Disaster Area
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 rereleasing this episode this week, and the next two weeks I will release the following two episodes. I have now officially backed myself in a corner and I simply MUST finish the episodes now. 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 would struggle to breathe. You'd be taken to the hospital, where you'd get your diagnosis - polio. If you...
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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 from Charleston, South Carolina, to Charlotte, North Carolina. Only ten would survive. Videos: Articles and books:
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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 to pass. Articles and books: by Charles Spencer
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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 a steamboat and most of the Confederate POWs crowded on its decks. Videos: Articles and books: , by Alan Huffman
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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 a steamboat and most of the Confederate POWs crowded on its decks. Videos: Articles and books: , by Alan Huffman
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It's the podcast's tenth birthday! Also, where we've been and where we're going.
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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 up along the train tracks out of the city, the train didn't know one important thing - that half of the bridge over the Big Bayou Canot wasn't there anymore. Videos: Articles and books:
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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 become the targets of the weapons he carried. But when he sped away about twenty minutes later, he would be the one escaping gunfire. Videos: Articles and books:
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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 become the targets of the weapons he carried. But when he sped away about twenty minutes later, he would be the one escaping gunfire. Videos: Articles and books:
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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 become the targets of the weapons he carried. But when he sped away about twenty minutes later, he would be the one escaping gunfire. Videos: Articles and books:
info_outlineIt 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 the city couldn't wait to go celebrate in the vibrant Itaewon neighborhood. Many of them wouldn't make it home.
Videos:
- Paramount+: Crush
- [Video] Special police unit reveals CCTVs of Itaewon tragedy
- The results of 74-day probe into Itaewon tragedy
- Kieran Porey: Itaewon Halloween 2022 video
- Seoul Halloween crowd crush, the stories of survivors | Undercover Korea
Articles and books:
- ‘Reminders everywhere’: Halloween crush haunts survivors one year after Itaewon crowd disaster
- Chronology of major stampedes in S. Korea
- Fact-checking some of the claims about Itaewon disaster
- "How long has it been since the Itaewon tragedy?"-Knetz reacts as local fire department shuts down Boiler Room concert amid reported crowd congestion
- Seoul’s Itaewon Nightlife District Was Built for Tragedy
- A Vibrant Refuge in Seoul Goes Quiet After Deadly Crowd Crush
- It was chaos’: how my Halloween night out in Itaewon went from fun to horror
- Four factors behind the tragic Itaewon crowd surge
- They Completely Failed’: The Fatal Mistakes That Led to South Korea’s Halloween Tragedy
- Families of Seoul crowd-crush victims want more justice amid probes
- South Korean minister impeached over Itaewon crowd crush