Ep. 79 - Nikola Tesla’s VIOLENT & Luminous Visions

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On today's episode, Genevieve will have little known, strange and unusual facts about Nikola Tesla, ghosts with deep and ghastly wounds, a woman smoking a pipe in a hearse, corpse flinging, pickax murders and a woman’s revenge with a rolling pin. All this and much, much more. Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflodesk.com/myukzmys04⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Patreon free trial for ad-free listening! ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/MyVictorianNightmare/membership⁠ Instagram Post For Today's Episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/DT3aJBdke9T/?igsh=NzlyNmkya213cG95 References For Today's Episode: https://www.zillowgroup.com/news/selling-a-haunted-house/ "A HAUNTED HOUSE IN WESTMINSTER" - South Bourke and Mornington Journal, Nov. 17, 1880. "SCENERY IN THE SPIRIT WORLD" - The Spiritualist, Dec. 1869. “A Quebec Woman Creates a Sensation, Riding Through St. John Street in a Hearse, Reclining on the Coffin-Bed, and Smoking a Pipe” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 11th, 1872. "A GHASTLY CORPSE FLUNG INTO A NEW YORK ALLEY." - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 11th, 1872. "A San Francisco Wife Shoots her Husband and is Sorry she didn’t Kill Him" - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 11th, 1872. “A Dying Husband Witnesses the Death Struggles of his Wife and Dies from an Overdose of Laudanum, in Boston, Mass” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 4th, 1872. “Two Railroad Firemen Have a Friendly Scuffle which Ends in a Murder” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 4th, 1872. “Miraculous Escape From a Mistaken Murderer” - The Illustrated Police News, 1871. “A Pickaxe Driven Through a Boy’s Intestines in New York City” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 11th, 1872. “A Kansas City Tragedy — A Strange Lady Shot and Killed in a Hotel” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 11th, 1872. "A Lady of Atlanta, Ga., Ties her Husband’s Hands and Feet and Searches his Pockets for a Love-Letter" - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 11th, 1872. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.0	Hello and welcome to my Victorian nightmare.
0:49.3	I'm your host, Genevieve Mannion, and I'm here to talk about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations,
0:55.0	disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era.
1:01.3	Because to me, there's just something especially intriguing, creepy, and oddly comforting about horror and mayhem from the 19th century.
1:05.2	So, listener discretion is advised.
1:20.4	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 79th episode.
1:26.1	I hope that you had a cozy, dark, and safely snowy weekend.
1:30.7	If you live here in the States, today for you, dear listener, I will have strange and unusual facts about Nikola Tesla, ghosts with deep and ghastly wounds,
1:38.2	a woman smoking a pipe in a hearse, corpse flinging, pickax murders, and a woman's revenge
1:44.1	with a rolling pin. All this and
1:46.9	much, much more. I'm reorganizing things a little bit on the show today. I have so much creepy stuff
1:56.6	to pack into this episode that I want to cut to the chase as quickly as I can. But first, I need to say
2:02.6	thank you to Cat, Allie, Lizzie, Nico, Christy, Tina, Erin, Nick, Bridget, and someone known
2:08.5	only as Twisted Witch on Patreon. These kind folks subscribed to the show this week. You and everyone
2:15.5	who subscribes are the reason why my show can continue.
2:19.0	Click the link in the show notes to subscribe or just go to my victoria nightmare.com to find out
2:23.7	more.
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