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 Paine’s bones by grave robbers and what has become of them.

Our deepest gratitude as well to Dr. Arron Sullivan for his exceptional Revolutionary Wartime strategic analysis and research in to the Philadelphia occupation during the war, and continued readings from his book, “The Disaffected:Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution.” Available from University of Pennsylvania Press. 

The Disaffected – Penn Press

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 high-point of the American Revolution in so many ways. 

Join Grim Philly as we unfold for you a more compelling, terrifying and hopeful story than any Hollywood story ever could. With spine-tingling and touching human stories from the Revolution, New York to Philadelphia. 

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 thought about it.

Join Grim Philly as we flesh out the entire grey area of The Revolution and Philadelphia’s place in it: for loyalists, for The Church, for revolutionaries, and for The Disaffected – the majority of Philadelphian’s who were in fact neutral.

We talk Generals Washington, Howe, Burgoyne, strategy; bootcamps and battles too. We set the scene and immerse you in what it would have been like to Be a Philadelphian in 1776, and dive in to the hard questions historians always ask about those in the middle. 

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Vikings III - Blood Eagle Revisited 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 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.

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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#25

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And 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. 

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For 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#25

For 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!