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The Keystone State! The birthplace of American freedom! And more importantly, the state where we’re headquartered!
Octavius Valentine Catto was a man for all seasons. He could have been the leader Philadelphia needed... if he hadn't been murdered.
Categories: Biography, History, Series 15
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I suppose I should actually show you what George Gray Barnard's sculpture groups for the Pennsylvania State Capitol actually look like, huh?
Categories: Arts & Culture, Supplement
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In August 2023, my cousin Tim and his fiancee Bonnie were getting married in Lancaster. As #7 and I made our travel plans, we realized that even though she has spent a large chunk of her adult life in Pennsylvania she had never visited many of its most famous historic sites. We decided to make […]
Categories: Arts & Culture, Feats of Building & Engineering, Series 14
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For seven years he lived in hell, tormented nightly by a demon cat and the spectre of death. Finally, an angel told him what he had to do to end it all...
Categories: Footsteps into the Unknown, People & Places, Series 13
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In August, #7 and #13 took a road trip to visit some podcast-related sites in Pennsylvania.
Categories: Supplement
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Joseph Raber was "too lazy to live and too lazy to work" -- the perfect victim for six conspirators who insured him to the gills and murdered him.
Categories: People & Places, Series 13
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"I myself cannot explain it. I know only that I remember Lemuria! Remember it with the absolute conviction of a fanatic..."
Categories: Entertainment & Media, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Most Popular, Series 11
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In 1874 four-year-old Charley Ross was kidnapped in front of his family's Philadelphia home... and became America's first case of kidnapping for ransom.
Categories: Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, People & Places, Series 11
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What would happen if you started a colony in the New World and then just kind of forgot about it for a few decades?
Categories: History, People & Places, Series 10
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Did you know that Connecticut and Pennsylvania went to war multiple times over the area that's now scranton? Learn all about the Yankee-Pennamite Wars!
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For one week in January 1909, the Jersey Devil walked among us. Maybe.
Categories: Footsteps into the Unknown, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Legendary Lands & Beasts, Myths & Legends, Series 6, Wild Card
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For years the Torso Burchianti Gang terrorized the Monongahela Valley. It turned out the gang wasn't quite as fearsome as the cops thought...
Categories: People & Places, Series 6
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