Hello and welcome to my Victorian nightmare.

I'm your host, Genevieve Mannion, and I'm here to talk about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations,

disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era.

Because to me, there's just something especially intriguing,

creepy, and oddly comforting about horror and mayhem from the 19th century. So, listener discretion

is advised.

Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 63rd episode, which is a very special episode because it is a vacation episode. I took it easy on myself this week so that I can actually take like five days off.

I literally haven't had a vacation in over three years, I think, and I'm going to my favorite place in the entire world.

My apartment.

That's right.

I've been all over the world, and I can say without the shadow of a

hesitation that my apartment is the very most exciting, luxurious, exotic place on God's green earth.

Every single thing that I could need or want is right here. So I will be taking a vacation to enjoy my

apartment without things to do. Sleep when I want? Stare? Oh, I got to make sure I block out a

whole half day for staring. I'm sorry. I'm sure I'm making you all very jealous. I will stop

talking about it.

Okay, so what makes this episode different than the usual format? Well, a listener gave me a great

idea. They asked if I would string together all of our little trips,

like the times when I take you to different terrible places, which was such a great idea,

because I want to revisit all of our little trips. I love taking you guys' places. In all

honesty, I like to relisten to them sometimes and genuinely like to

imagine that you guys are standing next to me in like the lunatic asylums. So today I am taking

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