Ep. 46 - Murder on the Victorian Railways

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

History

4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On Monday’s episode, Genevieve will discuss not 1, not 2, but FOUR grisly train murders from the Victorian era – one with a wild twist! All complete with frick’n sound effects and everything: The murder of Issac Gold (1881), William Pearson (1901), Elizabeth Camp (1897), and Mary Money (1905). Thank you to today's sponsor, Blissy! Get 60-nights risk-free PLUS an additional 30% off when you shop at Blissy.com/VICTORIANPOD References for Today's Episode: https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/about-us/about-us/our-history/crime-history/murder-of-issac-gold/ https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/about-us/about-us/our-history/crime-history/murder-of-william-pearson-1901/ https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/campaigns/our-history/crime-history/murder-of-elizabeth-camp-1897/ https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/campaigns/our-history/crime-history/murder-of-mary-money-1905/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hicks_Murray “True Stories About Ghosts” - The Illustrated Police News, Oct. 29th 1881. "Miss Money's Funeral" - The Daily Telegraph, Oct. 4th, 1905. "Funeral of Miss Camp" - Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, Feb. 21st, 1897. "The Murder on the Brighton Railway" - The Morning Post, Jul. 5th, 1881. "The Railway Murder" - Evening Post, Jan. 23rd, 1901. 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,
0:44.0	disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era.
0:49.6	Because to me, there's just something especially intriguing, creepy, and oddly comforting about horror
0:56.7	and mayhem from the 19th century. So, listener discretion is advised.
1:09.2	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 46th episode.
1:14.5	I hope that you had a delightful week.
1:17.5	Mine was very exciting.
1:19.7	It was very lovely, but also mythically stupid.
1:24.4	I had an abominable attack of dyslexia this week, but thank goodness, I realized that the
1:30.7	attack happened in just enough time to produce this week's episode. I will explain. Not in too
1:37.2	much detail, though. You are not going to believe this. Okay, I have been so excited about next week's episode, which is my very first
1:48.3	crossover episode with Brian and McLeod from the awesome podcast sightings, that I got my own
1:55.1	episode calendar so twisted that this episode almost didn't happen. We clearly agreed to drop this very spooky,
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