Fascinating Horror

This short documentary covers the catastrophic sinking of the Sewol passenger ferry off the coast of South Korea in 2014...

This episode explores three different foods that are, for different reasons, considered thoroughly horrifying...

In 1994, a small city in Washington was inundated with mysterious, slippery, gooey blobs...

This video covers the Kegworth Air Disaster - a devastating plane crash caused by one single, simple mistake...

This short documentary tells the story of a deadly accident that took place as a result of a prank gone wrong at a Californian waterpark in 1997...

This video tells the story of the 2018 collapse of the Ponte Morandi road bridge in Genoa, Italy...

There's a feature that you'll find on many small rivers - a feature which is so dangerous it's sometimes known as a "drowning machine"...

This video explores the Crescent City tsunami of 1964 - an unprecedented tidal wave that resulted from the Great Alaskan Earthquake...

This video tells the story of the fatal Midnight Rider accident - a 2014 tragedy that transformed attitudes to safety on film sets...

This short documentary covers the 2021 Gansu Ultramarathon in China - a race which resulted in the death of 21 of its runners...

This video tells the story of a tornado outbreak that struck the US state of Oklahoma in 1996, and one researcher's struggle to deploy a vital new technology during it...

This video covers a caving disaster that took place in a tiny cave in Utah, and which resulted in the loss of four young lives...

Cachi the poodle was a beloved pet... who would go on to become world-famous for their surprisingly high kill-count...

This video tells the story of Ireland's worst rail disaster: the Buttevant rail crash of 1980...

This video tells the story of Christopher Thomas Knight - a man better known as the North Pond Hermit - who walked away from his life one day to spend 27 years hiding in the woods...

This video tells the story of the Charleston Sofa Super Store Fire - a fire which resulted in the loss of the largest number of firefighters from a single event since September 11th, 2001...

Ivan McGuire was an experienced skydiver... who passed away after making a surprisingly elementary mistake...

This short documentary tells the story of the Great Lafayette - a magician whose final trick resulted in the deaths of eleven people...

This short documentary covers the Cormier-Village hayride accident of 1989 - a deadly accident which claimed the lives of thirteen people...

This short documentary tells the story of the film The Viking, in the making of which 28 lives were lost...

At the bottom of a lake in Switzerland there lurks a monstrous creature with a bizarre backstory...

This short documentary tells the story of a deadly gas explosion that took place without warning in Glasgow, Scotland in October 1971...

This short documentary covers one of the worst passenger helicopter crashes in UK history: the Penzance helicopter crash of 1983...

This short documentary covers the 2009 Taconic State Parkway crash - a deadly disaster caused by the inexplicable actions of one individual...

Did you think that bloodletting with live leeches was a thing of the past? Well... think again...

This short documentary covers two stories of fatal accidents that befell influencers carrying out dangerous stunts in pursuit of views...

This short documentary covers the story of the sinking of the George Prince - a passenger ferry which was hit by a tanker on a river in Louisiana in 1976...

This short documentary tells the story of Verrückt - an ambitious, record-breaking waterslide which opened in 2014 to rave reviews, and then closed in 2016 after one of its riders was killed in a gruesome accident...

Until 2019, a handful of tour companies based in New Zealand offered trips to the unique island of Whakaari - a beautiful, active cone volcano that's in a constant state of unrest. In 2019, after years of close calls, this volcano erupted while multiple tour groups were still on the island...

In 1997, an episode of the animated TV series Pokemon caused thousands of children in Japan to be hospitalised...

This short documentary covers the story of the Valhalla Grade Crossing Crash - a collision between a train and a car that took place in New York State in 2015, and which was caused by the inexplicable actions of one person...

This short documentary tells the story of a 2015 accident at a popular waterpark in Taiwan. During an evening event there, a series of bad decisions lead to a swimming pool packed with revellers being consumed by a sudden fireball...

This short documentary tells the story of the Mount Gambier cave diving disaster which took place in 1973, and claimed the lives of four competent, experienced divers...

Bill Stephens was a lion tamer, whose favourite lioness escaped to stalk the streets of Dublin one day in 1951...

On the 28th of February, 2020, influencer Katerina Didenko hosted a birthday party at a spa in Moscow. It was a day full of surprises... but one surprise in particular would result in the sudden death of her husband and two of her friends...

In March of 1931 a summery day turned into a blizzard in a rural part of Colorado, stranding a school bus full of children. Though just minutes away from the nearest farm, they would remain stranded there for nearly two days, and at the cost of several lives...

This short documentary tells the story of James Kim and his family, who endured nine days lost in the wilderness after taking a wrong turn during a roadtrip...

A theme park in the Netherlands once boasted a slide which was completely underwater and required riders to hold their breath for twenty seconds...

This short documentary tells the story of Swissair Flight 111, which crashed into the ocean in 1998 just a few minutes after the pilots smelled a strange odour emanating from the air conditioning system...