The Last 24 Hours Before Everything Went Wrong

Subscribe and chill with me while we go down one strange rabbit hole at a time. The last 24 hours before disaster are often surprisingly ordinary. People go to work, make plans, follow routines, and carry on with their day while something is already going terribly wrong. This video looks at the final 24 hours before some of history’s most shocking disasters. What did people know? What warning signs were missed? And when did they finally realize that something was seriously wrong? 00:00 Intro 00:05 The Great Molasses Flood 01:48 The Challenger Disaster 03:30 The Aberfan Disaster 05:11 The Vajont Dam 06:47 Bhopal 08:29 Tenerife 10:18 St. Francis Dam 12:00 The Franklin Expedition 13:34 The Kursk Submarine 15:03 The Night Before the Great Lisbon Earthquake