Disastrous History: A Disasters of History Podcast

Join us on a sorrowful journey back in time to the deadliest hotel fire in American history, the Winecoff Hotel fire. In this episode, we delve into the tragic events that unfolded on that fateful night, exploring the stories of survival and loss that forever changed the course of fire safety regulations. The Winecoff Hotel Fire on December 7, 1946- also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio, and wherever else you listen to podcasts!

This episode covers the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens.

This episode covers the June 3, 1980 tornado outbreak in Grand Island, Nebraska.

This episode covers the Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942.

Hello friends, this is an old Patreon episode that I'm uploading to the main feed while I figure out how to actually do this again. I'm sorry for being bad at this and all of the chaos of the last year and change. And please enjoy the episode.

This episode covers the 1955 Le Mans Disaster that changed the sport of auto racing forever.

This episode covers the One Meridian Plaza Fire in Philadelphia in February of 1991.

This episode covers the 2011 Joplin Tornado

This week's episode covers that famous shipwreck, the wreck of the Edmund FItzgerald.

This episode is our third and final episode on Hurricane Katrina and covers the levee failures in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

This is episode 2 of our Hurricane Katrina mini series. This episode covers Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi.

This episode covers the formation of Hurricane Katrina and its impact in New Orleans.

This week’s episode covers the 99 Texas A&M Bonfire Collapse.

This episode covers the 1966 Aberfan Disaster.

This episode covers the New London School Explosion of 1937.

This episode covers the Great Fires of New York in 1776, 1835, and 1845.

This episode covers the West Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion in April of 2013.

This episode covers the Deepwater Horizon Disaster.

This episode covers the White Hurricane of 1913.

This week’s episode covers the 1948 Donora Death Fog.

This week‘s episode covers the 2017 Grenfell Tower Fire.

This week‘s episode covers the Johnstown Flood of 1889.

This episode covers Hurricane Rita on September 24, 2005.

This week covers the summer of 1816, or 1800 and Froze to Death.

This week‘s episode covers the Iroquois Theater Fire of 1903.

This week‘s episode covers the Lac-Megantic Rail Disaster in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, Canada.

This episode covers the 2008 Georgia Sugar Refinery Explosion.

This episode goes into the history of disasters, mismanagement, and general lack of safety surrounding the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant

This episode covers the 2020 Beirut Explosion.

This week’s episode covers the Big Bayou Canot Rail Disaster of 1993.

This week’s episode covers the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, California.

This week’s episode covers the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Buffalo Creek, West Virginia in 1972. Before listening to this episode, there is some in depth talking of survivor guilt and PTSD. I don’t want any listeners to have any issues listening to this episode and if you feel you need to talk to someone, please reach out or call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 800-273-8255.

This episode covers the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, landslides, tsunamis, flood, and volcanic eruption. Busy episode this week yikes.

This episode is all about the Mount Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD.

This episode covers the Minoan Eruption of 1650-1500 BCE

This episode covers three disasters! The Great Whiskey Fire, The Erfurt Latrine Disaster, and The Lake Peigneur Disaster.

This episode covers the Upper Big Branch Mining Disaster.

This week covers the 2011 Super Outbreak of tornadoes.

This week covers the 2019 fire in Notre Dame de Paris.

This week we cover the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

This week we discuss the New York City Blackout of 1977.

This week we cover a whole host of tornadoes throughout the ages in Europe.

This week we cover the apparently cursed town of Moore, Oklahoma

This week we cover the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak of 1965

This week's episode will cover the Lake Monoun Disaster and the Lake Nyos Disaster

This week we cover the Great Quake of 1906 in San Francisco and the subsequent fires.

This week's episode covers the sequel to the Great Fire of London, creatively entitled, the Second Great Fire of London

In this week's episode we cover the First Great Fire of London.

This week we discuss the events leading up to, surrounding, and aftermath of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

A discussion on the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hey new listener! Just want to say that this was my very first attempt at ever recording a podcast. I was doing my best with what I knew how to do at the time. If you don’t enjoy this episode, try one of the newer ones. I get much better, I promise! Hope you all enjoy! In this week's episode, we cover the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

A brief introduction to what this show will be and how it will run.