Ep. 52 - Murder MANIA & Collapsing Floors

The Fan Coven is officially available at myvictoriannightmare.com! And on this week’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing a particularly terrifying seance held in 1869, murderously presumed witchcraft, a deadly lesbian love affair, love-cracked raving lunatics, collapsing floors, revolting decapitations, and a lady who dressed up as a ghost and nearly scared someone else, and herself, to death. She will also explain why you don’t see caveman ghosts anymore and why rooms go cold when a spirit has arrived.

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References for today’s episode:

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/01/freda-ward-girl-slays-girl.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Germany#:~:text=Capital%20punishment%20in%20Germany%20has,at%20Leipzig%20Prison%20in%201981.

“Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881.

The Spiritualist - Nov. 19th, 1869.

“THE COLD RIGHT HAND!” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Has No Use For Men - Miss Alice Mitchell’s Perverted Love for Miss Freda Ward”- The Illustrated Police News, Jul. 30th, 1892.

“The Floor of a Millinery Establishment at Hornellsville, NY Falls Through During an Auction Sale and Precipitates a Dense Crowd of Women into the Cellar” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“Love-Cracked Solomon Waring” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 4th, 1872.

Sickening Scene on a Scaffold at Desau, Germany - Two Female Murderers Decapitated - Piteous Appeals of the Condemned Ones for Mercy - Aug. 28th, 1873.

“A Companion of the Murdered Professor Panormo Commits Suicide in Brooklyn, NY.” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“A Female ‘Makes Up’ in Ghostly Apparel, Frightens Another Woman Almost to Death, and Collapses in a Swoon at Davenport, Iowa” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.