Ep. 58 - One Dead, The Other Dying

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have bullets – right between the eyes, mysterious throat slittings, diabolical plots involving corn pipes, buffalo hunters frozen to death, mysterious suicides, mangled men caught in cow-catchers and Spanish men falling out of windows, cursing all the way down. Thank you to today’s sponsor, Rula! Go to Rula.com/victorian to get started today, for quality therapy that’s covered by insurance. References for today’s episode: https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2022/01/i-caught-them-in-act.html https://www.instagram.com/chrisnetzelofficial?igsh=b3NmY2hoMzQ4aTZn "A True Ghost Story" - The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Jan. 19th, 1879. "Solomon, King of Israel" - The Spiritualist, Nov 19th, 1869. "One Dead, the Other Dying" - The Atlanta Constitution, Jul. 13th, 1892. "A Beautiful Young Kentucky Girl Cuts Her Own Throat" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. "Effect of a Diabolical Plot to Burn a Man by Charging His Pipe With Gunpowder at Cincinnati" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb 22nd, 1872. "A Kansas Horror" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb 15th, 1872. "A Spaniard at Terre Haute, Indiana, Mistakes the Noise of a Serenading Party for an Earthquake and Jumps out of a Window" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb 22nd, 1872. "Ghastly Freight on a Camden and Amboy Locomotive in Lawrence, N.J." - The Illustrated Police News, Feb 22nd, 1872. "A Bloody Mystery in Cincinnati" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. “Coroners Inquest” - The Cincinnati Enquirer, May 7th, 1872. "The Brooklyn “What Is It.” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb 22nd, 1872. 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,
0:23.3	creepy, and oddly comforting about horror and mayhem from the 19th century. So, listener discretion
0:30.8	is advised.
0:44.1	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 58th episode.
0:47.2	I hope that you had a restful week.
0:49.7	Mine was very romantic.
0:52.6	I took myself on a date this week.
0:56.9	I treated myself to a fancy cocktail at a fancy cocktail bar while dreaming up some scenes for a spooky screenplay that I'm working on. And just like many
1:03.6	dates that I have been on, I humiliated myself. I apparently don't know how to control my face
1:09.8	when I'm thinking of very scary things.
1:12.6	I really wear my brain on my face and I'm not always aware that I'm doing it.
1:17.6	And I can only assume that I was looking scared out of my tiny little mind all by myself in a bar staring into a French gimlet because the bartender came up and asked if I was okay.
1:30.7	What an apparition in public I am. Incidentally, as I said, humiliating myself on dates
1:37.2	is a common occurrence, whether with someone else or by myself. One time I was so nervous
1:43.7	when meeting this dude that as soon as I got there, he was like,
1:48.7	hi, nice to meet you.
1:49.7	And I shook his hand and I said, take care.
1:55.2	He was like, what?
1:57.0	And I was like, what?
2:01.6	It's best I stay indoors in general.
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