My Victorian Nightmare23 Jun 2025

Ep. 48 - Spiritualist CHAOS & a Corpse Sent to a Candy Maker

On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss a family that is a complete disaster, the absurdities of hypnosis, a hatchet murder, a man who luckily couldn’t quite properly operate a firearm, utter pandemonium at a spiritualist lecture, a corpse sent to a candy maker, a man frozen to a boat, yet another man killed by a coffin, and the single worst death ever discussed on any show up until today, hands down. Nothing comes close. Consider yourselves warned. Subscribe to the Newsletter! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://myvictoriannightmare.myflodesk.com/myukzmys04⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Patreon free trial for ad-free listening! ⁠⁠⁠⁠htps://www.patreon.com/cw/MyVictorianNightmare/membership⁠⁠⁠⁠ References for Today's Episode: “True Stories About Ghosts” - The Illustrated Police News, Oct. 29th 1881. “A Very Unfortunate Family” - The Illustrated Police News, Jul. 6th, 1876. “One of the Absurdities of the Age - Pretended Effects of Mesmerism as Exhibited at Brackett Hall” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb 1st, 1872. “A Horrible Death” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th, 1872. “A Man Frozen to the Cross-Trees of a Chicago Vessel” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1872. “Ineffectual Attempt of a Discarded Lover to Shoot Himself in Chicago” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb 1st, 1872. “A Row Among the Spiritualists at Cooper Institute” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872. “Murder of a Wife and Child by a German in Ann Arbor Michigan” - The Illustrated Police News, Nov. 9th, 1871. “A Corpse Sent to a Cincinnati Candy Maker” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872. “Edmund Sweeny Falls Dead While Lifting the Coffin Lid from the Body of His Father” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872. “A Chambermaid Turns an Involuntary Somersault Out of a Second Story Window at Bangor” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872. https://www.bbc.com/bbcthree/article/f8ce7277-5945-470a-b1ad-0c637d8265c1 https://historyofhypnosis.org/19th-century/ https://vintagehairstyling.com/bobbypinblog/2019/11/adding-hair-pieces-to-your-vintage-hairstyle-a-history-of-the-hair-switch.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_brothers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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