My Victorian Nightmare

Ep. 50 - He Dropped Dead With a Peach in His Mouth

47 min • 7 juli 2025

On this week’s episode of My Victorian Nightmare, Genevieve will discuss a man mangled with a carving knife, another skeleton where it does not belong, the growing evil that is young women leaving their homes, a rum-crazed lunatic dentist, a man killed by a jar of peaches, and a couple of rats that exhibited an admirable commitment to teamwork.

References for today's Episode:

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

“Charge of Imposture” - The Spiritualist, Nov. 19, 1869.

“John Costello Encounters Jack Glass and Mangles Him with a Carving Knife in a Saloon on Nassau Street, New York,” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st. 1872.

“Whose Girls Are They” - The Illustrated Police News, Dec. 14, 1871

“Discovery of a Skeleton at Oxford” - The Illustrated Police News, Aug. 5th, 1871.

“Effect of David Dicky’s Victory Eating for a Wager - The Coroner’s Name was Smith” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

“A Baby Boiled by an Insane Mother” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

“Death of a Woman From Starvation”- The Recorder, May 27th, 1872.

“A Rum-Crazed Dentist Shoots Four of his Neighbors” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

“How a Kalamazoo Grocer Lost His Eggs and Where They Went” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb.1st, 1872.

https://nyupress.org/blog/2009/10/27/the-ghosts-of-14th-st/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_writing

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/adolescent/chapter/history-of-developmental-psychology/

https://nemasket.blogspot.com/2010/02/

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