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

An episode of [My Victorian Nightmare](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1749899895), 16 Feb 2026, 38 min.

Audio: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO3760203963.mp3

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. Subscribe to the Newsletter! Subscribe to the Patreon free trial for ad-free listening! Today's Instagram Post 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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