When prepping this episode about the Michigan Italian Hall Disaster, I was so, so excited because I knew I would have a special guest on this episode, my cousin Emily Berry. I let Emily choose which disaster we would cover when she was my guest, and she brought me this real humdinger, which I had…
When I watched Rory Kennedy’s Netflix documentary Volcano: Escape From Whakaari a few months ago, I was flabbergasted for multiple reasons. First, I couldn’t believe how devastating this story unfolding on screen was and secondly, I could not believe that I’d never heard of it. It happened in 2019, I was watching it in 2022—how…
When I first set out to do a disaster podcast, I knew I would eventually cover the great Dayton flood of 1913. As a kid growing up in the Dayton area, I was well aware of it at a young age, even though it occurred sixty-plus years before I was born. Every big anniversary there…
The Aberfan disaster is probably the saddest disaster I have covered on the Disaster Queen Podcast to date, and it’s also one of the most preventable. The scope of the tragedy that took place in that Welsh village on October 21, 1966 is unfathomably huge: 144 people lost, 116 of them children, most of whom…
When I started out researching the disaster that is the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing (and its aftermath!), I thought I knew a lot about it already. I’d casually watched a few documentaries on it in the past and I’d seen the movie Patriot’s Day. But turns out, there was a lot more to learn! Three…
Hello Disaster Pod Squad! Since we are a few episodes in to the Disaster Queen Podcast, I thought maybe I should do a proper introduction. If you’ve listened, you probably have gleaned a bit of info about me already, but let’s do a deeper dive without getting into TMI, shall we? Like most women born…
When I first heard about the Kansas City Hyatt hotel skywalk collapse, I was like, “Say whaaaaaat??” This disaster truly is unbelievably tragic. It’s also very little-known outside of Kansas City now, even though it made national headlines when it occurred on July 17, 1981. It’s so little-known, in fact, that my special guest on…
Hey, Disaster Dudes and Divas! Thanks for hopping over to this blog to learn more about episode 3 of the Disaster Queen Podcast. I am super excited to tell you about it because I think it’s one of the least well known disasters for the United States in recent history, but it’s extremely historically significant….
Someone like me who is pretty obsessed with disasters has, unfortunately, a lot of content to explore within the U.S.’s space program and NASA’s past. Just typing that sentence makes me indescribably sad. The loss of the space shuttle Challenger was without question the defining disaster of my childhood, and I will cover it on…