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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

130: Typhoid Mary

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

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0:00.0

Home doesn't mean the same for me as it was for you.

0:04.0

From Academy Award winner Emol Fennel.

0:06.0

Why don't you come home with me?

0:08.0

Come to Saltbaum.

0:09.0

Critics are calling it deliriously enjoyable five stars.

0:13.0

Lots of people get lost in Saltburn.

0:16.0

And stylish and darkly comic.

0:18.0

Well, that's just giving me go spumps.

0:20.0

Mary Kieogan is a revelation.

0:23.0

I don't think I'll ever go home again.

0:25.0

Saltburn in Synth November 17.

0:29.0

The most dangerous Mary, I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib.

0:33.8

And this is Ghost Town. I have been really thinking about this particular episode and the subject matter for a long time considering

0:56.1

what we've been going through in 2020 and what we're going through right now and the parallels with them. So today I want to talk about the

1:05.1

legendary and terrifying story of Typhoid Mary and her life and what it meant to medicine and science.

1:15.0

Essentially, things that we're living right now.

1:17.0

So on September 23, 1869, Mary Mallon was born in Cookstown,

1:21.6

County, Tyrone in North Ireland.

1:23.8

She was likely born with typhoid as her mother was infected during pregnancy.

1:27.4

Then of course, the fun began.

1:29.8

When she was 15, Mary came to the U.S. to live her aunts and uncle working as a maid.

1:33.8

At this point we don't really know if her aunt and uncle was were subject to anything like that like

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