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History"s A Disaster

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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28:57

Missing: SS Waratah

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/03/22

Send us Fan Mail A passenger ship the size of a city block leaves port, gets seen one last time off the South African coast, and then seems to erase itself from the ocean. That’s the SS Waratah, a Blue Anchor Line liner marketed as virtually unsinkable and later nicknamed Australia’s Titanic, disappearing in 1909 with no confirmed wreckage, no verified bodies, and just enough sightings to keep hope alive for decades. We walk through how the Waratah is built for the Australia run, what “moder...

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28:23

The 1936 Black Forest Hiking Disaster

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/03/15

Send a text A hike sounds harmless until the weather stops cooperating and the person in charge refuses to admit they’re wrong. We’re telling the true story of the 1936 Black Forest Tragedy, when English teacher Kenneth Keist leads 27 schoolboys into Germany’s mountains during a building snowstorm and turns a spring break trek into a deadly historical disaster. We walk step by step through the decisions that matter in any hiking safety story: ignoring local warnings, trusting a bad tourist m...

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21:26

1844 USS Princeton Explosion

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/03/08

Send a text A champagne cruise, a gleaming warship, and a crowd of Washington power brokers waiting for the thunder of a new supergun. Moments later, the deck of the USS Princeton lay shattered, and five leading figures were dead. We take you from the political stakes of John Tyler’s embattled presidency to the engineering choices that made the Peacemaker cannon a ticking bomb, revealing how spectacle outran science and left a lasting scar on naval innovation. We share how Tyler, cut off fro...

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21:37

The 1918 Dutchman’s Curve Disaster

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/03/01

Send a text A 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 Nashville—where missed checks, wartime confusion, and the cruel logic of Jim Crow turned routine into catastrophe—then follow the people who tried to heal the damage and the reforms that followed. We start with the world that built the accident: hand-thrown switches, wooden passenger cars, and crews str...

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18:43

Southwest Airlines Flight 1380

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/02/22

Send a text A 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 metallic thud to a high-speed single‑engine landing, unpacking how a tiny fatigue crack and a vulnerable cowling latch combined to break the cabin and the hearts of everyone on board. Along the way, we spotlight the calm precision of Captain Tammy Jo Schultz, the split-second choices around flaps and ...

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24:31

Sinking of the Carl D Bradley

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/02/15

Send a text A 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 trade to a November night when the “Queen of the Lakes” snapped in two and sent an entire community into mourning. With vivid scene-setting and clear-eyed analysis, we explore how an aging flagship, quiet cracks, and a last-minute order to chase one more load intersected with thirty-foot waves—and ...

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22:06

Roseville Yard Explosion

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/02/08

Send us a text A 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 32-hour chain reaction that turned a vital rail hub into a field of craters and twisted steel. From the Sierra Nevada descent to the first plume of smoke in Antelope, we walk through the missed hotbox detection, the frantic minutes before the initial detonation, and the split-second decisions that...

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21:36

The Kidnapping And Escape Of Jayme Closs

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/02/01

Send us a text A 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 of a stranger’s obsession, how a meticulously planned home invasion left two parents dead, and how their daughter endured 88 days in a makeshift prison before engineering her own escape. We unpack the anatomy of the crime: the offender’s isolating spiral, his methodical preparation to erase ...

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23:32

Green Ramp Disaster

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/01/25

Send us a text A 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. We walk through the Green Ramp disaster step by step, from the moment an F-16 on a simulated flameout approach clipped a C-130 on final to the fireball that struck the 82nd Airborne and 18th Airborne Corps at Pope Air Force Base in 1994. We set the scene on Green Ramp—the mock doors, the Pac...

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23:03

Running Toward Disaster: The Bhopal Gas Leak

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/01/18

Send us a text The 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, and a community living within walking distance of tanks that required perfection to stay safe. When water slipped into Tank 610, pressure soared, alarms were silenced by habit, and the last defenses failed. What spilled over the factory wall wasn’t just gas—it was every deferred repair, every cu...

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24:33

The My Lai Massacre

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/01/11

Send us a text A 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 chase “body count,” entered My Lai expecting a firefight and left a graveyard behind. From the briefing that erased the idea of civilians to the moment a single killing unlocked a flood, we examine how culture, orders, and fear converged into atrocity—and how a helicopter crew chose to stand be...

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15:11

Harrison Okene: Survival Beneath The Waves

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/01/04

Send us a text The 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 distant engines and his own breath. What happened next is a sharp study in fear, ingenuity, and the thin margin between life and loss. We trace the Jascon 4’s final minutes off the coast of Nigeria, the chaos of inverted corridors, and the brutal math of survival: conserve oxygen, fight hypothermi...

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20:40

Tangiwai Christmas Eve Rail Disaster

History"s A Disaster ·

2025/12/28

Send us a text A 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 a lahar roaring down the Whangaehu River, shredding concrete piers and erasing the Tangiwai bridge in darkness—then step into the locomotive cab as the crew sees a frantic flashlight beam and fights physics with brakes and sand, seconds too late. We unpack how New Zealand’s landscape shapes i...

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18:50

The 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash

History"s A Disaster ·

2025/12/21

Send us a text A 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 last radio call, clarifying what went wrong and why the loss was avoidable. The story starts with a band at full speed after releasing Street Survivors, then zooms into the logistics that carried the risk: a 1948 Convair 240 with a long maintenance trail, visible engine flames on earlier f...

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27:06

The Ghost Ship Mary Celeste

History"s A Disaster ·

2025/12/14

Send us a text A 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 Celeste’s earlier life as the Amazon, a fast, carvel-built brigantine whose career seemed shadowed by bad luck: a captain’s sudden death, collisions, a grounding, and a salvage. When Benjamin Briggs steps aboard as owner-captain, he brings discipline, family, and a small, trusted crew to carry ...

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21:42

The SeaWorld Gold Coast Mid-Air Collision

History"s A Disaster ·

2025/12/07

Send us a text Two 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 timeline, the emergency response, and the investigation, then lay out practical fixes for safer sightseeing flights. • operator expansion without matched safety assessment • aircraft, pilot backgrounds, and flight setup • timeline from liftoff to collision over the sandbar • passenger alerts, impac...

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17:46

1990 I-75 Fog Disaster

History"s A Disaster ·

2025/11/30

Send us a text A 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 fog-prone valley, river-backed reservoirs, and nearby industrial ponds set the stage for sudden zero visibility, and how human reactions at different speeds amplified a single impact into a chain of catastrophe. It’s a forensic tour through weather, geography, and the split-second choices that define ...

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25:26

Air Florida Flight 90

History"s A Disaster ·

2025/11/23

Send us a text A 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 rescue that followed, and the reforms that reshaped winter flying. • deregulation pressures and rapid growth at Air Florida • crew backgrounds and cockpit culture under stress • storm delays, flawed de‑icing, and holdover time exceeded • anti‑ice not used and iced probes faking...

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16:44

The Versailles Wedding Hall Collapse

History"s A Disaster ·

2025/11/16

Send us a text Joy 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 the engineering decisions, the human stories, and the slow path to accountability and reform. • PAL-KAL method and rapid-build culture • design change from roof to occupied floor • added then removed supports and load paths • visible sagging, cracks, and floor bounce • collapse sequence and pro...

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21:04

Alfred Packer The Colorado Cannibal

History"s A Disaster ·

2025/11/09

Send us a text A 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 the confessions, the trials, and the forensics that still complicate his guilt. • Packer’s troubled past and failed careers • The mining party’s formation and dire route choice • Chief Ouray’s warning and the fatal decision to proceed • Packer’s lone arrival and suspicious possessions • First ...

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