Fascinating Horror - TV Episode Calendar

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The Daegu Subway Fire
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The Gillingham Fair Disaster
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The Unluckiest Lucky Escape
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The Blitz
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The Big Bayou Canot Disaster
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The Quietest Room on Earth
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The Estadio Nacional Disaster
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Workplace Horrors
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This Fungus Turns Ants Into Zombies
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The Zacatón Sinkhole Accident
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The Zacatón Sinkhole Disaster

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The Pemberton Mill Collapse
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"On the 10th of January, 1860, workers at the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, heard a deafening rumbling sound..."

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The Oubliette
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The Khodynka Crush
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"On the 30th of May, 1896, a lavish public banquet was laid on for the citizens of Moscow, Russia, to celebrate the coronation of their new Emperor, Nicholas the Second..."

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The Buncefield Explosion
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"On the 11th of December, 2005, in the early hours of the morning, a booming explosion echoed across the English county of Hertfordshire..."

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The Most Important Snail in History
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Adrift in the Pacific
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"On the 17th of November, 2012, 34-year-old José Salvador Alvarenga finished his breakfast and bid farewell to his fellow fishermen in the coastal town of Costa Azul..."

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A Brief History of Hazing (Part Two)
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The Fish with Human Teeth
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The Winecoff Hotel Fire
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"On the 7th of December, 1946, at around 3:00am, the bell boy on duty at the Winecoff Hotel in downtown Atlanta received a room service order..."

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The Glass Tower Disaster
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The Roseville Yard Explosion
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The Accidental Death Row Electrocution
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The Tay Bridge Disaster
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Japan Airlines Flight 123
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The Unkillable Soldier
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Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, a British Army officer, was known (with good reason) as "the unkillable soldier"...

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The Byford Dolphin Accident
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"On the 5th of November, 1983, a diving bell was winched up out of the dark, choppy waters of the North Sea..."

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The Loss of the USS Thresher
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"On the 10th of April, 1963, the USS Thresher – an American nuclear attack submarine – dove down beneath the waters of the Atlantic Ocean to carry out a routine depth test..."

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Britain's Infaltable Army
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Hundreds of inflatable tanks were vital in helping the Allies win the Second World War...

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A Brief History of Death by Selfie
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"On the 19th of August, 1839, a new technology was introduced to the world..."

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The Balvano Train Disaster
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"On the 3rd of March, 1944, a coal-powered freight train approached the entrance of the Armi tunnel, near the town of Balvano in Italy..."

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Death by Laughter
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Greek philosopher Chrysippus is commonly believed to have died in a very unusual way...

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The Willow Island Disaster
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"On the 27th of April, 1978, workers arrived at a construction site near Willow Island in West Virginia..."

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A Single Misheard Word: The Shiloh Baptist Church Disaster
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"On the 19th of September, 1902, thousands of people flocked to the Shiloh Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alamaba, to listen to a speech by respected autor and orator Booker T Washington..."

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The Death of a Daredevil
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Trapped Underground: The Wellington Pit Disaster
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"On the 11th of May, 1910, a sudden gust of air rushed through the Wellington Pit coal mine at Whitehaven in England..."

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The Bazar de la Charité Fire
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Was Amelia Earhart Eaten by Crabs?
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Amelia Earhart disappeared while trying to fly around the world... was she eaten by coconut crabs?

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A Brief History of Planking Accidents
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"On the 15th of May, 2011, police attended the scene of an accident in Brisbane, Australia..."

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The First Cavalese Cable Car Disaster
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"On the 9th of March, 1976, a cable car operator at an Italian sky resort was riding in am otherwise empty gondola when he caught sight of something worrying out the window..."

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The Film That Shot Actors with Real Arrows
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The Second Cavalese Cable Car Disaster
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The Happy Valley Racecourse Fire
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The Perilous 1930s Baby Cages
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New Zealand's Worst Fire: Ballantynes Department Store
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The Worst Crash in US History: American Airlines 191
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"On the 25th of May, 1979, American Airlines flight 191 began rolling down the runway for takeoff..."

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The Man Who Almost Saved Lincoln
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Henry Rathbone was sitting beside Lincoln when the President was assassinated, and it affected him for the rest of his life...

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Joints Stuffed With Newspaper: The Ronan Point Disaster
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"On the 16th of May, 1968, residents of Ronan Point, a tower block in East London, were awoken by a deafening crashing sound..."

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Fatally Flawed: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Concorde
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"On the 31st of December, 1968, the Tupolev Tu-144 took to the skies for the first time..."

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What You Should Know About Linseed Oil
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Linseed oil has a surprising and potentially deadly property that not many people know about...

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San Juanico: Mexico's Deadliest Industrial Disaster
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One Pill, Lifelong Consequences: Thalidomide
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"On the 25th of December, 1956, a baby was born in a hospital in Germany..."

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The WWII Secret of These Metal Fences
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These metal fences, found all over London, are actually a relic from the Second World War...

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A Train Crash at 120 Miles Per Hour: The Eschede Disaster
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"On the 3rd of June, 1998, a family travelling on the high-speed train from Munich to Hamburg were shocked when a sharp strip of metal shot up through the floor of the train, embedding itself in the armrest between two seats..."

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The Deadliest Craft: Fractal Wood Burning
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"On the 6th of April, 2022, emergency services were called to a raging house fire in the town of Day, Wisconsin..."

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The Book Bound in Human Skin
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In a museum in Edinburgh you'll find on display a very unusual book...

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One Tin Infects 600: The Aberdeen Typhoid Outbreak
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This short documentary tells the story of the typhoid outbreak that struck the city of Aberdeen in Scotland in 1964. A devastating epidemic that originated from a single tin of corned beef...

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The Life and Death of Karl Wallenda
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Karl Wallenda was a high-wire artist who carried out incredible feats of balance and bravery. This short documentary tells the story of his amazing life and sudden, tragic death...

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Sixty Hours Trapped Underwater
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Harrison Okene spent sixty hours trapped underwater... and somehow made it out alive...

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The UKs Forgotten Rollercoaster Crash: The Big Dipper
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This short documentary explores the history of Battersea Park's Big Dipper, and the fatal crash that took place on it in 1972...

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Dead on Arrival: The Soyuz 11 Disaster
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This documentary tells the story of the men who flew on board Soyuz 11 - the only three men to die in space...

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The Unsinkable Woman
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Violet Jessop survived tuberculosis as a child... and then survived pretty much everything else...

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Worse Than the Hindenburg: The Crash of the USS Akron
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This short documentary tells the story of the USS Akron - an American airship which was lost in the worst airship accident of all time...

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The Crash Caused by One Missing Letter: Dan-Air 1008
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This short documentary tells the story of Dan-Air Flight 1008 - a flight that crashed as a result of a single missing letter in an air traffic control instruction...

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What is a “Body Farm”?
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Nothing grows on a body farm. Instead, many things are left to decompose for good reason...

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Derailed by a Cow: The Polmont Rail Crash
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This short documentary tells the story of the Polmont Rail Crash - a deadly train crash which took place in Scotland in 1984, and which was caused by a single cow straying onto the tracks...

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The Luna Park Ghost Train Fire
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This short documentary tells the story of the ghost train fire that took place in Luna Park in Sydney in 1979, and which claimed seven innocent lives...

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Halloween Special: The "True Story" of The Hills Have Eyes
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For Halloween, I wanted to try something a little different. I love horror movies - and this video is a short look at the true (or not so true) story behind the legendary horror film "The Hills Have Eyes". Happy Halloween!

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The Horrifying "Dementor" Wasp
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The "Dementor" Wasp is a wasp that kills its prey in a particularly unique and horrific way...

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The Final, Fatal Rampage of Tyke the Elephant
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This short documentary tells the story of Tyke, a circus elephant that went on a fatal rampage in 1994 after years of poor treatment...

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A City Block Destroyed: The Buffalo Propane Explosion
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This short documentary tells the story of a devastating propane explosion that took place in the city of Buffalo in 1983...

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This Cheese is Rotting, Maggot-Infested, Illegal and... Delicious?
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Casu Marzu is a cheese that is served with living larvae ... but it is considered a delicacy ...

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Trains Collide in Dense Fog: The Lewisham Train Disaster
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This short documentary covers the Lewisham Train Disaster of 1957 - a deadly rail crash which took place in the UK in the midst of disruption caused by a dense fog...

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Surviving a Skydive with a Sabotaged Parachute: The Story of Victoria Cilliers
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This short documentary tells the story of Victoria Cilliers who (in common with several other people throughout history) survived falling from a plane without a working parachute...

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This Football Could End the World
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The so-called "nuclear football" is among the most sensitive briefcases in the world...

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Lost in the "Empire of the Dead"
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This short documentary covers the history of the Catacombs - a winding network on tunnels that runs under the city of Paris, and which contain the bones of more than six million people...

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As Bad As A Napalm Attack: The Sunvalley Mall Disaster
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This short documentary tells the story of the Sunvalley Mall Disaster of 1985, when a light aircraft crashed into a busy shopping mall just two days before Christmas...

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Don't Deep Fry Your Turkey
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Deep frying a turkey may yield a delicious Thanksgiving meal, but there are a LOT of ways this culinary feat can go wrong...

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Ten Years of Negligence: The Fujin Raijin II Crash |
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This short documentary tells the story behind the crash of the Fujin Raijin II rollercoaster in Osaka, Japan...

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Miraculously Delayed: The West Side Baptist Church Explosion
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Once a year, around the holidays, I want to share the story of a disaster that didn't happen - a tragedy that, whether through luck, the bravery of those involved, or simple good .. show full overview

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The Awful Origins of "Sweet FA"
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The phrase "Sweet FA" has a surprisingly long and grisly history...

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Trapped In Unexpected Places: Three Stories
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This video tells the story of three people who became fatally trapped in strange and unexpected places...