Episode 107: The Beverly Hills Supper Club fire
It was a little slice of Vegas transplanted to a Kentucky hillside just outside of Cincinnati, an elegant showcase for the likes of the Rat Pack, Marilyn Monroe, Liberace, and Frankie Valli. The Bever...
21 Mar 20191h 24min
Episode 106: The Dyatlov Pass incident
In late January of 1959, ten hikers left the city of Sverdlovsk heading for an adventure in the wilderness. Only one of them returned alive. So what happened to Igor Dyatlov and the other eight hikers...
9 Mar 20191h 19min
Episode 105: The 1996 Air Africa disaster
N'Dolo Airport could not have been any worse of an airport to take off from in 1996 if it tried. Whether it be the pitted runway or the handwaving of appropriate documentation and procedures, flying o...
22 Feb 201943min
Episode 104: The Top Storey Club fire
It was almost like a terribly kept secret. The Top Storey Club sat hidden away on the topmost story of an old warehouse you needed to wander through furniture workshops and storerooms on lower floors ...
16 Feb 201940min
Episode 103: The Halifax explosion
It was the worst manmade explosion in human history prior to the bombing of Hiroshima. On December 6, 1917, Halifax, Nova Scotia, was one of the busiest ports in the world, with wartime traffic passin...
8 Feb 20191h 25min
Episode 102: The Great Yarmouth bridge disaster
Hear ye, hear ye! Come one, come all, on the evening of May 2, 1845, to see a fantastic sight! Nelson the clown of the Cooke Royal Circus will be performing for you all on the river Bure in Great Yarm...
25 Jan 201942min
Episode 101: The Great Stink of London
The river was a sewer - almost literally. In 1858 London, the Thames wound through the city carrying everything from fecal matter to slaughterhouse offal. Even worse, that was the city's drinking sour...
1 Jan 201950min
Episode 100: The attack on Nakatomi Plaza
For the 100th episode of the podcast, we examine a genuine Christmas miracle, in which the bad guys lose, one man wins, and Twinkies survive an entirely different kind of disaster than we thought they...
28 Des 201833min
