My Victorian Nightmare

On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss The death – or murder, of Charles Bravo. More than a century later, his death remains one of England’s most chilling unsolved mysteries; a case tangled in forbidden affairs, social ambition, horrifying abuse and whispers of revenge. Was it suicide, was it a mistake or cold blooded murder?

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References:

https://shadowsflyaway.blog/2017/01/18/horrible-murder-part-1-of-the-mysterious-and-unsolved-killing-of-charles-bravo/

https://london-overlooked.com/charles-bravo/

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

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

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

The Balham Mystery - The Liverpool Weekly Mercury, Aug. 5th, 1876

The Death of Mr. Bravo. The Balham Mystery - Reynold’s Newspaper, Aug. 13th, 1876

The Bravo Mystery - Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, Sat, Jul 29, 1876

The Bravo Case - Daily News, Fri, Jul 28, 1876
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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss fascinating superstitions and beliefs that Victorians held about death and cemeteries, as well as some of the origins of those beliefs. And we will discuss how medical science in the 19th century wasn’t just horrific, it was groundbreaking, and not only developed cures, treatments and techniques that we still use today to save lives, but how medical science in the Victorian era led to astounding developments in forensic science that we still use to catch killers, and exonerate the innocent.

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Today’s Instagram post:

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References:

https://friendsofoakgrovecemetery.org/victorian-funeral-customs-fears-and-superstitions

https://nashvillehistoricalnewsletter.com/2022/01/16/funeral-customs-of-the-1800s

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

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Why-Do-People-Throw-Salt-Over-Their-Shoulder

https://www.mortonsalt.com/article/salt-history

https://people.howstuffworks.com/why-do-people-throw-salt-over-shoulders.htm

https://www.forensicscolleges.com/blog/history-of-forensics

https://boroughsofthedead.com/poisonous-prohibition-brooklyn-heights/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2010/sep/23/forensic-science-murder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Norris_(medical_examiner)

A Dictionary of Superstitions by Iona Pie and Moira Tatum

The Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore by Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud
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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the elegant and insulting language of flowers, Victorian Floriography and the demonically haunted Sallie House in Atchison, Kansas.

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References:

A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Chicago : Lewis, 1918

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

https://usghostadventures.com/americas-most-haunted-trending/sallie-house/

https://associationofparanormalstudy.com/2023/09/20/the-haunting-of-the-sallie-house/

https://strangeandtwisted.com/blogs/stories/the-sallie-house-haunting-america-s-most-scary-paranormal-case?srsltid=AfmBOoo8PtAjh7i2WxK1TFGSPpYOQ080t_ZgT0siw8cPZ3xViOkt2SMF

https://www.ksgenweb.org/archives/1918ks/biof/finneycc.html

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ks-hauntedatchison

https://theclio.com/entry/187138

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

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-language-of-flowers-an-alphabet-of-floral-emblems-1857/
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Check out Hidden History! In this preview, Dr. Harini Bhat discusses the Dancing plague of 1518. The city of Strasbourg was overtaken by one of the strangest epidemics in recorded history. It wasn't the plague, it wasn't a war, it was dancing.

Dr. Harini Bhat is a clinical pharmacist and storyteller obsessed with the moments in history that still can't be fully explained. Every week she investigates real events that defy easy explanation. Mass hysterias. Vanished civilizations. Medical oddities. Strange signals. Unexplained phenomena that keep repeating across centuries, as if history is trying to tell us something.

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the case of the Hammersmith Ghost, The Hope Street Body Snatching Scandal of 1826, as well as little-known, strange, disturbing and silly Victorian fads.

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Instagram post:

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References:

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2015/10/the-case-of-a-ghost-haunted-england-for-over-two-hundred-years/

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

https://www.icysedgwick.com/hammersmith-ghost/

https://mymacabreroadtrip.com/the-hope-street-body-snatching-affair-liverpool/

https://bodyartforms.com/blog/victorian-nipple-rings?srsltid=AfmBOorl2S_72ZTUej_m4alj0heFYvEp7RVnseQtTwzaCBwsdCOIb8Tg

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

https://medium.com/promptly-written/the-victorians-wore-nipple-rings-4589a9b69bd4

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zander-gym/m
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