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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 88th episode.

I'm going to try something a little different for our intro today.

I'm feeling spicy, a little adventurous.

What do you think about this extra spooky intro? They say some places never forget. Abandoned asylums grown over cemeteries and even moldering old prisons

converted into snazzy luxury apartments will still forever hold on to dark memories. In the quiet town of Salem, Massachusetts, a fancy apartment complex

now stands where a Civil War era prison stood atop the very spot

where witch trial executions took place, and according to some,

many of the prisoners never left the building.

And in 1856, a dangerously delusional cult believed a demon had come to murder their prophetess

and bring about the very end of the world.

They believed that if they didn't kill him first, every living being on earth would descend into hell.

And it turns out, a man with demonically maniacal intentions really did walk among them.

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