This week's episode covers the 1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, when a huge quantity of mercury-tainted grain was distributed across rural areas of northern Iraq... www.youtube.com/watch?v=euZW...

This week I cover FedEx 705 - a flight that saw three pilots having to fight for their lives while also trying to control a fully-loaded cargo plane... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko7P...

In recent years, usually-peaceful killer whales have started attacking boats in the Strait of Gibraltar. Why? www.youtube.com/shorts/c1cog...

This week's video tells the story of a fire which took place in 1987, and which consumed one of the busiest transit hubs in the world: King's Cross station... www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH1u...

This week's anthology episode tells three stories of extremely unusual deaths that were caused by foods ranging from a fishcake to a slug... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NUn...

Today is the anniversary of one of the stranger accidents I've covered on the channel - the death of a contestant during production of an episode of a British variety show in 1986. Here's the episode I made on it a few years ago... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Rj...

This week I cover the sinking of the cruise ship the Costa Concordia in 2012, a disaster notable for being both caused by and exacerbated by the actions of the ship's captain... ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw97x4jxeS8

In 2013 German drinks brand Jagermeister inadvertently created a pool of death at a promotional event in Mexico. It did not result in good PR... www.youtube.com/shorts/lqcax...

This week's episode tells three stories of accidental deaths in the workplace, each of which could have been prevented by a simple, inexpensive safety measure... www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVu0...

In this year's Halloween special, I explore the true story behind the terrifying minimalist horror film Open Water, in which two scuba divers are left behind after a dive... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIu3...

Today's video covers a disaster which took place in Hungary in 2010, and which was catastrophic both for humans and for the environment. This is the story of the Ajka Alumina Plant accident... www.youtube.com/watch?v=au4I...

This week's episode tells the story of Geraldine Largay, a hiker who went missing while walking the Appalachian Trail in 2013, and whose fate wasn't discovered for another two years... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Og3...

📅Today marks the anniversary of one of the weirdest stories I've ever covered on the channel: the London Beer Flood. It was exactly what it sounds like it was. Here's my video from 2023... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeXQ...

This week's episode covers the loss of Air France Flight 296Q, which crashed during a demonstration flight in France in 1988, after being flown at an altitude of just thirty feet... www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK4x...

Meanwhile, over on my other channel...

In February, 1959, nine hikers died in a remote wilderness region of the USSR in a way that defied any rational explanation. This week's video tells their story...

📅On this day in 1930, the revolutionary British R101 airship crashed to the ground and went up in flames. It's been several years since I made my video about this particular ill-fated airship, but it's still one of my favourite stories. Here it is...

For many years now severed human feet have been washing up on the shores of the Salish Sea. For a while it was a mystery... but we now think we know why...

Today's video is a brief history of the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan - the deadliest tunnel in the world...

This week's episode tells the story of Michael Hughes, a daring amateur stuntman who planned to fly to space in a homemade steam-powered rocket ship, but ultimately died when an early launch went wrong...

In July, 2010, over a million people descended on the German city of Duisburg to attend a free dance music festival. For many of these people, however, the party would ultimately become a nightmare...

In the late 1800s deliberately crashing trains into one another was a somewhat common form of entertainment. Here's a video I made a few years ago about one particular accident from that time...

Some old houses in England and Wales have a secret, hidden feature that was intended to save lives...

This video tells the story of the Harvey's Hotel Resort bombing of 1980 - an absolutely LUDICROUS tale of revenge and incompetence that ultimately resulted in $18 million worth of damage...

In 2000, a prank on a US college campus resulted in the deaths of three people, and dozens of serious injuries. This week's video tells the story of the Boland Hall Fire...

On this day in 1992, a group of hunters on the Stampede Trail in Alaska discovered the body of Christopher McCandless. It's one of the stranger stories I've ever covered on the channel. Here's the video I made about it a couple of years ago...

Over on my other channel this week, I cover the fascinating history of the Smoot...

This week's video covers the collapse of the Alexander Kielland oil platform, which took place in March, 1980, and resulted in the death of 123 workers...

The making of the 1997 film Titanic was unmitigated chaos, and included injuries, arguments, a runaway budget and a deliberate mass poisoning...

In 1998, pilots on board Swissair Flight 111 noticed a strange odour emanating from the air conditioning system. They thought little of it... not realising that this was the first sign of an unfolding, deadly disaster... www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk2j...

A theme park in the Netherlands once boasted a slide which was completely underwater and required riders to hold their breath for twenty seconds... www.youtube.com/shorts/qiwSY...

The Magdeburg Unicorn might just be the goofiest looking fossil reconstruction in history... www.youtube.com/shorts/Ya97d...

On the 24th of November, 2006, the Kim family set off on a three-day roadtrip. Ten days later, after an extensive search, three of them would be found alive, and one dead... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll7v...

In 2013 London (briefly) had its very own death ray, which melted cars, bikes, a doormat and one very unlucky lemon... www.youtube.com/shorts/ak5EF...

📅 On this day in 1981, Germany saw its worst EVER fairground disaster, when showman Norbert Witte steered a crane into a moving carousel. Here's the video I made telling the full story...

In 1931 a summery day turned into a blizzard in a rural part of Colorado, stranding a school bus full of children. Though just minutes away from the nearest farm, they would remain stranded there for nearly two days, and at the cost of several lives... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT15...

For a while now, I've been wanting to ramble about all the insane things Pepsi has done to try and sell more sugar water. Now, finally, I've posted a video on my other channel covering my four favourite Pepsi shenanigans... www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFEk...

In 2020, influencer Katerina Didenko hosted a birthday party at a spa in Moscow. It was a day full of surprises... but one surprise in particular would result in the sudden death of her husband and two of her friends... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdZ6...

Bill Stephens was a lion tamer, whose favourite lioness escaped to stalk the streets of Dublin one day in 1951... www.youtube.com/shorts/goYTR...

This week's video explores one of the worst cave diving disasters to take place in South Australia, during which four experienced divers lost their lives... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifdW...

Several times now, people in the UK have spotted a beautiful flame-coloured bird in distress... only for it to turn out to be something bizarrely ordinary... www.youtube.com/shorts/6mb7A...

This week's video covers one of the worst disasters ever to take place at a waterpark: the 2015 Formosa Fun Coast fire... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN0Z...

From my other channel: here's the story of a hit song that had the seemingly-magical power to crash laptops that heard it... www.youtube.com/shorts/ptot_...

Valhalla Grade Crossing Crash - a collision between a train and a car that took place in New York State in 2015, and which was caused by the inexplicable actions of one person... www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0mF...

In 1997, an episode of the animated TV series Pokemon caused thousands of children in Japan to be hospitalised... www.youtube.com/shorts/7qg5A...

I'm trying out a new format on my other channel: here's a recap of all the biggest, strangest or most interesting events from one particular year in history - in this case, 1970... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba8P...

Until 2019, a handful of New Zealand tour companies offered trips to an active volcano. In 2019, this volcano violently erupted while multiple tour groups were hiking around it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBo_...

Today is the anniversary of one of the costliest man-made disasters in history, and one of the deadliest offshore oil and gas accidents of all time: the Piper Alpha disaster. Here's the video I made about it a few years back now... www.youtube.com/watch?v=V894...

I put together a compilation of some of my shorter videos. Each short introduces a true story from the world of the strange, macabre or bizarre. You can watch them individually, or try out this compilation, which contains the first THIRTY of them... www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEcR...

Verrückt was an ambitious, record-breaking waterslide which opened in 2014 to rave reviews, and then closed in 2016 after one of its riders was killed in a gruesome accident...