In January of 1919, a giant storage tank in Boston’s North End exploded—unleashing a tidal wave of molasses that tore through city streets at 35 miles per hour. Buildings crumbled. Horses drowned. Twenty-one people lost their lives in one of the strangest and deadliest industrial disasters in American history.
This week on Weirder After Dark, we’re diving into the sticky, surreal horror of the Great Molasses Flood. Was it really just a freak accident… or was someone to blame? From corporate cover-ups and immigrant scapegoating to the physics of syrup moving faster than you’d think, we’re breaking down the weirdest flood Boston ever saw.
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