Mary Jo Chudley is no stranger to the paranormal. She has appeared on several television shows and amassed a large social following. Some in the paranormal community would call Mary Jo an “expert,” she has certainly earned that title. 

I was lucky enough to catch her for an interview during this busy paracon season. Of course, she brought a small part of her collection of haunted and custom dolls to the haunted New Egypt Historical Society Museum to sit and discuss her career and future plans. 

I asked her what it’s like having these dolls in her home, to which she replied,  “They don’t bother me, they’re good,” It’s just my house is haunted, that’s all.”

Reflecting on her childhood, Mary Jo added, “I didn’t even do haunted houses or stuff like that when I was a teenager because I was so afraid.”

She grew up in northeast Philadelphia, across from a cemetery. When she bought her first house, she noticed the TV, radio, and lights turning off and on at will—and her son started talking to a boy named Marky, who no one else could see.

“He, to this day, will not even talk about it because he remembers,” she said. “It totally scared him as a child.”

Through that experience, Chudley grew interested in investigating signs of paranormal activity and demonic possession. She got to know priests and psychic mediums, began following her curiosity, and shared her findings with a growing cohort of online followers.

“In the last five years, it just blew up because there are so many unanswered questions,” she said. “The more you experience, the more you want to know why this is happening and why these spirits can’t pass on.”

She established the Penn Paranormal Society a few years ago and now regularly shares updates on social media. People will reach out to her with their problems, sending photos and videos so she can offer her thoughts on whether something is a haunting, a demonic possession, or easily explained away.

“Especially with the pandemic, everybody seemed to go crazy because they’re stuck in their homes,” she said. 

Much of Chudley’s online presence centers on haunted dolls, the first of which she bought via Facebook Marketplace from a seller she said would later send her pictures of bees and flies and the number 666.

“I don’t know what you’re into, but this is not what I’m into,” she told him.

Then, her hemoglobin count dropped dramatically and landed her in the ER. She said her vitals would improve while at the hospital, but her hemoglobin would tank again upon arriving home. At its lowest, she said, her count was 6 gm/dL, a number considered life-threatening.

Then, she said a psychic medium friend called her and told her to move the dolls she’d purchased to the shed outside her home.

She responded, “How did you know I even got dolls?”

But she did what her friend suggested and said her health improved.

The dolls are now in her home again, but the one she believes to be possessed is kept in a locked cabinet. She said she, her husband, and their dogs haven’t had health issues since the doll has been shut in.

Mary Jo Bio:

Mary Jo Chudley is the founder of Penn Paranormal.  She has been into the supernatural since she was a child, living across the street from a cemetery. She witnessed many of spirits. Later on, bought her first house in 1998. Little did she know, the property her house was on and the surrounding area was haunted. Mary spent most of her time as a young adult learning about the paranormal to help her community out, who were also having various issues involving the paranormal. 

Mary Jo and her husband Bill offer their assistance in private homes & businesses, and they help people who want to be more educated about the field. Throughout the years, Mary Jo has collected extraordinary evidence and worked with the biggest paranormal investigators in the most haunted places in America. Mary jo was the headliner / ambassador for the first ever paracon in Latin America in Costa Rica and will remain the ambassador for them. Mary Jo and Bill have been featured on Travel Channel’s paranormal TV show “A Haunting “ with haunted objects she obtained. They both  were on destination Fear separately, Paranormal Caught On Camera, America’s most terrifying, haunted hospitals, Repossessed & Jenny McCarthy show. Revealing evidence they captured in the paranormal.  

Mary jo has more then 30 confirmed haunted objects obtained inside their house, while keeping the extreme ones locked up. She has showcased some of her haunted objects world wide. Mary Jo was featured in USA Today, with a big article on her haunted objects. She has 6 of her haunted objects in the Pinebush UFO museum in New York. She takes some of her haunted objects to paracons to also speak of the cases containing those objects. 

Mary Jo owns Twisted dolls. She takes old unwanted dolls and transforms them into twisted dolls. Making them spooky and horror themed. She also takes special requests.