Fascinating Horror

True horror stories, weird history, and the odd unsettling fact.

[Fascinating Horror @TrueHorrorTales]

Do you remember the Millennium Dome? It was, by most accounts, a year-long, slow-motion financial disaster.

Here's a video from my other channel all about the Dome, and the many, many things that went wrong with it...

https://t.co/YKz2EHluGY

[Fascinating Horror @TrueHorrorTales]

This week's episode tells the story of the Luxor balloon crash of 2013 - the worst balloon-related accident since the Hindenburg...

https://t.co/hUyeVS23qR

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If you enjoy my shorts about strange, macabre and dark history... good news! I've just put together another compilation video featuring 30 of them. Here it is:

https://t.co/BQwyjqKqTJ

[Fascinating Horror @TrueHorrorTales]

This short documentary tells the story of the 1986 mid-air crash between a sightseeing plane and a sightseeing helicopter over the Grand Canyon...

https://t.co/vlYxlqwBTe

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In 1876, a farmer's wife in Kentucky was stunned to experience a rain of shredded meat falling over a nearby field...

https://t.co/peq6QDpA3j

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This week's video continues the story from last week, covering the tsunami damage and subsequent triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant...

https://t.co/L13LLpHUBZ

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This week I cover the devastating Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami - a double disaster that struck Japan in 2011...

https://t.co/dTViOuxM6M

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Today is the anniversary of the Bradford City Stadium Fire - a devastating stadium fire which took place in the UK, and was broadcast on national television.

Here's the video I made on it at the end of last year...

https://t.co/hGGqBg9NJf

[Fascinating Horror @TrueHorrorTales]

In 1959, a plane crash in a field in Iowa would change music forever in a tragedy that would later come to be known as "the day the music died"...

https://t.co/B7C4Ka3mJH

[Fascinating Horror @TrueHorrorTales]

@stephhuhknee Absolutely - very open to suggestions!

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This week I cover the story of the Wowowee Disaster - a crowd crush in the Philippines that took place at the filming of a popular TV gameshow, and which resulted in the loss of 73 lives...

https://t.co/sUCHEcZpVR

[Fascinating Horror @TrueHorrorTales]

@Lostock_Henge The descriptions I read of the ladybird situation were terrifying!

[Fascinating Horror @TrueHorrorTales]

This week's video tells the story of the 1976 heatwave that gripped Britain, costing more than 2,000 lives...

https://t.co/znafkZnZIe

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🗓️ Today is the anniversary of the Amagasaki derailment in Japan; an accident that saw 107 lives lost over a one minute delay...

Here's the video I made about it a few years ago.

https://t.co/6nbEhChRxQ

[Fascinating Horror @TrueHorrorTales]

TempleOS is a completely unique computer operating system built over the course of several years by one man who believed he was working on instructions from a higher power...

https://t.co/ANYbpk4iqq

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Today's video covers the worst elevator accident in history, which took place at the Vaal Reefs gold mine in 1995...

https://t.co/53WzhA30Mu

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The crash of a Filair Let-410 in 2010 was allegedly caused by the presence of a crocodile on board... but is this wild story really true?

https://t.co/wROccZMUDD

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This week, I tell the story of an emergent volcano that, in 1997, threatened to destroy every single box office in Los Angeles...

https://t.co/ickZr5uxkk

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In 2011, a rider went blind after an accident that took place on board the Dragon Challenge rollercoaster at Universal's Islands of Adventure...

https://t.co/YyLG0D2GCV

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Alien Hand Syndrome is a rare and perturbing condition where one hand acts without the conscious intention of its owner...

https://t.co/4NWXfe0xZJ

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In 2004 a devastating supermarket fire took place in Paraguay, resulting in the loss of over 400 lives...

https://t.co/qbWtkTVLLK