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My Victorian Nightmare

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A podcast about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era.

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss legal cases brought about by hauntings, the legendary and mysterious exhumation of Elizabeth Siddal, otherwise known as Ophelia, ghost globules, spirit photography, and the utterly tragic Bradford Sweets poisonings of 1858.

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Ep. 80 - The MYSTERIOUS Exhumation of Elizabeth Siddal

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Thank you for letting me know! I think I’m going to start off shows with tidbits like that going forward 🤔

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

On this week’s episode, Genevieve will have little known, strange and unusual facts about Nikola Tesla, ghosts with deep and ghastly wounds, a woman smoking a pipe in a hearse, corpse flinging, pickax murders and a woman’s revenge with a rolling pin. All this and much, much more.

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Ep. 79 - Nikola Tesla’s VIOLENT & Luminous Visions

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

On this today's episode, Genevieve will have the tragic tale of the Donner Party, the group of 87 pioneers who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1847, who were driven to commit acts of cannibalism to survive. She will also discuss the séances of “The Naked Medium,” Eva Carrière.

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Ep. 78 - The Donner Party Tragedy

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss astral projecting souls, an interview with a dead woman, skeletons found in a beer vat, terrible mutilations, an unexpected corpse - a number of unexpected corpses, actually, diamond studded murder weapons, and much, much more.

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Ep. 77 - Painfully Deficient in Flesh and Other Corporal Essences

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the ghosts of The Tower of London, Welsh fasting girls, rabid brides, maniacs with razors, an attempted murder at a christening, a great deal of homicidal arson and a fatal masquerade.

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Ep. 75 - Tower Ghosts, Rabid Brides, and Razor Maniacs

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss the Yule Cat, Krampus and the Yule Goat, as well as a few other deeply disturbing monsters that roam the countryside, looking to slice children open and replace their insides with straw and rocks every Christmas.

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Ep. 74 - The Origins of Terrifying Victorian Christmas Creatures

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have nearly-naked women clinging to lampposts, throat-slittings, self-shootings, women choking out burglars, Dante’s Hell of Ice, men chopped to pieces, a man named "Chicken" sentenced to hang, and a serenading lover nearly drowned...but he’s OK, thank God.

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Ep. 71- Winter Renewed With Ten-Fold Vengeance

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

1. Franz Muller 2. John Tawell 3. The Philip Experiment 4. The execution of Franz Muller

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

On today's episode, Genevieve will be taking you back to the blood-smeared Victorian railways. She will be discussing the murders of Sarah Hart and Thomas Briggs, as well as the “Philip Experiment” where scientists believed they conjured a ghost out of thin air.

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Ep. 70 - Blood On The Railroad Tracks

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

On today's episode, Genevieve will have unpleasant stabbings, poison mania, an accident that will ruin your week, women mysteriously delivered in coffins, men swallowing wedding rings, opium eaters, charred, lifeless remains and much, much more.

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Ep. 69 - The Woman Was Unknown

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have ghosts throwing potato chips, female poison serial killers, the body of a murderer on display for the general public, a horrible uxoricide, a naked women in prison attempting to "dash her brains out," and a life of romance and suffering.

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Ep. 67 - Haunted by Gloomy & Terrible Thoughts

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

On today's episode, Genevieve will conclude haunted Halloween hotel month with the dark history of the Stanley Hotel that inspired Steven King’s, The Shining. She will be sharing the true and untrue tragedies that folks claim to be the origins of the spectral guests that inhabit the hotel.

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Ep. 66 - The Haunted History of The Stanley Hotel

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The "Maco Light," Mary Todd Lincoln with the spirit of her husband, the "Red room" in the white house, and Shepherdsville train crash.

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have ghosts, ghosts and more spooky ghosts, including ghost trains! As well as the capture of 2 midnight grave robbers, Mary Todd Lincoln incognito at a seance, and Scottish Halloween traditions from 1876.

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Ep. 65 - Fresh From the Silent Tomb

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

On today’s episode, Genevieve will be talking about the disturbing history and hauntings of the Crescent Hotel. She will also receive a reading from Medium, Jennifer Page, from the "I Talk to Ghosts Podcast," and she will also discuss the horrifying haunted history of Leap Castle in Ireland.

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Ep. 64 - America’s Most Haunted Hotel

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

It was such a lovely experience, and Jennifer is such a peach!! So grateful for that experience!

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Thank you @dreadfulk.bsky.social and @periodragscostumes.bsky.social for such lovely gifts! Toby loves his new bandana!

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the Greenbrier Ghost. The only ghost, supposedly, who ever helped to solve her own murder. She will also discuss how to avoid becoming a Chinese hopping vampire, and exactly who – and who should not, attempt a “Dark Séance.”

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Ep. 57 - Dark Séances & The Greenbrier Ghost

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

On this week’s episode, we will discuss a number of brutal murders, throat slittings, girls getting shot in the face, girls shooting themselves in the face horse burglars - meaning burglars who are horses - swallowed pen knives and disembodied spirits pretending to drown.

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Ep. 56 - All Sorts of Strange Apparitions

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Aww yay!

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the Bloody Benders, a Victorian era family of serial killers who were confirmed to have murdered at least 11 people in their Kansas home, but it’s estimated that that number was more likely closer to 20.

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Ep. 55 - Homestead of Horrors: The Bloody Benders

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

On this week’s episode of My Victorian Nightmare, Genevieve will discuss the life of Mary Shelley. The mother of science fiction. We will discuss her tragic life, her poetic romance, her monster, and the ways she spun the most unimaginable grief, like a silken web, into a masterpiece.

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Ep. 53 - The Exquisite Grief of Mary Shelley

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

On this week’s episodeGenevieve will discuss a particularly terrifying seance held in 1869, murderously presumed witchcraft, a deadly lesbian love affair, love-cracked raving lunatics, collapsing floors, revolting decapitations, and a lady, dressed up as a ghost who nearly scared herself to death.

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Ep. 52 - Living in the Company of Departed Spirits

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

On this week’s episode of My Victorian Nightmare, Genevieve will be discussing the Woolfork family massacre: the annihilation of a family of 9 that occurred in 1887.

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My Victorian Nightmare

Podcast · Genevieve Manion · Here you’ll find mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian Era. If you consider yourself an enthusiast of ...

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

On this week’s episode of My Victorian Nightmare, Genevieve will discuss a man mangled with a carving knife, another skeleton where it does not belong, the growing evil that is young women leaving their homes, a rum-crazed lunatic dentist, and a man killed by a jar of peaches.

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Ep. 50 - He Dropped Dead with a Peach in His Mouth

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

William Hope “Spirit Photography.”

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

1. The Borely Rectory 2. The Cage in St. Osyth as it is now as a quaint Essex cottage 3. Illustration from “The Ghost of Sarah Duckett - Shropshire” - The Illustrated Police News, Nov. 25th, 1882. 4. Harry Price who exposed William Hope to be a fraud.

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

On today's episode of My Victorian Nightmare, Genevieve will discuss not one, but 2 of the most haunted Victorian homes in England: The Borley Rectory, as well as a little unsuspecting cottage in Essex that was once known as The Cage of St. Osyth - the site of a medieval witch prison.

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Ep. 49 - England's Most Haunted Houses

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

On this week’s episode of My Victorian Nightmare, Genevieve will discuss a terrible a hatchet murder, utter pandemonium at a spiritualist lecture, a corpse sent to a candy maker, a man frozen to a boat, a man killed by a coffin, and the worst death ever discussed on the show.

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Ep. 48 - A Corpse Sent to a Candy Maker

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Aww, thank you!