Episode 147: The Wellington avalanche
You're stuck inside, unable to leave where you are and growing more frustrated by the day. But it's not quarantine, it's 1910 in the Cascade mountains, and you're stuck in a train that's been snowed i...
16 Okt 20201h 27min
Episode 146: The 1992 Los Angeles riots
The city didn't have to burn. Looters didn't have to break windows and rob businesses of everything that wasn't tied down. People didn't have to die. But in certain circumstances, when there is no jus...
1 Okt 20201h 35min
Episode 145: The Brescia explosion
Please don't store all of your explosives in one place. Particularly if there are thunderstorms in the weather forecast.
1 Sep 202052min
Episode 144: The fire on the General Slocum
The congregation of St. Mark's Lutheran church in New York City's Little Germany had been waiting for the Sunday school picnic excursion all year. Mothers dressed their kids in their best clothes and ...
31 Aug 20201h 39min
Episode 143: TWA Flight 800
You're at a midsummer evening party at a friend's beach house, enjoying a cocktail or two as the sun sets, when a loud noise draw everyone's gaze to the skies above the ocean. Something has exploded u...
24 Aug 20201h 15min
Episode 142: The sinking of the Marchioness
It was just supposed a late-night birthday party on the Thames - a little drinking, a little dancing, and a lot of fun with all their friends. But in the early morning hours of August 20th, 1989, the ...
31 Jul 20201h 22min
Episode 141: The eruption of Mount Pelee
It spewed smoke and ash that destroyed crops and killed livestock, and yet they stayed. It caused earthquakes that damaged buildings and mudslide which killed hundreds, and yet they stayed. It sent in...
19 Jul 20201h 34min
Episode 140: The 1918 influenza epidemic
It came out of nowhere, flowing in waves throughout the world during a time of great international upheaval. Some did what they could to fight it. Some were struck down, and tragically lost so quickly...
1 Jul 20201h 43min
