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The Sunshine Place tells the mind-blowing, true-story of Synanon - one of America’s most cutting edge social experiments, turned into one of its most dangerous and violent cults - as it’s never been told before: by the people who lived it. Dederich, aka “Chuck,” would be the one to destroy it all, along with the lives of many of his followers and millions of dollars in assets. The man who made the miracle happen, Charles E. What started in a house on the beach, soon spread to compounds across the country. Before long, it would make an even bolder claim: It could cure any of your problems. Once called “the miracle on the beach,” Synanon began in the 1960s as an experimental rehab facility in Santa Monica, California with a radical claim: It could cure heroin addiction. History Impossible has been made possible by the following generous supporters on Patreon and PayPal: Special thanks to Vinny Andreotti, Sergey Cheremisinov, and Molly Pan & Eric Guillen for their incredible musical skills. These are all things that will be covered and more, as the impossible case is laid that the Spanish flu was not just the secret fuel that powered the monumental tragedies of the 20th century, but gives us insight into the very thing that could eventually act as the fuel for the tragedies for the 21st. And according to a small handful of medical historians, sociologists, and economists, quite possibly the reason for how things in that so-called "War to End All Wars" turned out and thus, everything that happened afterward. A force of nature more destructive than the Great War itself, rivaled only by the Second World War.

A bizarre historical footnote that no one wanted to discuss. The 1918 H1N1 Influenza A pandemic-better known as the "Spanish flu"-is known as a lot of things. Jones, Hue and Cry introduced America to McPherson’s unforgettable, enduring vision, and distinctive artistry. And by "does," we're talking about what it does to the human body, the human mind, and the wider social psychology of societies themselves, and of course, the historical consequences that result. First published in 1968, this collection includes the Atlantic Prize-winning story Gold Coast (selected by John Updike for the collection Best American Short Stories of the Century ). What follows is an exploration of what a pandemic actually does. What follows is an exploration of not just a pandemic and not just the most physically destructive pandemic in all of human history. Since it's the year of our lord 2020, it was only inevitable that we'd talk about pandemics on History Impossible. This episode is dedicated to Franco Bolelli.