The Macy Street Plague (GT Mini)
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 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. |
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| 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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