Ep. 48 - A Corpse Sent to a Candy Maker

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss a family that is a complete disaster, the absurdities of hypnosis, a hatchet murder, a man who luckily couldn’t quite properly operate a firearm, utter pandemonium at a spiritualist lecture, a corpse sent to a candy maker, a man frozen to a boat, yet another man killed by a coffin, and the single worst death ever discussed on any show up until today, hands down. Nothing comes close. Consider yourselves warned. “True Stories About Ghosts” - The Illustrated Police News, Oct. 29th 1881. “A Very Unfortunate Family” - The Illustrated Police News, Jul. 6th, 1876. “One of the Absurdities of the Age - Pretended Effects of Mesmerism as Exhibited at Brackett Hall” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb 1st, 1872. “A Horrible Death” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th, 1872. “A Man Frozen to the Cross-Trees of a Chicago Vessel” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1872. “Ineffectual Attempt of a Discarded Lover to Shoot Himself in Chicago” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb 1st, 1872. “A Row Among the Spiritualists at Cooper Institute” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872. “Murder of a Wife and Child by a German in Ann Arbor Michigan” - The Illustrated Police News, Nov. 9th, 1871. “A Corpse Sent to a Cincinnati Candy Maker” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. “Edmund Sweeny Falls Dead While Lifting the Coffin Lid from the Body of His Father” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872. “A Chambermaid Turns an Involuntary Somersault Out of a Second Story Window at Bangor” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872. https://www.bbc.com/bbcthree/article/f8ce7277-5945-470a-b1ad-0c637d8265c1 https://historyofhypnosis.org/19th-century/ https://vintagehairstyling.com/bobbypinblog/2019/11/adding-hair-pieces-to-your-vintage-hairstyle-a-history-of-the-hair-switch.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_brothers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.1	Hello and welcome to My Victorian Nightmare. I'm 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.
1:06.8	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 48th episode. I hope that you had a wonderful week.
1:16.9	My week was simply glittering. Thank you very much for asking. The weather in New York has been
1:22.9	perfectly miserable for the last three months, and I am trying to enjoy every last second of it
1:28.5	before the gates of hell open up next week and we have a string of sunny 90-degree days, which will
1:34.3	bum me out entirely. I sat with Toby in soaking wet 63-degree grass today until I got a soggy
1:40.6	bottom chill to file away in my memory for when I'm sweating my carcass off next week.
1:45.2	I'd call this a life hack, but I feel like life hacks probably have to hack more lives than just your own to qualify as such.
1:52.2	I don't know if you'd find this experience as useful as I do.
1:54.7	I highly recommend it nevertheless.
1:58.0	I am so happy to hear that you guys enjoyed last week's episode with sightings.
2:02.9	It was so much fun to create that episode with them.
2:05.5	I've been making some podcast friends lately, which I'm very excited about.
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