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. welcome to this my seventh podcast. You guys, I asked if you could bring me to 20 ratings on Spotify last week, and I was afraid that I was being a little greedy. I was nervous that I wouldn't get any likes at all, but you brought me to 30.

That's so sweet. I'm so grateful. I truly cherish every single one of those ratings.

It really is an enchanting feeling to know that people are enjoying something that I love to share.

So please, continue to rate the podcast on Spotify or wherever you find your spooky podcasts. It really helps me out. And above all, it encourages me to continue. So again, I really feel

like I'm being greedy here, but can you bring me to 50 ratings on Spotify by the next episode?

I'd probably cry, but I'll do it on my own time, alone in the dark, listening to Sisters

of Mercy.

But for real, though, that will let me know that I'm still on the right track, so thank you

for rating and thank you for listening.

Today's episode is going to be really fun.

I'm going to have to do a few podcasts on this topic alone because I feel like I just spent the last day falling down and list rabbit holes, slicked with ectoplasm. It's been a lot. Today, we're diving into the spine-tingling world of Victorian spiritualism. We'll talk about where it all began, what a Victorian materializing seance would entail,

we'll also certainly talk about the ways they'd trick people into believing they were

talking to dead people, and we'll explore the history of the Ouija board.

Before we get there, I promised you a review of the movie Death Tunnel in the last episode.

You probably have not seen it.

This movie is set in the Waverly Hills Sanatorium where 63,000 people died of tuberculosis in the 1800s.

I talked about tuberculosis sanatoriums in episode six.

The synopsis sounded pretty exciting, but oh, it kind of

has to be seen to be believed. I really applaud myself. I made it through a full 10 minutes.

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