Jersey Devil III - Freakshow
Description
A living Jersey Devil caged exhibit was displayed at the 9th and Arch Street Dime Museum in Philadelphia following national headlines and a thousand witness statements claiming to have seen the beast in 1909. Join Grim Philly for a peak inside the gothic world of Philadelphia Victorian entertainments including freak shows, trance lectures and necromancy, mummy unwrapping parties, and the performers whose traveling freak exhibits graced the city of brotherly love. Grim Philly original interview clips from Bedlam Asylum and University of Edinburgh on location highlight entertainments of the era. Visit https://www.patreon.com/grimphilly for additional 2 hours original interview material recorded at Bedlam Asylum in London this winter. Visit https://www.grimphilly.com/ for live entertainments in Philadelphia nightly this fall.
United States
