TwistedPhilly

TwistedPhilly


Latest Episodes

Alexandra Hunt – Candidate for City Controller
May 07, 2023

Episode 94 This week I’m joined by Alexandra Hunt, a public health researcher, a girls’ soccer coach, an advocate for social, racial, economic, and environmental justice, and an organizer. She’s also

The Divine Lorraine
September 05, 2022

Episode 93 In 1892, architect Willis G. Hale began construction on a lavish apartment building on Broad Street in north Philadelphia. What began as a turn of the century residential multi family struc

The Story of Oney Judge
September 05, 2022

Episode 92 Ona Maria Judge better known as Oney was born into slavery in 1774 at a familiar location in Virginia: Mount Vernon. Oneys mother Betty was brought to Mount Vernon after George Washing

The Women in White
September 05, 2022

Episode 91 Originally released February 2020 Women in white, midnight Mary, lonely roads all over the US and other parts of the world have their own legends of a young woman in a pale dress, wanderi

The Center City Rapist: Part 2
September 04, 2022

Episode 90 Originally released January 2020 Content warning: this episode contains discussions about sexual assault and murder. Listener discretion is advised. Between the summer of 1997 and August

The Center City Rapist: Part 1
September 04, 2022

Episode 89 Originally released January 2020 Content warning: this episode contains discussions about sexual assault and murder. Listener discretion is advised. Between the summer of 1997 and August

Christmas Town: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
September 04, 2022

Episode 88 Originally released December 2019 Last weekend I took the family to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a town about 90 minutes north of Philadelphia and known all over the country as Christmas Town

Sarah Whiteling – the “Unnatural Mother”
September 04, 2022

Episode 86 Originally released November 2019 Content warning: this episode contains discussions about serial murder, family annihilators, and death of children. Listener discretion is advised. Can

Fairmount Charms: Strawberry Mansion and Lemon Hill
September 04, 2022

Episode 85 Originally released November 2019 In West Philadelphias Fairmount Park sit several historic homes, some dating back to the late 1700s. Long ago this section of the city was nothing but f

The History Behind the Hauntings
September 04, 2022

Episode 84 Originally Released October 2019 Pennsylvania is filled with folklore and ghost stories from all over the state: ghost stories, cryptids, haunted houses, and abandoned towns with misty fo