Disaster Area

For our 150th episode, we look at a disaster in which everyone survived, thanks to a flight crew with the skill and fortitude to pull off a Miracle on the Hudson.

17 Nov 202058min

You should be safe in your place of worship. But this week two years ago, a man walked into the Tree of Life-Or L'Simcha Congregation in Pittsburgh and broke that rule.

31 Okt 20201h 7min

In the early morning hours of April 7th, 1990, most of the people onboard the MS Scandinavian Star were fast asleep in their cabins, resting as they traveled from Oslo to Frederikshavn. But at least o...

30 Okt 202059min

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

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

Please don't store all of your explosives in one place. Particularly if there are thunderstorms in the weather forecast.

1 Sep 202052min

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

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