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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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22:24

The HMS Thetis Sinking

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/04/26

Send us Fan Mail A submarine is already a coffin-shaped idea, but HMS Thetis proves how fast “routine” can become irreversible. We’re telling the story of the 1939 HMS Thetis disaster in Liverpool Bay, where a brand-new British Royal Navy T Class submarine goes down during dive trials and turns a simple systems check into a deadly cascade. We walk through what Thetis is, how diesel electric submarines operate, and why early sea trials matter so much. Then everything hinges on details that so...

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19:39

Buffalo Creek Flood

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/04/19

Send us Fan Mail A river valley can feel like the safest place in the world until the water comes with a roar. We’re telling the story of the Buffalo Creek disaster, the 1972 West Virginia flood that started with a coal waste dam built on sludge and ended with a fast-moving wall of water tearing through a chain of tight-knit mining towns. We walk through how coal mining shaped Buffalo Creek Valley, why the impoundment dams were constructed the way they were, and what inspectors found w...

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20:55

Imperial Sugar Refinery Explosion

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/04/12

Send us Fan Mail Sugar is supposed to be comfort. At an industrial scale, it can be an accelerant powerful enough to tear a building apart. We walk through the 2008 Imperial Sugar refinery explosion in Port Wentworth, Georgia, a catastrophic combustible dust explosion that started in a conveyor tunnel and cascaded into fireballs, secondary blasts, and a fast-moving inferno that left 14 workers dead and dozens injured. I break down how the Dixie Crystal facility grew into a massive oper...

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18:44

Vestal Train Wreck

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/04/05

Send us Fan Mail A freight train running late, a quick stop for water, and a split-second assumption turn into an explosion that people feel eight miles away. We’re telling the story of the Vestal train wreck of 1901, a Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad disaster that detonated a railcar carrying 12 tons of dynamite and ripped through the small town of Vestal, New York near the Susquehanna River. If you’re into rail history, train crashes, or the uncomfortable mechanics of how “almost ...

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19:27

US Bangla Flight 211

History"s A Disaster ·

2026/03/29

Send us Fan Mail You trust a stranger with your life every time you board a plane, but you almost never see the person in the left seat. That uneasy truth sits at the center of our deep dive into US-Bangla Flight 211, a Dhaka to Kathmandu route that should have been routine and instead ended with 51 lives lost after a chaotic, unstable approach and a post-crash fire. We walk through the setup: a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 heading into Kathmandu’s demanding airspace, where terrain, workload...

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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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