Ep. 65 - Fresh From the Silent Tomb

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

History

4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will have ghosts, ghosts and more spooky ghosts, including ghost trains! As well as the capture of 2 midnight grave robbers, Mary Todd Lincoln incognito at a seance, and Scottish Halloween traditions from 1876. Thank you to today’s sponsors, Pride and Prejudice and Hello Fresh! Listen to the new Pride and Prejudice at http://audible.com/janeausten Go to http://hellofresh.com/victorian10fm for 10 Free Meals + a Free Item for Life! Today’s Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DP6csKxDqkW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== References: “A Haunted House in Brooklyn” - The Times-Picayune, Nov. 23rd, 1874. "Mr. J.S. Steele" - The Spiritualist, Dec. 1869. "Chicago Hyenas" - Chicago Tribune, Mar. 4th, 1872. "Mrs. Lincoln Seeking the Spirit of Her Husband in Boston" - Illustrated Police News, Feb. 29th, 1872. "The Late Railroad Accident" - The Daily Journal, Jan. 11th, 1856. "Halloween" - Anaheim Gazette, Nov. 4th, 1876. https://www.thoughtco.com/supernatural-and-spooky-events-1773802#:~:text=The%20Bell%20Witch%20Terrorized%20a,The%20animal%20ran%20off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maco_light https://www.ourstate.com/maco-light/ https://www.whitehousehistory.org/seances-in-the-red-room https://web.archive.org/web/20111228012923/http://www.wilmingtonrailroadmuseum.org/content/joebaldwin.php https://www.historicrailpark.com/otr-blog/the-haunting-of-the-ln-line-the-legend-of-the-ghost-train/ 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.
0:43.9	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 65th episode.
0:49.9	I hope that you had a fabulous week and that you are not spiraling into the direful inky abyss, as always.
0:52.5	You may be able to tell that I have a little bit of a cold at the moment.
0:57.2	Yes, vampires get colds too, a little known fact. But I've got a cozy blanket around my shoulders.
1:03.5	I have a cup of tea. And despite the urge I feel in my quivering little bones to allow the abyss to
1:09.9	finally take me once and for all. I have far
1:13.3	too fun an episode today to allow myself to succumb to the temptation. I shall remain, at least
1:20.6	until I'm done recording. Okay, honestly, I have so much Halloween-e, seasony, spookiness for you today. So we're going to race right through haunted housekeeping and get right to it. Thank you for rating the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Those ratings continue to be so important to enabling the show to continue. Thank you for your
1:45.8	lovely comments and thank you everyone who has joined the fan coven, those of you who receive
1:51.8	the show ad-free a day early, who also receive weekly bloody Victorian true crime extras,
1:58.3	and who receive weekly witchy inspiration, meditations, and humble suggestions
2:03.7	for how to keep an empowering and enriching craft. Just go to myvictorynightmare.com, and for the
2:10.7	price of a coffee and pumpkin spice crawler, you two can join this lovely community. And if you don't like Pumpkin Spice Crawlers,
2:19.3	you can receive the show ad-free and a day early for just the price of a cup of coffee,
2:23.9	like a large cup of coffee, to be fair, at one of those cafes that have like Live, Laugh,
2:28.8	framed somewhere. Five bucks. In both cases, you will be directly contributing to ensuring that I can continue this show.
2:37.7	So thank you everyone who has joined, and thank you everyone who intends to.
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