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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Aug 25

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Aug 25

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.”

Ep. 57 - Dark Séances & The Greenbrier Ghost

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Aug 19

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

Ep. 56 - All Sorts of Strange Apparitions

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Aug 12

Aww yay!

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Aug 12

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Aug 12

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.

Ep. 55 - Homestead of Horrors: The Bloody Benders

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Jul 28

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.

Ep. 53 - The Exquisite Grief of Mary Shelley

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Jul 21

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Jul 21

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.

Ep. 52 - Living in the Company of Departed Spirits

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Jul 14

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Jul 14

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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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 ...

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Jul 7

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.

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

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Jun 30

William Hope “Spirit Photography.”

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Jun 30

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.

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Jun 30

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.

Ep. 49 - England's Most Haunted Houses

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Jun 23

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Jun 23

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.

Ep. 48 - A Corpse Sent to a Candy Maker

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Jun 23

Aww, thank you!

My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · Jun 16

In this very special collaborative episode between SIGHTINGS and MY VICTORIAN NIGHTMARE, venture into an eerie haunted house from the 19th century, and discover why some doors were meant to stay sealed shut.
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The Willington Mill Haunting With SIGHTINGS Podcast

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · May 26

Images for today’s episode:

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · May 26

On today’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing corpse medicine; the century’s old practice of using dead bodies to treat everything from jaundice to infertility to cataracts – and when you hear about how they specifically treated that last one, it’s really gonna bum you out.

Ep. 44 - The Gruesome History of Corpse Medicine

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · May 19

On today's episode, Genevieve has a forsaken garden, somber dimensions of love, a moment of solemn reflection in the forrest, a deep longing for home amid turmoil at sea, mysterious demons in the sky, the bittersweet nature of dreams and a message of brighter days to come.

Ep. 1 - Her Noble Bones

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My Victorian Nightmare @victoriannightmare.bsky.social · May 19

A few more images from today's show

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