Podcast Episodes

Episode 259: The Big Bayou Canot rail disaster

In the early morning hours of September 22nd, 1993, a cross-country train departed from Mobile, Alabama, on its way to Miami. As it headed up along the train tracks out of the city, the train didn't …

Published on 1 day, 1 hour ago

Episode 258: The Sutherland Springs church shooting - Part Three

On a sunny Sunday morning in 2017, a man in an SUV pulled up outside a small white church in Sutherland Springs, TX. The people inside would become the targets of the weapons he carried. But when he …

Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Episode 257: The Sutherland Springs church shooting - Part Two

On a sunny Sunday morning in 2017, a man in an SUV pulled up outside a small white church in Sutherland Springs, TX. The people inside would become the targets of the weapons he carried. But when he …

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago

Episode 256: The Sutherland Springs church shooting - Part One

On a sunny Sunday morning in 2017, a man in an SUV pulled up outside a small white church in Sutherland Springs, TX. The people inside would become the targets of the weapons he carried. But when he …

Published on 1 month ago

Bonus: The 1987 Guadalupe River disaster

A week ago, the Guadalupe River in Texas overflowed its banks and swept away dozens of campers. It turns out that this is not the first time it's done so - and not the first time some of those camper…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 255: The Borderline Bar and Grill shooting

(Podcaster's note: The second part of the Cutter incident episode is forthcoming; I'm just trying to get it juuuuuust right. :))

November 7th, 2018, was just supposed to be another fun night of drink…

Published on 4 months ago

Episode 254: The Cutter incident - Part One

It would start with a headache, a fever, maybe a funny tummy. But soon enough your knee would give out, or your arm would hang limp, or you would struggle to breathe. You'd be taken to the hospital, …

Published on 5 months ago

Episode 253: The 1692 Port Royal earthquake

In a bustling city of pirates and wickedness, one might think things couldn't get any more dangerous. But in the Jamaican city of Port Royal in 1692, that thought would be tested, and tested hard.

Vi…

Published on 6 months ago

Stoned History: Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571

To raise money for car repairs, Jennifer answers the question you've all been wondering - how well can she talk about a disaster while ... let's say "not sober."

Please help Jennifer fix her car! It …

Published on 7 months ago

Episode 252: The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire

It was almost the end of a typical Tuesday for workers at the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, South Carolina, in June of 2007, and several of them went out to the loading dock to smoke and kill a lit…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago