History's A Disaster

About History's A Disaster

History's A Disaster is a darkly funny true-history podcast digging into shipwrecks, train wrecks, and other real-life catastrophes — no sugarcoating, no boring lectures.

Publisher

Andrew

Category

history · society & culture · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

15 Nov 2024

Latest episode

4 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

102 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Oct 2026

   Sinking of the Aurora del Titicaca

   Send us Fan Mail A shipwreck nearly three miles above sea level sounds like a punchline until you realize it’s a real record held by a real lake. We’re heading to Lake Titicaca, the icy, oxygen thin giant of the Andes, where the Aurora del Titicaca went down near Amantani in the 1870s and then somehow took most of its documentation with it. No clean inquiry. No reliable death toll. Not even a single version of the story that everyone agrees on. We trace how colonial era trade pressure ...

2. 

   27 Sept 2026

   PSA Flight 182

   Send us Fan Mail A cloudless sky can be its own kind of trap. We’re telling the story of PSA Flight 182, the 1978 Boeing 727 crash that tore through San Diego’s North Park neighborhood after a midair collision with a Cessna 172. No storm. No sabotage. Just two aircraft in busy airspace and a system that trusted “visual separation” to do a job human attention cannot reliably do, even with experienced professionals in the cockpit and controllers on the radio. We start with what made Pacific So...

3. 

   20 Sept 2026

   Thorpe Rail Diaster

   Send us Fan Mail One rushed decision. One contradictory telegraph message. One single-track stretch of rail where only one train can be allowed to exist at a time. On a cold, rainy night in September 1874, that fragile setup collapses and Britain’s worst railway accident of the century detonates outside Norwich. We tell the story of the Thorpe Railway Disaster with a hard look at how Victorian railways actually worked: booming passenger demand, higher speeds, competing private companie...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

10,540

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

55

Social presence

90

YouTube

72

Engagement

32

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