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Grim Philly
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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 seasonally
with new listening every fall.
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Vikings III - Blood Eagle Revisited with Dr. Amanda Weimer
Yesterday00:32:50Tap to summarizeVikings III - Blood Eagle Revisited with Dr. Amanda Weimer
Transcribe →Vikings II - Real vs History Channel Vikings with Dr. Amanda Weimer
4w ago00:49:03Tap to summarizeAncient 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.
Transcribe →Vikings I - Dragons and Ragnar Lodbrok with Dr. Amanda Weimer
Apr 600:51:39Tap to summarizeRagnar 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.
Transcribe →Interview with a Serial Killer – Happy Face Killer Keith Jesperson Speaks with Grim Philly
Oct 2000:31:27Tap to summarizeCelebrity 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.
Transcribe →Jersey Devil: Origin and Roots, Part V
Oct 600:47:50Tap to summarizeWith 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.
Transcribe →Bedlam Asylum - Interview on-Location in London - Highlights
Nov 4, 202400:18:24Tap to summarizeProfessor 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
Transcribe →Witches – with Dr. Kristine Rabberman, University of Pennsylvania
Oct 28, 202402:09:20Tap to summarizeFrom 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!
Transcribe →Ghost Hunting with Dr. Anya Shultz
Oct 21, 202400:34:41Tap to summarizeDr. 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!
Transcribe →The Devil's Tree and Mary Jo's Haunted Dolls
Oct 14, 202400:19:20Tap to summarizeFrom 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!
Transcribe →Haunted Philadelphia: Fort Mifflin, Pennhurst, and Byberry with Psychic Medium Brandi Van
Oct 7, 202400:19:43Tap to summarizeGhost 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!
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