Episode 44: Air New Zealand Flight 901
Who wouldn't like to go on a sightseeing flight? Have a glass of champagne, mingle with your fellow sightseers, and peer down in wonder at the glorious sights below. But for Air New Zealand Flight 901...
17 Aug 201755min
Episode 43: The AIDS Epidemic, Part One - Origin
In this short first entry in our series on the AIDS epidemic, we see the very beginnings of the AIDS virus -- not in the late 1970s, but in a jungle in Cameroon at the turn of the 20th century. We als...
4 Aug 201718min
Episode 42: The Bradford City stadium fire
Most of us have been to a sporting event at one time or another in our lives. In this day and age, we can spot the safety improvements which have been added the stadiums and arenas due to tragedies wh...
27 Juli 20171h 4min
Episode 41: The Tri-State Tornado
It's 1925 and you leave the house on a Wednesday morning three weeks before Easter ready to go to work delivering mail in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri. While passing near a rural field in your hors...
17 Juli 20171h 5min
Episode 40: The World Series earthquake
The San Francisco-Oakland area had baseball fever. Both of their teams -- the Giants and the Athletics respectively -- would go up against one another in Game Three of the "Battle of the Bay" World Se...
26 Juni 20171h 25min
Episode 39: The San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre
It was always busy at the McDonald's restaurant on San Ysidro Boulevard. Kids invaded the play area whether or not they'd eaten in the restaurant, and for people arriving from the Tijuana border cross...
31 Maj 20171h 3min
Episode 38: The 1918 Hammond circus train crash
You're the engineer on an empty troop train in the middle of the night in 1918, headed west to pick up more soldiers meant to head off to the war in Europe. You've had little sleep but you've eaten we...
28 Maj 20171h 16min
Episode 37: Air Florida Flight 90 and the Washington Metro Train Collision
They say God never gives you more than you can handle. On January 13, 1982, He sure as hell attempted to do so to the city of Washington, DC. Snow cascaded from the sky, making driving home from work ...
16 Maj 201757min
