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EPISODE · Mar 10, 2025 · 39 MIN

Ep. 33 - SPOOKY Séances & Wax Neck Trends

from My Victorian Nightmare · host Genevieve Manion

On today’s’s episode, Genevieve is diving back into the Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record: everyone’s favorite bananas, blood-soaked, spooky little tabloid from the 1800s. She will have a hat-wafting seance, a thrilling search for a dead body, wax necks, jealous husbands, mayhem, a shocking discovery in a penitentiary, an alarming growth of intoxication among young ladies, and more!Subscribe to the Newsletter!Subscribe to the Patreon free trial for ad-free listening!References for Today's Show:https://www.magicianmasterclass.com/post/how-do-magicians-levitate#viewer-aqfts“The Last “Thing” in Fashion, The Wax Neck” Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.“Spiritual Manifestations at a Seance in Boston on New Year’s Eve” Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.“Thrilling Search for the Body of a Murdered Man in MacDonald Co, Mo.,” Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.“A Young Lady Outraged and Then Murdered in Arkansas,”  Illustrated Police News, Dec, 28 1871.“A Leap to Death in Cincinnati - An Unknown Unfortunate Jumps From a Bridge to Eternity,” Illustrated Police News, August, 28 1873.“Taking a Farmer’s Wife, Baby and Potatoes to Market,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872.“How a Jealous Husband in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Returned Home and What He Found There,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872.“Alarming Growth of Intoxication Among Young Ladies - Sad Scene in a New Jersey Ferry Boat,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872.“Extra Penance in a Penitentiary,” Illustrated Police News, Nov 30th, 1871.“Mayhem,” Illustrated Police News, July 6th, 1876.“A New Jersey Cannibal Gormandizes a Policeman’s Cheek,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 21st, 1871.

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