My Victorian Nightmare

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

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the Paris Charity Bazaar fire of 1897: how an event devoted to gaiety, high society socializing and generosity became one of the deadliest fire tragedies in French history.
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References:
https://www.geriwalton.com/the-tragic-1897-charity-bazaar-fire-or-the-bazar-de-la-charite-in-paris/
https://www.broadhistory.com/the-fire-that-started-a-victorian-gender-war/
https://education.persee.fr/doc/magen_1257-5593_1897_num_64_33_31454
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazar_de_la_Charit%C3%A9
https://doctorfire.com/pages/Paris_fire.pdf
https://parishistoryofourstreets.com/2021/04/29/the-bazaar-de-la-charite-disaster-part-one/

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the shocking, little-known disasters and tragedies that began to unfold even before the smoke had cleared: the psychological unraveling of Mary Todd Lincoln, The Ford Theater collapse of 1893, the unthinkable murder/attempted suicide of the Rathbones and the numerous hauntings of the Ford Theater that still linger to this very day.
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References:
https://ghostcitytours.com/washington-dc/haunted-washington-dc/fords-theatre/
https://dcghosts.com/fords-theatre/
https://www.nps.gov/foth/learn/historyculture/the-collapse-of-ford-s-theatre.htm
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/06/07/henry-reed-rathbone/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/abraham-lincoln-funeral
https://fords.org/an-african-american-hero-emerges-from-the-tragic-fords-theatre-collapse-of-1893/
https://msmagazine.com/2012/12/05/mary-todd-lincoln-a-lunatic-or-just-grieving/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Todd_Lincoln
The_assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln_%28IA_assassxxxxxx00linc%29.pdf
https://www.americanheritage.com/haunted-major

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the murder case of Dr. Hawley Crippen: one of the most sensational murder cases in English history. We’ll discuss The glitz and glamour, the torrid affairs, the astounding escape attempt by sea, and the modern scientific discoveries that have raised serious concerns that maybe, they got the wrong guy.
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References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawley_Harvey_Crippen
https://prashganendran.com/the-notorious-dr-crippen-and-the-hilldrop-crescent-murder/
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-10802059
https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/the-notorious-case-of-dr-crippen/