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Disaster Area

Disaster Area

Auteur(s): Jennifer Matarese
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A podcast about disasters throughout history - what caused them, how people survived, and how we've responded to keep those disasters from happening again. Monde Sciences sociales
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  • Episode 259: The Big Bayou Canot rail disaster
    Oct 31 2025

    In the early morning hours of September 22nd, 1993, a cross-country train departed from Mobile, Alabama, on its way to Miami. As it headed up along the train tracks out of the city, the train didn't know one important thing - that half of the bridge over the Big Bayou Canot wasn't there anymore.

    Videos:

    • Seconds from Disaster: The Wreck of the Sunset Limited

    • Forensic Files: Visibility Zero

    • Rail Disasters: Wreck of the Sunset Limited

    Articles and books:

    • Barge Pilot Blamed in Fatal Amtrak Wreck

    • No Criminal Liability Is Found in Amtrak Bayou Derailment

    • Mobile Press-Register 200th Anniversary: Sunset Limited train wreck memories not diminished by passing years

    • NTSB report on the accident

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    55 min
  • Episode 258: The Sutherland Springs church shooting - Part Three
    Oct 13 2025

    On a sunny Sunday morning in 2017, a man in an SUV pulled up outside a small white church in Sutherland Springs, TX. The people inside would become the targets of the weapons he carried. But when he sped away about twenty minutes later, he would be the one escaping gunfire.

    Videos:

    • Miracle on 4th Street

    • Sutherland Springs shooter recorded his confession to severe beating of stepson

    • Victims' stories heard through videos of Sutherland Springs church services

    Articles and books:

    • I'm Not a Hero': Man Who Shot and Chased Texas Church Gunman Shares His Story

    • Secret Service case study focused on the Sutherland Springs shooting as an example of the link between domestic violence and mass attacks

    • From the first deadly shot until the last — how the Texas church shooting unfolded

    • Comal County authorities didn't charge Sutherland Springs gunman with rape, even though the victim described brutal attack

    • Texas massacre survivors say gunman Devin Kelley became enraged by scared children during church shooting

    • Exclusive: Guilt and grief overwhelm the mother-in-law of the Sutherland Springs gunman

    • Texas church gunman lied about past to become a security guard, records show

    • Site of deadliest church shooting in US history is torn down over protests by some Texas families

    • Texas Church Shooting Video Shows Gunman's Methodical Attack, Official Says

    • Conspiracy theorists harass Sutherland Springs churchgoers, pastor whose daughter was killed

    • Washington Post: Investigative Timeline - Sutherland Springs Baptist Church Mass Casualty Event

    • Secret Service: First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs - A Case Study Between Domestic Violence and Mass Attacks

    • Air Force must pay more than $230M in church shooting

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    1 h et 1 min
  • Episode 257: The Sutherland Springs church shooting - Part Two
    Oct 6 2025

    On a sunny Sunday morning in 2017, a man in an SUV pulled up outside a small white church in Sutherland Springs, TX. The people inside would become the targets of the weapons he carried. But when he sped away about twenty minutes later, he would be the one escaping gunfire.

    Videos:

    • Miracle on 4th Street

    • Sutherland Springs shooter recorded his confession to severe beating of stepson

    • Victims' stories heard through videos of Sutherland Springs church services

    Articles and books:

    • I'm Not a Hero': Man Who Shot and Chased Texas Church Gunman Shares His Story

    • Secret Service case study focused on the Sutherland Springs shooting as an example of the link between domestic violence and mass attacks

    • From the first deadly shot until the last — how the Texas church shooting unfolded

    • Comal County authorities didn't charge Sutherland Springs gunman with rape, even though the victim described brutal attack

    • Texas massacre survivors say gunman Devin Kelley became enraged by scared children during church shooting

    • Exclusive: Guilt and grief overwhelm the mother-in-law of the Sutherland Springs gunman

    • Texas church gunman lied about past to become a security guard, records show

    • Site of deadliest church shooting in US history is torn down over protests by some Texas families

    • Texas Church Shooting Video Shows Gunman's Methodical Attack, Official Says

    • Conspiracy theorists harass Sutherland Springs churchgoers, pastor whose daughter was killed

    • Washington Post: Investigative Timeline - Sutherland Springs Baptist Church Mass Casualty Event

    • Secret Service: First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs - A Case Study Between Domestic Violence and Mass Attacks

    • Air Force must pay more than $230M in church shooting

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    47 min

Featured Article: 14 of the Best History Podcasts For Every History Fan

Everybody loves historical yarn. We can watch the trials of humanity from a safe distance, then judge how well we did as a species or, more likely, how badly. And when you think things are getting better, along comes a figure or an act of nature that pushes us back to the brink again. Whatever your taste in bygone times, we've got some compelling history podcasts here, some light and humorous, some stuff you missed in history class in high school, but all ripe for learning more about the backstory on how we got where we are today.

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