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A podcast about disasters throughout history - what caused them, how people survived, and how we've responded to keep those disasters from happening again.
NOTE: This was released in May of 2025, but due to life being what it is, I didn't get to finish the final two parts of the episode. So I am...
2001 was not the only year in which something tragic occurred on September 11th. On that day in 1974, eighty-two people would board a plane...
King Henry I of England had grand plans for the future of his sole legitimate male heir, William Aetheling. None of those plans would come t...
On a cold April night in 1865, the calm across the waters of the Mississippi River was shattered by a sudden explosion - one which destroyed...
On a cold April night in 1865, the calm across the waters of the Mississippi River was shattered by a sudden explosion - one which destroyed...
It's the podcast's tenth birthday! Also, where we've been and where we're going.
In the early morning hours of September 22nd, 1993, a cross-country train departed from Mobile, Alabama, on its way to Miami. As it headed u...
On a sunny Sunday morning in 2017, a man in an SUV pulled up outside a small white church in Sutherland Springs, TX. The people inside would...
On a sunny Sunday morning in 2017, a man in an SUV pulled up outside a small white church in Sutherland Springs, TX. The people inside would...
On a sunny Sunday morning in 2017, a man in an SUV pulled up outside a small white church in Sutherland Springs, TX. The people inside would...
A week ago, the Guadalupe River in Texas overflowed its banks and swept away dozens of campers. It turns out that this is not the first time...
(Podcaster's note: The second part of the Cutter incident episode is forthcoming; I'm just trying to get it juuuuuust right. :)) November 7t...
It would start with a headache, a fever, maybe a funny tummy. But soon enough your knee would give out, or your arm would hang limp, or you...
In a bustling city of pirates and wickedness, one might think things couldn't get any more dangerous. But in the Jamaican city of Port Royal...
To raise money for car repairs, Jennifer answers the question you've all been wondering - how well can she talk about a disaster while ... l...
It was almost the end of a typical Tuesday for workers at the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, South Carolina, in June of 2007, and several o...
On a warm November evening in 1996, in the rural farmland not far from Delhi, the remains of two aircraft plummeted from the skies. The coll...
Let us celebrate the 250th episode of the podcast by doing literally anything else but watching "Cats." Videos: Cats: The Musical Cats (2019...
It turns out that I have not disappeared into a magical world to be romanced by a fae prince - more's the pity. Anyway, let's talk about the...
It was a hot and muggy summer day as the steamboat Sea Wing carried passengers down the Mississippi River for what was to be a lovely excurs...
For years, the hook holding up the power lines at transmission tower 27/222 in northern California had been wearing down bit by bit. On Nove...
For years, the hook holding up the power lines at transmission tower 27/222 in northern California had been wearing down bit by bit. On Nove...
Sometimes it feels as though Columbine was our first experience with school shootings. But it very much wasn't, as the town of West Paducah,...
In part two, we watch as the Atlantic continues to head toward the southern coast of Nova Scotia ... with dangerous consequences. Videos: Th...
It's been a rough week and a half on stormy seas as you and your family make the trip from Ireland to your new home in America in March of 1...
It was just supposed to be a fun college party with a great band at a popular Brazil nightclub. But once the pyrotechnics came out, Kiss tur...
It was the first Halloween that the streets would be open in Seoul, South Korea, since the start of the COVID pandemic, and young people in...
It was the first Halloween that the streets would be open in Seoul, South Korea, since the start of the COVID pandemic, and young people in...
In the final part of this series, we learn about the perpetrator as well as the investigations which have followed in the past two years. Vi...
In part four of this five-part series, we watch as people realize just how flawed the police response at Robb Elementary really was. Videos:...
In part three of this five-part series, we see responding officers still preparing to approach classroom 111. Videos: Frontline: Inside the...
In part two of this five-part series, we see local law enforcement in Uvalde arriving at Robb Elementary, and what happens next - and what d...
In the first in this five-part series, we look at the town of Uvalde, and the first moments before a normal school day goes from calm to ter...
A year ago this week, I covered the Amagasaki train derailment in 2005 in Japan. Why not cover a second one seven years earlier near a small...
It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the...
It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the...
It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the...
The deadliest fire in American history happened not in Chicago, but in a small Wisconsin town to the north of Chicago on the exact same day...
On April 9th, 1963, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher departed Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for depth tests in the Atlantic. It would...
The deadliest school fire in American history took place on - of all days - Ash Wednesday, March 8th, 1908, in the Cleveland suburb of Colli...
Jennifer stops rewatching the movie long enough to review the movie. Spoilers ahead!
You'd think if your plane crashed fifty meters from the end of the runway, you'd be saved. You'd be wrong. Videos: Disaster Breakdown: Locke...
Jennifer talks about "Society of the Snow," the award-nominated adaptation of the Pablo Vierci book about the survival story of Uruguayan Ai...
On one February morning in 1997, a pair of men dressed in dark clothes entered a North Hollywood bank. What followed would be one of the mos...
On one February morning in 1997, a pair of men dressed in dark clothes entered a North Hollywood bank. What followed would be one of the mos...
It was just supposed to be a great night out seeing one of the best rock bands in the world. It turned out to be anything but. Videos: What...
We all heard the news four years ago about a group of foolish tourists who made the mistake of visiting an active volcano and died as a resu...
It's the first night of winter on a windy night in Scotland when a loud noise broke the quiet over a small village. What followed was a fier...
It's the first night of winter on a windy night in Scotland when a loud noise broke the quiet over a small village. What followed was a fier...
In the third part of our story, we look at the train disaster caused by the tsunami and the aftermath of the disaster. Videos: Compilation i...