Ep. 43 - The Witching Time of Night

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

History

4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

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, a man who visit’s his wife’s grave and leaves with her - it’s not what you think, booby traps gone terribly wrong and so much more. Thank you to today's sponsor, Rula! Visit Rula.com/Victorian and take the first step towards better mental health today. References for today’s episode: “The Frenzied Lover's Murder In Boston” - The Illustrated Police News, Mar. 14th 1872. “Ludicrous Fall of a Young Lady in a Church at Lyons, NY” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th 1872. “Summary Vengeance on an Insulter of Females at Bridgeport Conn.” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th 1872. “A Lunatic Assaults the Statue of Franklin in Printing House Square” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th 1872. “A Postmaster Shot by His Own Burglar Trap - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th 1872. “Bloody Work in John Street” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th 1872. “Another Martyr to Coal Oil” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th 1872. “The Newfoundland Horror” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th 1872. “A Man Stoned to Death in Columbus Ohio” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th 1872. “A Young Daughter of Mr. Villiton of Centerport Caught in a Water Wheel,” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th 1872. “A Mans Head Blown to Atoms” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th 1872. “Double Murder in Newfoundland - Hanging of a Beautiful Woman.” - The San Fransisco Examiner, Mar. 14th, 1872. https://www.farmcollector.com/farm-life/water-wheels-zmlz12novzbea/ http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_lamp_accidents.htm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to my Victorian nightmare.
0:06.0	I'm your host, Genevieve Mannion, and I'm here to talk about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations,
0:13.0	disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era.
0:19.0	Because to me, there's just something especially intriguing,
0:22.6	creepy, and oddly comforting about horror and mayhem from the 19th century. So, listener discretion
0:30.6	is advised.
0:35.6	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 43rd episode.
0:45.0	Coming to you from a very rainy Brooklyn, you may hear a few pitter-patters on my windowsills in the background.
0:51.9	The naked man orchids in the garden are getting a nice bath
0:55.0	today. Well deserved. I hope that you dropped some tacky, heavy baggage this past week.
1:02.0	I had a glorious witchy picnic with my girls to celebrate all of the releasing that we did during the
1:08.0	Scorpio full moon. This was a greasy, oily, baked on moon. It felt
1:14.4	good to take the rough side of the sponge to myself. It was hard, but I feel so much more sparkly
1:20.5	now. It's funny. I met a fan at the picnic. One of my girls brought someone who listens to the show,
1:31.1	which was so lovely. She was lovely, but it's weird to think that I have fans. I never know how to
1:37.1	be when I meet people who listen to the show. I always feel like, oh no, I need to pretend to be a cool
1:43.8	person. I need to live up to somebody's
1:45.8	expectations. And I panic because I don't know what those are. A few sweet folks have come up to me
1:52.5	in random places to say that they enjoy the show. And I always clam up. As always, in always,
1:59.9	I am far too self-conscious for this life, but I just want to say if you
2:05.7	consider yourself a fan of the show, I am so grateful to have you here, and I apologize in advance
2:11.2	if you ever do meet me in person in my natural form, weird, and probably a little scared.
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