Ep. 54 - Onion Syrup Poisonings & Razor Suicides

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss onion syrup poisonings, vigilante justice, razor suicides, jealous quarrels, horrible… truly horrible murders, Russian piggy-back rides and a narrow escape from death that ends in quite a significant amount of blushing. She will also discuss why executions are usually done at the crack of dawn, a little about spirit photography and why some ghosts maintain their deathly visages while others do not. Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflodesk.com/myukzmys04⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Patreon free trial for ad-free listening! ⁠⁠⁠⁠htps://www.patreon.com/cw/MyVictorianNightmare/membership⁠⁠⁠⁠ References for today’s episode: https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2021/10/a-great-burly-broad-shouldered-bully.html “Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881. "HOW MR. S. C. HALL SAW A SPIRIT!" - The Spiritualist, Nov. 19th, 1869. "FREE LOVE AND POISON" - The Illustrated Police News, Dec. 7th 1871. "A Man Accused of Rape Leaves the World With a Razor” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 18th, 1872. “A Wife Murderer Hanged by a Mob in Richmond, KY.” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872. "Jealous Quarrels Ended by a Frail Woman's Suicide" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872. "Reception of the Grand Duke Alexi in New York" - The Illustrated Police News, Nov. 30th, 1871. “Another Horrible Murder” - Central Missouri Herald, Feb. 1st, 1877. “The Last of Mabel Hall” - St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Mar. 9th, 1876. "A Lady’s Clothing Becomes Entangled in the Machinery of a Mill in Westmoreland County, Pa., and She has a Narrow Escape from Death" - The Illustrated Police News, May 20th, 1875. "A Baker Booted in Boston" - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th, 1872. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to my Victorian nightmare. I'm your host, Genevieve Mannion,
0:09.1	and I'm here to talk about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era.
0:19.6	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
0:30.8	is advised.
0:44.5	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 54th episode.
0:48.3	I hope that you had a fabulous week.
0:51.5	I was a sweaty mess.
0:52.5	I hate this.
0:57.8	I added some cinnamon to some roasted squash to help me pretend that it was October. It helped, which it almost is, kind of. August is almost September,
1:05.7	which retail orally speaking is Halloween. That's when Home Depot drags out their glorious 12-foot
1:12.5	skeletons, which is always a joyous occasion. Oh, and I got hit in the face with a
1:18.1	cicada this week. Apparently, when it gets hot enough, they level up and receive the gift of flight. This guy received his gift
1:30.5	and used it to try to fly up my nose. I feel like there's a lesson in there somewhere
1:36.0	about not allowing oppressive circumstances to keep you from shooting your shot. Or like if
1:42.7	life only gives you wings for a short amount of time,
1:46.4	you better fly up that nose. What's your interpretation of this humiliating, terrifying
1:52.4	experience that I endured? Let me know in the comments.
2:07.5	Oh, darlings, thank you all so much who have joined the fan coven.
2:12.4	I just sent out another big batch of presents for those of you who have joined.
2:19.5	I will have to wait until around August 11th, though, to send out the next batch. I'm so sorry,
2:25.4	but I truly did not think nearly as many of you people would join as you have. So I only foraged enough trinkets for a fraction of you. I had to order all new trinkets, and they're not getting here
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