Pennsylvania Oddities Podcast
1) Death by Printing Press: The Mysterious Suicide of David Shilling
In June of 1908, the body of David Shilling, a 16-year-old office boy, was found hanging from a printing press at the newspaper offices of the Chambersburg People's Register. While evidence seemed to ...Show More
2) The Human Lightning Rods of Gettysburg
In July of 1863, a bloody battle fought near a small Pennsylvania town made the name Gettysburg famous throughout the world. Just forty-five years later, in July of 1908, tragedy would once again befa...Show More
3) The Murders at Sugar Valley Narrows
Located in Clinton County, Cherry Run, a tributary of Fishing Creek, is situated in a rugged, narrow valley between the small rural communities of Tylersville and Lamar. Today, a small clearing exists...Show More
4) Alice Marie Harris: Five Years a Prisoner in an Attic
In March of 1932, a girl named Alice was born in Fayette County to Martha Harris, the unwed 27-year-old daughter of a prosperous farmer from Perryopolis. Years passed, but very little was seen of Alic...Show More
5) The Duncannon Triple Murder
On the afternoon of April 1, 1965, state troopers visited the Duncannon home of 47-year-old Byron Halter and his family, consisting of his wife, Betty, their 17-year-daughter, Holly, and Betty's mothe...Show More
6) The Shocking Autopsy of Morris Foster
When Morris Foster died in 1889 at the Blockley Hospital in West Philadelphia, his friends suspected that he had been poisoned. Foster's corpse was exhumed and a graveside post-mortem examination was ...Show More
7) The Luzerne County Love Cult Murder
One of the more peculiar crimes in the history of Pennsylvania occurred in 1931 with the slaying of an elderly spinster from Forty Fort named Minnie Dilley. While most murders in our state's history h...Show More
8) Grandpa Goes Insane: The Gabert Family Murders
Sixty-year-old Elirio "Eli" Mantoni adored his family-- especially his grandchildren, who lived in Northampton County city of Easton with their mother, Lillian Mantoni Gabert. But when the county thre...Show More
9) The Ghost of Hannah Shingle
In the mid-19th century, an old farmhouse stood along a quaint country road in North Coventry Township. This was the home of an eccentric spinster named Hannah Shingle, whose brutal murder in 1855 rem...Show More
10) A Murder at City Hall: The Story of George Marion
This is the improbable, but true, tale of how Glinda the Good Witch helped save the life of a washed-up actor sentenced to death for murdering his estranged wife inside the Wilkes-Barre City Hall. Thi...Show More