Fascinating Horror

Of all the inventors who have ever lived, Thomas Midgley is quite possibly the one who has inadvertently done more harm to human life than any other, with his inventions killing millions and endangeri...

20 Aug 202510min

When the passenger liner the SS Princess Sophia ran aground on a reef off the coast of Alaska in 1918, her many passengers survived the collision. Despite this, they would never be rescued, despite mu...

18 Aug 20259min

This episode tells the story of two accidents that have taken place on the Matterhorn Bobsleds at Disneyland, California - one in 1964, and one in 1984...Fascinating Horror covers the true stories beh...

15 Aug 20259min

In 1900 the busy Hoboken Docks in New Jersey were consumed by a fire that started in a single hay bale. It was a devastating blaze that claimed hundreds of lives... and which could never be allowed to...

13 Aug 20258min

In 1994, two military aircraft collided while approaching Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina, starting a chain of events that would lead to a horrifying accident with the largest number of ground f...

8 Aug 20259min

In 1912, tailor and tinkerer Franz Reichelt believed that he could design the world's first portable, wearable parachute. He was so confident in his design that he decided to test it by throwing himse...

6 Aug 20259min

This episode covers one of the worst accidents ever to take place in the history of UK sport: the Burnden Park disaster of 1946...Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's gr...

4 Aug 20259min

In 1982, filming began for a movie version of the popular television show The Twilight Zone. Before filming was complete, two children and one adult actor would have been killed in a dangerous and poo...

1 Aug 202510min