History's A Disaster
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Bloody history and bloodier crimes. Andrew takes a weekly look at all things bloody. From natural disasters to man made atrocities
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The 1918 Dutchman’s Curve Disaster
Send a textA clear signal, a crowded morning, and a single stretch of track set the stage for one of America’s deadliest rail disasters. We take you inside the 1918 Dutchman’s Curve wreck in…
Southwest Airlines Flight 1380
Send a textA window shatters at 32,000 feet, oxygen masks fall, and a 737 lurches into a violent roll. We walk through the harrowing chain of events aboard Southwest Flight 1380, from the first…
Sinking of the Carl D Bradley
Send a textA storm can break more than a ship; it can test a town’s faith and rewrite a company’s story. We take you from the birth of the Carl D. Bradley as the pride of the Great Lakes limestone…
Roseville Yard Explosion
Send a textA glowing wheel rim, a wisp of smoke, and then a blast that shook windows miles away. We tell the full story of the 1973 Roseville Yard explosions—how a routine munitions run became a…
The Kidnapping And Escape Of Jayme Closs
Send a textA safe home, a quiet town, and a split-second encounter behind a school bus ignite one of the most harrowing survival stories in recent memory. We follow how a young girl became the target…
Green Ramp Disaster
Send a textA clear spring afternoon. Hundreds of paratroopers prepping for routine jumps. Then a midair collision ignites 55,000 gallons of jet fuel and turns a quiet staging area into a battlefield.…
Running Toward Disaster: The Bhopal Gas Leak
Send a textThe air turned against its own city. We follow the chain that made it possible: a reactive chemical never meant for storage in bulk, a series of safety systems taken offline or ignored,…
The My Lai Massacre
Send a textA quiet hamlet at dawn. No return fire. Smoke, screams, and a ditch that won’t leave your mind. We walk through how an ordinary American unit, raised on heroic war stories and trained to…
Harrison Okene: Survival Beneath The Waves
Send a textThe ocean doesn’t announce its plans. One wave hit, a tugboat rolled, and a ship’s cook found himself sealed in a bathroom-sized air pocket on the seafloor for 62 hours, listening to…
Tangiwai Christmas Eve Rail Disaster
Send a textA night train full of families, gifts, and holiday plans sped toward a bridge that wasn’t there anymore. We follow that chilling arc—from a crater lake’s quiet failure on Mount Ruapehu to…
The 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash
Send a textA headlining tour, a hit record, and a tired airplane came together over Mississippi—and the result reshaped rock history. We trace Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 1977 crash from the first red flags to…
The Ghost Ship Mary Celeste
Send a textA silent ship in open water, a missing crew, and a century of wild theories—this is the story that made “ghost ship” part of our vocabulary. We pull the lens wide, starting with the Mary…
The SeaWorld Gold Coast Mid-Air Collision
Send a textTwo scenic helicopters crossed paths over the Gold Coast and collided in clear daylight, exposing weak links in see-and-avoid, radio reliability, and ground procedures. We trace the…
1990 I-75 Fog Disaster
Send a textA perfectly ordinary Tuesday morning turned into a wall of white and the worst commute of many people’s lives. We dive into the 99-car pileup on I-75 near Calhoun, Tennessee—how a…
Air Florida Flight 90
Send a textA winter storm, rushed decisions, and weak training collided as Air Florida Flight 90 lifted into bad data and iced wings, then fell into the Potomac. We trace the chain of errors, the…
The Versailles Wedding Hall Collapse
Send a textJoy filled a crowded Jerusalem wedding until the third-floor dance hall collapsed, triggering a deadly progressive failure that exposed years of shortcuts and ignored warnings. We trace…
Alfred Packer The Colorado Cannibal
Send a textA winter crossing turned deadly when Alfred Packer led five men into the San Juans against Chief Ouray’s warning, then returned alone with shifting stories and other men’s gear. We trace…
Luxor Hot Air Balloon Crash
Send a textThe dawn over Luxor promises gold on stone and quiet air over the Nile—until one failed part turns awe into catastrophe. We unpack the 2013 hot air balloon crash from the ground up: how…
Dublin Whiskey Fire
Send a textBlue flames raced down Dublin’s streets as thousands of gallons of whiskey burst from a burning warehouse and turned the Liberties into a flowing inferno. We take you straight into the…
Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train Crash of 1918
Send a textA midnight circus run. A hot axle on a curve. An empty troop train racing through signals toward a sleeping engineer. Before dawn near Ivanhoe, Indiana, steel met wood, kerosene met…
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History's A Disaster has published 72 episodes since November 2024, covering topics in Documentary, History.
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