Fascinating Horror

In 2013, the Scottish city of Glasgow was the scene of a bizarre accident when a helicopter running low on fuel crashed through the roof of a pub. This episode tells the story of the Clutha Helicopter Crash... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name. The channel is made possible...

On the 21st of June, 1990, Paul Stryker and his wife Karen Stryker set out on a hike along a scenic trail in the Grand Canyon National Park, unaware that they had already made a fatal mistake that would turn their trip into a death march... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same nam...

On the 20th of November, 1968, the ground shook beneath the town of Farmington in West Virginia, signaling that something had gone terribly wrong in the nearby Consol Number Nine coal mine. This episode tells the story of the disaster and the rescue effort that followed it... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of...

Following a disastrous train crash in 1987, an investigation uncovered one extraordinary fact: the crew who had been in charge of one of the trains involved had been routinely using recreational drugs while carrying out their duties... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name. Th...

In 1989, United Airlines Flight 811 experienced a catastrophic cargo door failure that blasted a hole in the side of the aircraft and very nearly doomed it and everybody on board. This episode tells the story of what happened next... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name. The...

In 2003, an unprecedented blackout plunged New York City and the east coast of America and Canada into darkness. Scenes of thousands of stranded commuters filled TV screens around the world. This episode covers the blackout, and explores what caused it... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel...

In the early 1950s the city of Elizabeth in New Jersey saw not one but three deadly plane crashes, leading residents to question just what it was that was so dangerous about the nearby Newark airport... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name. The channel is made possible by sup...

The Doodlebug is a long-forgotten mode of transport - a type of gasonline-powered train that was commonplace in the 1930s. In this episode we explore the terrifying and deadly accident that lead to the demise of these unique trains... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name. The...

In 1814, one of the most usual disasters in the history of the UK took place, when a gigantic wooden vat of beer inside a London brewery unexpectedly burst, flooding the surrounding streets and cellars with ale... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name. The channel is made poss...

On the 24th of October, 2001, two trucks entered the Gotthard Road Tunnel in Switzerland – one from the northern end and one from the southern end. Both would shortly be consumed by one of the worst tunnel fires in Switzerland's history... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name...

On the 27th of October, 1948, a thick smog descended on the town of Donora in Pennsylvania, plunging the community into a state of semi-darkness. It would come to be known as the Donora Death Smog... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name. The channel is made possible by suppor...

Bushman's Hole is a beautiful submerged cave in South Africa - a favourite site for divers who wish to explore beneath the Earth. Of the hundreds of people who descend into its depths, however, a small number never return... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name. The channel i...

In 1996 TWA Flight 800 exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, igniting a decades-long conflict over what had caused the crash, and what could have been done to prevent it... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name. The channel is made possible by supporters on Patreon and...

The sinking of the General Slocum - an American sidewheel passenger steamboat - was the worst maritime disaster of the 20th Century until the sinking of the Titanic. This episode tells its story... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name. The channel is made possible by supporte...

Tilikum the whale was an orca, or "killer whale", that lived up to her name, when she seized and drowned one of her trainers seemingly without provocation during a show at Seaworld in 2010... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name. The channel is made possible by supporters on...

The Stardust Nightclub in Dublin, Ireland, caught fire in 1981. It was a devastating blaze that claimed nearly fifty lives... but it would take decades before the real truth behind the disaster was known... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name. The channel is made possible by...

When a runaway train jumped the tracks in California in 1989, it resulted in a devastating disaster - a disaster that was just the first part of a chain of events that would go on destroy an entire neighbourhood... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name. The channel is made pos...

The story of Gloria Ramirez is one that still, to this day, defies explanation. When she was taken ill in 1994, all those who treated or came into contact with her suffered the same mysterious symptoms. This episode explores her story, and the possible reasons for it... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the Y...

In 1973, the coastal freighter the MV Blythe Star sank off the coast of Tasmania. After an extensive search it was assumed all aboard had been lost... but this was not the case. Several survivors remained adrift in a lifeboat, desperately awaiting rescue... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channe...

In 1937, a school in New London, Texas, exploded without warning, resulting in the loss of nearly 300 lives. It was one of the worst disasters the state had ever seen... and it was ultimately traced to a single bad connection in an underground gas line... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel...

Until 2019, the burgeoning industy of live escape games had not seen a fatal accident. That all changed, however, when a fire began in a Polish escape game venue on the 4th of January that year, resulting in the loss of four innocent lives... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same n...

In 1972, an ordinary morning turned into a life-changing disaster for dozens of school children when the driver of their bus failed to stop at a grade crossing, resulting in catastrophic collision between bus and train... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name. The channel is m...

The filming of the ambitious animal action movie Roar was a disaster from the very start, with multiple injuries, floods, and out of control lions and tigers repeatedly savaging cast and crew. This episode tells the story of one of the most ill-advised film projects of all time... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio versi...

On Halloween night, 1963, a spectacular holiday skating exhibition took place at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Indianapolis, Indiana. It would end in disaster. This episode tells the story of how a devastating and unexpected explosion ended 81 lives in a moment... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of...

In 1836 the town of Lewes in the UK was struck by an avalance... despite being situated at sea level, in a country that almost never saw fatal avalanches. This episode tells the story of the extremely unusual and unique Lewes Avalanche... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name....