143: The First Emperor of the United States

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

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

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

3.7 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In 1859, the city of San Francisco was ruled by Emperor Norton I, The First Emperor of the United States. KTLA feature New YouTube Video Cecil Hotel Shirt Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: http://bit.ly/3qveY1l Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	a California King. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton. And this is Ghost Town.
0:20.0	On September 17th 1859, several San Francisco newspapers printed the following.
0:26.3	At the preemptory request and desire of a large majority of citizens,
0:30.9	I Joshua Norton declared and proclaimed myself emperor of these United States. It was signed
0:37.7	Norton the first emperor of the United States. We're talking about the first emperor of the
0:47.5	United States of America. We're also talking about the last emperor of the United States of America.
0:54.3	So far. So far. So far. Okay. Okay. This episode was brought to us by a listener.
1:01.9	Yay. Which I was very excited about. And when Holly pitched it, it, you know, references
1:10.6	California, you know, Amen. And you know me, when I see 1850s, that's more your world. Yeah,
1:16.1	I like the older the better for me in many respects. I'm like kind of like a 20th century guy.
1:21.0	Yeah, that's true. That's true. But this I thought was really interesting and something I didn't
1:27.0	know about. And it kind of talked about California and the United States. So it's, you know,
1:32.6	kind of checked off a few boxes. Plus Holly did all the work. Holly, bless you. So really thankful
1:41.7	to Holly. She wanted us to, but I mean, I wanted to, but she has a charity. What's called
1:49.8	Rainbow Railroad, which is rainbowrailroad.org. And her Instagram is Instagram.com H-O-L-L-Y-B-E-R-R-I-G-R-A-M-Holly
2:02.5	Bery Graham. Hi, Bery Graham. So I want to say thank you. And if you, you know, a lot of people
2:07.5	kind of pitch us stuff or send us, you know, it's information and that's great. If you, for some
2:12.8	reason, have a personal connection to a story or if you have a weird audio, please, or you want to
2:19.4	type up the notes with the sources, that appeals to me. Yeah. I mean, any range of work that you
2:25.6	want to do will gladly accept any degree. And so this is probably, I think, the only second when
2:30.5	the lesson we did was the noise. Yeah. But we got really, really, really great ones. And so thank
2:35.2	you, Holly. Yeah. Thank you. And I guess thank you to, in the first emperor of the United States,
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