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Ancient tattoos, Greenlandic Viking settlements, and the adventures of Bjorn Ironside. Grim Philly continues our Viking sagas with Dr. Amanda Weimer with more on dragons and the land spirits, dragon ships and Viking nautical tech and hygiene; and the mascara of floki. Part II of III: Real vs History Channel Vikings with Dr. Amanda Weimer.

Ragnar Lodbrok fights a dragon to get the girl and other primary source stories from the sagas with Grim Philly Podcast and Tours and Viking Archaeologist Dr. Amanda Weimer. grimphilly.com for more listening and the best history tours in the city of Philadelphia.

Celebrity Serial Killer portrayed by Denis Quad speaks with Grim Philly about murder, prison, motive. WARNING/ADVISORY: this is an uncensored psychopath in his own words. Do not listen to this if you are sensitive, a victim, know a victim, or easily triggered. Part I of others that will not be made publicly available. 

With a ghost story or two, the mythical cryptid of the New Jersey Pine Barrens’ historical and literary origins are explored from colonial settlement to modernity – and retold through research and banter in this previously unreleased audio from our Jersey Devil series. Joe Wojie, Britnee Smith, Ted Sisco, Tim Collins, and Lauren Krupinski discuss The Devil of Leeds, Daniel and Titan Leeds, early colonial settlements and the governments of New Jersey and New York, the supposed cross-dressing governor Edward Hyde (Lord Cornbury), and how a series of historical personalities and events converged to inform our modern conception of the mythical monster of legend commonly understood as The Jersey Devil.

Professor Joe visits London on-location inside Bedlam Asylum in England with Curator David Luck, in person. Then, visits on-location in Scotland to interview Dr. Gayle Davis, Deputy Head of the History Department at University of Edinburgh about her research in to sex and the asylum where-as applicable to Bedlam and The British Asylum System. Please enjoy here highlight clips from the both in-person interviews in The British Isles, from our larger archive recorded back in 2019. Visit https://www.patreon.com/grimphilly this winter for the three-part Bedlam interview in full (with an earlier introduction), and become a patron, there.For your friendship and support these many years we are ever so humbled and grateful and can not wait to bring to you more global and local true crime and history stories when we return next fall. Visit https://www.grimphilly.com/ for live historian-led history and dark history walks year-round in Philadelphia additionally for the highest rated tours in Philadelphia and amongst the highest rated in The United States for 2023 and 2024 which we remain still currently ranked for our daytime and nighttime history tours, both. https://www.tripadvisor.com/TravelersChoice-ThingsToDo-cTopExperiences-g191#25Thank you to Anuj Agarwal and Feedspot for ranking us #1 Pennsylvania True Crime Podcast -https://podcast.feedspot.com/philadelphia_history_podcasts/?feedid=5497005&_src=f2_featured_emailAnd to Goodpods for ranking us #1 Dark Histories Podcast globally. - https://goodpods.com/leaderboard/top-100-shows-by-category/other/dark-history?period=alltime#60797433 

From Germany to Philadelphia evil magic and witches have frightened, fascinated; been studied, and characterized from King James and Shakespeare to modernity in the popular imagination. Join historians from Grim as we discuss belief in magic and witchcraft from The Old World to The New – and everything you’ve ever wanted to know about witches, in a scholarly sense – from the Germanic territories and British Isles through Philadelphia and Salem. Numerous academic voices join our long-form conversational exploration with a mild comedic nugget at the end.Visit https://www.patreon.com/grimphilly for a scholarly follow-up interview on a facet of this same topic with Dr. Tom Webster on English witches, demonic possession, and exorcism in the British Isles recorded on-location in Scotland at University of Edinburgh where he is a tenured professor and widely published expert in the field.https://www.grimphilly.com/for nightly Dark Philly Adult Night Tours with a spattering of the paranormal for mature-audiences live in Philadelphia all season. Voted Philadelphia’s best history and ghost tours and one of the highest rated attractions in the country on Trip Advisor’s Best of the Best Activities of The United States for 2024. https://www.tripadvisor.com/TravelersChoice-ThingsToDo-cTopExperiences-g191#25For your friendship and support we are ever so humbled and cannot wait to bring to you more recorded material here! 

Dr. Anya and Professor Joe talk ghost hunting, paranormal investigative technique and equipment, and ghost-hunting investigations from Batsto in the Jersey Pines and The Jersey Devil to New Hope Pennsylvania.Visit https://www.patreon.com/grimphilly for more weekly short-story extras on ghost tales and the paranormal this spooky season—for our patrons. And to be a friend of this podcast.https://www.grimphilly.com/for Dark Philly Adult Night Tours live every night this fall. Not a Ghost Tour but Better! Ranked nearly the highest rated ghost tour in the entire country on Trip Advisor’s Best of the Best activities and one of the highest rated of all attractions throughout the entire United States for 2023 and 2024. https://www.tripadvisor.com/TravelersChoice-ThingsToDo-cTopExperiences-g191#25For your kind friendship and support these many years we are ever so humbled and cannot wait to bring you more studio recordings and to see you live in Philadelphia!

From the Jersey Devil’s haunted home in the Jersey Pines to one of the most infamous haunted dolls on television today. Penn Paranormal’s Mary Jo Chudley joins in-studio to talk paranormal investigation and ghost hunting at The Devil’s Tree, demonic presences, and about her collection of haunted objects. Ghost story readings by Celebrity Historian Britnee Smith. And joined by Dr. Anya Shultz, Psychic Medium Brandi Van, and World History Professor Joe Wojie.Visit https://www.patreon.com/grimphilly for more weekly short-story extras on ghost tales and the paranormal this spooky season—for our patrons. And to be a friend of this podcast.https://www.grimphilly.com/ for Dark Philly Adult Night Tours live every night this fall. Ranked nearly the highest rated ghost tour in the entire country on Trip Advisor’s Best of the Best activities and one of the highest rated of all attractions throughout the entire United States for 2023 and 2024. https://www.tripadvisor.com/TravelersChoice-ThingsToDo-cTopExperiences-g191#25For your kind friendship and support these many years we are ever so humbled and cannot wait to bring you more studio recordings and to see you live in Philadelphia!

Ghost Stories, Ouija, and Necromancy from Philadelphia to Salem. Professor Joe Wojie and Celebrity Historian Britnee Smith are joined by Dr. Anya Shultz, Penn Paranormal’s Mary Jo Chudley, and Psychic Medium Brandi Van for true tales of haunting and the paranormal around Philadelphia and Pennsylvania’s most famously haunted locations.Visit https://www.patreon.com/grimphilly for more weekly short story extras on ghost tales and the paranormal—for our patrons. And to be a friend of this podcast.https://www.grimphilly.com/for nightly Dark Philly Adult Night Tours with a spattering of the paranormal for mature-audiences live in Philadelphia this fall. Voted #2 Ghost Tour in the entire United States on Trip Advisor’s Best of the Best and #14 of all attractions throughout the entire country for 2024. We are not technically speaking, actually a ghost tour though. Well, maybe a little like a ghost tour. But better. We think. And are honored and thrilled for Trip Advisor's acknowledgement of the care we've put in to creating these experiences for you and the talent of guides who we are quit frankly lucky to have!  https://www.tripadvisor.com/TravelersChoice-ThingsToDo-cTopExperiences-g191#25For your friendship and support these many years we are ever so humbled and cannot wait to bring to you more recorded material here with the personalities from our tours and special the guests who join us; and to see you for live events with us every night this fall and year-round here in Philadelphia!

On-Location interview in Chicago: Professor Joe Wojie interviews Author Adam Selzer about The Rise and Fall of Scarface Al Capone. Specific street addresses for assassination attempts by and against the gangster, beer wars, bloodshed, how the gangster got his scar, to Capones love-life, family, and public relations with local press and more are discussed…including fallacies dispelled and urban legends in Chicago about Al Capone. This interview is part of the larger interview library compiled before Grim Philly existed yet in podcast form outside of the original walking tours from which studio recordings later sprung. Please forgive the earlier discrepancies with sound quality and plosives herein – as the interview content is good. The sound quality less-so. The recording is complete also with an earlier introduction and pilot-name, (World History X) before the official launch of Grim Philly studio podcast in 2019.https://www.grimphilly.com/for daily and nightly history and dark histories walks with historians in Philadelphia since 2011.https://www.patreon.com/grimphilly. for weekly extras—short story tales of ghosts and the paranormal—for our patrons. And to be a friend of this podcast.And thank you for supporting these podcast and walking tours these many years and for helping make Grim Philly the number one fall season attraction in Philadelphia, and one of the premiere Best of the Best things to do across the entire United States for 2024! https://www.tripadvisor.com/TravelersChoice-ThingsToDo-cTopExperiences-g191#25For your friendship and support we are ever so humbled and cannot wait to bring you more!

From poisoned liquor to mass bribery and criminal activity among Philadelphia police and the mayor – failing attempts to curb the death rate and corruption in Prohibition Philadelphia are brought in to the light by Criminologist Dr. Favian Martin, Professor of World History Joe Wojie, and Historians Britnee Smith and Ted Sisco. Bartender mixology in the era of prohibition period cocktails are mixed in to a more serious sociological mix of The Mayor's Office to thwart reform efforts of Smedley Darlington Butler, Grim Philly’s so-called Batman in 1920’s Gotham Philadelphia. Neighboring New Jersey’s similar sentiment among corrupt public servants and a thirsty citizenry joined to thwart federal attempts at enforcement throughout the Garden State and it’s capital city in kind.Join the personalities from this podcast every night live this fall for a Dark Philly Adult Night Tour, on https://www.grimphilly.com/Join us for weekly extras—short story tales of ghosts and the paranormal—for our patrons over at https://www.patreon.com/grimphilly.And thank you for supporting these podcast and walking tours these many years and helping to make Grim Philly the number one fall season attraction in Philadelphia, and one of the premiere Best of the Best things to do across the entire United States! https://www.tripadvisor.com/TravelersChoice-ThingsToDo-cTopExperiences-g191#25For your friendship and support we are ever so humbled and can not thank you enough!

Hughie McLoon, Boardwalk Empire, and other politically incorrect stories from Prohibition era Philadelphia to the Jersey Shore are revealed within the larger geo-political climate of the period. World History Professor Joe Wojie is joined by Celebrity Historian Britnee Smith, Historian Ted Sisco, and Arcadia University Criminologist Dr. Favian Martin to discuss everything from mixology to Molly Hatchet in Grim Philly’s Prohibition Part II.Join the personalities from this podcast every night live this fall for a Dark Philly Adult Night Tour, on https://www.grimphilly.com/And join us for weekly extras—short story tales of ghosts and the paranormal—for our patrons over at https://www.patreon.com/grimphilly.  And thank you for supporting Grim Philly’s podcast and tours these many years and making us the number one fall season attraction here in the City of Brotherly Love and in the Great State of Pennsylvania! 

A criminologist, two historians, and a history professor reveal everything from moonshining and speakeasies at the boardwalk and beach, to New Jersey and Pennsylvania’s outright refusal to enforce national prohibition at their respective state levels. The surprising lawlessness of Wildwood and the Jersey Shore saw everything from the illicit liquor trade on boats, barges, and inlets; gangster shoot-outs - to even a mention of The New Jersey Devil or two. Join Britnee, Ted, Joe, and Favian for this storied journey down the shore back to the New Jersey beaches of yesteryear, for Grim Philly’s, Prohibition: Part I: The Wild Woods. Become a patron for exclusive weekly short-story tales of folklore and ghosts this season on https://www.patreon.com/grimphilly. And join the personalities from this show live in Philadelphia for nightly dark philly history tours and more this fall on https://www.grimphilly.com/

A living Jersey Devil caged exhibit was displayed at the 9th and Arch Street Dime Museum in Philadelphia following national headlines and a thousand witness statements claiming to have seen the beast in 1909. Join Grim Philly for a peak inside the gothic world of Philadelphia Victorian entertainments including freak shows, trance lectures and necromancy, mummy unwrapping parties, and the performers whose traveling freak exhibits graced the city of brotherly love. Grim Philly original interview clips from Bedlam Asylum and University of Edinburgh on location highlight entertainments of the era. Visit https://www.patreon.com/grimphilly for additional 2 hours original interview material recorded at Bedlam Asylum in London this winter. Visit https://www.grimphilly.com/ for live entertainments in Philadelphia nightly this fall.

Celebrity Historian Britnee Smith reads us a short-story tale of murder and ghosts from New Jersey’s infamous Shades of Death Road. Available only to our patrons at https://www.patreon.com/grimphilly. We hope to see you there for exclusive weekly short-story readings in folklore and ghosts throughout this fall. And, live in Philadelphia each night with the personalities from this podcast. Dark History tour tickets available at https://www.grimphilly.com/. Just a humble thank you to our patrons and friends who have supported our podcast and tours and helped us to become the highest ranked of all activities across the entire city of Philadelphia and our Dark Philly Adult Night Tour: the 14th BEST of ALL activities across the entire United States for 2024! https://www.tripadvisor.com/TravelersChoice-ThingsToDo-cTopExperiences-g191#25

The Jersey Devil's story begins as we explore Native-American and Anglo cross-cultural pollenization, Quakers, Penn, Anglo settlement of "The Jersey's" and Philadelphia, and banter long on Jersey Devil story seeds of influence. This first episode lays the foundational basis for numerous Jersey Devil side story episodes to come and introduces our full Fall 2024 Jersey Devil Season on New Jersey's cryptid demon.grimphilly.com for true crime and ghost tours this fall and to check out back episodes of Grim Philly Podcast in Philadelphia. patreon.com/grimphilly for exclusive material and to be a friend Grim Philly Podcast and Tours.

Professor Joe Wojie and Dr. Anya Shultz read and banter a folkloric short-story describing the mythical water women described in Lenape tales of the Makeriskhickon (Delaware River) and Shatemuc (Hudson River) – as well as Hoppie the Lockness Monster of the Garden State’s most expansive lake: Hopatcong.  Available to patrons only on Grim Philly Podcast | Dark Histories & True Crime for Mature-Audiences | Patreon - where we will continue to post weekly short stories of folklore and ghosts there throughout the fall.We hope to see you there and thank you for your support and friendship, both there, and for our nightly Dark Philly Adult Night Tours guided by the personalities on this podcast on Grim Philly History and Ghost Tours in Philadelphia – live and in person every night this fall too!

Legend dates The Jersey Devil’s birth to 1735; though historical roots are much older amalgamating Anglo, Lenape, and later literary sources. Exploring etymological evidence and retelling primary and peripheral tales Grim Philly brings together close to 20 scholarly voices to retell stories of history, folklore, and ghosts to deliver a more rich understanding of The Garden State’s infamous monster. Occasional episodes will deal with the cryptid full-on or as a throughline within. Others being inspired by the legend and retelling aspects of historical eras such as the prohibition or witch hunting periods to give context to portions of the legend as well as entertainment and educational value in their own right.Through multidisciplinary research and creative story-telling we hope to bring greater awareness to this local legend that is older even than is The United States.We don’t ever take for granted how blessed we are for the amazing patrons who support our free content for you and will be for you giving back something special by way of additional and behind the scenes content on our patreon there, at patreon.com/grimphilly. And will see you for our nightly dark histories walking tours also this fall! - join us with admission tickets every night through this fall season there on grimphilly.com for that too and to meet some of the personalities you’ve heard on this season’s podcast episodes! We are so blessed and thank you for your support and friendship of our podcast and dark histories walking tours both!

Grim Philly Presents: The Jersey Devil, A Full Season of episodes dedicated to Investigating every aspect of folklore and myth about the New Jersey Cryptid - including witches, ghosts, prohibition, freakshows, Native-American Lenape Lore, Pine Barrens and New Jersey and Pennsylvania colonial and aboriginal histories, and more in a full season of episodes dedicated to stories about the official demon of the state of New Jersey. Grim Philly's Jersey Devil Season begins Fall 2024.

1 of 3. True Crime Philadelphia serial killer The Frankfort Slasher was never apprehended and butchered victims in multiple neighborhood's from 1985 through 1990 including from North Philadelphia to South Philly: in Pennsport, Northern Liberties, Kensington, Port Richmond, and Frankfort. Join three historians, three psychologists, and a criminology professor; former police commander with detectives under him in profiling the killer and mapping this case that has never been solved. This is the most comprehensive investigation and analysis of The Frankfort Slasher case to be ever compiled and introduces profiling and analytics never before made public for the first time with criminal justice, investigatory, and profiling experts in the respective fields. grimphilly.com for live true crime Philadelphia tours and history tours in Philadelphia.grimphilly.com/podcast for back episodes of Grim Philly Podcast in Philadelphiapatreon.com/grimphilly for your kind support of this Grim Philly Podcast.

2 of 3. Grim Philly brings together 3 Psychology Professors and Criminal Profilers, a Criminal Justice Professor and authority on DNA evidence, and 3 True Crime Historians to analyze and offer new insights in to this True Crime Philadelphia Cold Case never solved and dubbed by the Philadelphia Press: The Frankfort Slasher. Listen to the conclusion of this 3 part investigative series on patreon.com/grimphilly with additional bonus and exclusive episodes, and to be friend.grimphilly.com - to support Grim Philly History and Ghost Tours live history tours of Philadelphiagrimphilly/podcast - for back episodes of Philadelphia's Podcast: Grim Philly Podcast in Philadelphia.

South Street, Philadelphia disappearance of Danielle Ottobre (Imbo) and Richard Patrone, 2005. New perspectives and evidence are introduced and debated by scholars. Sensitive Content WARNING: the connection to a then-active serial killer--Israel Keyes--is presented and deliberated in great detail to establish hypothesis victimology. 

On-location Interview, Whitechapel England with Sam Peters of the Jack the Ripper Museum. These are 15 minute highlights of our one hour and a half talk there in person about Jack The Ripper, poverty in Victorian England, and politics in the United Kingdom. *Patreon.com/grimphilly to listen to the full length interview with Sam Peters--out in November--and to support this show. *GrimPhilly.com for live daily and nightly history tours, ghost tours, and true crime tours in Philadelphia. And for additional back episodes of this podcast.

8 of 10. Episodes 9 and 10 available exclusively on Patreon.com/GrimPhilly.Dr. Kim's first psychoanalysis of the Israel Keyes suicide note.*GrimPhilly.com for live events in Philadelphia including daily and nightly history tours, ghost tours, and true-crime walking tours in Philadelphia.  *GrimPhilly.com/Podcast for back-episodes of Grim Philly Podcast in Philadelphia and to listen to more True-Crime Philadelphia Podcast Episodes and dark histories stories.  *Patreon.com/GrimPhilly to access Israel Keyes episodes 9 and 10--the last two episodes in this serial killer research series--and for your kind support of this podcast.

7 of 10. AKA, " Would anyone miss you if you were dead? Serial Killer Israel Keyes' reading list, memorial service, and a kill-kit dug up from his New York property in 2019 are discussed. Danielle Imbo and Richard Patrone, missing from South Street Philadelphia in 2005 are named as potential Serial Killer Israel Keyes' victims: and are extensively fleshed-out in full; exhaustively researched, contemplated, and debated in a Grim Philly Podcast episode all of their own following the conclusion of this serial killer research series. Our full, thoughtful, and dedicated  Imbo-Patrone missing persons episode airs in 3 weeks, on 10/23/2023.*GrimPhilly.com for live events in Philadelphia including daily and nightly history tours, ghost tours, and true-crime walking tours in Philadelphia. *GrimPhilly.com/Podcast for back-episodes of Grim Philly Podcast in Philadelphia and to listen to more True-Crime Philadelphia Podcast Episodes. *Patreon.com/GrimPhilly to access Israel Keyes episodes 9 and 10--the last two episodes in this serial killer research series--and for your kind support of this podcast.

6 of 10. Grim Philly's Serial Killer Israel Keyes Documentary continues as we delve further in to the FBI files to uncover the secret life of the serial killer.  Joe Wojie, Professor of World History is joined by Historians Britnee Smith and Ted Sisco, and Psychology PhD Dr. Kim.GrimPhilly.com for live events in Philadelphia including daily and nightly history tours, ghost tours, and true-crime walking tours in Philadelphia.GrimPhilly.com/Podcast for back-episodes of Grim Philly Podcast in Philadelphia and to listen to more True-Crime Philadelphia Podcast Episodes.Patreon.com/GrimPhilly to access Israel Keyes episodes 9 and 10--the last two episodes in this serial killer series--and for your kind support of this podcast.

5 of 10. Serial Killer Israel Keyes reveals his long-term plans for construction of a victim holding facility dungeon. Three historians and a psychological profiler delve deep in to the Israel Keyes' FBI files for clues.GrimPhilly.com for live events in Philadelphia including daily and nightly history tours, ghost tours, and true-crime walking tours in Philadelphia.GrimPhilly.com/Podcast for back-episodes of Grim Philly Podcast in Philadelphia and to listen to more True-Crime Philadelphia Podcast Episodes.Patreon.com/GrimPhilly to access Israel Keyes episodes 9 and 10--the last two episodes in this serial killer series--and for your kind support of this podcast.Continued thanks to also Anuj Agarwal and the panelists at Feedspot for their continued support in honoring us with the recognition of one of the world-wide Top Ten Best Dark History Podcasts for 2023 - https://podcasts.feedspot.com/dark_history_podcasts/https://podcasts.feedspot.com/philadelphia_history_podcasts/https://blog.feedspot.com/philadelphia_history_podcasts/

4 of 10. Serial Killer Israel Keyes’ suicide note was written in his own blood; and blood-painted skulls and cryptic bloody words adorned his super-max prison cell walls that he sprawled as he lay dying. Three Grim Philly historians and a criminal profiler psychoanalyze and dig deep in to FBI files to uncover patterns to emerge from the killer’s childhood to his 2012 death in custody. Ransom text-messages sent from murder victim phone’s, white-supremacist traveling hippie parents, Keyes’ time in the United States Army, sneaking over country boarders, and breaking out of leg-irons in a crowded courtroom with dental-floss and a paperclip. The dotting serial killer father maintained loving relationships, rave-reviews for the business he owned; and family, neighbors, and friends were in disbelief that he could have maintained a secret-life as a coldblooded killer, bank-robber, and serial sexual predator until the very end. Brutal details are revealed about victim murders including in Keyes’ own words in this fourth installment of Grim Philly’s Serial Killer Documentary. Part-four of ten: Pictures in Blood AKA “Mommy and Me.”GrimPhilly.com for live events in Philadelphia including daily and nightly history tours, ghost tours, and true-crime walking tours in Philadelphia.GrimPhilly.com/Podcast for back-episodes of Grim Philly Podcast in Philadelphia and to listen to more True-Crime Philadelphia Podcast Episodes.Patreon.com/GrimPhilly to access Israel Keyes episodes 9 and 10--the last two episodes in this serial killer series--and for your kind support of this podcast.Continued thanks to also Anuj Agarwal and the panelists at Feedspot for their continued support in honoring us with the recognition of one of the world-wide Top Ten Best Dark History Podcasts for 2023 - https://podcasts.feedspot.com/dark_history_podcasts/https://podcasts.feedspot.com/philadelphia_history_podcasts/https://blog.feedspot.com/philadelphia_history_podcasts/ 

Part 3 of 10. Skulls, cats, white supremacist traveling hippies, Insane Clown Posse, and the long dick of the law are discussed in the context of psychoanalysis and murder with serial killer israel keyes. Cults old and new. Text messaging ransom notes. Breaking out of leg-irons with dental-floss and a paperclip. And the serial killer grappling with feelings of homosexuality and desires to f#k and kill mother.  Patreon.com/grimphilly to access Israel Keyes episodes 9 and 10--the last two episodes in this serial killer series--and for your kind support of this podcast.GrimPhilly.com for back episodes of grim philly podcast and for live events including daily and nightly history tours, ghost tours, and true-crime walking tours in Philadelphia.Many thanks to also Anuj Agarwal and the panelists at Feedspot for including us in the new rankings in forth position for best Philadelphia history podcasts here https://podcasts.feedspot.com/philadelphia_history_podcasts/

Part 2 of 10. Plastic-Wrap and Draino: the Serial Killer on LSD and in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.How many people has Israel Keyes murdered? The secretive serial killer was driven to be the most effective killer possible. But not for notoriety. In part 2 of 10 we explore FBI interviews with former friends he’d served with in the military- in Egypt, Israel, Panama, and the United States. His so-called killing code of not harming children or mothers. The serial killer’s experimentation with LSD, exploration of homosexuality, and fashioning himself more as a bank robber than murderer. His double-life. Conversion to Atheism. And, burning to the ground a drunk Mormon’s church, and murdering the want-to-be true-crime novelist slowly to show her “what true-crime really is up-close.”Patreon.com/grimphilly for Israel Keyes episodes 9 and 10--the last two episodes in this serial killer series--and for your kind support of this podcast.grimphilly.com for back episodes and for live events including daily and nightly history tours and true-crime walking tours in Philadelphia.

1 of 10. The most enigmatic modern killer the FBI has yet to encounter is: Israel Keyes. Funding secret killings with money from his bank robberies; Israel Keyes maintained fake passports, snuck over the Canadian and Mexican borders for killings there, and stashed kill-kits with silencers, weapons, plastic-wrap, and restraints across the continental United States that he would wait a decade to return to - flying throughout the country and internationally to kill for thrill in meticulously planned locations thousands of miles from one-another. Israel was married, was entrepreneurial and owned a business, maintained friendships and an upstanding reputation in the communities where he lived. And was remembered most of all as a good friend, successful businessman, a good husband, and dotting father by those who knew him. Professor of World History Joe Wojie is joined by American Historians Britnee Smith and Ted Sisco; Psychologist and Criminal Profiler Dr. Kim, Ethics Professor Tim Collins, and Historian Morgan Haller in this first of ten parts comprehensive mini-series that pulls together 5,000 pages of FBI files; multiple-state’s sheriff, SWAT, and marshal reports, as well as forensic evidence, eye-witness, and tip-line transcripts to paint a picture of the most secretive and dangerous contemporary killer of our time. Israel Keyes’ own words from FBI interrogations are used. Psychoanalysis, victimology, and methodology are pieced together. This is amongst the most comprehensive and thought-provoking analysis of the killer to be ever compiled.  Patreon.com/grimphilly for Israel Keyes episodes 9 and 10 and for your kind support of this podcast.grimphilly.com for back episodes and for live events including daily and nightly history tours and true-crime walking tours in Philadelphia.

7 of 7. Scandal in the Hellfire Caves creates a rift between Hellfire members in the Houses of Parliament as we conclude our 4-hour biography of the life of Philadelphia Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. Our story concludes with what has become of the Franklin home in Philadelphia following The Founder’s death; his last will and testament; his Philadelphia and London families. Finally: Franklin’s Philadelphia funeral, legacy, and epitaph penned in his own hand that sits at his grave site today. grimphilly.com - To support Grim Philly History and Ghost Tours live history tours of Philadelphia patreon.com/grimphilly - To support Grim Philly Podcast in Philadelphia on Patreon grimphilly.com/podcast - For back episodes of Grim Philly Podcast in Philadelphia

6 of 7. Secret Societies, Masons, and The Hellfire Club.Benjamin Franklin wrote the bylaws for the Masonic Lodge in Philadelphia and initiated Voltaire in to the Masons Lodge in Paris. He also stayed often in the guest cottage on the Dashwood estate and joined Sir Francis Dashwood in pagan debauchery in the man-made Hellfire Caves of West Wycombe. Orgy, drink, and pagan-esq ritual with parliamentarians and lords: John Montagu, John Wilks, and others helped form useful connections. And it was fun. Professor of World History Joe Wojie is joined by American historians Britnee Smith, Ted Sisco, and Madam Toni Levitt.https://www.patreon.com/grimphilly - for your kind support of Grim Philly Podcast.https://www.grimphilly.com/podcast - for suggested Grim Philly Podcast episodes to listen to, and for our archive of back episodes of Grim Philly Podcast in Philadelphia.

5 of 7 Grim Philly's Benjamin Franklin Documentary Series continues with critical documentary analysis of The Founding Father's relationship with his wife, daughter, and son. His views and actions with regard to enslaved persons. And numerous obscure and surprising details on the life and times of Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin on Grim Philly Podcast.patreon.com/grimphilly to support Grim Philly Podcast in Philadelphiagrimphilly.com for back Grim Philly Podcast episodes and to book a live Grim Philly history or ghost tour in Philadelphia.

4 of 7. We discuss Benjamin Franklin’s primary female love-interests in France and read direct correspondences including propositions for open relationships and proposals of marriage. Importantly- Ann-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvetius and Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy are discussed. Amorous letters from and to Benjamin Franklin are read directly and discussed. Benjamin Franklin discusses with a lady-friend his penis and the blue-balls she is giving to him, in stylish prose. Professor of World History Joe Wojie is joined by American historians Britnee Smith, Ted Sisco, and Toni Levitt. With guest Neil Ronk, Chief Historian and Director of Christ Church Preservation Trust Philadelphia. Podcast home: https://www.grimphilly.com/podcast Support this show: https://www.patreon.com/grimphilly Tags: Benjamin Franklin woman. Madame Helvetius. Madame Brillon. Ann-Catherine de Ligniville. Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy.

3 of 7. Secret Franklin papers unpublished by the State Department are read directly. Woman and men paid money to watch Benjamin Franklin just walk down the street; smothered him with kisses: and he advised his own grandson on the most pleasing attributes to look for in a lady he would choose to make his mistress. We discuss wildly different reactions of notables like Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson to Franklin’s behavior around the ladies, and: of their behavior around him. The master diplomat secures open French military support and attempts to negotiate an end to the American War for Independence with British Commander General William Howe over a game of chess. Professor of World History Joe Wojie is joined by American historians Britnee Smith, Ted Sisco, and Toni Levitt. With guest Neil Ronk, Chief Historian and Director of Christ Church Preservation Trust Philadelphia. https://www.grimphilly.com/podcast - podcast home page. https://www.patreon.com/grimphilly - support this show.*Episode Corrections: (1) Former Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died both on the 4th of July, 1826 on the 50th anniversary of adoption of the Declaration of Independence.(1) William Temple Franklin, the grandson of Benjamin Franklin, received a letter of advice on selecting a mistress from his grandfather as private correspondence prior to the bequeathment of additional papers for publication left to him in his grandfather's will.

2 of 7. AKA Traitor William. Benjamin Franklin’s illegitimate son William was dragged from New Jersey by Revolutionary authorities, locked away for treason, and exiled after the war. Ben wrote him out of his will twice, refused him reconciliation, and raised his illegitimate son’s illegitimate son: Temple. Join Grim Philly historians as we flesh-out everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Benjamin Franklin’s illegitimate son William Franklin: soldier, son, politician, loyalist. And, a little on the importance to Franklin of the game of chess. Historians Joe Wojie, Britnee Smith, and Ted Sisco are joined by Neil Ronk, Director of Christ Church Preservation Trust, Philadelphia. And joining remote from Boston is Lauren Krupinski, NPS Historian from Franklin sites there. 

1 of 7. The bodies of dozens of dead woman, men, and children stolen from their graves were discovered hidden in Benjamin Franklin’s basement in 1998 sparking modern inquiries and investigations. World-famous for his lightning experiments; contemporaneous anatomists and scientists were inspired to electrify the bodies of hanged criminals attempting to charge the dead with life. Inspired by Dr. Franklin; Mary Shelly has Dr. Frankenstein in her novel do the same. Join historians from Grim as we open our three and a half hour audio-biography on Philadelphia’s own Benjamin Franklin: including the young founder’s arrival to Philadelphia at the age of seventeen, falling smitten with his future common-law wife Deborah Reed, and stories of the most riveting body-snatching and electrical experiments you may just have ever heard. Historians Joe Wojie, Britnee Smith, and Ted Sisco are joined by Neil Ronk, Director of Christ Church Preservation Trust, Philadelphia. And joining remote from Boston is Lauren Krupinski, NPS Historian from Franklin sites there. 

Part 2 of 2. Doctors on the payroll of The United States government infected thousands of patients in a mental health asylum secretly in off-shore black-ops experiments that they'd built a hospital and laboratory specifically for in the jungles of Guatemala. World History and American History Professors Joe Wojie and Britnee Smith investigate primary source materials and are joined by Ethics Professor Tim Collins and Historians Ted Sisco and Adam Iessi in this, second part 2 of Ethically Impossible. For your kind support of this show please visit patreon.com/grimphilly For our schedule of live events in Philadelphia visit grimphilly.com For free back episodes and to subscribe please visit grimphilly,com/podcast

Human experiments by the U.S. government on orphans, lepers, and in a foreign mental asylum saw doctors smearing gonorrhea puss in patients eyes', vaginas and rectums; forcing them to drink ground up chancroid from glass beakers, and forcibly restraining them when they ran away. John's Hopkins University, Bristol Meyer Squibb. Johnson & Johnson, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the government of the United States now face billion-dollar lawsuits, currently. Historians Joe Wojie and Britnee Smith are joined by Ethics Professor Tim Collins and Historians Ted Sisco and Adam Iessi. Consider supporting this podcast on Patreon: patreon.com/grimphilly See our calendar of live events in Philadelphia grimphilly.com Back episodes available free at grimphilly.com/podcast

The most famous willy in Russia was worshiped in Paris and traded hands after his death; finding a new home in the Erotica Museum in Petersburg as a fertility talisman today. The visions and prophecies of Rasputin are examined through primary source material in his own hand and that of others. The Russian Revolution, abdication of the Tsar Nicholas II, last days and death of the royal family, and the end to the 300 year reign of the Romanov Dynasty are discussed. Historians Joe Wojie and Britnee Smith are joined by historians Ted Sisco and Cassie Coxon. Join our Patreon to be an awesome cool friend of the show at patreon.com/grimphilly See our schedule of live events in Philadelphia including history and ghost tours at grimphilly.com Listen to back episodes at grimphilly.com/podcast

Source material on the murder of Rasputin are scrutinized within the context of what has become a larger folklore surrounding the man who could not be killed. Rasputin’s murder, autopsy, funeral, burial; and memoirs of his daughter Maria and the assassin Felix Yusupov are examined. As are conspiracies to kill Tsarina Alexandra and Tsar Nicholas II within the backdrop of a burgeoning Russian Revolution and Return of Vladimir Lennon in the final days of The First World War. Historians Britnee Smith, Ted Sisco, and Joe Wojie are joined by Historian Cassie Coxon of Penn State University. Support the show on patreon.com/grimphilly Live event information at grimphilly.com

Schlieffen Plan, Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand, and the complex system of European alliances leading in to World War One and the height of power and eventual downfall of Grigori Rasputin are discussed; with both serious and lighter moments of reflection. Historians Britnee Smith, Ted Sisco, and Joe Wojie are joined by Historian Cassie Coxon of Penn State University. Support the show on patreon.com/grimphilly Live event information at grimphilly.com

Part 2 of 5. Man with the Dragon Tattoo. Rasputin displays his private parts at a Moscow restaurant feeding rumors of espionage and an affair with Tsarina Alexandra Romanov amidst anarchy, assassination, royal incest, and Bloody Sunday according to Ochrana secret police reports at the dawn of WWI as his political power grows. Tsar Nicholas II begins his reign in blood and mediocrity as his hatred of The Japanese grows. Historians Britnee Smith, Ted Sisco, and Joe Wojie are joined by Historian Cassie Coxon of Penn State University. Support the show on patreon.com/grimphilly Live event information at grimphilly.com

Part 1 of 5. BDSM Church of the Sacred Whip. The name Rasputin stirs often images of a dark evil wizard; a gothic monk in black with powers of necromancy and the devil. Or more often; a mystic—stabbed, shot, beat, poisoned, and drowned—who could not be killed. The wandering holy man captivated the last tsars of Russia. Led a sex-cult of sorts. Woman adored him. Most hated him. Journalists, assassins, and the secret police followed him, everywhere, he went. This is the comprehensive 5-part story of the illiterate stinky peasant who defied every odd to become one of the most powerful, revered, ultra-sexy, and hated figures in late imperial Russia. Of the socio-political backdrop of World War One, the Russian Revolution, and myths and truths of the complexities of the period. And of the man: Grigory Rasputin, and his enduring mark on the Romanov Dynasty; on Russia; and on history. Historians Britnee Smith, Ted Sisco, and Joe Wojie are joined by Historians Cassie Coxon (Penn State University) and Morgan Haller (Villanova University). Support the show on patreon.com/grimphilly Live event information at grimphilly.com

Assassin School: Cyanide and Ice Cream. Join us for a storied journey down murder-lane as Richard Kuklinski balances home and family life in New Jersey with murder and cold-blooded assassin contract killing. Christmas with the Kuklinski's. Mr. Softee (also a hitman). Media exposure. And death in Trenton State Prison. Historians Joe Wojie and Britnee Smith are joined by Historian Ted Sisco, Ethics Professor Tim Collins, and Psychologist and Horror Writer Frank Jakoweicz. Support the show on patreon.com/grimphilly Live event information at grimphilly.com

The Real-life Tony Soprano Tony Soprano’s real-life New Jersey prototype was a frightening hitman who separated business and suburban family life perfectly. Was a freelance assassin and international contract killer with a wife, 3 children, Swiss bank accounts, a businessman cover, and 200 bodies to his name. This is the rags to middle-class-ish Jekyll-Hyde, murder for money, family-man, contract-killer story of The New Jersey assassin known as The Iceman: Big Richie Kuklinski. Historians Joe Wojie and Britnee Smith are joined by Historian Ted Sisco, Ethics Professor Tim Collins, and Psychologist and Horror Writer Frank Jakoweicz. Support the show on patreon.com/grimphilly Live event information at grimphilly.com

Halloween Episode interview in London with Dr. Rebecca Hayes (tenure faculty at University College London) on Bram Stoker’s use of sources and influences for his novel: Dracula. Including modern-day vampire and werewolf lore, and recommended ghost story readings. Support the show on patreon.com/grimphilly Live event information at grimphilly.com

Part 2 of 2. Following a manhunt when body parts were found strewn around the home of Philadelphia’s Cookie Monster Serial Killer; testimony was given that the lovable handyman and drug dealer was a necrophiliac sex addict who enjoyed playing with local children and coloring with crayons. Historians Joe Wojie, Britnee Smith, and Ted Sisco are joined by Dr. Jon Crider of Texas Tech University and a Psychologist Dr. Kim for the most comprehensive deep-dive psychoanalysis; and scrutiny of the trial and case of Philadelphia Serial Killer Harrison Marty Graham that has been ever done. Including a look in to the current prison life of Harrison Graham, the serial killer’s prison art, and The Corpse Collector as a Prison Minister. Hypotheses surrounding the trial and case are introduced. Support the show on patreon.com/grimphilly Live event information at grimphilly.com

Part 1 of 2. Philadelphia’s Cookie Monster Killer staged corpses in his kitchen, fingerpainted his living room with their blood, danced in the streets, and signed autographs and played with finger-puppets during his sentencing. Historians Joe Wojie, Britnee Smith, and Ted Sisco are joined by Dr. Jon Crider of Texas Tech University and Psychologist Dr. Kim for this most comprehensive deep-dive ever done on Philadelphia serial killer Harrison Graham whose sensational and interesting case has been all but overlooked by mainstream media sources. Part I of The Philadelphia Corpse Collector will give an introduction and overview of the case before a more comprehensive deep-dive of the case; trial scrutiny and analysis, and psychoanalysis of Philadelphia’s Cookie Monster Killer in Part II. Support the show on patreon.com/grimphilly Live event information at grimphilly.com