Ep. 67 - Haunted by Gloomy & Terrible Thoughts

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

History

4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will have ghosts throwing potato chips, female poison serial killers, the body of a murderer on display for the general public, a horrible uxoricide, a naked women in prison attempting to "dash her brains out," a life of romance and suffering and fancy, lady's-only gambling parlors. No boys allowed! Thank you to today’s sponsor, Rula.com! Go to Rula.com/victorian to get started today. You deserve mental healthcare that works with you, not against your budget. Today’s Instagram Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQfFlTjkXnF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== References: “Virginian Ghosts” - The Times-Picayune, Nov. 23, 1874. “Mr. J. Davis” - The Spiritualist, - The Spiritualist, Dec. 17th, 1869. “A Woman Poisons Her Husband’s Food in Stark County, Indiana” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. “A Murderer’s Body on Exhibition” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. “A Prisoner Leaps from a Court Room Window in Kansas City, Mo., and Escapes” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 8th, 1872. “Horrible Uxoricide” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. “An Inconsiderate Parent” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. “A Wrangle Over the Remains of Botts the Murderer” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 8th, 1872. “Miss Eva G. Vallee, the Pretty Female Prisoner, Simulates a Fit and Attempts Suicide in the Central Police Station, New York City” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. “A Sad Story” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. “The She-Gamblers of San Francisco” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. "Police Report" - The Leavenworth Times, Jul. 30th, 1872. "Forestalling the Gallows" - The Courier-Journal, Mar. 27th, 1872 "Confidence Woman Convicted" - The Daily Evening Herald, Apr. 13th, 1872 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_chips https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon%27s_Lake_House https://deathpenaltyusa.org/usa1/date/1872.htm https://publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Blume-final.pdf https://mrsdaffodildigresses.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/women-gamblers-of-new-york-1884/ https://www.victorianweb.org/history/leisure/gambling1.html 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.
0:44.3	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 67th episode.
0:48.4	I hope that you had a perfectly lovely Halloween.
0:53.2	I had all of my witches and a few muggles over for a saline cocktail party.
0:57.2	I was going to do a dinner, but I ended up inviting too many people for that.
0:59.6	So I made tiny pumpkin pies.
1:02.1	I made a four-foot-long fancy cheeseboard.
1:03.7	I'm putting all this on Instagram, by the way.
1:08.2	We had a few wine glasses set up for our ancestors tied with flowers.
1:15.9	We had a few tears and so much laughter that my stomach still hurts. Can you get a hernia from laughing too hard?
1:28.8	Oh my god, I just googled that and apparently you can. Be safe out there, people. I'll try to keep my jokes extra lame. I don't want to hurt anyone. Let us have a little haunted housekeeping,
1:34.4	which we shall race through because it's going to be a great show. It's a mess and packed with fun, creepy little facts to share at Thanksgiving dinner this year. Thank you for rating the show
1:40.9	on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Thank you for your comments. Thank you to those of you who
1:46.9	have joined the fan coven who received the show at free a day early, who also receive witchy content
1:54.0	and cold-blooded Victorian true crime extras every single week. You too can join by going to myvictorian nightmare.com. Oh, quick question.
2:04.5	Firstly, thank you for all of your spooky podcast suggestions that you've left me on previous
2:09.8	episodes, but I have a new request. Can you name for me some people in history, and they don't
2:17.2	have to be from the Victorian era,
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