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Haunted Hearthstone - Sequential Killers of the Victorian Age - Season Seven


  • Hearthstone Historic House Museum 625 W. Prospect Avenue Appleton, WI 54911 USA (map)

Join us for the seventh season of our acclaimed theatrical production that brings to life actual serial killers of the Victorian Age. This year’s production features a new cast of nefarious characters as well as new retellings of two famous killers… one with a direct connection to Hearthstone.

Unlike Halloween related events at other locations, Sequential Killers of the Victorian Age is scary - not because someone is jumping out of a closet - but because these people, the personification of maliciousness and woe, were real. Each year’s production is drawn from the newspaper accounts of the day.

The hour long tours, where guests are guided by police detectives through the museum, which is decorated for Victorian mourning, also includes exhibits on the ways Victorians remembered the dead. This includes memento mori like hair jewelry, tear vials, and post mortem photography.