Ghosts by the Christmas Fire - Whispered History for Sleep

Описание: Step back into a foggy Victorian Christmas Eve, when families didn’t just share presents and pudding—they gathered around the fire to tell ghost stories. In Ghosts by the Christmas Fire: Lost Victorian Christmas Traditions, we slip into a small parlour lit by real candles and crackling logs, where children lean in close and grown-ups lower the lamps to listen for footsteps on empty staircases and pale faces at the window. This gentle, cozy ghost story explores how Christmas once belonged to the dark as well as the light: a time when the veil between the living and the dead felt very thin, and tales of spirits brought a delicious shiver in the safety of the hearth. Settle under a blanket, dim the lights, and let this whispered Victorian Christmas ghost story keep you company tonight.

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00:45 Welcome
02:37 A Parlour Wrapped in Fog
07:50 Why Christmas Belonged to Ghosts
14:20 Gathering by the Fire
21:34. A Visitor at the Window
32:13. Morning Light and Memories
38:44 The End
39:31. Music: "A Magical Christmas Night" by Gregiore Lourme

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Sources:
📜 Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories & Fireside Reading:
History.com – How Ghost Stories Became a Christmas Tradition in Victorian England
https://www.history.com/articles/chri...
HISTORY
Smithsonian Magazine – A Plea to Resurrect the Christmas Tradition of Telling Ghost Stories
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...
Smithsonian Magazine
New York Public Library – Ghost Stories for Christmas (history of Christmas ghost tales & reading list)
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/12/16/...
The New York Public Library
Big Think – Ghost Stories of Christmas: A Chilling Victorian Tradition (why scary stories were once part of Christmas Eve)
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/chr...
Big Think

🕯️ Death, Mourning & Spiritualism in Victorian Life
Molly Brown House Museum – “Victorian Horrors: Death and Mourning in the Time of Separate Spheres” (overview of Victorian mourning culture and the ‘cult of death’)
https://mollybrown.org/533-2/
Historic Denver/Molly Brown House Museum
Australian Museum – “Mourning – Victorian Era” (mourning attire, social expectations, and how mourning signaled status)
https://australian.museum/about/histo...
Australian Museum
Old Operating Theatre Museum – “Seeing is Believing: Spiritualism in the Victorian Era” (multi-part blog on séances and spiritualism in 19th-century Britain)
https://oldoperatingtheatre.com/seein...
The Old Operating Theatre
The New Yorker – “Why Did So Many Victorians Try to Speak with the Dead?” (context for spiritualism as a cultural movement, not just a fad)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
The New Yorker

🏚️ Workhouses, Poverty & Christmas
Workhouses.org.uk – “Christmas in the Workhouse” (how Christmas was observed under the Poor Law, treats, rules, and later reforms)
https://www.workhouses.org.uk/Christmas/
Workhouses
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Doing History in Public – “Christmas in the Victorian Workhouse” by Fabia Buescher (scholarly blog on how Christmas looked inside 19th-century workhouses)
https://doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025...
Doing History in Public
Bromley Historical Times – “Christmas in the Workhouse” (short article on reality of workhouse life and Sims’ famous poem)
https://www.bromleyhistoricaltimes.co...
Bromley Historical Times
Workhouses.org.uk – “In the Workhouse: Christmas Day” (text and context of George R. Sims’ dramatic monologue)
https://www.workhouses.org.uk/lit/xma...
Workhouses
Wikipedia – “Christmas Day in the Workhouse” (summary of Sims’ monologue and its impact on public views of the Poor Law)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christm...

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