Episode 139: Heirloom (ad-free) (Patreon)

The way we treat the past is a great lens into the character of humanity. Sometimes we elevate it, but all too often we work to bury it. And while the excuse might be to make room for the march of progress, it also allows us to hide our worst mistakes and most painful tragedies.

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Further Reading  

1. “How Thousands of Headstones Ended Up Under a Philadelphia Bridge,” CityLab, June 2012, https://www.citylab.com/design/2012/06/how-thousands-headstones-ended-under-philadelphia-bridge/2410.
2. Anonymous. 1944. "Preliminary observations." Civilian Public Service. 8 28. Accessed 11/27/2019. http://civilianpublicservice.org/sites/default/files/sites/civilianpublicservice.org/files/documents/preliminary-observations.pdf.
3. Kaczmarek, Dale. 2011. Fort Mifflin Investigation. Accessed 11/27/2019. http://www.ghostresearch.org/Investigations/mifflin.html.
4. “Inside Philadelphia’s Byberry Mental Hospital House Of Horrors,” All That’s Interesting, December 2017, https://allthatsinteresting.com/byberry-mental-hospital.
5. Matt Lake, Weird Pennsylvania: Your Travel Guide to Pennsylvania's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Co., 2005).
6. Jonathan D. Scott, The Woman in the Wilderness (Middleton Books, 2005).
7. “Cemeteries,” Philadelphia Encyclopedia, 2014, https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/cemeteries.
8. Oordt, Darcy. 2015. Haunted Philadelphia: Famous Phantoms, Sinister Sites, and Lingering Legends. Rowan & Littlefield.
9. “Perpetual Motion Machines: Working Against Physical Laws,” Live Science, August 2016, https://www.livescience.com/55944-perpetual-motion-machines.html.
10. "Convicts Fare Better Than Insane,” The Philadelphia Record, May 9, 1946.
11. J.P. Webster, The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry: A History of Misery and Medicine (Arcadia Publishing, 2013).