Ep. 50 - He Dropped Dead With a Peach in His Mouth

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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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, a man killed by a jar of peaches, and a couple of rats that exhibited an admirable commitment to teamwork. References for today's Episode: “Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881. “Charge of Imposture” - The Spiritualist, Nov. 19, 1869. “John Costello Encounters Jack Glass and Mangles Him with a Carving Knife in a Saloon on Nassau Street, New York,” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st. 1872. “Whose Girls Are They” - The Illustrated Police News, Dec. 14, 1871 “Discovery of a Skeleton at Oxford” - The Illustrated Police News, Aug. 5th, 1871. “Effect of David Dicky’s Victory Eating for a Wager - The Coroner’s Name was Smith” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872. “A Baby Boiled by an Insane Mother” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872. “Death of a Woman From Starvation”- The Recorder, May 27th, 1872. “A Rum-Crazed Dentist Shoots Four of his Neighbors” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872. “How a Kalamazoo Grocer Lost His Eggs and Where They Went” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb.1st, 1872. https://nyupress.org/blog/2009/10/27/the-ghosts-of-14th-st/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_writing https://courses.lumenlearning.com/adolescent/chapter/history-of-developmental-psychology/ https://nemasket.blogspot.com/2010/02/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Enough from the Tragl.
0:02.0	Spiele Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4 and grinds as if it's 2002.
0:08.0	A legendary remake of original games with 9 parks, crasser tricks, platform-overgreifed multiplayer
0:14.0	and ab-gaffirned new game modi.
0:17.0	Holt you the new Tony Harks Pro Skater 3 and 4 and
0:20.0	and the world,
0:21.5	The Shredd Stip Nye.
0:23.0	Now, now,
0:24.1	on Tony Hawk the game.com,
0:25.9	Shrekstry, Play Now.
0:27.5	Avugable up the 11th, July.
0:30.5	Sit in quietly.
0:32.0	Once you've made the house or shiny,
0:34.2	downtime can be just fine,
0:35.8	plain bangers for on their 19th. Tea brave. Lunch break. bangers from the 90s. Tea break.
0:39.3	Lunch break.
0:40.3	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:42.3	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:44.3	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time.
0:50.3	Go on. Play some other time. Put your phone down.
0:53.3	Tombollah. Open for fun. Terms apply 18 plus
0:58.1	gamble aware.org. Hello and welcome to my Victorian nightmare. I'm your host, Genevieve
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