Ep. 21 - A Chamber of Horrors

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Today's episode is Christmas themed! Genevieve will be discussing a family hatchet fight, an assault with a pot roast, an assault with a teapot, a fruit and nut plundering, an insane chimney sweep, a grizzly Christmas day murder, A tragic Christmas Day train disaster, a Chamber of Horrors, and a few more truly horrific Christmas day events. References for today's episode: https://www.measuringworth.com/blog/?p=256 https://www.postalmuseum.org/blog/victorian-christmas-boxes/#:~:text=These%20tokens%20were%20known%20as,form%20of%20money%20or%20alcohol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_railroad_accidents https://sites.dartmouth.edu/toxmetal/arsenic/arsenic-a-murderous-history/#:~:text=Beginning%20in%20the%20eighteenth%20century,common%20in%20the%20market%20place Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to my Victorian nightmare.
0:06.0	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.
0:19.0	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.
0:56.8	Hello, friends, and welcome to this, my 21st episode. I have some very upsetting things to tell you today that I think you will very much enjoy, because it's all fascinating and terrifying, but it's also Christmas themed. Isn't that nice? I also have to apologize, because I thought I was sick last week. But jeepers, that was baby town. I got hit with
1:02.7	a truck this week, so I'm still not 100%. I waited till the very last minute to record this
1:08.8	episode, too, in hopes that I would not sound quite so grim and nasally.
1:13.4	So thank you very kindly for your patience.
1:15.8	Now, grab a cozy cup of hot chocolate or a lovely cup of tea, because I decided to fish through England's version of the Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record for horrifying
1:29.7	holiday-themed and Christmas-themed articles, and oh boy, did I find them. And some
1:35.7	lovely ones, too. Both the United States in England had their own versions of this paper,
1:41.8	and they began at about the same time, 1860-ish. Almost all of the
1:46.3	articles that I read on the show have come from the American version. That article, though,
1:51.5	about the poor man killed by a coffin in the episode before last, that was from the English one.
1:57.1	Any time that you see any of the famous illustrations of Jack the Ripper crime scenes, for example,
2:03.3	they came from the London-based Illustrated Police News. My listenership is mostly American,
2:09.6	but second to us, Yanks, are you darlings from the UK. 15% of you join me for this creepy little
2:16.2	show, so I thought I'd dedicate this episode to you.
2:19.7	I also thought that it might be extra Christmassy to take a little trip across the pond to Dickens' Victorian hometown.
2:30.2	So today, I will be discussing a family hatchet fight, an assault with a pot roast, an assault
2:37.1	with a teapot, a fruit and nut plundering, an insane chimney sweep, a grisly Christmas
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