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2022
2022x1
The Bethnal Green Tube Disaster
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On the 3rd of March, 1943, at the height of the Second World War, a fleet of German bombers took flight, heading directly for London...
2022x2
A Brief History of Broadcast Panics
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On the 30th of October, 1938, an adaptation of HG Wells’s science fiction novel The War of the Worlds was broadcast on the CBS radio network...
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The Story of the USS Indianapolis
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On the 30th of July, 1945, the American Navy cruiser the USS Indianapolis was hit by two torpedoes fired by a Japanese submarine...
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The Lac-Mégantic Disaster
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On the 6th of July, 2013, in the early hours of the morning, a freight train which had been parked for the night on the railway tracks near Nantes in Quebec started to move...
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The 1979 Woolworths Fire
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On the 8th of May, 1979, a taxi driver in Manchester, England, radioed his dispatcher to say that he could see smoke billowing from a Woolworths supermarket in the middle of the city...
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The 2011 "Ride of Steel" Accident
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On the 8th of July, 2011, a guest riding the Ride of Steel rollercoaster at Darien Lake amusement park in the state of New York was ejected from the ride as it crested a hill...
2022x7
The Destruction of Pompeii
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On or around the 17th of October, 79AD, Mount Vesuvius – a volcano in southern Italy – erupted. Ash, dust and poisonous gases were blasted high into the sky...
2022x8
The Crash That Killed Concorde
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On the 25th of July, 2000, Air France Flight 4590 from Paris to New York took flight. The plane was a Concorde airliner...
2022x9
The Legacy of Christopher McCandless
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On the 6th of September, 1992, a group of hunters on the Stampede Trail near Healy in Alaska came across an abandoned city transit bus...
2022x10
The Gothenburg Discothèque Disaster
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On the 29th of October 1998 a fire began inside a community centre in Gothenburg, Sweden. That night the venue was supposedly hosting a birthday party for around 50 people…
2022x11
The Challenger Disaster
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On the 28th of January, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger launched into a clear blue sky from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida...
2022x12
The Dublin Whiskey Flood
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On the 18th of June, 1875, the city of Dublin in Ireland was hit by a devastating flood – a disaster which killed 13 people, injured twice that number, and destroyed dozens of buildings...
2022x13
The I-35W Bridge Failure
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On the 1st of August, 2007, the I-35 West Mississippi River Bridge, one of the busiest bridges in Minneapolis, collapsed...
2022x14
The Isla Nublar Incident
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Happy April Fool's Day 2022, everyone. This movie terrified me when I was a kid - even back then I found the complete lack of health and safety precautions rather troubling!
2022x15
The Altamont Free Concert
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On the 6th of December, 1969, 300,000 people gathered at the Altamont Raceway in California for a once-in-a-lifetime free concert...
2022x16
The St Francis Dam Disaster
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On the 12th of March, 1928, the St Francis Dam in Los Angeles County, California, failed catastrophically...
2022x17
The Marchioness Disaster
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On the 19th of August, 1989, a large group of partygoers boarded the pleasure cruiser the Marchioness, for a moonlit jaunt along the Thames...
2022x18
Juliana The Great Dane
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The story of Juliana - one of the goodest dogs ever to make history with a well-placed pee...
2022x19
The Hamlet Chicken Processing Plant Fire
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On the 3rd of September, 1991, a fire began at the Imperial Food Products chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina...
2022x20
The Sampoong Department Store Collapse
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On the 29th of June, 1995, the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul, South Korea, collapsed...
2022x21
The Invention of Safety Coffins
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The story of the safety coffin - an invention designed to avoid one of the worst fates imaginable...
2022x22
The South Dakota Learjet Crash
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On the 25th of October, 1999, golfing icon and reigning US Open champion, Payne Stewart, boarded a private jet en route to his next big tournament in Texas...
2022x23
The Story of Nicholas White
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Nicholas White accidentally took one of the longest cigarette breaks in recorded history. It nearly killed him...
2022x24
The Pioneer Hotel Fire
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On the 20th of December 1970, hundreds of people were attending a Christmas party at the Pioneer Hotel in Tucson, Arizona...
2022x25
The Vital British Boiling Vessel
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Having tea-making facilities on board a tank isn't just a luxury - for soldiers in warzones, it's a lifesaver...
2022x26
Two Accidents At Disneyland
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On the 17th of July, 1955, the Disneyland amusement park in California opened for business. It was an almost instant success...
2022x27
The Fate of Harry Houdini
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Houdini often demonstrated that he could withstand hard punches to the stomach... but this might be what ultimately killed him.
2022x28
The Knickerbocker Theater Collapse
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On the 28th of January, 1922, Washington DC found itself in the midst of a two-day snowstorm that was sweeping over the northeast United States...
2022x29
The Knox Mine Disaster
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On the 22nd of January, 1959, deep under the frozen Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, the roof of a tunnel in the River Slope Mine collapsed...
2022x30
The Story Of Brian Robson
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Brian Robson attempted to mail himself home to save on the cost of airfare. He very nearly died in the process.
2022x31
The SS Noronic
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On the 17th of September, 1949, a small fire began on board the passenger cruise ship the SS Noronic...
2022x32
The Union Carbide Gas Leak
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On 2nd of December, 1984, a cloud of toxic gas leaked from The Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India...
2022x33
The Unluckiest Survivor
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived the atomic bomb that fell on Hiroshima... but that wouldn't be the end of his ordeal.
2022x34
The Camelford Poisoning
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On the 6th of July, 1988, a flurry of unusual calls came in to the South West Water Authority’s Communication Centre in England...
2022x35
The Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire
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On the 24th of March, 1999, a transport truck caught fire while travelling from France to Italy through the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
2022x36
The Versailles Wedding Hall Disaster
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On the 24th of May, 2001, around 700 people gathered at the prestigious Versailles Wedding Hall in Jerusalem to celebrate the marriage of Keren and Asaf Dror...
2022x37
The Deadliest Toys (Part One)
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Lawn darts have gone down in history as one of the most lethal toys ever invented...
2022x38
The Texas City Disaster
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On the 16th of April, 1947, a small fire started on the cargo ship the SS Grandcamp, while it was docked at the port in Texas City...
2022x39
The Pear of Anguish
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The Pear of Anguish was commonly believed to be a Medieval implement of torture...
2022x40
The Moorgate Tube Crash
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On the 28th of February, 1975, at Moorgate Tube Station in London the worst peacetime accident ever to happen on the London Underground took place...
2022x41
The Makeup That Killed
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Venetian Ceruse was a popular cosmetic in the 16th Century... despite a number of rather worrying side effects...
2022x42
The Apollo One Disaster
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On the 27th of January, 1967, a disaster during a routine test launch at the Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex in Florida put America’s space program on hold...
2022x43
The Iron Harvest
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Every year farmers in France and Belgium plough their fields... and turn up a harvest of deadly munitions...
2022x44
The Thredbo Landslide
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On the 30th of July, 1997, a landslide above the small Australian ski resort of Thredbo in New South Wales sent a huge quantity of mud, rock and water hurtling towards the buildings below...
2022x45
The Nightmare Fish
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The anglerfish looks like something out of a nightmare... but it's a very real creature from the depths of the ocean...
2022x46
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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On the 25th of March, 1911, a fire began at the premises of the Triangle Waist Company in New York City...
2022x47
The Village of Scarecrows
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In the Iya Valley in Japan there exists a village where the human population is outnumbered by hundreds of scarecrows...
2022x48
The KDND "Wee for a Wii" Contest
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On the 12th of January, 2007, Californian radio station KDND held an on-air competition, the prize for which was a brand new Nintendo Wii...
2022x49
Gustave the Crocodile
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Gustave is an unusually large Nile Crocodile which is rumoured to have killed up to 300 people...
2022x50
The Empress of Ireland
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On the 29th of May, 1914, two ocean liners collided in heavy fog in the St Lawrence estuary on the east coast of Canada...
2022x51
The Deadliest Toys (Part Two)
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Magnetix were the among the most popular toys of the year in 2005... but they had a deadly manufacturing defect.
2022x52
The Ramstein Air Show Disaster
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On the 28th of August, 1988, 300,000 people gathered at the US Air Force Ramstein Air Base in Germany to watch an air show featuring a demonstration by the Italian Air Force...
2022x53
The Collapse Of The Hotel New World
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On the 15th March, 1986, the Hotel New World in Singapore suffered a sudden and total collapse...
2022x54
The Story of Protect and Survive
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Protect and Survive was a pamphlet designed by the British Government to be distributed in the event of nuclear war...
2022x55
The Harrow and Wealdstone Rail Crash
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On the 8th of October, 1952, hundreds of commuters crowded onto a local, London-bound train at Harrow and Wealdstone station...
2022x56
Europe's Hidden Hunger Stones
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In drought conditions, ancient hunger stones sometimes make an appearance in rivers across Europe...
2022x57
The Mount Erebus Disaster
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On the 28th of November, 1979, Air New Zealand Flight 901 took off for a sightseeing tour of the Antarctic with 237 passengers and 20 crew on board...
2022x58
Crow Funerals
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Something quite strange happens when a murder of crows spots a dead one of their own...
2022x59
Poganica Bay: A Cave Diving Disaster
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On the 11th of September, 2002, a diving party in Poganica Bay, Croatia, placed a call to emergency services...
2022x60
The Secret of Pirates of the Caribbean
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There's a dark secret lurking in the history of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland...
2022x61
The Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire
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On the 31st of December, 1986, patrons gambling in the casino of the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico noticed a light haze of smoke in the air...
2022x62
The Chernobyl Elephant's Foot
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Months after the meltdown of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, scientists discovered something in a room below the reactor...
2022x63
The Stockline Plastics Disaster
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"On the 11th of May, 2004, a huge explosion shattered the quiet of a hot spring day in the Maryhill district of Glasgow, Scotland..."
2022x64
The Origin of Roller Coasters
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The first roller coasters were terrifying wooden slides coated with layers of ice...
2022x65
The Amagasaki Derailment
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On the 25th of April, 2005, a seven-car commuter train passing through the Japanese city of Amagasaki catastrophically derailed...
2022x66
The Most Terrifying Film Ever Made
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Threads is a film that many critics agree is the most terrifying film ever made...
2022x67
A Brief History of Hazing (Part One)
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On the 10th of October, 1873, a blindfolded man was lead out to the gorges near Cornell University...
2022x68
Mad Hatter Disease
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2022x69
Juliane Koepcke and the LANSA Disaster
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2022x70
The Man With a Plant In His Lung
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2022x71
The 1900 Big Game Disaster
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2022x72
The Shortest Search and Rescue
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2022x73
The Dive Boat Conception
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The Story of Anthrax Island
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2022x75
The Mystery of Flight 823
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On the 9th of July, 1964, United Airlines Flight 823 took off from Philadelphia International Airport, bound for Huntsville International Airport in Alabama...
2022x76
The Deadliest Toys (Part Three)
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2022x77
The Vajont Dam Disaster
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2022x78
Is Lucid Decapitation Real?
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2022x79
The Piper Alpha Disaster
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2022x80
The Truth About Laika
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2022x81
The Sunshine Skyway Bridge
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2022x82
The Catacombs Beneath Paris
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2022x83
The Mississauga Miracle
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The Terrifying Fulton "Skyhook"
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