Yore Town
Yore Town Podcast is a true crime and dark history podcast uncoveringreal small-town mysteries, forgotten crimes, unexplained events, andburied history from places most people overlook.Each episode delivers deep-dive storytelling into true crime cases,unsolved disappearances,…
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The Buffalo World's Fair Where a President Was Assassinated (opens the original)
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In 1901, Buffalo built a spectacular temporary city to show America the future. Then President William McKinley was shot inside it, Theodore Roosevelt raced toward Buffalo to become president, and the city built around one of America's most consequential moments began to disappear.
The Great Hinckley Fire: The Town That Couldn't Outrun the Flames (opens the original)
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In 1894, a massive firestorm descended on Hinckley, Minnesota, forcing an entire town to make life-or-death decisions in a matter of minutes. From burning evacuation trains and collapsing bridges to families hiding in wells, gravel pits, and 18 inches of muddy water, this is the terrifying true story of one of America's deadliest wildfires.
The Clymer Mine Disaster: 44 Men Went to Work and Never Came Home (opens the original)
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On August 26, 1926, two explosions tore through the Clymer No. 1 coal mine in western Pennsylvania. Of the 57 men underground that afternoon, 44 would never come home. Rescue crews fought their way through smoke, wreckage and poisonous gas as families gathered outside waiting for news. Survivors crawled more than a mile through the darkness. Some families lost multiple loved ones. And by nightfall, a machine shop had been transformed into a temporary morgue. But one detail makes the Clymer Mine
Lake Nyos: The Night a Lake Killed 1,700 People (opens the original)
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In 1986, a beautiful lake in Cameroon released an invisible cloud of carbon dioxide while nearby villages slept, killing roughly 1,700 people. Forty years later, the story of Lake Nyos remains one of the strangest and most terrifying natural disasters ever recorded.
Owensboro and America’s Last Public Execution (opens the original)
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Ninety years ago, thousands gathered in Owensboro, Kentucky to watch Rainey Bethea die in what became America’s last fully public execution. But was the infamous crowd really the bloodthirsty carnival history remembers, or did the national media turn Owensboro into something it wasn't?
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