History's A Disaster
History's A Disaster is a darkly funny true-history podcast digging into shipwrecks, train wrecks, and other real-life catastrophes — no sugarcoating, no boring lectures.
History's A Disaster
Latest Episodes
Aberfan Disaster
Nobody could have seen it coming is the line we reach for when a tragedy is too big to hold. Aberfan blows that lie apart. We trace the 1966 Welsh coal tip disaster step by step, from a mountain of mining waste built on a soaked hillside to the...
Sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise
A disaster doesn’t always need a rogue wave or a freak mechanical failure. Sometimes it just needs a tired person, an open bow door, and a company that trained everyone to treat silence as proof that everything is fine. We’re telling the story ...
Continental Airlines Flight 11
A Boeing 707 climbs above Midwest storms in 1962, the jet age at full shine: crisp uniforms, cocktails, and the kind of easygoing airport experience where nobody searches your bag and nobody asks what you’re carrying. Then the radar target flic...