Sara Weiss’s Journeys to the Planet Mars
Stuff You Missed in History Class

Sara Weiss’s Journeys to the Planet Mars

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 202639 min
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Sara Weiss wrote a lengthy account of life and afterlife on Mars, a place she said she visited through psychic travels starting in 1892. Research: Calanchi, A. (2024). “Renewed in health”: Meeting Giordano Bruno on planet Mars. Between, 14(27), 93-109. https://doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/5444 Crossley, Robert. “Mars and the Paranormal.” Science Fiction Studies , Nov., 2008, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Nov., 2008). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25475179 Daly, Liza. “Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903).” 2/23/2022. https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/journeys-to-the-planet-mars/ Daly, Liza. “Sara Ditto Weiss.” https://ayonmuya.org/21-biography.html Dickey, Colin. “Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903).” The Public Domain Review. 2/3/2026. https://publicdomainrev...

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This is an iHeart Podcast, guaranteed human. Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of iHeart Radio. Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy B. Wilson.

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And I'm Holly Fry. We have talked about the spiritualist movement that peaked in the United States in Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries on a bunch of previous episodes of the show.

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It is a frequent guest topic, not just during October, but a lot of other times of the year. It was a prevalent movement. We have also talked about fantastical accounts

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