In this video I note that the fire had a lasting impact on the operations of the Tucson Fire Department... a positive impact. It's only because of this fire that the Department has access ...
2022-05-17 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere should be a video displaying above... but Patreon doesn't seem to like shorts. I've gotten in touch with Patreon support and they say that it's a problem on their end, and that th...
2022-05-13 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll be the first to admit that I know absolutely nothing about golf... so this was an interesting story to research. Getting my head around the difference between the PGA Championship Tou...
2022-05-10 10:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
There should be a video displaying above... but Patreon doesn't seem to like shorts. I've gotten in touch with Patreon support and they say that it's a problem on their end, and that th...
2022-05-06 10:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I spent a huge amount of time trawling the internet to try and find pictures of the inside of the Sampoong Department Store before the collapse... but I just couldn't track down any. The outside of...
2022-05-03 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
If you want to learn more about this disaster, I'd recommend the excellent book The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic St...
2022-04-26 10:15:59 +0000 UTC View PostThere should be a video displaying above... but Patreon doesn't seem to like shorts. I've gotten in touch with Patreon support and they say that it's a problem on their end, and that th...
2022-04-22 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Marchioness Disaster is one of many accidents that has since been made into a dramatized film. I looked everywhere ...
2022-04-19 10:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In terms of the area affected, this has to be one of the biggest disasters I've ever covered. It's extraordinary how much material there is out there; thousands of people were lucky enough to survi...
2022-04-12 10:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a very interesting video to research. Given that it was an event attended by at least 300,000 people, there are endless accounts of the Altamont Free Concert floating around on the interne...
2022-04-05 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is mostly just a bit of fun, but while I was watching and re-watching the film which inspired it, I couldn't help but notice that InGen really does fail to follow a bunch of basic safety...
2022-04-01 09:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
During this video, I show a picture of a yellow school bus perched precariously on the edge of a piece of concrete rubble. You can read the full story of that school bus 2022-03-29 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
There was one little side story to this piece that I wanted to include, but couldn't quite find space for. It's certainly an interesting one, though, as it shows that animals and people lived in cl...
2022-03-22 11:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
There are many tangents and side stories to this disaster that I wasn't able to include in the video. One of them really stuck out to me, though: the story of Barbara Morgan.
Barbara was also...
2022-03-15 11:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This was another story where being able to virtually visit the location where events took place was incredibly helpful in the course of telling the story. 2022-03-08 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It can sometimes be difficult, when researching these stories, to pick apart fact from fiction - that was particularly tricky with this story. Not only are the many conflicting accounts of...
2022-03-01 11:16:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I never got to travel on Concorde when it was still in service... but my older brother did. I asked him what it was like while I was researching this video, and he said it wasn't as great as it sou...
2022-02-22 11:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Something I came across while researching this video really stuck with me. I mention briefly that obscene graffiti was found in the ruins of Pompeii. You can actually read translations of 2022-02-15 11:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Often, when researching a video, I find that a lot of the resources which might be most useful have simply disappeared from the internet. That was the case with the full version of the report on th...
2022-02-08 11:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I have fond memories of visiting Woolworths as a child. There was no other high street store like it at the time. If you'd asked me back then I couldn't really have told you what it sold - except t...
2022-02-01 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a disaster I've been asked to cover many times over the last year or so... but I always had to put it off because there was so much reading to do, so much material to cover, and so many det...
2022-01-25 11:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Ever since I learned about this disaster it's a story that I've been wanting to tell. What the survivors went through is really quite extraordinary... and it's a part of World War II that I thing e...
2022-01-18 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a really interesting (and actually quite enjoyable) topic to research. Although each of these broadcasts did cause quite a bit of fear and uncertainty, there were at least no recorded deat...
2022-01-11 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I quote Alf Morris, a survivor who was interviewed by the author of Spitalfields Life in February 2010. I use only a small part of the interview in the video, but it really i...
2022-01-04 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
There was so much about this story that I couldn't find space for in the video, but the thing I most regret leaving out is what happened to the people involved afterwards.
Incredibly, b...
2021-12-28 11:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I first learned that legionella existed many years ago when I was working at a University. Over the course of the summer (when most of the accommodation on campus was empty) maintenance teams had t...
2021-12-21 11:15:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This story is one that I've wanted to cover for a while... it's one of those true stories that seems so strange and unlikely that it reads more like fiction. Although the ending is rather saddening...
2021-12-14 11:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to Archives New Zealand, I was able to source several crystal clear, detailed images to put into this video. The clarity and...
2021-12-07 11:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I mention that there was a very large number of Pacific Southwest Airlines employees on board Flight 182 when it crashed. 2021-11-30 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A great starting point for finding out about incidents which have taken place during Black Friday sales is this website, w...
2021-11-23 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post