After hearing the way the setup was described, i was incredibly surprised at the comparatively low deathtoll of only 23. 400 people on a roof made to only support its own weight, 5 stories high above a factory with a burning furnace... i really thought this would go into triple-digits. these people were incredibly lucky

@furygeist

Жыл бұрын

Seriously. It's amazing the death toll wasn't higher.

@billjones642

Жыл бұрын

perhaps the furnace and pipes they bashed into on the way down helped break their fall.

@Ozymandias1

Жыл бұрын

@@furygeist it’s amazing thet this event with 23 deaths is the deadliest sports disaster in US history. Meaning that the US has been spared bigger disastes like Bradford, Heysel and Hillsborough. Not to mention the disasters in Latin America with hundreds of deaths.

@stevie-ray2020

Жыл бұрын

I reckon the lucky ones were the spectators who died in the fall rather than those who survived but received horrific burns &/or injuries (although some may have been truly fortunate to have been cushioned by those they landed on)!

@sumiterxeroslargosiuscrosi7819

Жыл бұрын

Not luck bruh... that's a freakin' miracle.

You don’t want to fall through a roof. You REALLY don’t want to fall through a roof ONTO a caged furnace. Holy shit.

@daffers2345

Жыл бұрын

Especially when the furnace is RUNNING!

@stellviahohenheim

Жыл бұрын

Proof that Americans have always lacked common sense

@Kevinrothwell1959

Жыл бұрын

And yet a celebrational bonfire is deemed appropriate!

@catsinpajamas

Жыл бұрын

I worked with hot glass at art school. I had to stick a metal rod into an orange-hot furnace to gather the hot glass. It was like staring into the pit of hell as my eyebrows were singed off. Absolutely terrifying. I love glass art, but working with hot glass is not for me. I cannot IMAGINE what it would be like to fall into, or even onto, a furnace like that. Horrifying beyond all comprehension. But nobody cares because it was just a bunch of poor kids.

@jesuszamora6949

Жыл бұрын

@@catsinpajamas I dunno if you can say NO ONE cared, but at the same time, the fault was there own.

Props to the factories workers. They tried every way to prevent this and were repeatedly denied help. Then they had to be the first to witness the horrific scene and jump in to rescue them.

@Bloodbain88

Жыл бұрын

I was surprised at how well the factory workers tried to stop people. Usually during these stories, especially back then the more likely responses are "ahhh you little rascals. Oh well. I'm sure nothing bad will happen." As hundreds of children climb up to the 5 story high roof of a factory above a gigantic burning furnace.

@porcus123

Жыл бұрын

So many I toll you so were said

@pissiole5654

Жыл бұрын

one guy even found the time to dab in the middle of it all 5:25

@christianpetterson1784

Жыл бұрын

AND they were some of the first to be blamed for the incident!

@knownnuisance7512

8 ай бұрын

@@pissiole5654 first ever recorded

What pisses me off about this case is that the factory workers were even MOMENTARILY considered a possibly guilty of this event, even if ultimately let go. They did their due diligence by trying to drive the idiots away.

Sometimes the fault truly does fall on the victims and this is one of those cases. At least the adults. Children tend to follow adults lead, even with something they know they're not supposed to be doing. "If the grown ups are doing it, it must be ok". They ignored the factory workers, broke into the area, then after noticing the roof wasn't safe, they joked about it instead of getting down.

@andrewkelley9405

Жыл бұрын

an actual IRL Darwin award.

@Mandrake42

Жыл бұрын

Yeah they had to sneak or get past various people warning them, including people who would know best, the workers, and the even the police. The fact that the were joking about it shows they knew very well what they were doing was dangerous but they didn't care and stayed regardless. Like you I feel sorry for the kids the most, they look to the older people for guidance and they were all up there. A tragic disaster but one they brought on themselves by joking about danger instead of taking it seriously. In so many of the videos on this channel its the fault of poor construction, cut corners and poor safety and the victims are truly innocent. I think this may be the first one I have seen where I feel that isn't the case.

@alastor8091

Жыл бұрын

But muh victim blaming.

@annod6

Жыл бұрын

@@alastor8091 maybe because the victims were to blame. Being a victim doesn't always absolve someone of guilt.

@angelachouinard4581

Жыл бұрын

@@annod6 Mr Ballen's channel has a whole series on places you aren't supposed to go but people went anyway. It nearly always ends badly. People continue to endanger themselves and their potential rescuers, so yes, such people are not guiltless.

Geez...falling five stories only to land on a 1000+°F furnace. I hadn't heard of this disaster before now. Great video!

@FArkhanor

Жыл бұрын

Not one furnace, but the ONLY furnace at operational temperature of 1700°C (3000°F), if that's not bad luck I don't know what is. Fall Guys : The floor is hotter than lava Edition

@aaronburratwood.6957

Жыл бұрын

Also, how did the game finish at 5 - 0? How does a team get only 5 points in football. It said (last minute field goal) won the game, we’re FGs 5 points back than?

@biffbastion301

Жыл бұрын

@@aaronburratwood.6957 They could have had a safety which is 2 points and a 3 point field goal. Not sure if that's the case here though.

@christopherweise438

Жыл бұрын

@@aaronburratwood.6957- This was 1900. The forward pass had not come into it's own yet. Single digit totals were common back then. We know that Stanford had a field goal. So, the only other score they could've had was a a safety.

@tjenadonn6158

Жыл бұрын

Talk about adding injury to injury.

I'm an historical archaeologist. While researching early glass making in the San Francisco Bay region, I came across this story. It has haunted me ever since. Conditions in the glass foundries were appalling, with boys as young as six running miles every day with gobs of molten glass for a pittance. Injuries were frequent and deaths not unknown.

@RHR-221b

Жыл бұрын

❤

@brandonmusick77

Жыл бұрын

Thank God for labor unions.

@biggiouschinnus7489

Жыл бұрын

​@@brandonmusick77 yep. And they had to fight to get even those.

@klondikemom3658

Жыл бұрын

@@biggiouschinnus7489 still fighting. We need more.

@stevie-ray2020

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking that this had to be well before the more modern glass-manufacturing techniques such as continuous float-glass kilns and automated moulds! Also wondered whether the factory was affected by the earthquake the following decade?

Considering that 100 or so people fell through the roof, dropping five stories onto a hot furnace and other equipment, it’s kind of surprising only 23 of them were killed.

As tragic as the whole story is, the sight at 5:15 of a worker from 1900 clearly dabbing on the dummies who wouldn't stay off the roof does undercut the mood ever so slightly lmao All humor aside, thank you for bringing attention to these forgotten tragedies!

@LostLargeCats

Жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing.

@D0NU75

Жыл бұрын

of all the things, a worker dabbing on the injured was the most unexpected thing in this video. I bet if you search carefully enough, you might even find an amogus too.

@chatteyj

Жыл бұрын

dabbing?

@thetman0068

Жыл бұрын

Homie hit the hardest dab of the 20th century.

@Cold-Blooded-Jay

Жыл бұрын

@@chatteyj Dabbing is when you put one arm out to your side and the other crossed over your face and you look down slightly. It's a silly thing that kids and adults pretending to be kids do today. Look it up for more information. It's hilarious that the guy is doing an absolutely PERFECT dab in the picture.

This might be the first story on FH where the factory managers/owners are not to blame. The foreman and the workers tried to chase the crowd off, even going so far as to threaten them; when that didn't work, they turned to the authorities for help but were rebuffed. And when disaster struck, they shut the furnace off and began trying to rescue everyone.

I have to agree, this is one of the times that the people did it to themselves. But Oh My God, the temperature of the furnace they fell onto! I shudder to think of the horrid scene in that place!

@ScaryStoriesAt2AM

Жыл бұрын

Falling five stories, only to land on the furnace and have oil spraying everywhere 😬 I can only imagine

@bookcat123

Жыл бұрын

Mostly did it to themselves, yes. But the response from the police when the factory workers called in their concern was absurd. Not my job - take it up with the guy who is unreachable. Still a problem today, you know. In my town, if you call the non-emergency police line on the weekend, you’ll be forwarded to the 911 center who will yell at you for calling about a non-emergency (like a large stray dog in the yard and the dog catcher unavailable) and refuse to do anything. They’ll tell you call the non-emergency line. Which will once again redirect you back to them.

@eadweard.

Жыл бұрын

@@bookcat123 We must always strive to blame business owners and police.

@bookcat123

Жыл бұрын

@@eadweard. 😂 well in this case the business did try to chase them off AND called for police when they saw it was getting dangerous, so not their fault at all. All the police had to do was make a similar attempt, and instead of being 90% did it to themselves it would be 100%

@gohawks3571

Жыл бұрын

@@bookcat123 Yup. I feel sorry for the business! They tried their best, couldn't get help, got ignored, and had to rebuild? All because children and some adults couldn't be made to behave?! Terrible. They really tried☹️

Surprised that, in the US, no sports crowd crush disaster has surpassed this death toll. Those events, sadly, have often had terrible consequences in other countries.

@arandompasserby7940

Жыл бұрын

I guess the lion's share of us Americans generally have more going for us than who wins a sporting match.

@slypear

Жыл бұрын

Yet.

@JimAllen-Persona

Жыл бұрын

@@arandompasserby7940 I don’t know if I’d quite put it that way… culture is part of it though.

@arandompasserby7940

Жыл бұрын

@@JimAllen-Persona "I'd say culture is part of it" or maybe a lack thereof! ;^)

@hisdadjames4876

Жыл бұрын

@@arandompasserby7940 Maybe. A famous UK coach said, ‘Some people seem to think football is a matter of life or death. I can assure you that around here it is much, much more important than that. ‘😐

Dozens of people falling literally into an oven, spilling themselved with hot oil and being trapped in their positions is insanely horrific, and while I learn about that I see the man at 5:15 hitting a point perfect dab. I could not have been prepared

@peggypasson8794

Жыл бұрын

Sad

@deletdis6173

8 ай бұрын

I came to say the same thing

One of the rare times the victims screwed themselves instead of a shady construction company screwing them

@AnthonyShevenock

Жыл бұрын

that and the game officials who decided that factory workers were the only thing needed to stop crowds from getting on a roof and the person who stopped said factory workers from getting help because the factory workers didn't have tickets.

I can't imagine falling onto the furnace and not being able to get off because of injuries from the fall. What a nightmare. You must have an unlimited number of disasters to draw from. It's so interesting and educational. thanks for sharing.

Thinking about my own younger years, in retrospect I have to consider myself incredibly lucky to be alive and uninjured today. Being young makes you so reckless as to do things you would never, ever, in a million years, do as an older wiser more experienced person. This story just reminded me of some foolish things I did as a youngster (I never climbed on top of flimsy roofs, but some of the things I did, especially with friends, wasn't too far from that, and sometimes even worse in terms of the dangers).

@bellyfulochelly4222

Жыл бұрын

Just thinking the same. "There but for the grace of God go I," for sure.

@deborahbarry9421

Жыл бұрын

@@bellyfulochelly4222 I have said that same, "there but by the grace of God there go I " So very sad those young men and children only wanting to see the game. The over crowding of the "make-shitf" field in the industrial park had much to do... So very sad😥

@billp4

Жыл бұрын

I cringe at some of the stupid stuff I did, especially when drunk.

@jwwj30

Жыл бұрын

As a young boy, we used to play in an abandoned train depot, piling up forgotten mattresses & leaping 2 stories down onto them. We were pilots, parachuting out of airplanes. Praise our Lord, we were never injured & I’m so thankful I wasn’t.

@D0NU75

Жыл бұрын

I remember being a kid and almost falling down a very deep ravine, i tripped and one, just one lucky arm swing got me back to my balance. There are times i stop and think "what if" and how life would be if any at all, should had i just not thrown my arm to the side as a counterweight.

I was surprised to hear the death toll was only 23.

@memevisitor6679

Жыл бұрын

Me too. 23 is still a lot but i actually thought there had been more given hundreds of people being on top of a roof of a 5-storey factory & caged furnace. Then again, remember Victoria Hall disaster?

Its so sad that its been forgotten. Im so glad you find these and share it with us so the event isnt lost forever

@one8088

Жыл бұрын

It HILARIOUS

@wellthisisinteresting4912

11 ай бұрын

Disasters happen in the hundreds every day all around the world. Who can keep up with all of them

"Because the survivors were deemed to having contributed to their injury, they were not entitled to any compensation" As callous as it is, that's definitely the right call.

@hauntedshadowslegacy2826

Жыл бұрын

Hell, I'll go one step further- the survivors owed the factory for property damage. Either them or the negligent police who failed to respond to a mass trespassing in a timely manner. 'u should talk to da officer at da stadium' my ass...

@dknowles60

Жыл бұрын

to bad it is not that way to day

@OfficialNolanLaValley

Жыл бұрын

Definitely the right call, but imagine if someone concluded that today? In 2023 someone always has to be blamed for someone else’s stupidity.

@alanbeck7093

Жыл бұрын

@@dknowles60 An inhumane response, not Civil Society.

@dknowles60

Жыл бұрын

@@alanbeck7093 what happened to personal responsibility

And if you ever need evidence of America's all-consuming obsession with football, here's two papers reporting on the game not even acknowledging the people falling to a firey death within shouting distance.

A tragic event, of course, but I can't overlook the patented safety dab at 5:15

@mayaluski7736

Жыл бұрын

Came straight to the comments for this haha glad someone acknowledged it

@Notme195

Жыл бұрын

Back then it was called the boiler shuffle

@misterflibble6601

Жыл бұрын

A tragic event, of course, but let's go ahead and make a joke out of it anyway.

@sshamble

Жыл бұрын

@@misterflibble6601 thank you internet defender

@guyvanarsdall7686

Жыл бұрын

Wondered if I was the only one who noticed that!

"10,000 tickets were printed for that first game. Twice the number of spectators showed up." "I don't like where this is going."-JonTron

@119Agent

Жыл бұрын

Still more than a South Florida Bulls game.

I hadn’t heard about this before. And it was sad but the victims had no one to blame but themselves. You never think things like this will happen to you until it does…😢

@PataPannu

Жыл бұрын

Except when just like one of the survivors said, they joked that if the roof collapses they'll all go down with it, telltaling that some awareness probably was included, but they accepted the risk over seeing a game.

@johnmurray9526

Жыл бұрын

Well nowerdays an investigation would totally blame the factory for not stopping people and not having signs and other things to warn people about not climbing on the weak roof.

@christystewart4567

Жыл бұрын

I hadn’t heard about this either and I grew up in the Bay Area. It’s amazing some of the history in places people think they are familiar with are unknown but were big stories when they occurred.

I particularly respect that you include information that the buildings shown were of a similar type, and not the actual incident structure, likewise your other information of a similar nature. Your integrity and thoroughness are greatly appreciated. This incident is so horrific, with spectators that somehow survived their five storey fall, landing on the scalding hot roof of an operational blast furnace! The photograph of spectators crowded onto the apex of the roof, moments before its catastrophic collapse is eerily unnerving...

I must say, it's rather comically dark to celebrate victims who died in a furnace with giant bonfire.

Lost to the mist of time, but this tragedy had a huge impact on me. Not least for the sense of impending disaster. Falling 5 storeys is horrific enough, but falling that far and landing on a fully operational furnace just makes it all the more unbearable

@DinnerForkTongue

Жыл бұрын

Hope that instilled into you the fear to never clamber on top of an industrial facility alongside a huge mob.

@elliottprice6084

Жыл бұрын

@@DinnerForkTongue I'm scared of heights so that in itself is enough to makes sure I'd never do a thing like that

@elizab8844

Жыл бұрын

I think that those in the furnace did not fall but 10 feet. There was the protruding part of the building which was the furnace. Everyone else fell 5 stories.

When you showed the images of the fire and talked about the active furnace, and noted it was all children on the roof, I literally said "oooh noooo" with my hands covering my face.

@colinyandon6137

Жыл бұрын

You and Mr.Bill.

This is why I like this channel, we learn a little history with a factual account. Thanks for keeping it real!

@daffers2345

Жыл бұрын

I love this channel for that very reason. There's no speculation, no poking fun or opinions, and no shilling for likes/subscribes. Amazing channel; I wish more were like this one.

I agree with the judgements. Bring back personal accountability. And also, a 5-0 game with a late field goal? So one safety for practically the whole game 😂

This is one story where I don't feel so bad for the victims. It's still sad that ot happened, but they knew they weren't supposed to be up there and were actively dodging people trying to keep them down 🙄

@ethanyoder9953

Жыл бұрын

Just because these people (many being children) were responsible for what happened to them, it doesn't mean they deserved to fall five stories onto a caged furnace. Sympathy is absolutely still warranted.

@chad9166

Жыл бұрын

@@ethanyoder9953 They did deserve it

@opwave79

Жыл бұрын

Good point. It’s sad that fellow human beings (and kids) died, but we can still shake our heads at their stubbornness and bad judgment.

@snow2267

Жыл бұрын

I was actually mad they pushed a any blame onto the workers. They tried and where doing everything they could. None of it was they're fault.

@Cec9e13

Жыл бұрын

@@ethanyoder9953 yes, there's an important distinction between "it actually was their own fault" and "they deserved it", and it's a VERY important distinction not much pointed out nowadays.

5:15 The earliest recorded depiction of a man doing a dab.

Thank you for covering this. I never would have heard of this without your channel. One possible suggestion for a video -- the disaster at the Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois in 1958. I'm currently reading a book about it (To Sleep With the Angels) and boy is it heartbreaking.

@macgeek2004

Жыл бұрын

I second this!!!

@daffers2345

Жыл бұрын

He has an email listed in the description. Try emailing him with your suggestion. He was courteous enough to respond to my emails :)

@molmer2380

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if we watched some footage of this during fire safety classes in the late 1960s early 70s!

@jaelzion

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, this is definitely worthy of a video. The 64th anniversary is coming up on December 1.

Keep up the great work with these documentaries and shining light in some of the events that aren’t talked about much or are almost forgotten.

Grew up my whole life in California and locally in the bay area and no one ever talks about this. Wow. Thank you.

@opwave79

Жыл бұрын

Same. Odd that it hasn’t been mentioned once, while Loma Prieta gets talked about every year.

Been following your channel since you were 3 videos deep and I haven't missed a single anytime you post one. As always, your work is unequaled in its quality and your use of that background music and cadence has become a signature of your work you should always be proud to have produced.

@DiscoDashco

Жыл бұрын

Hellz yeah, when it was all theme park accidents still? Like, how did I come across THIS?! Subbed for the comfort in the narration.

Wow even my Dad who seemed to know everything about baseball and football games back in his day never told me about this disaster! Scary and so sad! Ty FH 💕

@jaelzion

Жыл бұрын

My Dad never mentioned it to me either, despite being a huge football fan and the fact that I grew up in San Francisco. I'm just now learning about it.

I actually lived near Stanford and my brother went to Berkeley and I've never heard of this. Thanks for this, it was indeed fascinating horror.

As others have stated before it's interesting when it's not company negligence. And it's unfortunate that the valiant efforts to stop people putting themselves in danger by the factory workers didn't work.

Crazy and unheard of (to me). Thank you for sharing! This is why I love your channel and always recommending it when I have the chance.

Here we are hearing about it 122 years later. May the dearly departed continue to rest peacefully

Wow, I'm from the US and had never heard of this! Thanks for doing this one. As a graduate of UGA, I'm surrounded by SEC news. I've never heard of the "Big Game" either.

@Sunshine4

Жыл бұрын

GO DAWGS!!!! Me too =)

@bethpedone8771

Жыл бұрын

I am surprised you’ve never heard of The Big Game! Then you must look up “THE PLAY” - it happened in the 1982. Pop-culture milestone for college football!

@katiekane5247

Жыл бұрын

I'm a Georgian too but can't support making money off kids, possibly ruining them for life. Must we sacrifice our children to allow them to pursue their educational goals? The American dream is a nightmare! No longer proud to be associated with the crimes of my "representatives" or wealthy elites. They've corrupted education, medicine, law. Sad state of affairs for our youth 😢

The workers at the glassworks were probably never able to eat cooked pork again without an attack of PTSD due to how much cooking human flesh supposedly smells like pork...

It's 5am and I'm still awake, stoked to be able to watch this video

@sweetpeach3649

Жыл бұрын

Staying up late finally payed off

@princeofcupspoc9073

Жыл бұрын

26 or 5 to 4?

@ScaryStoriesAt2AM

Жыл бұрын

Coffee timeee ☕

I lived in the Bay Area for forty-five years and worked in San Francisco for thirty-five of them. This is the first I've heard of this tragedy. What a sad story! From a new subscriber, Thank you for posting this! 🙋👍

40 years ago in Grand Marais, Minn. A couple looking for UFO's died after getting stranded in their car. There is lots more to their story, but details are hard to find. Would be pretty fascinating to learn more.

Thank you for this. I didn’t know about this but you do an important job of making us remember.

This is why I don't like going to crowded areas

Fantastic content as always. I never miss an episode, every Tuesday! Great to remember disasters and victims that would otherwise be forgotten. Well done.

I worked in a foundry with molten metal and the last place on earth you want to end up is in a furnace they are so dangerous, I really feel for those that died in such a painful way and the survivors with those burns that was always my fear working with furnaces.

I'm an avid fan of Cal football since the 1960s, and have attended many Big Games. This is the first time I've ever heard of this calamity.

This channel is the only one for which I will sit and await the newest episode's release. No one else does it as well as FH

I went to Stanford for college and business school and had never heard of this. Great job!

I'm very surprised to hear that the worst sporting disaster in the US is 'only' 23. Here in the UK we have had several since WW2 that were much worse than that.

@lgrismer6829

Жыл бұрын

Part of that's just luck I'm sure, but another factor is that we never really had standing terraces in the US. Most of our stadiums were all-seater even back in those days (well, often bench seats, but seats). So it was easier to both separate and keep track of people which meant fewer crowd crushes. Also stadium violence in the US, while it exists (look up Bryan Stow), it is not on the scale of other parts of the world. For example, home and visiting fans are not separated. You just buy a ticket and walk in - you are allowed to support whichever team you want.

@rahowherox1177

Жыл бұрын

​​@@lgrismer6829es USA sports teams tend to be based on cities and regions, and not religion and class and political leanings like Europe

Since we're on Sporting events, hopefully someday we get a video about the 1955 Le Man's disaster. Great, informative video!

@ghost.8836

Жыл бұрын

I also hope we get a video on that incident.

@josephjohnson448

Жыл бұрын

That Le Man's disaster was gruesome

@PatriotCody

Жыл бұрын

True but many channels have covered it.

The injuries were so beyond the crime. What a horrendous loss.

@drdrew3

Жыл бұрын

What would have been the appropriate level of injury for the crime? I didn’t know there was a correlation

this channel is well-rounded and all the content quite good. i like this channel

Brilliant as always, Kristian. (Really pleasing as I think I suggested this one in Dec last year...thank you for bringing it alive!)

I really, really look forward to every episode -- "fascinating". Thank you!

You know its Tuesday when Fascinating Horror drops a video

@hybridAbsol

Жыл бұрын

Haha its tuesday innit ~! Yahah i chewed yah arm out !!

I expected a crush, instead i got people melting and burning alive I thought of something terrible but got something even more horrible

@ScaryStoriesAt2AM

Жыл бұрын

double whammy?

Organises big football game... pockets spilling with cash... forgets football. Sounds like the ideal politician and future President!

@ChaosCat79

Жыл бұрын

Considering he was the president who's economic policies would pretty much lead to the Wall Street crash and the subsequent Great Depression that followed (which led to him losing the presidency to FDR as a result of his inadequate reaction to it ), this early example of his character is rather telling.

@horrortackleharry

Жыл бұрын

@@ChaosCat79 He no doubt believed that market forces would simply provide the football in good time, with no intervention required.

When 400 people get on top of a building, oblivious to the inherent risk, it makes me wonder how humanity has managed to survive this long.

The reason your one of my favorite KZreadrs is you come up with accidents I’ve never would have learned about without your channel. Keep up the good work!

I love your channel. Keep it up!

This was a good one that I'd never heard about, you provide some really quality stories and content! Keep it up! Also, stay well.

@peggypasson8794

Жыл бұрын

Just so sad 😭

Great episode! That would be an ugly way to die. I love your channel. \ As a native Californian, I especially like the West Coast videos like one and the Saint Francis Dam collapse. Many locals don't even have any knowledge of these disasters. I've been to the site in this video and to the St. Francis Dam site (I still own a small chunk of the failed dam's concrete). If you haven't already, I'd love to see your take on the Mt. Saint Helens volcano eruption in Washington.

@Dayvit78

Жыл бұрын

Same here. Sometimes in small town museums, you'll find something. But small disasters in big cities get forgotten due to all the other history happening.

Fascinating Horror has the best delivery with this kinda content (in case I sound lacking compassion, I’ve only just started the video.) Love the vids and research you do, thanks for the hard work.

@craigdurso3005

Жыл бұрын

We can all agree that what he covers is tragic in the very least ; that being said , yes , it’s his compelling delivery and and choice of words that keep me coming back ,I feel he’s giving advice that might save me one day

I am quite familiar with The Big Game, but had never heard of this associated disaster before. Thanks for posting,

Again, fantastic content. Good job.

The 1982 ending of Cal vs Stanford is one of the most famous in history. Look it up if you have never seen it.

@c3aloha

Жыл бұрын

Go Bears!

@pamelaleigh4225

9 ай бұрын

Crazy and so entertaining!

At 5:05 you see a window with flames in the background. If you look at the bottom middle pane. There's literally a face in the dirty window. It's kind of creepy seeing the face as the narrator is telling the story of people falling and being burned.

I have never heard of this catastrophe. How awful. Thank you for the great video.

Oh my gosh! I’ve never heard of this! Well done!!!

5:22 this was shown for too long for me but to acknowledge this guy dabbing

very sad, these sort of things happen even today, a good friend of mines son (albeit 30 years ago) climbed up onto a buildings roof as a prank and fell through the skylight, he survived but broke his back and has been in a wheelchair ever since……. I remember doing similar things when I was 10/12+ and luckily survived the daredevil escapades…….. I'm now 74!

@peggypasson8794

Жыл бұрын

It's amazing yet so dangerous it's hard to watch nowadays when my kids did the same crazy stuff I did .ride jet skis etc .

@davidstevensasidewayslook8831

Жыл бұрын

@@peggypasson8794 its all about innate awareness of danger. As a youngster I got up to all a sorts of dangerous escapades BUT I was always aware of the danger I was in so never pushed it too far, as I could see what might happen. Some kids just have no inbuilt preservation sense. Like in this video, I would have quite happily climbed up on the roof but when I get there and found it well dodgy I would have retreated to somewhere a bit safer.

Amazing story! I grew up in SF and never heard this story until now.

I am a huge fan of fascinating horror and have been a subscriber for the last few years and I love to listen to them! That being said, there are a couple of the stories, this being one of them, that completely leaves me seething! "The deceased had no business being up there." What the hell kind of attitude is that? It wouldn't surprise me to find out a majority of the children who died falling through that roof actually worked in those factories and having died the way they did probably saved them from an agonizing death in the future from some sort of debilitating industrial cancer. I mean truly, nothing was done as a result of this disaster. Nothing positive happened. No charitable funds opened up in any victim's name, no extra safety precautions or a little warning sign or two in the right place was introduced, hell, they didn't even stop the game! It was all for nothing. Society learned nothing. And that, my friends, is how you know a great storyteller! They make you emotional, no matter what that emotion is. Well done, another great video! Bravo!

What's sad is if this happened today, family of the dead and the survivors would've sued the factory and probably would've won the case, despite the factory workers doing their best to keep them off the roof

@wyokaiju992

Жыл бұрын

We really need to reign back laws that allow lawsuits with situations of blatant disregard for ones personal safety, like we had here.... You really shouldn't be able to sue because you hurt yourself by breaking and entering.

@PutItAway101

Жыл бұрын

You gotta apply some sense and ask yourself "is this a stadium, or is it a roof?" If it's a roof, prob not good to go up there with hundreds of people.

@covcraig88

Жыл бұрын

Good old USA..

@hisdadjames4876

Жыл бұрын

It was clearly negligent of the company to put the roof there, within sight of the field, making no effort to deter trespassers. Only a big fence that could be under-dug and a single guard with an iron bar. 😂

@jamesbarnes1897

Жыл бұрын

Clearly they did.....you gotta watch till the end lol 😆

Another great episode.

A new Fascinating Horror upload is how I know it's Tuesday morning.

We need that law to come back. "Oh, you were where you weren't supposed to be and got injured? Sounds like a you problem broham." Seriously, the guards tried at the least.

Special mention for the use of stock photos and footage in this one, it must be very hard when there's little to no photography of the incident itself, and while they're probably not perfect, the 'similar to...' images still massively help to visualise the whole thing. Just wanted to express some appreciation for that rather than slapping a single static image on the whole video like some channels might do.

I grew up in the Bay Area, but I've never heard of this disaster. I'll definitely have to read more about it!

@christystewart4567

Жыл бұрын

I did too and didn’t know about it either. It’s weird the things you don’t know about places you’ve lived in for a while and think you’re familiar with. Two off hand that I had never heard of. San Francisco had an outbreak of plague starting around 1901. It lasted for a few years then after they thought it was over the 1906 earthquake struck and another outbreak occurred in 1907 as rebuilding was going on. The other is the St. Francis dam collapse in 1928. This dam was north of Los Angeles. I’ve lived in the L.A. area for years and only heard about it a few years ago. Yet the path of the resulting flood I’ve driven through many times.

Your videos are amazing!! ❤

I've always been fascinated by sports history but was unfamiliar with this tragedy, thanks for the heads-up.

5:16 "I know it's imperative we rescue these guys sir, but I need to dab on the haters first."

How horrible. The ignorance before, during, and after such a tragedy is staggering. To think that the pain those people went though is lost to time…that’s crazy. That one person suffered for three years? Poor guy. I wonder if he would’ve done any better with the medical advancements we have today.

@daffers2345

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering the same thing - if maybe with advancements he could have lived a longer or at least BETTER life. I hate to think what he had to endure.

@mikaelafox6106

Жыл бұрын

@@daffers2345 Yes it’s very sad. In the end it doesn’t matter that he was up there. It was foolish, and it doesn’t mean he, or any of them, should’ve paid for it with their lives. So sorry for them.

@suziesharp5974

Жыл бұрын

I imagine antibiotics would have been a godsend.

@mikaelafox6106

Жыл бұрын

@@suziesharp5974 Definitely could’ve helped. Skin transplants for the burns.

@suziesharp5974

Жыл бұрын

@@mikaelafox6106 In an age before antibiotics I'd imagine many of the amputations that occurred did so because dead/infected tissue had to be cut away, they couldn't save it. Considering how prone burn victims are to infection it must have been a nightmare for patients, families, and doctors.

You're almost at a Mil!!! Congrats bro

i like your extremely respectful, tasteful, buttoned-down summary of the facts, overlaid by that contemporary newspaper headline’s choice of words, “sizzling shrieking human mass” 7:17

Great work as always. Kids really have no conception of danger. I used to play with my friends on the railroad tracks--I really cringe now when I think of it. It was very dangerous. My mother would know because I would always tear the belts on my dresses doing that. Lucky to still be here.

Excellent presentation, really enjoy your videos. Might I offer another incident for your telling, the Abbeystead disaster of 1984.

@daffers2345

Жыл бұрын

He has an email posted in the description. Try emailing him with suggestions - he was courteous enough to respond to mine :)

@spud3607

Жыл бұрын

@@daffers2345 Thank you daffers234

The lack of self-preservation instinct back in the days was astounding. Usually it's lack of knowledge or undiscovered dangers that led to accidents back then, but this time it was just sheer stupidity.

The headline of the newspaper @7:20 really got me, had to reread it a second time. "Two San Jose Men Die Amid **Sizzling Shrieking Human Mass** in Collapsed Factory at Big Game"

Excellent coverage , thanks

I always look forward to a new video from you dude, please keep going love your channel.

I don’t understand why college football is so important in the US

@reachandler3655

Жыл бұрын

I don't understand why kicking a defenceless ball around a field is so important at all, regardless of who's playing.

@misterflibble6601

Жыл бұрын

I'll say the same for football in

@sweetpeach3649

Жыл бұрын

@@misterflibble6601 Are you against movies and theater productions too?

I’ve listened to tons of these but for some reason the telling of this one really struck me. I think because it wasn’t clear what was going to go wrong and then the lead-in as you mention the building, then the roof, then the supports, that’s really good. Anyway, thank you!

Never heard of this tragedy. Thanks for posting.

You should upload these to Spotify as short podcasts!

@xvilha

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a good idea!

This is another historical tidbit that I had never heard of. Many thanks.