Ep. 11 - Horrors of the Victorian Circus

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In today's episode, Genevieve talks about Victorian circus horrors. References for today's episode: https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/post/freak-shows https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2011/septemberoctober/statement/the-circus-you-never-knew https://victorian-era.org/victorian-era-circus-performances.html https://boroughsofthedead.com/barnum-museum-fire-july-13-1865/ https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/greatest-show-earth-freak-shows-pt-barnum-tom-thumb/ https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=DMST18851009.2.46&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- https://www.historyireland.com/the-wee-est-little-man-that-ever-was-general-tom-thumb-in-ireland/ https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-lost-original-madison-square-garden.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_mermaid https://jvc.oup.com/2021/05/20/lost-circuses-of-victorian-leeds/ 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, 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
0:25.4	about horror and mayhem from the 19th century.
0:29.3	So, listener discretion is advised.
0:45.7	Hello, friends, and welcome to this, my 11th episode. Thank you so much for joining me.
0:53.1	I have some horrible things. I can't wait to tell you. But first, I've got some good things to tell you.
0:55.0	Okay, remember how I said I was going to stop bugging you about rating the podcast at the beginning of every episode if you brought my ratings
0:59.2	to 100 on Spotify? Well, guess what you did? And then some. I think I have like 125 now.
1:06.9	It really means a lot to me. I know it's a whole thing to rate podcasts, and I am not saying that sarcastically, it takes a lot of emotional energy to get me to do just about anything I don't have to do. So believe me, the effort is very appreciated. I will officially stop bugging you about it at the beginning of every show now. I'm still going to bug you about leaving comments,
1:28.1	though, because I love them so much, but I'll be far less brazen about it. Thank you all so,
1:33.9	so much for those ratings, though. They really, really mean a lot to me. Please still continue to
1:39.8	rate, review, and subscribe.
1:51.9	Today's episode is all about Victorian circus horrors, the freak shows, the fires,
1:57.6	kidnappings, train wrecks, morbid taxidermy, and this information will be all the more uncomfortable to listen to because I have a little bit of a cold. Please forgive my at-times raspy and nasally descriptions of very disturbing things.
2:06.2	We'll also talk about P.T. Barnum's American Museum of Curiosities, which met a particularly
2:11.6	tragic end, numerous times. It's all very upsetting. My main references for today's episode are a History Extra.com article
2:20.0	by Dr. John Jacob Wolfe, a Burrows of the Dead.com article, the author is sadly unknown,
2:26.6	an NEH.gov article by Daniel Noonan, and an article from Notes from the Frontier.com by Deborah
2:33.6	Hufford. All of these and my other references can be found from the Frontier.com by Deborah Hufford.
2:34.5	All of these and my other references can be found in the show notes.
2:38.3	Of all the topics I've done so far, this one is the most personally terrifying and unsettling for me.
2:45.8	I have a clown issue.
2:48.1	I'm not paralyzed with fear of them, but I am deeply uncomfortable around them or
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