1: Abandoned Hawthorne Plaza Mall
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2018
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The Hawthorne Plaza Mall in Hawthorne, CA is an abandoned wasteland, home to films & tv shows such as Gone Girl, Minority Report, & Westworld. Jason & Rebecca talk about the plight of the mall and mall culture, as well Jason's personal experience exploring what was left of this once mighty shopping destination.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Delive a Rule, because anything goes this Christmas. |
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| 0:29.2 | If you like weird and strange history as much as I do, then I have the podcast for you. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Jason Horton, host of Strange Year. |
| 0:36.0 | Each episode I break down the Strange History and Cultural Happenings During that year, like |
| 0:40.0 | 1977 The WOW Signal, 1963, Three Tr tramps theory 1844 the Millerite movement |
| 0:45.7 | 1997 the Phoenix lights |
| 0:48.1 | 1896 the shortest war |
| 0:49.7 | 2004 Benjamin Kyle 1518 the dancing plague |
| 0:53.8 | 1985 the move bombing |
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| 1:03.5 | podcasts. What do Minority Report, Gone Girl, and JCPenney have in common? I'm |
| 1:10.7 | Rebecca Leib. And I'm Jason Horton and this is Ghost Town. |
| 1:14.0 | Episode one of Ghost Town, how does it feel? |
| 1:23.4 | Oh, it feels sexy. |
| 1:25.1 | Well, I'm excited, you're excited, and we're excited, people are listening. |
| 1:29.5 | We love the subject. |
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