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
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...
Moorgate Tube Crash
Every morning, millions of us step onto trains and make a silent deal with a stranger: you drive, I trust. That bargain held for decades on the London Underground, until a Friday in February 1975 when a packed Northern City Line train reached M...