When a Mine Elevator Falls Over a Kilometer
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2024
- In this video, we’re going to go over two more of the worst disasters in history. I have to warn you: although these two accidents are completely different, they’re both absolutely horrifying nightmare scenarios. Probably some of the worst that have been covered on this channel. So, although the events in this video are fleeting and non-descriptive, they are still highly disturbing. So, viewer discretion is strongly advised.
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You'd think a mine shaft would be a place you'd be safe from being hit by a train.
You rarely hear mineshaft and safety in the same sentence
Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue!
😂😂😂
Ah I see. I was wondering how this was going to go down. I didn't expect that tho!
Haven’t played minecraft then, there’s always mine carts in them
As soon as I hear “a complex set of underground shafts and tunnels” you’ll never have to worry about me going there ever.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Me neither--I love climbing mountains, but not climbing in holes in the ground.
Tell me how to resist the urge to just become a rodent and long for the tunnels 😭
Yea call me a bitch but I’ll never go into places like that, never even had the urge to. One time when I was a kid my friends and I found an open manhole leading down to the storm drains underneath the streets and as soon as my friend said “we should go down” I could feel my survival instincts kicking in and refused to go lol
@@DescendingVelocity Nah that ain't a bitch thing, that's an "I'm not applying for a Darwin Award" thing AKA common sense
"something unthinkable happened above the elevator"
Me: "idk the cable snapped?"
*" A f***in train derailed and fell down on top of it crushing everyone and recirculating their remains"*
Yeah never would've guessed that tbh
When he's right, he's right. 😂
My same mindset
Oh god.
It seriously sounds like a cartoon skit at first. The train falling into the mineshaft that is, not… well, everything else
thats not how the word fucking is spelled.
The mine air system recirculating the gore of the crushed miners sounds like something a horror writer would be proud of writing and/or debate if they should really include it. That is just another level or disturbing. That's definitely one of the most horrible things to ever result from an accident.
Couldn't have said it better
Blade, blood rave.
That tidbit goes above horror. Thats japanese tier horror.
And then readers would criticize the scene for being over-the-top and unrealistic.
That's one of the worst things I've heard on this channel, he wasn't kidding in the beginning
Those guys in charge of the recovery efforts must've had tungsten lined stomachs because i can't even imagine the gore down there.
I'm imagining SCP-001 "When day breaks" at the bottom of the shaft
EDIT: stop liking this comment!!
Gotta love breathing in disease blood too.
@@Fasteroid So accurate xD
When remains are in small enough pieces they get hard to recognize. Makes it easier I imagine.
@@chriskola3822 idk, a big meat patty of over 100 people sounds like a traumatizing sight
ah yes, the classic molasses flood. whats funniest to me is that they try to teach us it when we're kids, but its so heavily sanitized that they dont even tell us that people died, so a lot of people treat it as a joke
I remember watching a cartoon about it, i thought it was hilarious when a iwas little, but it’s because they “kid washed” it 😔
Rest in peace to the real molasses victims
If he was going to put two incidents in one video the molasses flood should have been twinned with the Dublin whiskey flood.
@@SorryImKindaShyfeel like the Simpsons had some flood like that
@@nlwilson4892 Weren't the deaths of the Dublin whiskey flood preventable if people just didn't drink the strong, dirty alcohol?
I think it ignited at some stage. Some wouldn't have died if only they hadn't tried to drink the flaming alcohol.
I appreciate you including the differences on how the two mining accident investigations were handled, during and after apartheid. It’s important for people to hear.
except he never once mentioned that it was a race based system. How do you talk about South Africa’s past and completely gloss over the extent of the extreme racism?
a mine accident in south africa and a mining accident in america arent comparable or similar. foreign mining accidents mean nothing to anyone outside the country it happens in. mining accidents arent global issues
@@seenewapartheid is literally synonymous with racism for anyone who has been to a school in the last 30 years, and he did adress it without using the word. My guess to make the video more palatable for the bs that is yt monetization
@@seenew Gotta abide by the guidelines/censorship rules of his corporate bosses, who don't want any discussion of touchy subjects.
@seenew I feel like you're being overly critical here. He wasn't doing a history lesson on South African Apartheid. He makes it very clear that its a system of segregation with a ruling class and underclass. He doesn't need to go into all of the specific details about it because for starters South African Apartheid is not some unknown historical fact. Secondly, even if a viewer is young and somehow has never learned about it, I'm pretty sure the context clues will help them figure out what is going on here.
I can't imagine being stuck in molasses, and you can't move. How horrible. I've heard the story before but to hear the stories of those swept away or trapped is heartbreaking.
Especially once the temperature dropped and it thickened. It's just like an avalanche, but it happened when people were just going about their day so they had no idea it was even a remotely possible risk.
why would you want to imagine that.. seriously, how much lower do you need your intellect to be
@@littlebear274 I don't think anyone ever thinks "I hope I don't get caught in a molasses flood today."
@@Avarcirithi might after this video lol
They dont have to imagine. Theres literally survivors who lived to tell their experience. Imagine thinking imagining something that really happened is a sign of low intellect
That elevator incident was about the most horrific mine story I've never heard before. WOW!
That's what I love about history. You'll never hear it all. There is always something new to learn.
Good video.
i always find it interesting whether in these accident stories, or in crime shows people find the instant death scenarios more horrific. Sure, it left an awful clean up but presumably it was over quick and painless compared to a lot of other scenarios.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalbrook_mining_disaster
This was an interesting one, it was in South Africa too
Yes! Make me fear elevators and molasses, in addition to caves, mountains, and deep water!
Right? Just saying. LMAO 😅😮😊
Ride an open-side elevator up to 7000m to a cave on the side of a mountain full of molasses to go diving. Oh and during a blizzard with a friend with a broken leg while you have typhoid and no cell service
@@rwdonohue The only way out of the elevator is thru a shaft that is such a tight squeeze you have to exhale all your oxygen to squeeze thru (claustrophobia)
I fear the whole of South Africa
I fear yo mama.
From so many of your videos, you always mention the miners rushing in to rescue their fellow workers. It really shows how gruesome it was when the miners didnt even think about rescuing anyone.
The mental trauma for the body recovery team is unimaginable.
Police, firefighters, paramedics/EMS, and forensic investigators do it all the time. Too many folks assume "mental trauma" when the reality is that you have to accept certain truths about the job. It's also a matter of being realistic with what you deal with, and accepting things as-is and finding comedy in what you do. Yes, civilians will look at you weird, they get outraged and angry about how you lack compassion and empathy, and how you need to cry and seek counselling every time you do your job.
Lots of civilians are very pragmatic with death when they've already experienced it. However, there are a whole bunch who can't seem to fathom the idea that we don't care to receive suggestions on how to do a job that they're not willing to do.
"Sorry, ma'am, your depressed son jumped in front of the train and I spent a good 10 minutes rolling his intestines back into a ball so that the coroner's office can take it back to their office to unwind it. Please stop calling me to beg the coroner's office to let you see your son. Also, lose my number cause I didn't give it to you."
@@stevennguyen4993 uh. you do know that many first responders end up quitting the job because of how taxing the mental load is right? and that for many of these occupations, psychiatric visits are *mandatory?* especially after traumatic events? hell, even dispatchers have a high turnover rate because of what they end up having to listen to on the job.
by all means, respect the first responders who pull through and do the job, but do not for a minute presume it doesn't kill something inside of them.
@@akkiko Usually they quit from interpersonal issues and politics within and between departments. But just like any other job, this who usually cannot handle it are gone within the first 6 months, and are usually looking for another job within the first few weeks (assuming they have quit altogether and took the alternative of being unemployed). Those who can stomach the first few months will have greatest potential to make a career out of it.
Some folks do stumble into events that make them quit, but you'd also find that their reason to quit has been building up. But I don't quite see that as "trauma" inasmuch as a pediatric nurse would probably move away from a job where she's dealing with months of child abuse patients and decide that she needs to find a "happier" job.
@@akkiko I also have a strong background in psychology. I highly discourage people to assume trauma where one is not obviously evident. Cause the problem nowadays is folks who, instead of merely being aware that trauma may exist, insist that every negative experience definitely results in trauma and that said trauma must be rooted out and eliminated.
"It must be traumatizing for you!", "OMG that's terrible, I wouldn't want to be there that sounds horrific!", and "I wouldn't do what you do, that would take a toll on me."
Social cues that insist on trauma and that the person performing the job SHOULD feel traumatize. Civilians talking to professionals who, as part of the job, have to accept the nature of the job and embrace the fact that they're there to get the job done regardless of how it may suck." Instead of rewarding them with gratitude, folks default on the idea that their profession makes them "damaged goods". And these same civilians push the idea that first responder need to contemplate and empathize on all the suffering they've encountered as part of some healing process that first responders may not even need, even though these civilians themselves played with the idea of trauma so much that they couldn't even save themselves from it.
@@stevennguyen4993that’s honestly you coping with the stress of the job. It’s still hurting, but it’s underneath a cover, and it’s mitigated. It’ll still build up.
Not a bad thing, just something to keep in mind. If things ever get bad it’s the primary suspect, even if it doesn’t feel like it’s the cause.
No one will ever be able to accuse Sean of "sensationalising" his story-telling! When he says, "These stories are among the worst ever," he means it! Sheesh!
What a heartbreaking story. My uncle was killed in a collapsed mine in another african country. Absolutely terrible 😢 glad they were found guilty and this changed the safety regulations.
I'm so sorry for your loss, I hate when easily preventable accidents happen due to corporate greed/laziness.
@@Asolariot so very true
I was in an elevator that failed 2 stories above the ground. It hit the ground so fast, I should have laid on the floor to dispurse the energy.
Instead, I white-knuckled the railing and ended up hitting the ground with enough force to impact my bones but produce no pain. I'm an inch shorter than I used to be and have a significant fear of elevators now.
I wonder what other damages laying down would have caused
@@oc3144probably less, since the impact of the fall is spread throughout your body instead of being concentrated somewhere like your feet or legs if you’re standing
Quite the opposite. He would have struck his head really hard on the floor. Better injure you legs then get TBI
After work, sitting on my work table, sipping on hot chocolate, watching this channel's videos is one of the feelings you'll not get anywhere.
Currently at work, sipping my coffee, at my desk. It hits different when you get paid to listen to such great storytelling.
Just before work, listening to this while sipping morning coffee.
@@CommieHunter7have a good day at work man!
Why are you sitting on your table
I love watching them in the morning or while doing art :)
I'm trying to picture 100 miners on one elevator
..like nah guys go on without me I'll catch the next one..
You dont exactly have a choice 😂
In South Africa? You're dreaming, you would have no choice. bet even if you said 'nah, ill wait', they would literally force you onto there and you wouldn't be able to physically stop them
@@Sol-01what if you had the bubble guts and you let everyone know on that elevator that if you were to ride with them the horrific gasses coming out of your rear end would endanger everyone’s well being and actually be a worst experience than the cable snapping and a train falling and crushing everyone…
Next elevator's coming in 8 hrs or whenever the next shift change is...
I can't imagine the long term PTSD those mine workers must have had Thanks for pointing out the effects of apartheid on working conditions
If my calculations are correct, which they might not be, it would have taken the elevator around 11 or 12 seconds to fall a third of a mile. That has to be a horrifying last 12 seconds of life.
12 seconds really doesn't seem that long until you actually time it and imagine yourself falling. I've had full conversations that were shorter than that. What they went through is unimaginable.
That is a terrifying thought. I pulled up the stopwatch on my phone and it feels like an eternity imagining being in free fall for that long
There was a recent similar accident at an Impala Implats mine, it happened 27 november 2023. A double decker elevator carrying 86 went into a free fall, falling about 160 meters. 11 died immediately and a further 2 died in hospital. The bottom cage was crushed to about 1 meter in height. I was part of the animation team that did the accident reconstruction and I can tell you that it was absolutely horrible.
Few things could possibly be worse than being trapped underground with little chance of escape its really the stuff of nightmares
Those dudes trapped in that oil pipe. The fact you can watch the video of them getting sucked in, total blackness, then the audio of their despair. Fuck me 😢
Well theres always a light at the end of the tunnel...
I felt like that during the Titanic sub thing when they were still just missing and could have been sitting in the dark cold sub waiting to die. Freaking crazy stuff
@@Darthdoodooit’s sad, but im glad they didnt suffer for long.
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Why??
Thanks so much!
@@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLARthe lords day not scary interesting day
Same!
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When I visited Boston, I went out of my way to see the Molasses Flood plaque. It's a very small rectangular stone, sitting on the edge of a baseball field... If you didn't know it was there, you'd probably never notice it. I stood and thought about the contrast of this tiny memorial to a tragedy, surrounded by places for kids to play. It was rainy and cold so no one was there, giving me a bit of peace to contemplate it. I couldn't smell any molasses, though.
it'd be kinda fucked up make it a 4d memorial with scent memory no?
At first I just assumed the elevator would have a malfunction and fall BUT what happened is so much worse! There shouldn't even be a POSSIBILITY that something could fall into that elevator shaft. Especially something THAT heavy.. What a nightmare.. The molasses flood is such a crazy event. I can't imagine what that would have been like to witness or interact with once the initial flood was over and things were hardening up, and sticky..
Butters was not happy.
Babe wake up there's new Scary Interesting video about traumatic event happening in the past
this comment is so real
The molasses story sounds like something that you could only hear about in the 20’s. I can’t imagine something like that happening nowadays.
He mentioned tsunamis in the video. And I add avalanches.
Well, you should hope, but unfortunately people do get burrisd by collapsed grain silos & such. Luckily, from such an event as the molasses flood, I'm sure people were discouraged from building such things, at the very least, in cities.... And improve the standards of building such containers
Comes down to shoddy workmanship and upper management being cheap, pretty sure Boeing could currently tell you about both of those with a couple of their new planes! Definitely still happening today, unfortunately.
Most town-destroying Mega Wildfires - are caused by power companies, cutting safety corners/maintenance due to corporate greed. Yes, you can imagine disasters like this "happening today," unfortunately. And they will not stop: Until laws forbid them.
@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTrackingI think they mean disasters as weirdly specific as a _molasses_ flood
That mine elevator accident is so horrific. So horrible for everyone who died...and traumatizing for everyone involved in recovery...how on earth is this molasses story now more known? That is insane
It's even more sad when you consider how easily the tragedy could have been averted merely by everyone jumping at the right moment
When he brought the train, I thought he was going to say it crashed into the elevator mechanism above ground, not fucking falling in the hole itself. I wouldn't have guessed that, and my jaw dropped
@@frakismaximus3052lol!!! 🤭🏆
I guess it's just one of those regional things. I grew up hearing about it and every time we'd go to the North End you'd find people who would swear they still smelled the molasses on a hot day 70+ years later. My great grandmother lived in the North End during the time of the molasses flood but we never got to hear about it from her. She had nothing to do with my part of the family because her son (my grandfather) committed the unforgivable sin of being Sicilian and marrying a Northern Italian 😂. She just completely acted as if my grandmother and their children didn't exist. She lived to be 101 and I met her 3 times, at family funerals.
@@frakismaximus3052 it was dark, so they didnt know when to jump.
As a medic I’ve seen some gruesome things but this is unreal. I rarely got nauseated due to seeing mangled bodies but I don’t know how the recovery team managed this.
"The extreme heat in the depths of the mine caused the bodies to start to decompose in the course of the recovery, further complicating the recovery and the difficult task of identifying the mutilated remains."
My mom told me a story about my grandpa, who was a coal miner for a while. She said he used to be very talkative and different in his day to day life.
One day a coal elevator crushed his friend in front of him. From that day on, she said he was much quieter and it is very observable.
Then he got moved to the packing facility where he inhaled asbestos for a few years straight.
Both cases about companies who cared a lot more about their profits than safety. Greed does this...
Aparthied was nothing but camouflage for slavery... In 1995 South Africa was too much of a young free nation to make the needed changes. The mine management took advantage of it and could not care less about the workers, at least their were charged for murder, in the Aparthied days they could have just sweep it all under the rug and that was that...
As an American, it is utterly insane to think that so recently there were mining disasters near or over a hundred fatalities. I'd expect ~50 in a 1870 mine caving in, but not 100 people being crushed to death post-Cold War.
You should cover fed-ex flight 705. It’s absolutely ridiculous that everyone survived, but also horrifying what the survivors lived through (and that they can never fly again).
Intriguing. What would prevent all of the passengers from flying again in the future?
They can fly again
@user-ym4xy6us5e fed ex 705 wasn't a passenger flight, it was a cargo plane with 4 people on board total (including the hijacker). There is a pretty cool mayday air disaster video about it
@@user-ym4xy6us5e Mayday has an episode on it. Employee hitched a ride on the cargo flight the used a hammer to beat the pilots and try to hijack it.
@@user-ym4xy6us5e The flight crew were assaulted by a hijacker and most can't safely fly a plane again due to the injuries. They can fly again but they can't fly again, if that makes any sense.
I have visited coal mines in Wales and Canada , also a working salt mine in Nova Scotia , Canada . I went on a guided tour by current or former miners , there were horror stories and being at the actual location , deep underground , often in total darkness( lights turned off ) is an impressive experience . RIP . Also visited Aberfan in Wales where a mountain of spoil from a mine collapsed onto a school full of children . It is a small village in a valley , a beautiful place with soo much sadness . RIP .
Whats with the out of place/no context 'RIP's?
I guess I get the one at the end must just be a general condolences to all the victims of this story..
@@TheScotian82 Lots of people died in those locations , I m not a disaster tourist , I am sensitive to energies and some places have residual energy . I hope they find peace .
Amazing how automatically being considered guilty unless you can prove you took every safety precaution, makes sure you have top-notch safety precautions and protocols.
You would be amazed how things get upgraded and taken seriously when bosses and owners of companies actually realise that their head is on the line and not just protected like usual
"the worst you've ever covered on this channel..." That's a very bold statement, my friend... I think you might be right though. Yikes!
Best timing, thanks for the amazing storytelling Scary Interesting!!
Nothing beats your channel
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I'm a PhD and part of my training is in physics. The amount of energy and G-shock that was transferred to the poor miners' bodies when that car hit the shaft floor, then got hit by the 12-ton locomotive instantly thereafter, can easily be described in the cold, hard terms of Newtons and multiples of gravity. But that doesn't begin to describe the horror that would have resulted on those fragile human bodies. The best approximation I can give without getting into extremely disturbing detail would be like having those poor souls stood in front of a firing squad of howitzers. "Red mist" gets tossed around a lot in military circles, but you almost never hear it used in the context of a civilian accident.
This was one of those accidents. Dear God in heaven. I'm glad that for once, justice was served on those responsible for the disaster. Even the most rudimentary safety precautions would have prevented it.
I remember learning about the molasses flood in middle/high school and then again when I moved to Boston for university, but the gravity and details of the tragedy were largely glazed over. Thank you for covering this!
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A certain blue puppet taught me about the 2nd story. You had no idea how excited i was when i realise where the story was going
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The cookie monster??
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This episode was brought to you by: gross negligence and corporate greed!
As many of them are.
They end up being frequent sponsors.
Whenever I hear a discussion panel talking about solutions to to some problem or another and a libertarian says, "Just let the market take care of it" I think of disasters like these where money made the decisions.
You found some amazingly horrific stories this time. I figured you were running out of caving stories but the way you give the same level of detail and perspective to every story you cover is addicting.
Thanks to this channel, the chances of me going into caves, cave diving or diving anywhere tbh are zero. Great content, binged pretty much everything in a few days haha.
Ah the "you can't make this stuff up" , episode. Imagine the horror of an elevator falling....but then a train falls on it too, on a mine and the gore gets sucked into the ventilation system... Sounds far fetched. Life really is stranger than fiction.
To scary Interesting thank you for recommending the White Vault, just finished the first cycle ( the first 5 seasons) and me and my mom love it.
Also I love your channel and I follow it since I came across the video that you made of the Franklin Expedition 4-5 months ago
The thumbnail of this video made me think it was a Short and I almost didn't watch it, I'm glad it came up later on my home page because I love these videos :)
Nice, I love listening to these while I work, good stuff man.
Thank you for doing that episode on the molasses flood of Boston. I think I suggested this a couple of times over the last year cuz it's really horrific event. to this day and I can attest it because I do live near Boston and have been in the area on really hot July and August nights what's really humid out and you go down to the north end and there's no wind you can still smell glamorous. there was so much molasses it actually when it flooded it imbued itself into the wood timbers of local structures and buildings it even was so powerful that it derailed or detoupled the elevated train lines that had just been installed in Boston 20 years 25 years previous not all of them just a section of it near the explosion or the flood. they actually still kept some of the girders I think there's a museum in the area for the flood and other events in Boston's north end. but it was a horrendous accident I mean they were they were still using horses back then and a lot of the carriages that were pulling you know the carts for various different products and shipments the horses got mired in the lasses and it's a lot of them drowned a lot of dogs drowned a lot of people drowned they got stuck in the molasses and couldn't get out and couldn't get to the surface it was a couple of feet thick for what I understand there was a rate a wave a tidal wave almost of molasses 20 feet tall and it was very little warning that stuff was going to happen on the fact that little kids in the area would go up at the tank with jars and collect molasses that was leaking between the rivets on the container where they held all the molasses Now wasn't a hot day but it was a warm day after a cool spell and the molasses started what's known as churning which is it's continued its fermentation and built up a lot of gas like lava that's pressurized or a soda bottle that's shaken it can only take so much pressure before it explodes And the rivets gave way. horrendous horrendous disaster thank you for covering it cuz it is important part of Boston's history the great molasses flood. I do know that after this event laws were changed about what kind of industrial products could be kept within city limits in the state of Massachusetts the next time anything like this happened was in Newton Mass or there was a big explosion and it blew out the wall of a building I don't know if they were doing some kind of explosive work but they should have been in the city Because they were using explosives within the city near houses and schools wasn't even a hospital luckily but it was the industrial mill area old mill area of Newton along the Charles River near Needham I believe Luckily no one was killed but a lot of people got hurt And then they clamp down on laws and restrictions again His politicians get lax after a while they forget what happened in the past and think oh it can't happen again and as soon as they think that bangs something happens again and it's the company owners to get fined not the politicians for being stupid. maybe we should rewrite the law so that not only to the owners and the shareholders take part in the problem and share the burden of retribute repayment politicians that were in duty at the time should also be held accountable monetarily maybe they would make so many stupid laws that make no sense and actually do more damage than good.
Your fantastic story would reach a much greater audience if you would go above and beyond and edit the thing with line-breaks and paragraphs.
? 20006 sans content hmmm > 1C scribes
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Appreciate the interesting story but i think it would be easier to read with line breaks or at the very least punctuations..
I had to stop reading halfway through because this is just a giant wall of text without any punctuation. Maybe ask ChatGPT to add punctuation to your text and update it?
7:30 I find it hard to belive an elevator roof would have survived a train car falling on it from 1.5 km. Also how would the pulley system withstand such forces. No chance.
Once he said 12 tons I just KNEW that elevator roof wasn't gon save shit lol. BUT that elevator was able to carry over a hundred people and this something they used constantly, so I'd imagine it's pretty damn heavy and sturdy. I still find it hard to believe 24000 pounds trying to reach terminal velocity would not kill everyone, but I've seen enough of these to see some miracles happen lol
The 🚆 only fell 280 m, and weighed less than the elevator, which was enormous. It’s probably what took the train down into the mine in the first place.
@@DrDeuteronthe train was on surface Boss
@@CalebBaynton not according to wikipedia, which says it was 56 levels down.
@@DrDeuteron my bad. The video states it was on surface
The editing is always above and beyond, another great video!
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I would be scarred for life if I had to recover the bodies of those poor miner from the elevator. It would probably look even worse that WW1 battlefield.
Congrats on 1 million subscribers man. Been here since way less, great to the channel take off
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I'm a regular viewer and usually seeing gore doesn't affect me, less so hearing about it, but there was just something really disturbing about hearing that all those miners were crushed into a "single mass", damn...
For one the warning at the start of the video was there for a reason
The first vid I saw from you was the mine under the ocean incident. So all the mine videos are my favorite but i have to say the cave diving ones i think are a close second. Thank you for the work you have put into making many hours of content for me to enjoy.
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Another great video. Damn your channel blew up since I subbed (too bad Kyon Tales and Knightraven haven't).
Keep it up!
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Man the mine disaster videos really hit home. Hearing some of the stories my dad has to tell I’m so surprised there hasn’t been any major incidents for years with all the mines we have here in Manitoba. Although there has been a single death and a number of close calls.
I was wondering if you'd ever cover the mine elevator dropping accident. I came across this years ago and was so horrified by this. I never heard of a worse accident. Those poor poor men! Excellent covering it.
Hate it when I trip and fall over a kilometer. My kids spread them all over the den floor. I say, "Get in here and clean up your kilometers when you're done playing with them."
That would really really suck.
Would suck massive
You broke the 1M mark. Great job! Been watching for a long time. Keep it up!
My story suggestion was used! You did a great job covering it! I actually learned a lot that I didn't even know about the disaster
"One of the benefits of this system is that it kept labor cheap."
... Divide to rule, yup. Sounds like here.🇺🇸
Mike Rowe values profits over safety.
He really is a gross person.
I love this channel.. Thank you for the storytelling.. I'm from South Africa Cape Town.. Your channel is my addiction.. I can't stop watching 🙂
What an absolutely nightmarish death.
Please do a video on "Uttar Kashi tunnel disaster" it's a collapse of tunnel in India where 40 workers were trapped and very big rescue operation helped to save them ❤
I needed my Scary Interesting fix today. So did you ❤.
Wow! over a million subs!
last time i checked over a year ago, you only had 40k. Well done!
Can't say I'm to surprised though. You're a very talented story teller. I hear your stories before mr.ballen tells the same. And your versions are better told. I've listened to all your vids 2x atleast. I could say much more, but anyway. Great work!
Love when a video drops while at work 😅
Love knowing I’m not the only one “working” rn. 😊
Drops
Don't love when a mine elevator drops while at work
just like the lift
If I was in that elevator I'd probably die.
Nah I'd live
Skill issue
Everyone in Boston learns about the "great molasses flood". Disaster essays love to mention it because it is so bizarre.
In addition to the metal quality and the bolts the molasses was warmer due to a large delivery and possibly also due to fermentation in the tank. This lowered the viscosity and allowed it to flow quickly before cooling and setting. The tank had only been fully filled about 8 times and it was barely able to handle a full load.
ive been watching since Spring 2022 and I think you had ~1k subscribers then, congrats on a million!
God dang. A train car crushing an elevator.
New to this it's interesting....and scary. Well made
Wow, how incredibly terrifying. This is a scenario I never could've imagined.
1:50 assume you meant to say Praetoria rather than Johannesburg (as the capital of South Africa).
Technically it has 3 capital cities.
@@adrianmotet5083 and none of them is Johannesburg (praetoria, Cape Town, and bloemfontein).
SO it falls half a kilometer. Not over a kilometer
I remember hearing about this around that time and that there was a labour dispute at the time.
The name of the unit the men ride in is called a "cage", at least where I have worked.
I've been wanting someone to cover Vaal Reefs for years now and no one ever does! i mostly just wanted to understand how the train ended up in the mine shaft. thank you!
Also, on a positive note, I am glad that you also covered that the owners were found guilty of murder, an investigation happened, and workers got compensation - and how different that was from apartheid. It was a horrific accident that should never have happened, but thank God it at least didn't happen 6 years earlier.
But he has it wrong it didnt come from the outside.
119 families split $628,000 (today worth 11.3mil) compare that to the drunk Atlanta woman who locked herself into a hotel freezer at her own error and the hotel was ordered to pay her family 15mil!!!!
The freezer was in illegal disrepair. Don't trust corporate propaganda, they violated the law and in a rare instance had to pay for it.
I always take the stairs as the minor excersize adds up over the years and decades. Now I have even more reasons to stick to the stairs.. thx =)
... there is no staircase from the bottom of a mine to the surface ...
Brilliant telling of the Molasses Flood disaster. This is now my favorite version. And, yes it still smells like molasses in the north end on very hot, humid days.
That’s pretty crazy since it happened over 100 years ago.
A late morning Scary Interesting, love it.
It seems almost impossible to prosecute a corporation these days. Profits over lives hasnt changed a whole lot either. Their primary concern is their PR.
I’m confused? The title explicitly says “over a kilometre” but then at 3:45 you say “half a kilometre” There is a MASSIVE difference between 0.5km vs 1km+…. At least 100%
Huh, that's true. In the Wikipedia article it says that the elevator plunged 460 meters and that the locomotive didn't drop from the surface but from level 56 (1676m below ground). Although a quick search gave me mostly just sources that gave totally different numbers so it's hard to say what to believe.
The Wikipedia article revealed another case from St. Helena where an elevator fell 1,4 km to the bottom.
@@Cherubi-chan daamn! Facts are all over the place 😅
My family has a direct connection to the Boston Molasses Flood: my great-grandfather was a Boston Police officer whose "beat" took him through the area of the flood. On the day of the accident, he had swapped shifts with another man.
The man he swapped with was killed.
The first time I ever heard of the Molasses story was while my Mum was baking Molasses sweetened muffins a couple years back.. never knew the details until now. Thanks for sharing these stories
I know it's not the main focus of the video but your description of apartheid is really distracting in how oversimplified it is. It really comes across as if you don't know what it actually is.
As horrible as the incident was Martin was a gigachad for surfing across the molasses on his bed