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Grim Philly

82 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratings

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 in summer and fall.

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Frankfort Slasher II - True Crime Philadelphia - Philly's Unsolved Serial Killer

November 06, 2023 10:00 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MB

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 - ...

Frankfort Slasher I - True Crime Philadelphia - Philly's Unsolved Serial Killer

October 30, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB

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 th...

Abduction - Danielle Ottobre and Richard Patrone - South Street, Philadelphia - new perspectives

October 23, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 74.2 MB

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. 

Jack the Ripper Museum Interview, London. (introduction)

October 16, 2023 09:00 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MB

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. An...

Israel Keyes Serial Killer Documentary VIII - Suicide Poetry Psychoanalysis

October 09, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MB

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 t...

Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary VII - Mr. Murder on South Street, Philadelphia

October 02, 2023 09:00 - 27 minutes - 25 MB

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...

Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary VI - Love and Razorblades

September 25, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MB

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 ...

Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary V - Chasing Hurricanes

September 18, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MB

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 Philadelphi...

Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary IV - Pictures in Blood

September 11, 2023 09:00 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MB

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’ tim...

Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary III - Mother

September 04, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MB

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 ep...

Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary II - Squirrels

August 28, 2023 09:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MB

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...

Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary I - Enigma

August 21, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MB

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 pl...

Benjamin Franklin VII - Bonus Banter and Story Conclusion

June 26, 2023 09:00 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MB

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 tod...

Benjamin Franklin VI - Hellfire

June 12, 2023 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MB

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 w...

Benjamin Franklin V - Criticisms

May 29, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MB

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 Philadelphia grimphilly.com for back Grim Philly Podcast episodes and to book a l...

Benjamin Franklin IV: Open Relationships

May 15, 2023 09:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MB

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...

Benjamin Franklin III: Mistresses

May 01, 2023 09:00 - 39 minutes - 35.7 MB

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 di...

Benjamin Franklin II: William

April 17, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MB

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 li...

Benjamin Franklin I: Bones

April 03, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MB

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 w...

Ethically Impossible II

December 26, 2022 10:00 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MB

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 Impo...

Ethically Impossible I

December 19, 2022 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MB

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 Smi...

Rasputin V: Penis and Prophecy

December 12, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MB

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 Brit...

Rasputin IV: Killing Rasputin

December 05, 2022 05:00 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MB

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 ...

Rasputin III: A ClusterF#k of Alliances – Causes of The First World War – Bonus Banter

November 28, 2022 10:00 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MB

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

Rasputin II: Evil Genius

November 21, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MB

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 Historia...

Rasputin I: Mad Monk

November 14, 2022 10:00 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MB

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 st...

Iceman II – Richard Kuklinski – New Jersey Assassin - The Real Tony Soprano

November 07, 2022 10:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MB

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 pa...

Iceman I – Richard Kuklinski – New Jersey Assassin - The Real Tony Soprano

October 31, 2022 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MB

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 J...

Dracula – Interview – Dr. Rebecca Hayes – London

October 24, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MB

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

Corpse Collector II – Harrison Marty Graham – Philadelphia Serial Killer

October 17, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MB

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 tr...

Corpse Collector I – Harrison Marty Graham – Philadelphia Serial Killer

October 10, 2022 09:00 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MB

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 be...

Pirates of Philadelphia

October 03, 2022 09:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MB

Black Beard, Captain Kidd, and numerous pirates frequented Philadelphia’s brothels and markets; kept girlfriends and close company with government officials, buried treasure, and operated from the port of Philadelphia. Historians Britnee Smith, Ted Sisco, and Joe Wojie are joined by Ted Maust, Director of Elfreth’s Alley Museum; and Neil Ronk Historian Emeritus of Christ Church Philadelphia for this most comprehensive survey of The Pirates of Philadelphia ever done. Support the show on patreo...

Marie Antoinette Execution III – BONUS BANTER – Trial and Exécution

September 26, 2022 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MB

Bonus Banter and story conclusion. We discuss the treason trial and last moments of the life of the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette before her beheading. Banter and speculation are indulged. Historians Joe Wojie and Britnee Smith are joined by historians Ted Sisco, Cassie Coxon, and Morgan Haller. Support the show on patreon.com/grimphilly Live event information at grimphilly.com

Marie Antoinette Execution II – Lovers

September 19, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MB

Grim explores The French Queen’s relationship with her lover Axel Von Fersen, her imprisonment, and escape attempts. Newly decoded secret letters between lovers using x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy from the French National Archives are discussed. As is The French King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette’s political and social ineptitude leading up to the Reign of Terror and French Revolution. Historians Joe Wojie and Britnee Smith are joined by historians Ted Sisco, Cassie Coxon, and Morgan...

Marie Antoinette Execution I – Guillotine

September 12, 2022 09:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MB

The Queen of France shat herself and was dragged to her execution in a rope leash; watched friends ripped limb from limb in front of her eyes; and endured a 24-hour trial for treason accused of masturbating her son. So many heads rolled during The Reign of Terror of the French Revolution that the entertainment of death and souvenir heads to take home by jeering peasants ceased to fulfill crowds. Knitting clubs met at the Guillotine. Crowds copulated and fought over the blood. Historians Joe W...

Satan II

October 25, 2021 08:30 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MB

Contemporary Satanism. Part II of our Satan series moves from historical analysis of Satan in the Dead Sea Scrolls and so-called Lost Books of The Bible through Dante Alighieri to investigate Lucien Greaves and the political protest movement of the Satanic Temple with “After School Satan,” Satanic coloring books for children, and explores key differences from Anton Levey's Church of Satan, including study for the Satanic priesthood and everything you ever wanted to know about: Satanism today...

Satan I

October 18, 2021 08:30 - 40 minutes - 36.6 MB

The historiography of Satan. The earliest Mishnaic and Aramaic writings of The Sa’Tan, Diabolis, Eblis were much different from the devil of modern imagination. Grim investigates the dead sea scrolls and other so-called lost books of the bible through dark age poetic and artistic expression; and influence from Hades through Dante’s Inferno.

The Barber Surgeon

October 11, 2021 08:30 - 1 hour - 57.1 MB

Medieval barber shops bled and performed surgeries on patients between hair dressing and a shave while operating as a tavern. Join Grim for the lost wonderous and terrifying world of the barber-surgeon with dark history stories of George Washington and medical tobacco enemas to educate and entertain.

Medieval Sex Court

October 04, 2021 08:30 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MB

Penis’ were inspected and evidence given by family, neighbors, and friends in gawking sex-court proceedings around allegations of love-making deficiencies by medieval wives. Spectators attended and placed bets. Trial details were published. And it became an entertainment mainstay throughout the sixteenth-century. Grim investigates: medieval sex-court. As well as love, lust, and love-making in the middle ages. 

Saint Olga: bad-ass murderous saint

September 27, 2021 08:30 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MB

The most badass saint butchered, boiled, buried, and burned her enemies alive. This is her story.

Napoleon's Penis and Love Letters

September 20, 2021 08:30 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB

The conqueror of Europe was a passionate little fellow. Enjoyed oral sex. Wrote a host of love, sex, and amorous letters of torment to his love. And his penis now lives in New Jersey, by way of Philadelphia. Grim historians read and discuss the emperor’s love letters, love life, and the strange and wonderous journey of Napoleon’s penis from the hands of collectors, priests, and party-goers following his death. Background on the Napoleonic era is given; with token comparisons to the personal l...

Exorcism

September 13, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MB

Demonic possession and ghosts are investigated including Vatican Secret Archive documents and protocols for Catholic exorcism rites. Cross-cultural analysis for spirit possession also is explored.

Bicycle Day (LSD)

September 06, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 69.5 MB

Scientist Albert Hoffman’s synthesis of LSD-25 in 1938 was hailed as a miracle psychopharmaceutical throughout the 1950s and studied by Harvard University and others for use in psychiatric treatment. Grim’s candid investigation of the controversial chemical includes CIA, counter-culture, and medical interest and contention through the present. Explores Native-American shamanism, psylocibin, and ayahuasca. And the intellectuals and institutions behind its renaissance. Marker 1- 25:40. Ayahu...

Artificial Intelligence

August 30, 2021 06:00 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MB

Grim explores scientific progress in artificial super-intelligence, futuristic cyborg technologies and robotics. And discusses the work of Stephen Hawking, Nick Bostrom, Sam Harris, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk including the potential positive and negative impacts of developing technologies of the future on humanity and the human race. Joe Wojie, Britnee Smith, and Ted Sisco are joined from the J Edgar Hoover Building in Washington DC by AI and Information Technologies Contractor and Cyber Secu...

Mars Colonization

August 23, 2021 06:00 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MB

The real-life inspiration for Ironman’s Tony Stark is a self-made rocket-scientist, actor, spy-satellite-making billionaire playboy technological entrepreneur who’s on a mission to colonize Mars. Historians Joe Wojie, Britnee Smith, and Ted Sisco are joined from the J Edgar Hoover Building in Washington DC by AI and Information Technologies Contractor and Cyber Securities Analyst for the FBI: Chief Michael Hammer. grimphilly.com/podcast

Scandalmonger: Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson Affairs

August 16, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MB

The Founding Fathers’ first scandals of blackmail, sex, and betrayal involving George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson were all published by a Philadelphia journalist whose body washed up in the James River amidst the scandals he created. Grim Investigates. This is the story of Hamilton’s marital infidelities with Maria Reynolds. Of Jefferson’s children with his slave Sally Hemmings. And, of the scandalmonger: James T. Callander, who uncovered and published it...

Sex in 1776

August 16, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MB

The Founding Fathers’ first scandals of blackmail, sex, and betrayal involving George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson were all published by a Philadelphia journalist whose body washed up in the James River amidst the scandals he created. Grim Investigates. This is the story of Hamilton’s marital infidelities with Maria Reynolds. Of Jefferson’s children with his slave Sally Hemmings. And, of the scandalmonger: James T. Callander, who uncovered and published it...

Scandalmonger: Hamilton-Reynolds and Jefferson-Hemmings Affairs

August 16, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MB

The Founding Fathers’ first scandals of blackmail, sex, and betrayal involving George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson were all published by a Philadelphia journalist whose body washed up in the James River amidst the scandals he created. Grim Investigates. This is the story of Hamilton’s marital infidelities with Maria Reynolds. Of Jefferson’s children with his slave Sally Hemmings. And, of the scandalmonger: James T. Callander, who uncovered and published it...

Hamilton-Jefferson Sexual Affairs

August 16, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MB

The Founding Fathers’ first scandals of blackmail, sex, and betrayal involving George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson were all published by a Philadelphia journalist whose body washed up in the James River amidst the scandals he created. Grim Investigates. This is the story of Hamilton’s marital infidelities with Maria Reynolds. Of Jefferson’s children with his slave Sally Hemmings. And, of the scandalmonger: James T. Callander, who uncovered and published it...

The Whores of Philadelphia

August 09, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MB

Victorian Whoredom, Part II: Philadelphia and London.