Deadliest Wildfire in U.S. History video
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- This video is about a HAUNTED Museum aka the Peshtigo Fire Museum located in Northeastern Wisconsin. The museum shares history on what is known as the most destructive wildfire in North American history and the DEADLIEST wildfire in U.S. history. This fire is not very well known as it was overshadowed by the Great Chicago Fire. Both of these fires occurred October 8, 1871.
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Video highlights include:
1) @00:00 - Where we are going
2) @01:36 - Inside the museum
3) @03:18 - Artifacts that survived the fire
4) @04:49 - Remembering those who survived
5) @05:52 - Remembering those who perished
6) @07:17 - The museum is reportedly HAUNTED!
For more information about the fire, check out this website "The Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871" www.peshtigofire.info.
+Heath Lail - Thank you Heath, glad you enjoyed the video 😊
My hometown. Lived there from 1970 until 1992. My grandmother volunteered at the museum. I haven't been in the museum since I was a child visiting my grandmother - your video brought back a ton of memories. I attended high school about 1 block from the museum and we had a class picture on it's steps. I certainly knew about the fire growing up but, as I get older, the gravity and significance of the event is better understood.
I have finally come here, after your recent Peshtigo video, and must say, well done, Sally. Informative and touching. Thank you.
Thank you, appreciate you checking this one out!
Hi Sally, I came back to this site to learn more about the fire of October 1871 Peshtigo fire. It was a very bad tragedy that happened to these people in the day. When I visit Wisconsin again... I want to visit the Peshtigo Fire Museum and pay my respects to the people who perished in the fire. Thank you for leaving a link below, as it was very interesting to read. I understand there is a book on the tragedy of the Peshtigo fire, and look forward to reading it. :)
Catching up on your back catalog I love your videos!
Thank you Bottom O’ 😊🙏 💕
Well done Sally, I'm a new fan, I can't believe how well documented your findings are, nice work!
+Tim Hughes Sr - Welcome & thank you Tim! It's nice to hear from you, glad you enjoyed the video 😊
Thank you very much! This is the second one of your videos I have watched and have enjoyed very much. Of course I subscribed!
+Julia Szewczyk - Thank you Julia, I'm really glad you've been enjoying the videos. I appreciate your support and hope to see more comments from you in the future 😊
Great video Sal..... I'm a history buff but have never heard of the Peshtigo fire....very informative... kudos to your videographer too!!!
Hi Sally, It is interesting to note... the great Chicago fire was on the same day. Seeing the artifacts in the museum collection was very humbling, as were the cemetery you visited. It seems 1871 in October, Chicago or Peshtigo weren't the places to be. Such a great loss of life during that time, and may they all rest in peace. Thank you for sharing Sally, an informative video explaining the people and the (Peshtigo tornado fire) as it was described. :) Yes, I know..i already was here. lol, I wanted to revisit the great Peshtigo fire, and it was well worth it! :)
Lol, I’m glad you enjoyed this video so much you went back and watched it again. Thank you for letting me know. I always enjoy reading your comments. Take care.
My great grand parents and other family members survived this tragedy by seeking refuge in the nearby river. Using a wool blankets cover their heads and my filter out to send the smoke. Blessing
Very interesting Sally, watched your vlog on the "Abandoned Mansion" as well...
Your production as well as comfort in front of the camera have grown leaps and bounds!
As a recording engineer, if I might suggest you look up the technique of "Ducking".
You can set up this technique to automatically turn down the music while you narrate.
The ratio of music to voice can be set to taste, as well as how rapidly it turns the volume down, and recovers once you stop speaking, which allows for a natural sounding transition.
Great job, you two are doing👍
Appreciate the tip, John. Thank you 😊
I am an ardent History Buff; I never heard of the Peshtego Fire. I will look it up. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
+Jim Key - You're welcome 😊 Here's a link to a website you might find interesting www.peshtigofire.info/
Congratulations! What an amazing improvement! THIS was well worth my time. Well done!
Thank you 😊
Thanks I realy enjoyed this video.
+Barbara Mahoney - You're welcome 😊 I'm glad you enjoyed it, thank you!
Hi Sally, Thank you for sharing this video. It was very interesting and a tragedy for many people. Keep up the fine work! : )
+Robert Karchunas - Hi Robert :) glad you found the topic interesting, thank you for your support :)
Hi Sally. Beautifully done.
+LifeOf aMom Adventures - hello & thank you 😊
Whoa, very sad story and a very well done job on the videography...have a great day☺
+Gary Crow - Thank you 😊 it is a very sad story, so many lives lost, practically everything destroyed. It's a wonder that anyone survived. Some did, though, and they rebuilt Peshtigo from the ashes (the town likens itself to a Phoenix).
That is such a sad time i never heard about it but you bet I'm going to read up more on it thanks for sharing it
+Ralph Barnes - You're welcome :) if you want more info, check out the comment by Artsartisan. He left a very detailed account of that day. Also, you may want to look up the website www.peshtigofire.info/
Bigger than, but still overshadowed by the Great Chicago Fire? Wow.
+Landon Bittner - That's right 😊
Good book on the fire: Firestorm at Peshtigo.
it’s kinda sad that this happened on the same day as the great Chicago fire. Peshtigo had more acres burnt down and killed more people than the Chicago fire..... but Chicago was a more popular city, so more people cared about it..They should make a I͟ S͟U͟R͟V͟I͟V͟E͟D͟ book about this...
Agree Emmy Pup ❤️
Awesome VLOG! That Museum is really neat, great displays! I'm always intrigued by Bibles that seem to survive Fires and Floods!?! That area is Haunted, I'm certain! After all, it's hallowed ground! It's also bizarre that this Fire happened around the same time that Old Lady Leary's Cow was kicking over the lantern in the barn in Chicago!! 😱
♥️ Hope you are doing well!! Feel better!
+Rosey H - Thank you Rosey!!! 😊Glad you enjoyed the museum - lots to see there! Btw, admission is free (although they welcome donations). And, yeah, it is bizarre 🐄 It was a very hot and unusually dry summer so a little spark could have started it. And, with how many people suffered and died, it could easily be haunted...
+Rosey H - Oops 🙊 I meant "fall" not "summer" lol
wow nice video ,
+John Hall - thank you 😊
As you stated, the Peshtigo Fire occurred on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire. There were also fire in Holland and Manistee, Michigan which is across the Lake Michigan from Peshtigo.
Furthermore, there were major fires in Port Huron at the southeastern end of Lake Huron. There are historians who believe that these fires had a mutual cause.
D Gess and W Lutz are the authors of “Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History.” They stated: In a firestorm “superheated flames of at least 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit...advance on winds of 110 miles per hour or stronger. The diameter of such a fire ranges from one thousand to ten thousand feet.... When a firestorm erupts in a forest, it is a blowup, nature's nuclear explosion…”
After the fire; there were estimates that over 1,875 square miles of forest had been burned. This is approximately twice the size of the State of Rhode Island. There are sources that stated that 1.5 million acres of forest were burned. Twelve entire communities were destroyed.
The fire is said to have jumped the Peshtigo River and burned on both sides of the inlet town. The survivors reported that a firestorm generated a “fire whirl” - a tornado of fire.
There were railroad cars and houses that were thrown into the air. Some ofthe persons who escaped the ravages of the fire did so by immersing themselves in the Peshtigo River, wells, and bodies of water that were nearby. Unfortunately, there were persons who had succumbed to hypothermia or drowned in the frigid water.
Authorities chose to keep the Green Island Light lit because the smoke was so thick and obscured visibility. Although the crew was eventually rescued; the three-masted schooner George L. Newman was wrecked offshore
Another fire burned parts of Door Peninsula. Authorities incorrectly assumed that the fire jumped the waters of Green Bay. In the town of Robinsonville; on the Door Peninsula; Sister Adele Brise and other nuns, farmers, and their families fled to a local chapel for protection. The town of Robinsonville is now “Champion”. Although the chapel was surrounded by flames, it survived. Those persons who survived in the chapel considered their safety to be a miracle. The chapel has become the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help which is a Marian shrine.
There are persons who speculate that the occurrence of the Peshtigo and Chicago fires occurring on the same day were NOT coincidences. The first time this hypothesis was proposed was in 1883. There were five major fires that occurred in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin on the same day. One speculation suggested in 1883 is that the fires were caused by impact of fragments from Comet Biela. The theory was revived in 1985 in Mel Waskin’s book “Mrs. O’Leary’s Comet: Cosmic Causes of the Great Chicago Fire.”
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics investigated this theory in 2004. The results of their study indicate that meteorites cannot ignite a fire as they are cold to the touch when they reach Earth’s surface. Secondly, there are no credible
reports of any fire anywhere having been started by a meteorite. yet there appear to be several unexplained phenomena concerning the fires.
I recall reading a report that spoke of piles of railroad rail fused together into a solid heap.
There are aspects of the behavior of the Chicago and Peshtigo fires which have been attributed to extraterrestrial agencies.
web.archive.org/web/20090325065110/pdf.aiaa.org/preview/CDReadyMPDC04_865/PV2004_1419.pdf
the Sky WTBS documentary 1997
Robert M. Woods “Did Biela’s Comet Cause the Chicago and Midwest Fires?”
web.archive.org/web/20090325065110/pdf.aiaa.org/preview/CDReadyMPDC04_865/PV2004_1419.pdf
Mica Calfee “Was it a Cow or a Meteorite? Meteorite Magazine 9www.fireserviceinfo.com/cow-comet.html
www.peshtigofire.info/
+Artsartisan - Wow, you did your homework! Thank you for sharing :) Lots of great info here!
I am intrigued by the purported connections between the Peshtigo Fire, Chicago Fire, and several other fires in the Midwest on the same time line. There are too many bizarre things which happened on October 8, 1871 and the surrounding days prior to the fires
I purchased a book several years ago about UFO sightings that spoke of the many anomalies and bizarre events that took place during this period. The book was written by either Hal Lindsey or Salem Kirban but I don't recall which author and the name of the book.
For the most part, the scientific community has unsuccessfully attempted to dismiss the strange occurrences. One of the things that captivated my attention was a large pile railway metal rails that were completely fused together into a solid piece.
+Artsartisan - That IS bizarre!
My understanding is it was a very hot and dry autumn that left the surrounding prairie and forestry like tinder. It took only a few sparks to set it off.
+Lin Graczy - Yes, that is what I've read as well. 😊
Interesting. Is that ok Larry?
It has no been fogant because I'm learning about it