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Grim Philly
by Grim Philly
Grim Philly Podcast in Philadelphia is a history podcast and true crime podcast for mature audiences by historians and PhD’s; and is not for those easily offended. Our history and true crime podcast in Philadelphia comprises three regular historians and a revolving caste of a dozen psychologists, museum curators, and college professors of various fields, and is presented in non-prudish colloquial terms, with an eye to factual accuracy and entertainment macabre on unique topics that have been well-researched. Grim Philly Podcast in Philadelphia airs seasonallywith new listening every fall.
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Revolutionary War Philadelphia IV - George Washington
Every American Presidents have drawn inspiration from America’s first who was himself was cautious in knowing what he did would inspire and set precedent for every Commander and Chief to follow. George Washington knew his strengths, his weaknesses; evolved and grew as a man, a commander, and…
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Revolutionary War Philadelphia III - They Died on the Fourth of July
The budding Philadelphia bromance of Founders Thomas Jefferson and John Adams along with the teary-eyed and tender last moments of spymaster John Andre from those with him at the gallows both are explored As are many other unexpectedly wild stories from The Revolution like the theft of Thomas...
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Revolutionary War Philadelphia II - Spies and Free Masons
War, intrigue, Alexander Hamilton fawning over the spymaster John Andre, and the capture of the city of Philadelphia by hostile enemy forces. Lighting our homes on fire while inviting our daughters to parties and desecrating Independence Hall. The wartime occupation of Philadelphia was the...
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Revolutionary War Philadelphia I - The Disaffected
At the dawn of 1776 Philadelphia was the largest city in north America…bigger than Boston and New York combined. A strategic port for the hearts and minds of colonists: for revolutionaries and for the crown. Both would occupy Philadelphia by force at different times no matter what Philadelphians...
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Vikings III - Blood Eagle Revisited with Dr. Amanda Weimer
Vikings III - Blood Eagle Revisited with Dr. Amanda Weimer
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Vikings II - Real vs History Channel Vikings with Dr. Amanda Weimer
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...
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Vikings I - Dragons and Ragnar Lodbrok 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.
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Interview with a Serial Killer – Happy Face Killer Keith Jesperson Speaks with Grim Philly
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…
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Jersey Devil: Origin and Roots, Part V
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…
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Bedlam Asylum - Interview on-Location in London - Highlights
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...
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Witches – with Dr. Kristine Rabberman, University of Pennsylvania
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...
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Ghost Hunting with Dr. Anya Shultz
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…
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The Devil's Tree and Mary Jo's Haunted Dolls
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...
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Haunted Philadelphia: Fort Mifflin, Pennhurst, and Byberry with Psychic Medium Brandi Van
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...
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Al Capone - Interview in Chicago with Author, Adam Selzer
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…
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Old Rum River - Smedley "Batman" Butler Comes to Philadelphia
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...
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The Philly Phanatic is Machine-Gunned Down in the Streets
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,...
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The Wild Woods
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…
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Jersey Devil III - Freakshow
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...
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Shades of Death Road: a short-story horror reading
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...
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Jersey Devil II - Lenapehoking
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...
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Mermaids and the Lockness Monster of New Jersey: Lenape Short-Story of the Makeriskhickon (Delaware River) and Shatemuc (Hudson River)
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:...
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Jersey Devil I – Introduction
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...
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Jersey Devil Season Trailer - Coming Fall 2024
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...
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Frankfort Slasher I - True Crime Philadelphia - Philly's Unsolved Serial Killer
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…
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Frankfort Slasher II - True Crime Philadelphia - Philly's Unsolved Serial Killer
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...
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Abduction - Danielle Ottobre and Richard Patrone - South Street, Philadelphia - new perspectives
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...
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Jack the Ripper Museum Interview, London. (introduction)
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…
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Israel Keyes Serial Killer Documentary VIII - Suicide Poetry Psychoanalysis
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....
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Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary VII - Mr. Murder on South Street, Philadelphia
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…
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Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary VI - Love and Razorblades
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…
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Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary V - Chasing Hurricanes
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...
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Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary IV - Pictures in Blood
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…
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Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary III - Mother
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...
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Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary II - Squirrels
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...
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Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary I - Enigma
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…
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Benjamin Franklin VII - Bonus Banter and Story Conclusion
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...
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Benjamin Franklin VI - Hellfire
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...
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Benjamin Franklin V - Criticisms
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…
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Benjamin Franklin IV: Open Relationships
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...
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Benjamin Franklin III: Mistresses
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...
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Benjamin Franklin II: William
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…
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Benjamin Franklin I: Bones
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…
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Ethically Impossible II
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...
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Ethically Impossible I
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...
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Rasputin V: Penis and Prophecy
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.…
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Rasputin IV: Killing Rasputin
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...
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Rasputin III: A ClusterF#k of Alliances – Causes of The First World War – Bonus Banter
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...
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Rasputin II: Evil Genius
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...
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Rasputin I: Mad Monk
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…
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Grim Philly Podcast in Philadelphia is a history podcast and true crime podcast for mature audiences by historians and PhD’s; and is not for those easily offended. Our history and true crime podcast in Philadelphia comprises three regular historians and a revolving caste of a dozen psychologists, museum curators, and college professors of various fields, and is presented in non-prudish colloquial terms, with an eye to factual accuracy and entertainment macabre on unique topics that have been well-researched. Grim Philly Podcast in Philadelphia airs seasonallywith new listening every fall.
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