Ep. 57 - Zona Shue - The Only Ghost to SOLVE Her Own Murder

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the Greenbrier Ghost; the only ghost, supposedly, who ever helped to solve her own murder. She will also discuss how to avoid becoming a Chinese hopping vampire, and exactly who, and who should not, attempt a “Dark Séance.” 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 Instagram post with photos for today's episode: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/p/DNvvYEzXGV3/?img_index=1⁠ References for today’s episode: “MONGOLIAN GHOSTS” - St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 28th, 1876. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangshi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenbrier_Ghost https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2018/01/greenbrier-ghost.html https://www.greenbrierhistorical.org/blog/the-greenbrier-ghost-reexamined https://www.gothichorrorstories.com/gothic-travel/the-death-resurrection-and-retribution-of-zona-heaster-shue-the-greenbrier-ghost/ https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/greenbrier https://wvexplorer.com/2024/01/20/greenbrier-ghost-zona-heaster-shue-west-virginia-wv/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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.
0:44.6	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 57th episode.
0:47.5	I hope that you had a wonderful week.
0:50.6	Mine was so full of dumplings.
0:57.0	It's been a glorious 67 degrees in New York all week, and this is precisely dumpling weather. I can't afford the sheer amount of dumplings that have been delivered to my home
1:02.0	over the past few days. I am going to dumpling dip myself into the poorhouse at this rate. I can't
1:07.3	stop myself. 68 is dumplings. 78 tacos. 88 sushi. Fifty-eight
1:14.4	German food. Forty-eight French onion soup exclusively for like every meal. I don't make the
1:20.8	rules. I just eat my feelings. And today, I feel like a dumpling.
1:31.2	And now a little haunted housekeeping.
1:35.2	Thank you, everyone who has joined the fan coven.
1:40.3	Everyone who joined before the 18th and on the 18th, your presence may still take another week or so to get to you if you haven't already gotten them.
1:43.2	If you haven't gotten your presence by the first week-ish of September, email me, and I will send you another. A few
1:49.8	have actually been returned, and the addresses were covered in return to sender stickers
1:54.0	that I couldn't get off. So please let me know, and I will ship them right out to you. You can still,
2:00.6	of course, join the fan coven at myvictorian nightmare.com to hear the show
2:04.4	ad free, among other witchy perks.
2:08.0	And thank you for rating the show on Spotify and Apple podcasts.
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