The Boston Molasses Flood: The Wave That Should Have Been Impossible

On the fifteenth of January, 1919, a wave of molasses two stories high moved through a Boston neighborhood at the speed of a galloping horse. It sounds like a joke. It killed twenty-one people, and it is one of the most genuine industrial disasters this channel has ever reconstructed. This is what happened. CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 01:30 Scene 1: The tank and the company 08:30 Scene 2: The years of warning 16:00 Scene 3: The day of the disaster 23:30 Scene 4: The wave 31:00 Scene 5: The rescue 38:00 Scene 6: The lawsuit 45:30 Scene 7: The causes and the science 53:00 Scene 8: What the molasses flood changed 60:00 Scene 9: The disaster the world remembers wrong 65:30 Scene 10: What endures This is Episode 7 of PostMortem. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe so you don't miss the rest of the series. Which warning sign do you think they should have caught first? Tell us below. #Disasters #AccidentInvestigation #AviationDisasters #IndustrialAccidents #PostMortem