Calamity! Podcast

1:13:06 | Nov 4th, 2019

In 1989, 96 football fans lost their lives due to crushing at a match. It took nearly 20 years, however, for the full story to come to light.

1:05:20 | Oct 25th, 2019

What started as a plan for an idyllic new neighborhood near Niagara Falls ended in pollution, evacuation, and disaster decades later.

1:26:31 | Oct 16th, 2019

A highly televised, much-anticipated launch turned into tragedy when an O-ring failed on the Challenger Shuttle in 1986.

1:13:45 | Oct 10th, 2019

In 2010, the entire world watched as rescue efforts were made to save the lives of 33 men trapped underground in the Atacama Desert. It was a herculean task of collaboration and problem-solving, motiv...Show More

1:11:57 | Sep 30th, 2019

Disaster struck the North End neighborhood of Boston in January 1919 when unseasonably warm weather caused a poorly designed, overfilled storage tank full of molasses to explode. The wave of sticky go...Show More

51:41 | Sep 23rd, 2019

Local Italians were expecting a landslide in 1963 near the Vajont River, but no one anticipated how large it ultimately became, nor the mega-tsunami it created.

58:41 | Sep 16th, 2019

The deadliest oil rig explosion in history occurred in 1988 off the coast of Scotland.

1:20:59 | Sep 9th, 2019

On May 6, 1937, a German airship called the Hindenburg was about to land in New Jersey when disaster struck. It had crossed the Atlantic carrying nearly 100 passengers without incident, and was infamo...Show More