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Yore Town

Beard Laws Studio, Bleav

Yore Town Podcast is a true crime and dark history podcast uncovering real small-town mysteries, forgotten crimes, unexplained events, and buried history from places most people overlook. Each episode delivers deep-dive storytelling into true crime cases, unsolved disappearances, eerie local legends, historical cover-ups, and strange but 100% real stories that actually happened. No clickbait. No internet myths. Just well-researched, fact-checked episodes designed to keep you listening until the

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00:32:37

The London Beer Flood: When a Million Pints Flooded...

Yore Town ·

2026/10/05

On October 17, 1814, a 700-pound iron hoop fell from a massive wooden vat inside London’s Horse Shoe Brewery.The vat held more than one million pints of porter. The workers noticed the problem. They reported it. But hoops had slipped before, and nothing catastrophic had happened. About an hour later, the vat exploded. The resulting flood tore through the brewery, brought down a wall, and poured into the neighboring St. Giles area, where families lived in cramped homes and basement rooms directly in

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00:32:05

The River Kept Destroying This Town. They Kept...

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2026/09/28

Virginius Island was built because of the river.Factories harnessed the power of the Shenandoah. Workers followed the factories. Homes, roads, gardens and a school followed the workers. Before long, a tiny island beside Harpers Ferry, West Virginia had become a thriving industrial community. Then, on September 30, 1870, the river rose. Fast. Reports preserved by the National Park Service describe water rising six feet in just four minutes. Bridges connecting Virginius Island to higher ground were

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00:32:09

The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872: The Fortune That...

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2026/09/21

THE GREAT DIAMOND HOAX OF 1872What if you traveled hundreds of miles into the American West, discovered genuine diamonds with your own hands, and still got scammed? In 1872, Philip Arnold and John Slack convinced some of California's wealthiest businessmen that they had discovered an enormous diamond field. Their evidence was convincing. They had real gemstones, a secret location, and a mining engineer who personally inspected the site. But the entire discovery was a carefully constructed

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00:30:03

The Buffalo World's Fair Where a President Was...

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2026/09/07

In 1901, Buffalo, New York, built a city that wasn't supposed to last.The Pan-American Exposition was a spectacular World's Fair designed to show millions of visitors what the new century could become. Enormous buildings surrounded illuminated fountains, hundreds of thousands of electric lights transformed the grounds after dark, and the power of nearby Niagara Falls helped create a spectacle unlike anything many Americans had ever experienced. Then the President of the United States walked into

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00:31:41

The Clymer Mine Disaster: 44 Men Went to Work and...

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2026/08/24

On the afternoon of August 26, 1926, 57 men were working underground at the Clymer No. 1 coal mine near the small Pennsylvania community of Clymer.At exactly 1:00 PM, the mine exploded. Five or six minutes later, it exploded again. The second blast ripped through the already-damaged underground workings, destroyed parts of the ventilation system and sent flame and coal dust more than 100 feet into the air. Outside, families ran toward the mine while rescue crews headed underground. Smoke, debris

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00:32:36

Philadelphia’s Bellevue Hotel Gave a Killer Its Name

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2026/08/03

In July 1976, thousands of American Legion veterans gathered at Philadelphia’s luxurious Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. They came to celebrate America’s bicentennial, reconnect with old friends, and attend their annual convention.Then they went home. Within days, previously healthy men began developing high fevers, confusion, breathing problems, and a severe form of pneumonia. Some died shortly after reaching the hospital. Others became sick despite never staying inside the hotel. As the death toll

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00:34:17

The Ottawa, Illinois Radium Girls: The Story That...

Yore Town ·

2026/07/27

Ottawa, Illinois Told Women to Lick Radioactive PaintAt first glance, Ottawa, Illinois is a quiet river town with historic streets and small-town charm. But beneath that peaceful image lies the story of one of the most shocking industrial disasters in American history. In this episode of Yore Town, Matt and Megh explore the rise of the radium dial industry, the young women who were instructed to "lip, dip, paint" glowing watch dials, and the devastating health effects they unknowingly

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00:32:26

Port Chatham: Why Did Everyone Leave? | Yore Town

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2026/06/01

Port Chatham: Why Did Everyone Leave? | Yore TownPort Chatham: Why Did Everyone Leave? That's the question that has haunted this abandoned Alaskan settlement for decades. In this true crime history and unsolved mystery deep dive, we investigate the legend of the Nantiinaq, the mysterious creature some locals believed drove an entire town away. Nestled on the remote coast of Alaska, Port Chatham was once a thriving fishing community. Today it sits abandoned, reclaimed by wilderness and surrounded by

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00:32:13

Ant Hill Kids Mystery: Canada’s Forgotten Nightmare |...

Yore Town ·

2026/05/25

Deep in rural Quebec, the Burnt River Horror became one of the most disturbing true crime history cases Canada has ever seen. The Ant Hill Kids cult began as a peaceful back-to-the-land commune before transforming into a nightmare filled with manipulation, isolation, abuse, and horrifying amateur surgeries performed deep in the wilderness. The Ant Hill Kids case remains one of the most shocking forgotten mysteries in Canadian dark history because the crimes escalated slowly over years inside an

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00:27:30

Elisa Lam Mystery: What the Cecil Hotel Doesn’t Want...

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2026/05/11

Elisa Lam Mystery: The Hotel That Hides Secrets | Yore TownThe Elisa Lam mystery is one of the most haunting unsolved mystery cases in modern true crime history—and it all leads back to a hotel with a past as dark as the story itself. In 2013, Elisa Lam vanished inside the infamous Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, leaving behind an eerie elevator video that still confuses investigators and viewers to this day. What started as a missing person case quickly became one of the internet’s most debated

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00:28:23

Hydesville Crime They Don’t Talk About | Yore Town

Yore Town ·

2026/05/04

Hydesville NY Mystery Explained | Yore Town dives into one of the most chilling pieces of true crime history tied to an unsolved mystery that blurred the line between belief and deception. This Hydesville, New York case didn’t just scare a small town—it reshaped how people across the country viewed death, the unknown, and what might be hiding in plain sight.In 1848, a quiet farmhouse in Hydesville became the center of a phenomenon that would spark a national movement. Strange knocking sounds,

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00:32:42

Silent Twins: The Case They Still Can’t Explain |...

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2026/04/27

Silent Twins Mystery: A Deadly Pact | Yore Town explores one of the most disturbing true crime history cases ever documented—an unsolved mystery involving two sisters whose bond ended in death. The Silent Twins mystery remains one of the strangest small-town crime stories, where psychology, isolation, and obsession collide.In a quiet corner of Wales, identical twins June Gibbons and Jennifer Gibbons became known for something deeply unsettling—they refused to speak to anyone but each other. What

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00:24:58

The Disaster Nobody Talks About | Donora's Deadly Week

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2026/03/09

The Donora Smog Disaster of 1948 remains one of the deadliest air pollution disasters in American history. In the small steel town of Donora, Pennsylvania, a deadly cloud of industrial pollution became trapped in the valley for five days, leaving thousands sick and over twenty people dead.In this episode of Yore Town: Small Towns, Big Stories, we dive deep into the shocking true story of the Donora Smog Disaster — a forgotten tragedy that changed environmental laws in the United States forever

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00:27:55

She Killed Her Husband With His Own Pills—And Started...

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2026/03/02

The Auburn cyanide murders shocked a quiet Washington suburb and changed how America seals its medicine bottles. In 1986, Stella Nickell poisoned Excedrin capsules with potassium cyanide, killing her husband and an innocent neighbor in one of the most chilling product tampering cases in U.S. history.This episode of Yore Town Podcast dives deep into the true story of the Auburn cyanide murders, examining how a small-town crime triggered national panic just four years after the Chicago Tylenol

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00:27:45

This Town Was So Contaminated They Demolished It...

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2026/02/23

Times Beach, Missouri became the largest civilian environmental buyout in U.S. history. In 1983, the federal government ordered residents to leave after discovering dangerous dioxin contamination beneath their homes.This is the full story of how a quiet Route 66 town turned into a national environmental scandal. In this episode of Yore Town, we dive deep into the Times Beach disaster — from the origins of the contamination to the Superfund buyout, the demolition of the town, and the lasting impact

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00:25:41

Joseph Force Crater's Final Night: Facts vs. Conspiracy

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2026/02/16

Joseph Force Crater’s disappearance remains one of the most baffling unsolved mysteries in American history. In 1930, a sitting New York Supreme Court judge stepped into a taxi in Manhattan — and was never seen again.What happened to Joseph Force Crater? Was it political corruption, organized crime, or something far simpler hiding in plain sight? In this episode, we take a deep dive into the confirmed facts behind the Judge Crater case — separating historical record from conspiracy theory. From his

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00:28:04

The Ice Storm of 1998: When St. Lawrence County Went...

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2026/02/02

In January 1998, one of the worst ice storms in North American history brought St. Lawrence County, New York to a complete standstill.For days, freezing rain coated trees, power lines, and roads with inches of solid ice, causing widespread power outages, collapsed infrastructure, and a humanitarian emergency across the North Country. This episode tells the true story of the Ice Storm of 1998, focusing specifically on St. Lawrence County, where tens of thousands of residents lost electricity for

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00:20:00

The Day Texas Exploded: The Deadliest Industrial...

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2026/01/26

The Texas City Disaster of 1947 remains the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history. In this episode of the Yore Town Podcast on the Beard Laws Network, we investigate the catastrophic SS Grand Camp explosion—a tragedy caused by 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate that changed Texas history and safety regulations forever.SUBSCRIBE for more dark history and local legends: [Insert Your Channel Link Here] If you are looking for US history facts or an industrial disasters documentary, this episode

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00:23:25

The Mad Trapper: Survival, Gunfire, and Unanswered...

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2026/01/19

In 1932, one man did the impossible. He survived alone in the Yukon wilderness at $-40$ degrees, outran the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for weeks, and stood his ground against dynamite and an army of trackers.In this episode of the Yore Town Podcast, Matt (Beard Laws) and Meg dive into the chilling mystery of The Mad Trapper of Rat River. Who was Albert Johnson? How did he move faster than dog teams in waist-deep snow? And why, after his final stand, did he leave behind no fingerprints, no

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00:24:39

Why This Adirondack Boomtown Had Zero Defense Against...

Yore Town ·

2026/01/05

On July 30th, 1899, a small fire and a steady wind erased nearly two-thirds of Tupper Lake, NY in a single night.In this episode of the Yore Town Podcast, we travel back to the late 19th century in the Adirondacks. Tupper Lake was a boomtown built for loggers, mill workers, and railroad laborers. It was fast, practical, and constructed almost entirely of wood. But it had one fatal flaw: No fire department. We break down the timeline of the disaster, from the first spark behind King & Page’s

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