Ep. 51 - The Woolfolk Family Massacre

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On this week’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing the Woolfolk family massacre: the annihilation of a family of 9 that occurred in 1887. The details are harrowing, horrible, heartbreaking, and some are truly…strange. Get better sleep, hair and skin with Blissy and use MVNPOD to get an additional 30% off at http://blissy.com/MVNPOD References for today's episode: https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/woolfolk-murder-case/ https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/woolfolk-thomas.htm https://www.gpb.org/news/2024/07/19/macon-graves-linked-infamous-georgia-murder-were-vandalized-investigation-underway https://rosehillcemeterymacongeorgia.blogspot.com/2010/10/remarkable-funeral-burial-of-victims-of.html “The Red Hand” - The Atlanta Constitution, Aug. 7th, 1887. “Bloody Woolfolk” - The Atlanta Constitution, Aug. 8th, 1887. “Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.1	Hello and welcome to my Victorian nightmare.
1:06.7	I'm your host, Genevieve Mannion, and I'm here to talk about mysterious deaths, morbid
1:12.5	fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era.
1:18.9	Because to me, there's just something especially intriguing, creepy, and oddly comforting
1:25.9	about horror and mayhem from the 19th century.
1:29.2	So, listener discretion is advised.
1:39.1	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 51st episode.
1:44.0	I hope that you had a lovely week. I had a
1:49.2	delightfully, exquisitely air-conditioned one. Thank you very much for asking. Despite the horrors,
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