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
Thorpe Rail Diaster
One rushed decision. One contradictory telegraph message. One single-track stretch of rail where only one train can be allowed to exist at a time. On a cold, rainy night in September 1874, that fragile setup collapses and Britain’s worst railwa...
French Pass Drift Dive Disaster
The most dangerous water often looks the calmest from the surface. French Pass sits like a postcard at the top of New Zealand’s South Island, but it hides the fastest tidal current in the country, a chaotic mix of eddies and standing waves, and...
Collision of the Andrea Doria and The Stockholm
A luxury Italian ocean liner glides toward New York with art on the walls, pools on deck, and new radar that’s supposed to make fog irrelevant. Then, off Nantucket, the SS Andrea Doria and the MS Stockholm do the unthinkable: they read each oth...