Ep. 56 - All Sorts of Strange Apparitions

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss a number of brutal murders, throat slittings, girls shooting themselves in the face, sleighing accidents, smallpox in a corn-crib, horse burglars - meaning burglars who are horses - scenes from a scaffold, swallowed pen knives and so much more. References for today’s episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supernatural_beings_in_Chinese_folklore#:~:text=to%20snatch%20babies.-,Wutou%20gui%20(%E6%97%A0%E5%A4%B4%E9%AC%BC),her%20head%20on%20the%20side https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_in_Chinese_culture#:~:text=Ghosts%20without%20means%20(%E7%84%A1%E8%B2%A1,distressing%20to%20themselves%20and%20others https://www.dharmadrum.org/portal_d8_cnt_page.php?folder_id=56&cnt_id=259&up_page=1#:~:text=In%20Buddhism%2C%20the%20Yogacara%20Flaming,the%20Burning%2DMouth%20Hungry%20Ghosts https://www.bkwaterfronthistory.org/story/unsung-builders/ https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medical-examination-immigrants-ellis-island/2008-04#:~:text=Control%20of%20infectious%20agents%20also,Island%20and%20other%20U.S.%20immigration “Mongolian Ghosts” - St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 28th, 1876. “Thought-Reading and Physical Manifestations” - The Spiritualist, Nov. 19th 1869. “Love, Murder and Suicide at Bozrah, Conn.” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. “Accidental Shooting of a Young Girl in Batesville, Arkansas” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. “Awful Fate of a Pauper” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. “A Horse Turned Burglar at New London, Conn.” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. “Peculiar Filial Love” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. “Singular Sleighing Accident to a Lady in Worcester, Mass.” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. “The Scaffold” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. “Roasted To a Crisp” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 22nd, 1872. “What Sort of a Woman will this Girl Be” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 22nd, 1872. 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 56th episode.
1:14.8	I hope that you had a fabulous week.
1:19.2	Sorry, but I'm a little light-headed at the moment.
1:22.9	Thing is, I died.
1:25.3	I'm dead, deceased, and I know that this is nothing new to you or me. I've been dead
1:31.9	for a few hundred years now, but something so thrilling happened but six minutes ago that my
1:38.8	black little heart actually started beating for like a full minute and stopped again just as well, so I'm dead
1:47.2	again. But I need to tell you why. I just sat down to do some stuff at my computer and an email
1:53.8	was sitting in my inbox, an email from a gentleman by the name of Alan Katz. The father of the cryptkeeper, the writer of
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