On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss Madame Vesta la Viesta, the galactic mystic and clairvoyant, suicidal ghosts, mediums in spirit cabinets, and the horrifying Meeks family murder of 1894.

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References:

“The Haunted House” - The Jeffersonian, Dec. 3rd, 1859.

“THE APPEARANCE OF SPIRITS AT PUBLIC MEETINGS” - The Spiritualist, Feb. 15th, 1870.

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2014/02/get-rich-magic-astral-adventures-of.html

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2011/04/meeks-family-murder.html

https://sullivan.mogenweb.org/meeksmurders.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62455822/nellie_l-spray

https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/850.pdf

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Ep. 82 - Madame Vesta la Viesta’s Galactic Love Affairs & The Meek’s Family Murders