Ep. 33 - Talk to Dead People with Your Friends

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

History

4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On Today’s’s episode, Genevieve is diving back into the Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record: everyone’s favorite bananas, blood-soaked, spooky little tabloid from the 1800s. She will have a hat-wafting seance, a thrilling search for a dead body, wax necks, jealous husbands, mayhem, a shocking discovery in a penitentiary, an alarming growth of intoxication among young ladies, and more! References for Today's Show: https://www.magicianmasterclass.com/post/how-do-magicians-levitate#viewer-aqfts “The Last “Thing” in Fashion, The Wax Neck” Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872. “Spiritual Manifestations at a Seance in Boston on New Year’s Eve” Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872. “Thrilling Search for the Body of a Murdered Man in MacDonald Co, Mo.,” Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872. “A Young Lady Outraged and Then Murdered in Arkansas,” Illustrated Police News, Dec, 28 1871. “A Leap to Death in Cincinnati - An Unknown Unfortunate Jumps From a Bridge to Eternity,” Illustrated Police News, August, 28 1873. “Taking a Farmer’s Wife, Baby and Potatoes to Market,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872. “How a Jealous Husband in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Returned Home and What He Found There,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872. “Alarming Growth of Intoxication Among Young Ladies - Sad Scene in a New Jersey Ferry Boat,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872. “Extra Penance in a Penitentiary,” Illustrated Police News, Nov 30th, 1871. “Mayhem,” Illustrated Police News, July 6th, 1876. “A New Jersey Cannibal Gormandizes a Policeman’s Cheek,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 21st, 1871. 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,
0:22.6	creepy, and oddly comforting about horror and mayhem from the 19th century. So, listener discretion
0:30.6	is advised.
0:35.6	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 33rd episode.
0:45.3	I hope that you are all having a fabulous week despite the even further descent into fascism in the United States.
0:53.3	I actually think that we're descending a bit
0:56.0	deeper than that, though. Like, the Nazis were much more organized in their dismantling of
1:02.1	democracy than these guys. When I think of what's happening here, it just reminds me of the time
1:07.8	that I went camping and I heard like a commotion in the middle of the night outside the tent.
1:12.6	And I looked outside the tent and I saw a raccoon just as he was scrambling away.
1:16.6	I didn't notice at the time, but he had broken into the cooler and he just tossed everything out, like probably as fast as he could with his little opposable thumbs and bandit mask.
1:26.6	He just tossed the hamburger
1:28.5	buns and the potato salad. He didn't care about that stuff. But when he got to the marshmallows,
1:33.3	though, he was like perfect and scrambled off like the tubby little marshmallow addict that he was.
1:39.3	We found the bag completely empty near the tent the next morning with the rest of the stuff.
1:43.3	Like the potato salad was everywhere covered in ants, broken eggs, bacon covered in dirt.
1:49.5	It was very sad.
1:50.7	And some marshmallow puke nearby.
1:52.9	Poor guy.
1:54.5	This is what we're dealing with in my nation today.
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