SYMHC Classics: Crash at Crush

Stuff You Missed in History Class

This 2017 episode covers a window from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, people in the United States were watching train wrecks for fun. These staged spectacles would draw thousands and thousands of paying onlookers, but why exactly were they so popular?

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2023-04-15 28 min Transcript

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