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Woohoo it’s Halloween Geoffs! In this week’s episode Spencer is telling us the ghoulishly good story of Bessie Brown, next Madison is serving up everything you need for a good ole victorian halloween! We’ve got an obituary that you’ve allllll been waiting for, and one for a spooky gal we adore! We’ve also got some dumb.ass.criminalllllllls!
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Sources:
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/victorian-costumes-halloween-anyone.151038/
https://gaslampfoundation.org/victorian-halloween-traditions-now-thats-scary/
https://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-nut1.htm
https://www.friendsofdalnavert.ca/blog/2021/10/26/victorian-halloween-love-poetry-and-stingy-jack
http://vermontdeadline.blogspot.com/2013/10/superstitions-apples-and-mirrors.html
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-dumb-cake
https://www.iskullhalloween.com/victorianhalloween.html
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/650543/victorian-halloween-traditions
https://www.mimimatthews.com/2015/10/18/a-victorian-halloween-party/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/72066316/?match=1&terms=%22queen%20victoria%20halloween%22
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/timesunion-albany/name/edward-shatraw-obituary?id=6328838
https://www.wrmf.com/florida-woman-steals-all-the-candy-on-halloween/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/33885335/?match=1&terms=%22married%20to%20the%20ghost%22
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