October seemed like a good time for an installment of Six Impossible Episodes all about ghosts and hauntings. A lot of these are very well-known in the places where they originated, but maybe not outside of those places.

Six Impossible Episodes: Ghost Stories

Join Holly and Tracy as they bring you the greatest and strangest Stuff You Missed In History Class in this podcast by iHeartRadio.

Society & Culture

Personal Journals

History

Philosophy

Places & Travel

Tracy and Holly talk about the Disney animators' strike of 1941, Angel Island, and Tyrus Wong's Christmas cards. They also discuss the merits of dandelions.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Behind the Scenes Minis: Strikes, Immigration and Weeds

Gertrude Jekyll was born into a 19th-century English family of means, but her life took an unconventional path for a woman in her circumstances, and she became an iconic and legendary horticulturist.

Gertrude Jekyll's Artistic Gardens

Over the course of an extraordinarily long career, Tyrus Wong worked across a range of media in a whole collection of industries – animation, live-action film, commercial art, public art, greeting cards, and in his last years, kitemaking in his personal workshop.

The Art of Tyrus Wong

This 2019 episode covers the earthquake of April 18, 1906 that changed San Francisco forever. The earthquake and a series of fires devastated much of the city and had long-term ramifications. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

SYMHC Classics: San Francisco 1906 - The Great Quake and Fires

Tracy and Holly talk about the eerie similarities of the stories of the Andrea Doria and the Empress of Ireland. They also talk about Jacob Haish's poetry about barbed wire. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Six Impossible Episodes: Ghost Stories

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