5.30: The ghosts of Clifford House take a victim! — A warning from beyond the grave, unheeded. — Death comes for Milady! (Segment 4 — The “Sixpenny Spookies.”)

SHOW NOTES — for — MINISODE 30 (Season 5)(April 9, 2026)00:45: THE TERRIFIC REGISTER: An account of how the murder of the Duke of Buckingham, in 1628, was foretold by His Grace’s long-dead father’s ghostly apparition!05:20: EARLY VICTORIAN GHOSTLY SHORT STORY, to-wit: THE STORY OF CLIFFORD HOUSE, by ANONYMOUS, Part 2 of 2 parts: Our narrator, Helen, has been having a thundering good time in the London party scene but just a few weeks into it, it’s rather worn her out. When an invitation to yet another dinner party comes, she begs off, and asks George to make her excuses, and settles in for what she thinks will be a quiet night by herself … but, of course, she’s very wrong about that!35:40: A SHORT GHOST STORY from the scrapbook of Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax: The Murderer’s Dream. In which: A convicted murderer dreamed they brought him to the hanging place, but the drop refused to work. Next day, they brought him to the hanging place, and … the drop refused to work!40:45: A STREET BROADSIDE on the topic of ghosts, death, and ruin: Messenger of Mortality; or, Life and Death Contrasted. A dialogue in iambic-pentameter couplets, Shakespeare style, between Death and a fair lady whom he is calling upon, to bear away into eternity.GLOSSARY OF EARLY-VICTORIAN SLANG USED IN THIS EPISODE:AUTEM DIVERS: Pickpockets who work the congregations at religious meetings.ANGELICS: Young maidens in their prime.KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows running amok in fields and ditches late at night, trying to stagger home. MORRIS OFF: Run away. BEAKS ON THE NOSE: Police detectives or magistrates on an investigation. DIDDLE COVES: Bartender or landlord in a gin palace or dram shop. DAFFY DOXIES: Racy ladies who enjoy drinking daffy (gin). CAPTAIN LUSHINGTONS: Habitual drunks.BOOZING-KEN: Drinking den.SMITHFIELD: In the early 1800s a notoriously crowded and dangerous neighborhood in which a very unsanitary open-air livestock market was regularly held until the 1850s. RUM TE TUM WITH THE CHILL OFF: Most emphatically excellent.