Episode 206: Fault Lines (ad-free)

If a community is only as strong as its foundations, then this American city is standing on shaky ground. And the stories that have fallen out of it are as dark as they come.

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Further Reading

1. Ahmed, Beenish. “The Lost Poetry of the Angel Island Detention Center.” The New Yorker. February 22, 2017. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-lost-poetry-of-the-angel-island-detention-center.
2. Alexander, Tommy. “Yes, We Live on Ohlone Land. But What Does That Mean?” The Bold Italic. Accessed March 21, 2022. https://thebolditalic.com/yes-we-live-on-ohlone-land-but-what-does-that-mean-70a34c249e70.
3. “Angel Island.” San Francisco Ghosts. Accessed March 22, 2022. https://sfghosts.com/angel-island.
4. “‘Angel Island’: Ellis Island of the West.” NPR. October 6, 2010. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130380169.
5. “The Army and American Indian Prisoners.” National Park Service. Accessed March 22, 2022. https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-army-and-american-indian-prisoners.htm.
6. Bennett, Lerone Jr. “A Historical Detective Story: Part II: Mystery of Mary Ellen Pleasant.” Ebony. May 1979, pp. 71-86. https://books.google.com/books?id=FWPsX5zvnDUC.
7. “Big Structures Now Planned.” San Francisco Chronicle. April 25, 1906, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/image/27448261.
8. Cagigal, Christian, and Daisy Barringer. “The Most Terrifying Haunted Places in San Francisco.” Thrillist. Accessed March 21, 2022. https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/san-francisco/most-haunted-places-in-san-francisco.
9. Chamings, Andrew. “The ghost who haunts the smallest park in San Francisco changed America.” SFGate. October 16, 2020. https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/i-went-to-the-most-haunted-corner-in-san-francisco-15645206.php.
10. “Desecration.” Daily Alta California. May 21, 1853, p. 2. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DAC18530521.2.10&srpos=3&e=------185-en--20-DAC-1--txt-txIN-carrion-------1.
11. Dowd, Katie. “The true tale behind the death that sparked San Francisco's most famous ghost story.” SFGate. October 5, 2017. https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/san-francisco-ghost-stories-white-lady-stow-lake-12247189.php.
12. Dwyer, Jeff. Ghost Hunter's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area (Pelican Publishing, 2005), pp. 75-76.
13. “Eyewitnesses to the Earthquake and Fire.” The Museum of the City of San Francisco. Accessed March 21, 2022. http://sfmuseum.org/1906/ew.html.
14. “Federal prisoners land on Alcatraz.” History. Accessed March 22, 2022. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/federal-prisoners-land-on-alcatraz.
15. “Former Alcatraz Inmates List.” National Archives. Accessed March 22, 2022. https://www.archives.gov/san-francisco/finding-aids/alcatraz-alpha#m.
16. “Girls Tell Police of Dead Baby.” The San Francisco Call. July 10, 1906, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/image/80967036.
17. “Gold Rush Transforms San Francisco.” National Park Service. Accessed March 21, 2022. https://www.nps.gov/places/000/gold-rush-transforms-san-francisco.htm.
18. “Golden Gate Cemetery (aka City Cemetery, Potter's Field).” SFgenealogy. Accessed March 21, 2022. https://www.sfgenealogy.org/sf/history/hcmcit.htm.
19. Gonzales, Richard. “Rebuilding Chinatown After the 1906 Quake.” NPR. April 12, 2006. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5337215.
20. Greenspan, Jesse. “Remembering the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.” History. October 19, 2018. https://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-great-san-francisco-earthquake-of-1906.
21. Hahn, Kimiko. “Angel Island: The Roots and Branches of Asian American Poetry.” Poetry. Accessed March 22, 2022. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2017/08/angel-island-the-roots-and-branches-of-asian-american-poetry.
22. Hauck, Dennis William. Haunted Places: The National Directory : Ghostly Abodes, Sacred Sites, UFO Landings, and Other Supernatural Locations (Penguin, 2002), p. 70.
23. “History.” Stow Lake. Accessed March 21, 2022. https://stowlakeboathouse.com/history.
24. “History of the Dead.” SFWeekly. October 8, 1997. https://www.sfweekly.com/news/history-of-the-dead.
25. Hopkins, Brittany. “Remembering Yerba Buena Cemetery And The Souls Buried Beneath Civic Center.” Hoodline. Accessed March 21, 2022. https://hoodline.com/2015/10/remembering-yerba-buena-cemetery-the-souls-buried-beneath-civic-center.
26. Keeling, Brock. “Exploring Mary Ellen Pleasant Memorial Park, the smallest public park in San Francisco.” Curbed San Francisco. September 22, 2016. https://sf.curbed.com/2016/9/22/13017182/san-francisco-mary-pleasant-small-park.
27. Klein, Christopher. “10 Things You May Not Know About Alcatraz.” History. March 21, 2013. https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-alcatraz.
28. Lai, H.M. “Detained on Angel Island.” FoundSF. Accessed March 22, 2022. https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Detained_on_Angel_Island.
29. “The legend and haunted history of Alcatraz.” History 101. Accessed March 22, 2022. https://www.history101.com/the-legend-and-haunted-history-of-alcatraz.
30. Leong, Kathy Chin. “Destruction and Rebirth 1906-1950.” San Francisco’s Chinatown. Accessed March 21, 2022. https://www.chinatownbooksf.com/destruction-and-rebirth-1906-1950.
31. Luo, Michael. “America was eager for Chinese immigrants. What happened?” The New Yorker. August 30, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/30/america-was-eager-for-chinese-immigrants-what-happened.
32. Maldetto, K. “Settlement of San Francisco (1776).” FoundSF, https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=SETTLEMENT_OF_SAN_FRANCISCO_(1776).
33. Meares, Hadley. “The Immigrant Experience at Angel Island, The Ellis Island of the American West.” KCET. July 26, 2017. https://www.kcet.org/shows/california-coastal-trail/the-immigrant-experience-at-angel-island-the-ellis-island-of-the-american-west.
34. Menzies, Jeremy. “The Ghost Ship of Muni Metro (Part 2).” SFMTA. August 4, 2016. https://www.sfmta.com/blog/ghost-ship-muni-metro-part-2.
35. “More Hoodlumism.” Daily Alta California. July 25, 1877. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DAC18770725.2.20&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1.
36. “The most haunted places in San Francisco.” Inn San Francisco. Accessed March 21, 2022. https://www.innsf.com/blog/the-most-haunted-places-in-san-francisco.
37. “Neighborhood Spotlight: Chinatown.” SFGate. Accessed March 21, 2022. https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Neighborhood-Spotlight-Chinatown-15969882.php.
38. Nolte, Carl. “The Great Quake: 1906-2006 / Rising from the ashes.” SFGate. April 18, 2006. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/The-Great-Quake-1906-2006-Rising-from-the-ashes-2537103.php.
39. Nolte, Carl. “SF City Hall ruins from 1906 quake found.” SFGate. September 24, 2012. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-City-Hall-ruins-from-1906-quake-found-3891123.php.
40. “North Beach Cemetery (aka Powell Street).” SFgenealogy. Accessed March 21, 2022. https://www.sfgenealogy.org/sf/history/hcmnor.htm.
41. “Park Ghost Holds Up Automobile Party.” San Francisco Chronicle. January 6, 1908, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45317982/gg-park.
42. Placzek, Jessica. “The Buried Ships of San Francisco.” KQED. November 23, 2017. https://www.kqed.org/news/11633087/the-buried-ships-of-san-francisco.
43. “The Prison Ship 'Euphemia.'” FoundSF. Accessed March 21, 2022. https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Prison_Ship_%27Euphemia%27.
44. “The real history behind Mary Ellen Pleasant, San Francisco's ‘voodoo queen.’” KALW. September 9, 2015. https://www.kalw.org/show/crosscurrents/2015-09-09/the-real-history-behind-mary-ellen-pleasant-san-franciscos-voodoo-queen.
45. “Removal of Dead Bodies.” Daily Alta California. February 7, 1853, p. 2. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DAC18530207.2.8&srpos=1&e=------185-en--20-DAC-1--txt-txIN-REMOVAL+OF+DEAD+BODIES-------1.
46. Rivenburg, Roy. “Forgotten Graves Yield Glimpse of Past.” Los Angeles Times. November 12, 1993. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-11-12-mn-56166-story.html.
47. “San Francisco Chinatown.” The Bancroft Library. Accessed March 21, 2022. https://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/chineseinca/sfchinatown.html.
48. “Site of our new city hall was a cemetery thirty years ago.” San Francisco Call. September 25, 1898, p. 22. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18980925.2.154.14&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1.
49. “Stow Lake Ghost.” Golden Gate Park. Accessed March 21, 2022. https://goldengatepark.com/stow-lake-ghost.html.
50. “United States Immigration Station (U.S.I.S.).” Angel Island Conservancy. Accessed March 21, 2022. https://angelisland.org/history/united-states-immigration-station-usis.
51. Upton, Joe. “How an earthquake in 1906 San Francisco sparked the invention of modern-day Chinatown.” The Conversation. November 7, 2017. https://theconversation.com/how-an-earthquake-in-1906-san-francisco-sparked-the-invention-of-modern-day-chinatown-85559.
52. Vazquez, Joe. “Video: Bay Area Woman Set to Swim from Alcatraz for 1000th Time.” KPIX. September 22, 2017. https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/09/22/woman-1000-alcatraz-swims.
53. Weiser, Kathy. “Ghosts of Alcatraz Island, California.” Legends of America. Accessed March 22, 2022. https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-alcatrazghosts.
54. “Yerba Buena Cemetery.” SFgenealogy. Accessed March 21, 2022. https://www.sfgenealogy.org/sf/history/hcmyer.htm.