sponson, Factor Meals! Get 50% off your first order of Factor meals at factormeals.com/VICTORIAN50OFF and use code VICTORIAN50Off References for today’s episode: “The Frenzied Lover’s Murder in Boston” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th, 1872. https://skepticalinquirer.org/2024/08/the-truth-about-sallie-winchester-and-the-mystery-house-that-never-was/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/real-story-behind-the-winchester-house https://www.7x7.com/the-top-10-lies-about-the-winchester-mystery-house-1786563456.html https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/a27481666/winchester-mystery-house/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down
0:23.8	tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org
0:29.3	hello and welcome to my Victorian nightmare I'm your your host, Genevieve Mannion,
0:39.1	and I'm here to talk about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations,
0:43.9	disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era.
0:49.6	Because to me, there's just something especially intriguing,
0:53.3	creepy, and oddly comforting about horror
0:56.7	and mayhem from the 19th century. So, listener discretion is advised.
1:09.3	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 42nd episode. I hope that you had a wonderful week.
1:17.5	You will be pleased to know that I was not murdered by a poltergeist since our last show.
1:22.7	This episode is not being broadcast to you from the great beyond. I managed to make my way through the week unscathed.
1:31.2	Just in case you have no idea what I'm talking about, on last week's episode, I mentioned
1:35.2	how my television was simply turning itself on at very frightening times.
1:39.8	But it has not happened ever since that day, so either the ghosts got bored or, as some listeners suggested, it may have been like a rogue remote signal from another apartment.
1:50.6	I may never know.
1:51.6	I'm just happy to still be among the living, undead as I may be.
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