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Hosted by CC and Kitty · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 33 episodes
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Welcome to Wreckage & Ruins!Each week we investigate disasters: man-made and natural, legendary last stands, medical mishaps, and everything in between.Each of the ruins unfold into a story, and we're here to understand why it happened and what came after.
CC and Kitty hosts Wreckage & Ruins, a history show with 33 episodes published.
Pompeii began its final day as a thriving Roman city beneath a familiar mountain. Then Mount Vesuvius erupted. CC & Kitty follow the eruption of 79 CE through Pompeii and neighboring Herculaneum, from falling pumice and
Jamestown’s survival was never guaranteed. CC and Kitty examine the Starving Time, the colony’s disastrous location, its escalating conflict with the Powhatan paramount chiefdom, and the documented history of Pocahontas
After delivering components for the Little Boy atomic bomb, USS Indianapolis was torpedoed and sank in approximately 12 minutes. Nearly 900 men entered the Philippine Sea. Only 316 survived the wounds, exposure, dehydrat
CC and Kitty trace several bizarre medical treatments from history, the reasoning that once made them seem plausible, and the human cost when the cure became another danger. Subscribe to Wreckage & Ruins for weekly inves
The Radium Girls painted glowing watch dials and were instructed to point their brushes with their lips. When radium lodged in their bones, illness followed, and proving the cause became another fight. CC and Kitty trace
The Bhopal gas tragedy began during the night of December 2–3, 1984, when methyl isocyanate escaped from the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant. The Bhopal disaster killed thousands in its immediate aftermath, e
On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, approximately 12,000 to 13,000 Confederate soldiers emerged from Seminary Ridge and began advancing across exposed fields toward the Union center. General Robert E. Lee belie
On March 18, 1925, the Tri-State Tornado crossed Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and becoming the deadliest single tornado in recorded U.S. history. CC and Kitty follow its 219-mile path, the devastati
The bubonic plague was more than swollen lymph nodes and medieval panic. CC and Kitty trace Yersinia pestis, the Black Death, Caffa, Florence, quarantine, plague myths, and the social collapse that reshaped Europe. Plus:
Strange historical deaths have a way of becoming bigger than the facts. This week, CC and Kitty look at Rasputin’s death myth, Edward II’s infamous rumor, and Edgar Allan Poe’s unresolved final days. Poison, politics, me
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire killed 146 workers in 1911 and became a turning point in labor history. CC and Kitty cover the factory conditions, the Uprising of the 20,000, Clara Lemlich, the locked-exit legacy, t
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 took off from Washington National Airport in a snowstorm and crashed into the 14th Street Bridge before falling into the icy Potomac River. CC and Kitty walk through the deicing
Episode 19: SS Eastland CC and Kitty discuss the tragic story of the SS Eastland. The disaster on July 24, 1915, which claimed the lives of 844 people exposed critical failings in maritime safety regulations, inspection
Episode 18: The Jungle This week, CC and Kitty look at the meatpacking scandal behind one of the most famous reform novels in American history. Sinclair wanted readers to care about exploited immigrant workers in Chicago
The Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster turned a West Virginia hydro project into one of the worst industrial tragedies in U.S. history. CC and Kitty trace how silica-rich rock, dry drilling, and brutal labor conditions led to a
CC and Kitty explore the Sultana disaster, the deadliest maritime disaster in U.S. history. In April 1865, an overloaded Mississippi River steamboat carrying paroled Union soldiers exploded north of Memphis after a rushe
CC and Kitty discuss Andersonville Prison, also known as Camp Sumter, which became the Confederacy’s most infamous prison camp and the deadliest landscape of the Civil War. Disease, overcrowding, poor sanitation, exposur
On November 28, 1942, Boston’s Cocoanut Grove nightclub became the deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. More than 1,000 people were inside a venue approved for far fewer when fire broke out in the basement Melody Lo
A Fort Worth grocery store closed in 1999, and the food inside was left behind. What followed was a public-health cleanup involving odor complaints, disputed timelines, and a biohazard response. Then CC and Kitty trace t
In October 1966, a coal spoil tip collapsed above the Welsh village of Aberfan and tore into Pantglas Junior School and nearby homes. The disaster killed 144 people, including 116 children. CC and Kitty trace the warning
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