Fascinating Horror

The crash of United Airlines Flight 232 in 1989 was a disaster that made headlines around the world. This episode explores the story, and how the consequences of poor maintenance could have been so much worse... 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 possib...

In 1985, a brand new piece of medical technology began saving lives and destroying cancers in hospitals across the US. However, this brilliant new machine had a fatal flaw which would go on to cause a series of horrifying medical accidents... 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 1958, a fire broke out in a school in Chicago. Despite recent fire safety reforms, it would go on to claim nearly 100 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 name. The channel is made possible by supporters on Patreon and YouTube channel members. HUGE thanks to everyone w...

Of all the inventors who have ever lived, Thomas Midgley is quite possibly the one who has inadvertently done more harm to human life than any other, with his inventions killing millions and endangering the entire world... 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...

When the passenger liner the SS Princess Sophia ran aground on a reef off the coast of Alaska in 1918, her many passengers survived the collision. Despite this, they would never be rescued, despite multiple attempts over the days that followed... 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 sa...

This episode tells the story of two accidents that have taken place on the Matterhorn Bobsleds at Disneyland, California - one in 1964, and one in 1984... 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 YouTube channel members....

In 1900 the busy Hoboken Docks in New Jersey were consumed by a fire that started in a single hay bale. It was a devastating blaze that claimed hundreds of lives... and which could never be allowed to happen again... 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 p...

In 1994, two military aircraft collided while approaching Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina, starting a chain of events that would lead to a horrifying accident with the largest number of ground fatalities from any aircraft accident in US 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...

In 1912, tailor and tinkerer Franz Reichelt believed that he could design the world's first portable, wearable parachute. He was so confident in his design that he decided to test it by throwing himself from the lower deck of the Eiffel Tower... 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 sam...

This episode covers one of the worst accidents ever to take place in the history of UK sport: the Burnden Park disaster of 1946... 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 YouTube channel members. HUGE thanks to everyone...

In 1982, filming began for a movie version of the popular television show The Twilight Zone. Before filming was complete, two children and one adult actor would have been killed in a dangerous and poorly-planned stunt gone wrong. This episode tells the story of the Twilight Zone movie accident... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast i...

In 1956 air travel was quite different from today: flying was a luxurious, exclusive and elegant pursuit. And, at the same time, air traffic control was a very basic science, relying on radio calls and slips of paper. This state of affairs would lead to one of the worst mid-air collisions in history in June of 1956... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest dis...

Following the Challenger shuttle explosion of 1986, the United States space program ground to a halt, leaving some of its suppliers with an excess of materials. One of these was the PEPCON plant in Henderson, Nevada, which found itself with a huge quantity of highly-flammable rocket fuel, and no place to store it. The stage was thus set for the largest peacetime, man-made, non-nuclear explosion in...

In the town of Peshtigo in 1871, specific weather conditions would cause an ordinary fire to become a raging firestorm that endangered the very existence of the town. This episode tells the story of the catastrophic, but forgotten, Peshtigo Fire... 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...

During the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France in 1955, a conflict between two cars would result in one of the deadliest spectator accidents in any sport in 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. The channel is made possible by supporters on Patreon and YouTube chann...

In June, 1988, a woman on a train in France missed her stop, and pulled the emergency stop lever so that she could exit as soon as possible. Within minutes, this misdemeanour would turn into a chain of events that would end with the deaths of 56 people...  Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel...

Mount St Helens in volcano that has displayed periods of activity for decades. In 1980, it erupted... and despite many warnings, not everyone was clear of the blast zone when it did. This episode tells the story of the disaster... 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 cha...

The MV Princess Victoria was one of the first roll-on-roll-off vehicle ferries in operation. In 1953, a combination of bad weather and bad design caused it to sink. This episode tells the story of the boat, the crew who tried to save her, and what was learned from the disaster... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio versio...

When a fire began on board Saudia Flight 163 in August 1980, the crew carried out a timely emergency landing... but then didn't evacuate. The plane taxied, then sat on the tarmac while rescuers desperately tried to gain access. This episode explores what went wrong... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the You...

In 2013 cracks were noticed in the basement of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh. The staff were evacuated while the cracks were inspected. Then, the next day, the building was declared safe and thousands returned to work... 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 1979, a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in the town of Mississauga in Canada. Nearby residents mistook the ensuing explosion for the advent of nuclear war. However, thanks to the rapid response that followed, not a single life would be lost...  Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube chan...

In May 1980, while travelling through thick fog, a freighter collided with one of the supports of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida. This accidental collision would mark the beginning of one of the worst bridge disasters ever to take place in the state... Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube chan...

This episode tells the story of the Piper Alpha disaster - a catastrophic explosion which destroyed an offshore oil rig near Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1988. It was the worst offshore oil and gas drilling accident in 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. The channel is...

In 1963, a landslide caused the massive Vajont Dam in northern Italy to be overtopped, sending a megatsunami of water down the river valley. In the minutes and hours that followed, thousands would die and whole towns would be wiped off the map. The disaster seemed to come without warning, but in the investigation which followed it was found that signs of danger had been present for years... Fascin...

The circumstances that lead to the crash of United Airlines Flight 823 remain a mystery to this day. This episode tells the story of the crash, and covers the leading theories as to the cause... 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...