I tell the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters... but without sensationalism or disturbing imagery. Fascinating Horror is all about in-depth research, respectful storytelling, and learning what we can from the mistakes of the past. You might be surprised to discover just how much of today's world is shaped by long-forgotten disasters from decades gone by.
Surely even in the 1950’s the Grand Canyon area would have many tourists and someone would have seen two explosions and/or heard them and reported things to authorities. So why the delay of knowing the planes had gone down.
I went to the Mall of America one time and rode an indoor rollercoaster that had a similar gimmick: a car seating four with a wheel in the center allowing riders to spin The only riders in my car were myself and my dad, and because I was a middle schooler at the time, it was a very uneven weight distribution. No matter how much I spun that wheel, he stayed at the lowest part in the car 😂 Luckily I wasn’t watching this channel way back when, otherwise I would’ve been too nervous to ride without a full and perfectly balanced car!
The one and only house fire I’ve been in smoldered for 40 minutes in the attic before suddenly jumping up into something bigger. The reason it was smothered at first was because of a very heavy rain Nobody was hurt!
I know that the lakes would be big enough to be considered inland seas if they were salt water, but sometimes that thought doesn’t really register until you remember there have been sea storms sinking sea ships in there 😅
As far as I know the circumstances and organization carried a high prevalence for a stampede. They were lucky that this didn't happen as it would have resulted in dozens of deaths. But at that time the rock music industry was still young and inexperienced with large rock concerts. The mentioned Woodstock festival is a legend but was also pretty chaotic and messy. And here in Germany on the island Fehmarn there was about 9 months later the "love-and-peace festival" notorious for poor organization (they also hired some biker group as security and not surprisingly those turned out to be part of the problem and not the solution), horrible weather conditions (not only bad for the spectators but also for the technical equipment ), financial disaster, Jimi Hendrix' last appearance on a festival (he died 12 days later) and the first big concert of the (hopefully world famous) German anarchist band Ton Steine Scherben.
I don’t recall anyone ever calling her an amazing aviator but rather a pioneer, doing things that no other woman had done. Aviation back then was completely different than what it is today. Most pilots today probably wouldn’t have the guts to do what she accomplished in her lifetime. She was a 100% go-getter. No many people can say that.
I encountered a coyote once, on the road leading up to Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles of all places. it casually walked up a clearing with people in the vicinity watching it, it crossed the road going up the hill to the observatory, stopped in the middle of the road, halting traffic and then going back the way it came. it wasnt bothered by loads of people or their cars at all.
The govt at the time used unemployed labour, work schemes for the dole, to maintain tracks and i suspect build this garbage platform. I shared a house w the outdoor rec student who survived, Stacey, in a big house in greymouth. I was a cookery student. It was a strange year, 1995
People do really dumb shit. What started as a fun spectacle turned into a gradual pissing contest trying to outdo the previous bonfire in scope. When you take a step back, 12 people died and numerous lives were forever scarred all because people wanted to watch a big pile of wood burn.
It was my Grandpas helicopter It was such a horrible thing, for all involved. Especially the families of Vic Morrow, Myca Dinh Le, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen. My Grandpa was the owner of that Bell helicopter that crashed. And it also deeply affected him as well as the rest of the family for many years after. The helicopter was owned by and belonged to my Grandpa and his brother. They founded a helicopter company called: “Rocky Mountain Helicopters.” The pilot of that crashed helicopter in question was Dorcey Wingo, he was Director of Operations at Western Helicopters, Inc, which was also owned by my grandpa, and it was the place that the Helicopter was rented. I was 5 years old and my twin brother and I were visiting our grandparents home for a week. We were there on July 23rd 1982, when the phone rang around 3:45 am MST. The sound of the phone ringing woke me up. I heard my grandma answer the phone, then I could hear the phone being given to my grandpa. As he talked I could hear shock build up in his voice. I started to get worried something had happened to our mom who was sick at the time. After he had hung up the phone, my twin brother and I walked out of our bedroom to ask what was wrong. I saw my grandpa sitting on a living room chair. He looked dazed, deep in thought, and devastated. I almost cried seeing him like that. Our grandma suddenly and lovingly swooped in and reassured us he was ok. She said that one of Grandpas helicopters had crashed, and that we shouldn’t worry, then she put us back to bed. Grandpa sat for hours in that chair. I woke up at one point and could hear him quietly praying for help and guidance. He was a Veteran of WWII, he served as a B-17 Bombardier for over two years, flying dozens of missions. He had witnessed fellow B-17 teammates ripped to shreds by enemy gunfire, and MUCH much more…fast forward 47 years to that night in 1982 to the crash and subsequent tragedy he felt responsible for. This event rivaled the deep and unforgettable emotional experiences he endured during and after WWII. He understood the pain that everyone involved in the production must have been going through at that same moment. The tragic loss of lives and also those who was involved and their lives going forward would never be the same. were affected by the Twilight Zone on set tragedy which haunted him throughout his life going forward. A big weight that he had no choice but to face, was that if the courts found anything faulty down to the bolts of his crashed helicopter, the FAA would have revoked his helicopter company’s aviation licenses and could have financially ruined him and his brother and their helicopter company. All the work he and his brother did to build the company was started in the 1960’. And all that could have been destroyed. His entire life’s work. There was a very lengthy investigation into his company’s Western Helicopters, and Rocky Mountain Helicopters. The investigation combed through every single part of that helicopter, the court documents I have seen on the investigation into his helicopter and his company’s are about 30 pages long. Finally it was ruled by the courts, that the helicopter had been in perfect working condition and found his company, and the pilot to be not at fault. It was a very bittersweet ruling to say the least. The horrible things everyone on that set witnessed and experienced would be engraved in their memories, and affect their livelihoods. And the tragic deaths of the three innocent lives could not be brought back because of this tragic accident. Years ago, I was visiting him in the hospital, he wasn’t doing well. Just outside his hospital window, there was a Life Flight helicopter landing. He was deep in thought as he watched it land on the helipad. I watched with him. His eyes were still looking at it landing. Not taking his eyes off of the aircraft he told me (with real conviction): “I wish I never had started that damn helicopter company.” He turned away from the window still visibly with a lot on his mind. I felt in that moment, while the Life Flight helicopter was still outside his window that I needed to remind him that if he hadn’t started his helicopter company, many lives wouldn’t have been saved. It was he and his brother back in the early 1970’s who had pioneered and implemented the first hospital based helicopter air ambulance’s. Grandpa retrofitted the first civilian helicopter in the United States, with all the same services that a regular ambulance had, it became an “air ambulance.” Inspired by the Huey medical helicopters used during the Vietnam War. Today you’ll see most hospitals in the United States have air ambulance service helicopters, most with the name “Life Flight.” Imprinted on them. Although my grandpa and his brother pioneered and implemented this method taking the program to so many other hospitals that implemented the program with helicopters owned by their company first known as Mountain West Helicopters, then becoming Rocky Mountain Helicopters. However, over the years their names have been erased from Life Flights history. Thankfully they are given credit page 1-7 in the history section of the Aviation Air Medical Guidelines Book. While I visited with him, part of that may have been on his mind as he watched the Life Flight helicopter (that he and his brother pioneered) as it landed. He already knew that he and his brothers names were lost from the history Life Flight. He didn’t want to leave this earth known (at some point) only for the tragic accident that took the lives of Vic Morrow, Myca Dinh Le, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen. Hopefully for a little bit I could keep him from remembering these painful memories. So I began reminding him of the good things he had done in his life, including his inspired innovation in the creation of Life Flight. I told him this and He thought for a moment and then said, “Yeah..I guess so.” Although he had much on his mind that I could never guess. He lightened up for a little while and shared a few of his wild experiences he had as the Sheriff of Moab, Utah back in the 1950’s. I’d heard many of them before, but never got tired of hearing him share these experiences. It was really good to see him light up (in his own grizzled way) and re-live those positive events while sharing the stories behind them. Even if took his mind away from some of the tough memories and tragic events that must be flowing when you feel in your gut the end is near. But even for just a few moments, I was happy to see his mind on the better times. And there were many of the better during his companies life span. His helicopters were used in some of Steven Spielbergs movies and Robert Redford as well. That day at the hospital getting to visit with him was January 6th 2017. I gave him a hug goodbye (he wasn’t really a hugger, that’s okay). I remember it all vividly, I also remember my whole life I have never seen him cry, except for the deep sorrow I felt emanating from him on that early morning of July 23rd, 1982. Tears started streaming down his eyes looking at me as I was preparing to leave. The look in his eyes conveyed that there was so much left to say but not enough time to say it. The emotions on his face and in his eyes were so full of purity, tears I had never seen flowed from his eyes, and for the first time in my entire life he said to me: “I love you Nate.” I forced myself not to weep, as I gave him a hug and said I’d be back soon to see him. I could see in his eyes a mixture of love and also of sadness and longing, as if he was seeing me for the first time, and also for the last time, it was something beyond words, that I just can’t explain. I will never forget that look. Four days later he passed away. He was a hero of mine, larger than life throughput all of my life. I know he will have the change to meet and lovingly embrace Vic Morrow, Myca Dinh Le, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, and express his sorrow for what had happened. And to anyone who was affected by the tragedy, then, and to this day. I know his heart had always deeply felt for you. Mine does as well 💛 love you too grandpa. Robert C. Burr 1925 - 2017 www.moabtimes.com/articles/robert-charles-burr-sr-1925-2017/
He died doing something that was keeping his mind occupied, instead of dying while waiting to be legally murdered. Sucks that it was electrocution. Hopefully everything stopped quickly. But, either way, it was still a better way to go out
The 1964 accident reminds me of when my brother and I went to Disney world when we were really young, and he went on some ride (adventure mountain?) where he swears he almost slipped out of the car because he was too small for the seatbelt. My dad apparently held his shoulder the whole time they were riding, because he was also apprehensive about how much my brother was able to move around in his seat. Nothing happened, thankfully - it was just a scary experience for my brother. But watching this channel always makes me wonder when it will be my turn to know the person’s whose blood will write the next safety regulation
On top of this the moderator didn't mention the texts were mostly wood while they were burning and the decks collapsed on top of each other what a way to die over crowded decks people with so many children falling right into the fire below. It's just too horrible to visualize
This is the most Age of Colonialism fire I've ever heard about; A match lit to see ignites a bottle of ETHER that subsequently burns a structure made of wood and paper, while hoop-skirted women with petroleum based beauty products catch alight. Where they then sell off the melted remains, some with flesh still attached. Only things that would have made it more perfect is mention of selling opium candies and blaming it on a "Hun spy" or something.
Its always sad to see people perish like this when they were at work and not protected. Of course they will never do enough to help families affected by disaster either.
Somebody threw an object at him which probably threatened him and took his suppressed animalistic desires of violence out... He was drugged with a human anxiety medication... But To this day we don't know the reason behind the attack...
Has anyone ever thought of as a theory that as Varna Airport is near the black sea, that he just ran off and maybe commit suicide or accidentally drowned?
I spoke at a UK escape room convention c.2016 and said that one day there would be a fatal accident with players locked in a room, and urged owners to never rely on the room operator to open the room. Sadly, since 2019 I’ve continued to play games (in the UK and America) where owners have created situations whereby players can’t exit the room independent of the operator. Ironically they’ve all been venues with super high production values, where the owners have built elaborate sets with unusual doors and hidden passages. I’ve challenged them but they refuse to compromise. Sadly it seems like an artistic vision overrides some peoples common sense.
I worked for a huge chemical company who had labs for people like this young man. We called them ‘tinkers and thinkers’ and they were free, under the watchful eye of other TTs, to just be themselves safely. I feel as though had he been given the opportunity and proper supervision he could’ve channeled his knowledge and passion into real world research and projects
It's unfortunate that Pemex won't take responsibility for their actions to this day, just like the former mayor of this city. Monkey see, monkey do. Totally disgusting behavior, that's for sure. They definitely need the EPA just like we do here in the U.S.!!
