In the early 19th century, family after family around New York City was contracting Typhoid Fever. The only common denominator […]
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Episode 15: Roanoke: The Lost Colony
Early English attempts at colonizing the Americas went real well. Take a journey back to the lost colony of Roanoke, […]
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Episode 14: The Black Death – Part 2
Templar curses, corpse-eating pigs, and waking up to a house full of death. We rejoin our Genoese heroes as they […]
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Episode 13: The Black Death – Part 1
Every story starts somewhere. In the case of the Black Death, it starts with Mongol hordes, smug Italians, diseased rodents, […]
Pumpkins and Plague
This October, we’ll be bringing you what we’re calling a Trilogy of Devastation. First, we’ll take a trip to 13th […]
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Episode 6; Smallpox in Mexico
The prophecy foretold Quetzalcoatl’s devastating return from the east, in the form of a pale-skinned and bearded man. Little did […]
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Episode 1: The Plague of Athens
In the inaugural episode of “This Is A Disaster”, Peter tells Leigh the story of the plague that ravaged Athens in 430 BC.