Ep. 61 - The Ghost Ship, Mary Celeste

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss one of the most confounding and eery nautical mysteries of all time: The Ghost ship, Mary Celeste. This was a brigantine ship owned by Captain Benjamin Briggs that was found floating all by its lonesome in the Atlantic in 1872, with all of its crew, the captain, his wife and baby - nowhere to be found. Thank you to today’s sponsors, Pride and Prejudice and Lumi Gummies! Listen to the new Pride and Prejudice at http://audible.com/janeausten Find Lumi Gummies at LumiGummies.com and use code: VICTORIAN for 30% off your first order. Instagram Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DO1CSYsjoio/?img_index=1&igsh=bTgxcG05c3Nvc3k3 The Best Scone Recipe: https://www.shekeepsalovelyhome.com/lavender-lemon-scones-honey-butter/ Squid Attacks: https://backyardhistory.ca/f/giant-squid-attacks-in-newfoundland References for today's episode: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abandoned-ship-the-mary-celeste-174488104/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste https://www.modelerscentral.com/maritime-history/story-of-the-mary-celeste/?srsltid=AfmBOoqyF9ufbWn45U-NMst1M9JDATRjhZjSl75oqiD7dob_99CJHqiC https://www.thecluecollective.com/single-post/2017/12/05/mystery-history-the-top-10-theories-explaining-why-the-mary-celestes-crew-disappeared https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/the-mystery-of-the-mary-celeste-supernatural-event-or-fatal-accident-d26584c02cd4 https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/2004/07/08/author-probes-maritime-mystery/50442951007/ https://ladybookdragon.com/2019/05/24/friday-poetry-29 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:56.8	Things people love. T's and Cs apply, exclusive vehicles.
1:02.3	Hello and welcome to My Victorian Nightmare.
1:06.8	I'm your host, Genevieve Mannion, and I'm here to talk about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations,
1:13.6	disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era.
1:19.6	Because to me, there's just something especially intriguing, creepy, and oddly comforting
1:25.6	about horror and mayhem from the 19th century. So, listener discretion
1:30.9	is advised.
1:39.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 61st episode. I am so happy that you decided to join me
1:48.4	during this most chaotic, confusing, generally uncool, and kind of awful eclipse season.
1:56.9	Which is new that this was going to be a table flipper, but none of us could have predicted any of this, I don't think.
2:02.8	I feel like I am playing whack-a-mole with social media.
2:06.5	If I see anything related to current events, I just flip.
2:10.9	If I can't get to a cat in a panda suit in five flips or Peter Murphy performing Bella Legosi's dead hanging upside down.
2:18.6	I'm just putting my phone down. I'm at the point where I want to have so little knowledge
2:23.7	of current events that if I hear anything at all, it will all just start to sound like a language
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