Brad Choma
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Doomsday is a history lesson that easily disguises itself as a horror story. We explore the most traumatic, bizarre and most awe-inspiring but largely unheard-of disasters from throughout human history and around the world including the science behind every disturbing detail. If you like shipwrecks, decapitations, things that melt, living blankets of insects and people screaming for their lives, Doomsday is the podcast for you.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/doomsday-history-s-most-dangerous-podcast--4866335/support.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Doomsday reconstructs catastrophe through physical mechanisms, failed safeguards, grim humor, and close attention to how people improvise under impossible conditions.
Doomsday turns historical disasters into brisk narrative history, moving between scene-by-scene reconstruction and the physical mechanisms that made catastrophe possible.
A beer flood stops sounding like a pub joke once you hear what happened downstream.
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A grimly funny zombie-versus-civil-war scorecard built from rainwater, pet food, war crimes, and survival logic.
This Doomsday mailbag mini-sode turns an apocalypse comparison into a bleakly funny scorecard, pitting civil war against a zombie outbreak by way of cooperation, clothing, food, infection, and the awkward question of whether either disaster can truly end.
A Victorian skating spectacle at Regent's Park turns fashion, old skate technology, and ominous ice into gathering dread.
Regent's Park opens here as a lovely London green space with a brutal past, then becomes the stage for Victorian spectacle: hundreds of skaters and thousands of onlookers gathered on January 15, 1867.
A remote lighthouse, a restless foghorn, and a lonely Coast Guard post set the mood before danger closes in.
The episode starts with a sharp piece of misdirection: a light powerful enough to ruin a person's eyes is treated as one of the safer things in the story.
A 1906 Yukon River disaster where bad gun handling turns a duck encounter into cattle-based fire and fallout.
The 1906 Yukon River story frames a remote northern journey as a lesson in how quickly bad awareness and unsteady hands can turn routine trouble into disaster.
A burning alpine train turns one cheap appliance into a wider systems failure.
A burning alpine train turns a cheap appliance into the start of a much larger systems failure. The episode is strongest when it stays with the trapped passengers inside the steep tunnel, where smoke, heat, rails, a narrow catwalk, emergency steps, and rigid ski boots make every…
A subway fire becomes a punishing study of panic, crush, and escape under impossible conditions.
This disaster story stays fixed on a crowded train in total darkness, with smoke, panic, and the harsh reality of escape closing in fast. It dwells on the choking air, the broken escalator and door, the windows people smash out, and the way each opening can make things worse by…
A dark, fast-moving account of an ancient explosion that left the city shattered and the aftermath hard to imagine.
The Wanggongchang Armory Disaster episode turns an ancient Chinese explosion into a bleak, sharply drawn account of scale and aftermath. It lingers on the blinding flash, the shockwave, the damage to the city, and the strange debris left behind, including clothes in trees,…
A fifth-anniversary reflection turns into a stark, human account of reactor failure.
The episode starts as a fifth-anniversary reflection and stays grounded in gratitude. The host notes that he did not expect the show to grow as large as it did, and the listener mail from around the world gives that claim some weight.
Legends tested against what can still be traced.
History interviews with dirt on the boots.
Odd history, solved patiently.
Scripted, scored true stories from the odd corners of history.
Polar rivalries and historical puzzles, told with dry wit.
Doomsday: History's Most Dangerous Podcast turns to the 1918 Hammond circus train disaster, beginning with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Traveling Circus and its two 28-car trains.
Doomsday: History's Most Dangerous Podcast examines the Greensburg, Kansas tornado of May 4, 2007, and frames it as a storm powerful enough to need the enhanced Fujita scale.
It begins with a brewery accident.
Cutlery on feet turns grim fast.
You want scientific merit?
The show opens with the hard reality of life aboard a carrier.
One man created the greatest cattle-based pyrotechnics display.
This episode recounts the 1972 Uruguayan rugby team plane crash in the Andes, where survivors endured 72 days of freezing temperatures, starvation, and avalanches.
A mine cart catches fire, and the disaster turns fast.
This episode explores the 1626 Wangongchang Armory explosion in Beijing, one of history's largest non-nuclear blasts that killed thousands and stripped clothes off victims miles away.
The episode heads into a subway fire in Azerbaijan and stays there as the ride turns from bad to suffocating.
This episode explores the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009 in Australia, detailing the deadly combination of drought, heat, and eucalyptus forests that fueled the disaster.
Five years in, the host is still surprised the show exists at this size.
Field trip weather gets nasty fast.
This episode explores the Carrington Geomagnetic Superstorm of 1859, detailing how a massive solar flare disrupted telegraph systems and caused auroras worldwide.
Doomsday: History's Most Dangerous Podcast covers the 1946 Scotch Cap Lighthouse disaster on Unimak Island in Alaska, where a 7.4 quake near the Aleutian Trench triggered a tsunami.
Doomsday: History's Most Dangerous Podcast focuses on the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, beginning with Pripyat's 49,000 residents and the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Kyiv.
Doomsday: History's Most Dangerous Podcast turns its mailbag into three concrete debates: which Final Destination death the host would choose, whether civil war or a zombie outbreak is the worse apocalypse, and whether another disaster-movie "moviesode" is coming.
Doomsday: History's Most Dangerous Podcast uses the Edmund Fitzgerald to show how the Great Lakes can become lethal, starting with the claim that Lake Superior alone holds 10% of the planet’s fresh water.
Doomsday: History's Most Dangerous Podcast uses British Airways Flight 5390, the June 10, 1990 “unscheduled ejection” from a BAC-111, to answer whether flying feels less safe in 2025.
Doomsday: History's Most Dangerous Podcast ties the Loma Prieta earthquake to October 17, 1989, when San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics fans were watching World Series Game 3 at Candlestick Park.
The episode tackles a catastrophic dam failure, following how a brutal wall of water and debris ripped through rail yards, company towns, and mill districts with almost no warning.
This episode recounts the 1995 Cave Creek platform disaster in New Zealand, where a poorly constructed viewing platform collapsed, killing 12 students and injuring others.
This episode explores the 2013 Norwegian cheese fire disaster, where a truck carrying 27 tons of brunost cheese caught fire in a tunnel, burning for five days due to the flammable properties of sugar and fat.
A Waffle House employee caught a metal chair thrown at her head like she was catching an arrow in mid-flight.
It opens mean on purpose.
A fire breaks out in a terminal and spreads through a public space that was not ready for it.