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The General Wayne Inn

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TwistedPhilly

Places & Travel, Arts, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6897 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Episode 3 – Originally Published in 2016 Built before the Revolutionary War, the General Wayne Inn was America’s oldest operating restaurant and inn before it closed in 2002. The inn’s history dates back to 1704, cropping up in early American history over and over for centuries. It’s believed Edgar Allen Poe wrote portions of “The …

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And There's a legendary ghost story about a British soldier and was murdered at the inn.

0:26.1

And some people say that they can still hear

0:29.8

or see evidence of his spectral presence in between its 300-year-old walls.

0:37.0

Hey Twisters, what's up?

0:41.0

Welcome back to Twisted Philly, the podcast dedicated to my favorite

0:44.2

twisted stories about the city of Brotherly Love and Pennsylvania. So summer is

0:49.6

O-V-E-R-over. I spent last week in Cape May, New Jersey. We got so lucky with the weather. The sixth

0:57.4

friggin' Philly heat wave didn't hit until we were leaving town and heading home.

1:00.9

I freaking love Cape May. My daughter and I visit so much in the off season that our time there in August is starting to feel like that's the off season.

1:09.5

I cannot wait to go back in October for the Lima Bean Festival. Yeah I said

1:14.2

Lima Bean. It's an unloved vegetable except for me and the few hundred people that go

1:18.4

to the Lima Bean Festival every year. I'm actually glad summer is coming to an end because that means fall is right around the corner.

1:26.0

I love fall I love Halloween I love the significant uptick in twisted shit during the season of The Witch. We'll probably have some bonus episodes

1:35.4

around Halloween about twisted events and celebrations around the city. We'll just have to see what

1:40.7

I get up to. Thank you for listening to

1:43.4

episode 2, Mutter butter. I loved recording that episode the entire time I'm

1:48.0

like I've got to get back to the Mutter Museum. I have to give

1:51.5

twisted Philly what-ups to my mom. My mom is not a fan of anything

1:56.7

creepy or scary. She is definitely not a fan of true crime. So when she

2:00.6

asked me what are you doing? What's a podcast? I didn't think she would listen.

2:05.4

I warned her not to listen to the first episode about the corpse collector,

2:09.0

but I thought Mutter Butter might be tame enough for my mom and damn if she didn't listen so what

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