Ep. 70 - Blood On The Railroad Tracks

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

History

4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Genevieve will be taking you back to the blood-smeared Victorian railways. She will be discussing the murders of Sarah Hart and Thomas Briggs, as well as the “Philip Experiment” where scientists believed they conjured a ghost out of thin air. Thank you to today's sponsor, Honeylove! Save 20% off Honeylove by going to ⁠https://www.honeylove.com/VICTORIAN⁠! Today’s Instagram Post: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/p/DRU5rfVDsNb/?igsh=Zjc1bmFzejljbTFq⁠ References For Today’s Episode: “A Budget of Ghost Stories” - Cheshire Observer, Mar. 6th, 1869. “Mr. Morse” - The Spiritualist, Dec. 1869. “The Murder at Salthill” - The Bath Chronicle and Herald, Mar. 20th, 1845. “Funeral of Sarah Hart” - Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic, Jan. 16th 1845. https://moonmausoleum.com/the-philip-experiment-the-spirit-created-by-scientists/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_M%C3%BCller https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/about-us/about-us/our-history/crime-history/first-railway-murder/ https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/about-us/about-us/our-history/crime-history/murder-of-sarah-hart/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tawell 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.
0:57.9	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 70th episode. I made it to 70. What a milestone. I hope that you had a fabulous week despite everything due to reality, and I'm pretty sure I've still not adjusted to daylight savings. I have been waking up at 5 a.m. every morning and my brain does not shut off until
1:03.6	midnight so that's fabulous. I can't get back to sleep so I've started just getting out
1:08.7	of bed and taking weird baths. Weird 5 a.m.
1:12.9	baths. Have you ever done this? I feel like I'm taking a bath in another dimension. It's day,
1:19.5	and yet night. I should be unconscious, but I'm not. So I light some candles to make it
1:25.2	extra weird. I play soft Baroque music like Vivaldi and Bach and Scarlatti.
1:31.3	In a way, it makes me feel like I'm haunting my own mourning.
1:35.3	I'm in a time I shouldn't be, floating, listening to music from days of old in the flickering candlelight, frothing with anger and desperation, longing for rest.
1:48.2	You should give it a try. Let me know what you think.
1:52.0	Okay, folks, I got to tell you, I don't know if it's because we have five effing planets in retrograde right now,
1:59.3	and we are all feeling sensitive and delicate or what?
2:02.6	I know I sure have been, but you have been sending me some of the most touching emails and
2:08.4	messages over the last few weeks, and I'm having a hard time holding it together.
2:13.5	It has been a tough few weeks for a few reasons, not related to my 5 a.m. jolts out of dead sleep
2:20.4	that I won't go into. And so your messages have really meant a lot to me. And I just want to share
2:26.7	with you some of the sweetness that has come my way. Maybe it will brighten your day as well.
2:32.7	An archaeologist named Danielle Knights reached out
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