The Macy Street Plague (GT Mini)

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

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

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

3.7 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

A plague returns in 1920s Los Angeles.

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0:00.0	Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees?
0:05.0	Are you interested in exploring the paranormal?
0:07.0	Faffled by stories of previous lives.
0:10.0	Well so are we.
0:11.0	In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena
0:17.0	and some horrific true crime cases.
0:19.0	Find us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok
0:22.5	and join us every Tuesday,
0:24.6	wherever you listen to your podcasts.
0:26.9	And be prepared to be totally and utterly,
0:29.7	perplexed. A Downtown Disaster.
0:49.3	I'm Rebecca Lebe.
0:51.0	I'm Jason Horton.
0:52.0	And this is Ghost Town.
0:53.3	Music I'm Rebecca Leab. I'm Jason Horton. And this is Ghost Town.
1:15.5	In the fall of 1924, Los Angeles was shaken by a deadly outbreak centered around Macy Street,
1:19.5	what is now Caesar-Eas Avenue that runs through Chinatown.
1:25.9	It all began on September 28, 1924, when Jesus Lujan died unexpectedly,
1:28.7	with doctors at first believing pneumonia was to blame,
1:34.3	soon after several members of the family and neighbors also became gravely ill and died.
1:37.3	An autopsy revealed something far more terrifying.
1:40.1	The bubonic plague.
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