Battersea Park, England, and Edmonton, Canada, are the scenes for the two stories in this episode. They are about the Big Dipper and Mindbender accidents.

Story written by: Mitchell and Lindsay Hall

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 Sources

Toby Porter, London News Online, March 25 2020,

https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/south-london-memories-battersea-fun-fair-the-fairground-attraction-that-turned-into-a-disaster/?fbclid=IwAR0VMIRNWAY--togZT-N0ts46t27TUAxcWcThgn38Is6PN4xz0GsGOsEaRY

 

https://londonist.com/2014/03/londons-forgotten-disasters-the-battersea-big-dipper-crash?fbclid=IwAR2UVxgC4_fGAHTeYg6sIP_2zBpnfrGs4I78cS2JsFlDK5d4U91U2wG81UU

 

Clint Pumphrey, How Stuff Works

https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/destinations/theme-parks/10-deadliest-roller-coaster-accidents.htm?fbclid=IwAR2LP9Foddchal7zw8xw0Wo14aqnjA3DX8jMK9xL-Sf10cYKfOaxb6swgYQ#pt10

 

 

Jasmine Franklin, Edmonton Sun, June 14, 2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20140729002736/http://www.edmontonsun.com/2011/06/13/mindbender-tragedy-25-years-later

 

CBS News, September 28, 2019, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/quimera-rollercoaster-at-la-feria-amusement-park-car-jumps-rails-2-killed-2019-09-28/

 

Kelly McCleary & Kay Guerrero, CNN, September 30, 2019, https://web.archive.org/web/20190930202527/https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/29/world/mexico-roller-coaster-derails-two-dead/index.html

 

Tragedy on the Mindbender, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtJ2V8XXJZw

 

Wikipedia entries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxyland

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindbender_(Galaxyland)#1986_accident

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Schwarzkopf

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