Ep 208 - Halifax Explosion: Before the Blast
Haunted Talks22 Elo 2025

Ep 208 - Halifax Explosion: Before the Blast

On a crisp December morning in 1917, Halifax woke to calm skies and the quiet hum of a wartime city at work. Children hurried to school. Workers streamed into factories. Families went about their routines.

Out in the harbour, two ships moved slowly toward one another. One carried deadly cargo, volatile enough to erase a city. When they collided, a fuse was lit. At 9:04 a.m., Halifax was ripped apart in a wave of fire, force, and sound.

In this first part of our two-part series, we walk alongside the people who lived those ordinary minutes before disaster: the harbour pilot steering a ship of fire, the dispatcher tapping out his last warning, and the young girl whose small choice meant survival.

Hear their stories in Before the Blast, now streaming.

If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like:

Episode 193 – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Episode 164 – What Happened to the Mary Celeste?
Episode 152 – Premonitions of the Titanic Disaster

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