The Secret History of Mary Ellen Pleasant

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

One of San Francisco's purported “ghosts,” has a remarkable real-life story often left out of San Francisco's history books. Today we bring back an episode that first aired in 2018, about the remarkable, yet complicated life of Mary Ellen Pleasant. Additional Reading: Read the transcript for this episode Ghost of a Legend: How a San Francisco Civil Rights Icon Was Made a Monster Register for KQED Fest Sign up for our newsletter Enter our Sierra Nevada Brewing Company monthly trivia contest Your support makes KQED podcasts possible. You can show your love by going to https://kqed.org/donate/podcasts Reported by Carly Severn. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Amanda Font, Ana De Almeida Amaral and Christopher Beale. Additional support on this episode from Jessica Placzek, Paul Lancour, Ryan Levi and Suzie Racho. Thanks also to Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED Family.

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0:31.2	From KQED.
0:39.4	The nights are getting longer.
0:41.8	Pumpkins are popping up on doorsteps all over town and soon ghoulish
0:46.5	trick-or-treaters may be knocking at your door. Today on Bay Curious we've got a
0:51.7	treat for you
0:52.8	to kick off spooky season, all inspired
0:55.6	by this question from a listener.
0:57.5	Hi, I'm Kelsey Poole, and my question is,
1:00.1	what are the most haunted places in San Francisco.
1:03.0	We sent Kelsey on a San Francisco ghost hunt tour
1:06.5	to learn the haunted side of the city's history.
1:09.5	It's a cool way to see the city
1:11.8	and you get some spooky stories to keep you up at night.
1:16.8	But what we didn't expect to find on the tour was the real life story that would shake us
1:22.4	the most.
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