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 same name. The channel is made possible by supporters on Patreon and YouTube channel members. HUGE thanks to everyone who supports this channel!

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► In this episode I say that Skagway is in British Columbia. This is incorrect - it's actually in the state of Alaska.

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. HUGE thanks to everyone who supports this channel!

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► In this episode I say that the American Bridge Company manufactured the Matterhorn Bobsled ride. This isn't quite right - while ABC manufactured the structure of the mountain, Arrow Dynamics were responsible for the track

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 possible by supporters on Patreon and YouTube channel members. HUGE thanks to everyone who supports this channel!

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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 the same name. The channel is made possible by supporters on Patreon and YouTube channel members. HUGE thanks to everyone who supports this channel!

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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 same name. The channel is made possible by supporters on Patreon and YouTube channel members. HUGE thanks to everyone who supports this channel!

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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 who supports this channel!

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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 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 who supports this channel!

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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 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 who supports this channel!

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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 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 channel members. HUGE thanks to everyone who supports this channel!

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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 same name. The channel is made possible by supporters on Patreon and YouTube channel members. HUGE thanks to everyone who supports this channel!

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