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In this episode, Genevieve will share the history of witch hunting in England, and the murder case of a man in Victorian England suspected of witchcraft. The disturbing murder of Old Dummy in 1863.
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In this episode, Genevieve will share a number of Victorian ghost encounters recorded by The Society for Psychical Research: the ghostly women in black, mysterious reflections of deceased fathers, smiling dead sisters at the foot of the bed and much, much more.
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References:
https://iapsop.com/archive/materials/spr_proceedings/
https://chestofbooks.com.stason.org/new-age/paranormal/Death-Survival/Appendix-Phantasms-Of-The-Dead-Part-28.html
https://www.spr.ac.uk/node/6070
https://thescolefiles.blogspot.com/p/the-society-for-psychical-research-spr.html
In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the facts of the Lizzie Borden axe murder case — what we know to be true, what the Netflix series Monster got wrong, what it got right, and exactly why this particular axe murder case, versus so many others, caught fire when it did.
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References:
https://crimearchives.net/1893_borden/html/1892-08-11_borden_news_new-york-times.htm
https://lizzieandrewborden.com/hatchetonline/ones-idea-of-cordiality-lizzie-borden-on-the-stand
https://crimearchives.net/1893_borden/html/1893-06-07_borden_trial_testimony_sullivan.html
https://www.scribd.com/document/682040038/Testimony-of-Bridget-Sullivan-in-the-Trial-of-Lizzie-Borden
https://people.com/andrew-abby-borden-murder-suspects-12145774
https://www.biography.com/crime/a69168135/was-aileen-wuornos-the-first-female-serial-killer
https://time.com/7329607/aileen-wuornos-netflix-documentary
https://www.biography.com/crime/a71038230/lizzie-borden-isolated-life-after-murder-trial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Borden
https://newengland.com/yankee/history/long-silence-lizzie-borden
In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the sudden deaths, shattered dreams, haunting tales, gothic obsessions, mysteries and answers – the true stories behind 3 of the most intriguing graves in Greenwood, Evergreen and Père Lachaise cemeteries. The Graves of Charlotte Canda, George Rodenbach and “Midnight Mary,” Mary E. Hart.
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References:
https://boroughsofthedead.com/charlotte/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Canda
https://differentvisions.org/the-grave-of-the-rose/
https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/rodenbach-georges-1855-1898
https://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/litterature/Georges_Rodenbach/176547
https://www.popmatters.com/109498-loren-connors-the-curse-of-midnight-mary-2496066706.html
https://campuspress.yale.edu/yaleinscriptions/2024/11/10/midnight-mary
https://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-ghost-of-midnight-mary.html
In this episode, Genevieve will do a deep dive into Bram Stoker’s notes, interviews and musings about the inspiration behind his vampiric creation, Dracula, and then she will discuss the inspiration behind some of the most iconic costume designs in film history: Eiko Ishioka’s richly inspired, deeply symbolic costumes for Francis Ford Coppola’s film, Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
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References:
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/whitby-abbey/history-and-stories/dracula/?source=science20.com
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/08/dracula-was-not-from-exeter-insists-bram-stoker-descendant
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/06/bram-stokers-dracula-inspired-by-writings-of-maverick-scotswoman
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/21l-310-bestsellers-out-for-the-count-fall-2018/pages/readings/dracula-notes/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/last-voyage-of-the-demeter-dracula-dmitry
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36394788/
https://www.supernaturalstudies.com/previous-journal-issues/vol-7-issue-1/cade
https://archive.org/details/bramstokersnotes0000stok
https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en/exhibitions/eiko-ishioka/
https://www.gothickeatspress.com/dracula-essays/eiko-ishiokas-costume-design
https://www.oscars.org/news/how-apocalypse-now-poster-led-oscar-winning-costumes-bram-stokers-dracula
In this episode, Genevieve will bring us back to the murder scenes, the time-slips, the haunted lunatic asylums and hotels of past episodes, and share the back stories to their creations.
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In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the tragic history of the Kreischer family, the many deaths, mob murders and truly creepy hauntings of the Kreischer family mansion that still stands to this very day. She will also discuss the recent discovery of a body that received a vampire burial in the 16th century and what other “deviant” and “anti-revenant” burial practices entailed.
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References:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/21/science/vampire-burial-young-woman-poland
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7458347
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_burial
https://nyghosts.com/the-kreischer-house/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreischer_House
https://medium.com/@cosmicseasstar/staten-islands-cursed-kreischer-mansion-saga-that-ended-in-fire-death-and-murder-24048f4c80be
https://www.storiesofthesupernatural.info/kreischermansion.html
https://historygoesbump.blogspot.com/2025/11/hgb-ep-613-kreischer-mansion.html
https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nye/pr/2008/2008oct27.html
https://abc7ny.com/archive/6445552/
In this episode, Genevieve will dive back into the Illustrated Police News, The 19th century’s worst newspaper. She will discuss horrifying murder attempts with hot pokers, deadly champagne suppers, the science of decapitation, men falling dead at funerals, ghosts with guns, cannibal cats and much, much more.
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References:
“The Science of Decapitation” – The Illustrated Police News, May 7th, 1872.
“What Befel a New York Swell Who Persisted in Laughing at a “Dolly Varden” – The Illustrated Police News, May 7th, 1872.
“A Woman in New York Thrusts a Red Hot Iron down Her Husband’s Throat” – The Illustrated Police News, May 7th, 1872.
“Sewed in a Sheet—An Injured Wife’s Revenge on an Indolent Husband at Louisville, Ky.” – The Illustrated Police News, May 7th, 1872.
“A CORPSE AT THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS” – The Illustrated Police News, May 7th, 1872.
“How They Drink in England” – The Illustrated Police News, May 7th, 1872.
“CURIOUS CASUALTIES” – The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1879.
“Cremated Alive—The Fatal Sequel of a Champagne Supper—Terrible Revenge of a Harlot” – The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1879.
“A Live Turkey Loose in a Drug Store” – The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1879.
“Crazed by the Blow of an Icicle—Remarkable Accident to an English Tourist Behind the Cataract of Niagara” – The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1879.
“A STRANGE SUICIDE”– The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1879.
“Cannibal Cats—How They Feasted Off the Corpse of a Dead Man” – The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1879.
“A Ghost With a Revolver” – The Illustrated Police News, Oct. 10th, 1885.
In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the funeral industry of the 19th century and a few of her favorite death-centered professions that are no longer in high demand today, but were positively fascinating: funeral cookie bakers, corpse-watchers, mutes and professional mourners.
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References:
https://funeral.com/blogs/the-journal/funeral-biscuits-in-the-1800s-what-they-were-why-they-were-served-and-how-to-make-them-today?srsltid=AfmBOorry4RZkCYT3pQ2iGryb0LGfYJ-xZYnlhN6e4pYP5dl7Jb_SHwo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin-eater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_edition_of_the_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica
https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/england/englishness-funeral-food.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_biscuit
https://www.victorianlondon.org/death/characteroffunerals.htm
https://austins.co.uk/blog/the-history-of-the-victorian-mute/
https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/tag/professional-mourners
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/alma%3A99127049613408651
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15792/pg15792-images.html
https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/category/buried-alive/
“Prematurely Buried” - Kilmore Free Press, Jan. 18th 1883.
“Narrowly Escaped Burial Alive” - The Clinton Independent, Thursday Feb. 18th, 1892.
In this episode, Genevieve will discuss verifiable accounts of tragedies that many believe explain the hauntings of 2 London Underground stations: Bank and Farringdon. She will also discuss a few unusual omens that Victorians believed predicted certain doom.
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References:
https://www.davidcastleton.net/london-underground-haunted-stations-ghosts-tube/
https://freetoursbyfoot.com/ghosts-london-underground-stations/
https://www.paranormaldatabase.com/reports/underground.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground
https://www.ghosthuntertours.co.uk/post/whispers-of-the-past-the-gruesome-tale-of-anne-naylor-s-poltergeist-at-farringdon-station
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-crime-and-execution-of-the-metyards-70c6824bae
https://www.executedtoday.com/2015/07/19/1762-sarah-metyard-and-sally-metyard-mother-and-daughter/
https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2023/04/03/sarah-whitehead-the-bank-nun-ghost/
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10118/pg10118.html
https://www.wisdomportal.com/Poems2010/AppleSymbolism.html
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