In the aftermath of this disaster, many survivors stayed in touch with one another. From 1885 onward, in fact, there were annual reunions, which would take place as close to the anniversary of the ...
2021-11-16 11:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I include a quote from Harold Dennis Junior, a survivor of the crash who spoke about his experiences in the documentary 2021-11-09 11:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a lot to the story of Centralia - including many interesting details I couldn't find space for in the video. One of my favourite notes is that it 2021-11-02 11:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Something I often like to do when researching a disaster which took place on the streets of a city is to "visit" the location using Google Street View, and take a look around at what the place look...
2021-10-26 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I mention The Dangerous Sports Club. This was an interesting organisation, to say the least. They really did pioneer bungee-jumping in the UK... but they didn't necessarily go about i...
2021-10-19 10:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
While researching this video I went down a bit of a rabbit hole on disasters that have been caused by someone shouting "Fire" in a crowded place. Although I haven't done videos on them yet, here ar...
2021-10-12 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a little side note for this video - I didn't plan at all to post it on the anniversary of the crash... that was something that happened completely by chance, and that I only noticed as I was f...
2021-10-05 10:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Reading about this incident was a very strange experience. It happened long enough ago to feel like a part of history... and yet it's something that's within living memory for some of my friends an...
2021-09-28 10:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
While the Eastland Disaster isn't that well-remembered by the wider world, there are many people who work extremely hard to ensure that it's not totally forgotten. Among the organisations who help ...
2021-09-21 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the most useful sources for researching this story was the official incident report, compiled by the Clark County Fire Department. 2021-09-14 10:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
One great source for this story was a Seconds from Disaster episode. In season one, episode eight of the sho...
2021-09-07 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The chain of events which ended with this disaster began with a bomb inside a flower shop in the terminal of Gando airport. I mention this in the video, but don't go into too much detail... but the...
2021-08-31 10:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
There's always more to a disaster than I can fit in an episode, but with this disaster that was especially true. In fact, it's something that I might even revisit at a later date, as there's a whol...
2021-08-24 10:15:59 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I mention just how badly extremes of cold can affect the human body. It's something which I think isn't always understood. Cold can be devastating, and it can cause people to deterior...
2021-08-17 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A lot has been written about the radium girls and their fight for justice, which meant that I had a lot of sources to draw on for this video. Here are a couple that I'd particularly recommend.
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In this video, I talk about the x-ray film used in hospitals in the early 1900s. For quite some time, the same volatile film was used for movie production, with some disastrous results. For example...
2021-08-03 10:15:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Because Pearl Harbor was such an important historical event, there was plenty of Public Domain imagery and footage for me to use in this video - so much, in fact, that I could barely fit it all in....
2021-07-27 10:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Whenever I'm researching an incident like this, the best possible source is almost always the official government report. In this case, I was incredibly fortunate to find that the report had been t...
2021-07-20 10:15:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This video brought to mind two general safety principles that I'd heard of before... neither of which were applied in this incident.
The first can be remembered with the acronym BANANA, which...
2021-07-13 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Often in my videos I talk about what has been changed since the incident to stop it from happening again. And, sure enough, the control systems of trains have changed a great deal since 1918. I did...
2021-07-06 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Two things about this story stood out to me while researching, but I couldn't quite find a place for them in the video.
First, is that - like several other disasters I've covered - this one h...
2021-06-29 10:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I've visited Yellowstone twice in my life, and both times was struck by the beauty and strangeness of the place. If you've never been... well, there's no other part of America quite like it.
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2021-06-22 10:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I mention that the Elliot Lake Library was situated inside the Algo Centre Mall. After the collapse, the library moved, ending up as a tenant in the replacement mall, Pearson Plaza.&n...
2021-06-15 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I often make use of The Wayback Machine when researching incidents - its record of old websites is second to none. It was especially...
2021-06-08 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Although the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were able to carry on after the disaster in this week's episode, they recently put on their final ever performance.
It was ...
2021-06-01 10:15:59 +0000 UTC View Post
For a disaster that took place more than 100 years ago, the collapse of the Niagra Falls ice bridge is actually very well-documented... which made this an easy video to research! It's not often the...
2021-05-25 10:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I show a quote from a survivor of the disaster, Ruth McQuillan-Wilson. She's gone on to write a ...
2021-05-18 10:15:59 +0000 UTC View Post
When I started researching this topic I was absolutely stunned by how many massive multi-vehicle pileups there have been. They're very rare in the UK (where I live), but on some roads in some count...
2021-05-11 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This has to be one of the most frequently-requested disasters I've ever covered. It's certainly one that remains a huge presence in Chicago's history, and which had a lasting impact on the world of...
2021-05-04 10:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
One fact which I couldn't quite fit into this video, but which absolutely astonished me: Sellafield, until 2008, had a Visitors' Centre. The attraction consisted mainly of a museum with interactive...
2021-04-27 10:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post