The Sinking of The Sultana | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- "On the 27th of April, 1865, the Sultana - a wooden steamboat - was making its way north up the Mississippi River when, one after another, its boilers exploded..."
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Background
05:10 - The Sinking of The Sultana
07:38 - The Aftermath
MUSIC:
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"The boat didn't overbalance."
"That's good!"
"It exploded."
"That's bad..."
But you get your choice of toppings!
That's good!
The toppings contain potassium benzoate.
That's bad.
@@emlix1 can I go now?
🤣🤣
@@emlix1 good ol homer..hilarious 😂
It's so interesting that it probably would have blown anyway, regardless of capacity. It's just that so many more people died than if he'd followed capacity limits.
"Due to a series of bad decisions and unfortunate circumstances" is now my new favorite phrase
" Due to a series of bad decisions and unfortunate circumstances" - story of my life.....
Sounds like an accurate description of my love life. lol
A series of unfortunate events
That phrase is now my excuse for everything. Love it.
@@lauramcquade924 0:30
The Survivors of the Sultana held annual reunions to remember the disaster since no one else in the country either knew or cared. Desendants of survivor's still hold reunions. It's so sad that almost no one remembers this event, or cares about the Soldiers who died 😔
Someone in Arkansaw obviously does.
It happened right between Lincoln's assassination and Booths capture. Those were much larger stories.
Well, now we can remember them and honor them.
It is sad it got shadowed by other things plus news doesn't spread like nowadays. I feel so bad for their families
I don't hear too many people, including our government who talk about the soldiers who died in Afghanistan back in August!!! Or the civiliansears ago, US Citizens and our Allies who were left. But you feel bad about soldiers who died over 100 years ago? That's typical.
“His ship was seized due to contraband.”
Me: “Probably booze.”
“Specifically 2,000 pairs of pants.”
Me: “…oh.”
That got me too ! 😂👖
Today it'd be 2000 pairs of used gamer girl pants or some crazy shit.
Confederate Pants is probably an available band name.
@@orangeapples 🤣🤣🤣
@@AleBober Do you need a business partner? Asking for a friend.
Things I’ve learned from this channel:
Never leave your house.
This is good advice and I learned this lesson the hard way! At one time I was doing private scientific research on the variations in potency of any illegal narcotics I could find, methamphetamine psychosis and its effect on songwriting during prolonged sleep deprivation, and tried and almost succeeded in getting GPS coordinates on a series of hallucinations when I was chased by Greg Brady and the Pilsbury Dough Boy, and a huge crowd of three feet tall protesters wearing Conway Twitty outfits who set loose a vicious green and yellow cartoon tiger on my property. Being a Disco survivor I simply didn`t see rock bottom coming....
The police suddenly shut down the research lab in my 1975 RV van when I made a huge mistake in my miscalculations while in a complete state of stupor, and evidently, according to police officers and four drug screens in a mental health facility, somehow mixed magic mushrooms with whiskey, Budweiser, and several potent uppers, downers, and pain medications after overdosing on high grade medical marijuana thinking it was a hand rolled Bugler cigarette while drunk on vodka. I was told by some sort of government expert, who they sent all the way from Baton Rouge to gather important data about what happened to give to college researchers, that I tested positive for every known drug except PCP which was the very drug I was accused of taking!
I don`t remember what happened that night but several angry witnesses claimed I set up all of my music equipment and PA system with 18 inch speakers,designed for very high volume concerts, in the front yard at 2am, then attempted to play guitar while giving an incoherent, profanity laced speech heard as far away as seven miles down the lake by campers at a marina. This effectively ended my career as a rogue scientist and my frequent chemically fueled virtual vacations in outer space. That`s not freedom!
@@baneverything5580 😳
Nah some people died from blasts and fires without even stepping one foot out of their rooms. It should’ve been ,,never leave your underground fireproof, waterproof, blastproof nuclear shelter”
@@baneverything5580 this is one well worded explanation to something which may seem inferior or mischievous to some. 😅
Unless that house is near an overstocked fireworks factory; then definitely, swiftly, permanently leave your house
Well at least Captain Mason’s money worries ceased to concern him.
Gotta look for the bright side
🎵Always look on the bright side of life ...🎵
Silver lining
They were probably the last thing that went through his mind...except for a piece of twisted metal from one of the boilers.
This is the price you pay for being greedy.
Fuckign exploded.
"It's fair to say that Mason was an e experienced captain, but that not all of his past experience had been good." Oh man these dead pan roasts are my favorite part fascinating horror!!
Yeah that was masterful.
And looking at his picture, the captain looks 17.
LOL!!!
An important and horrific detail to consider:
The explosion of steam that destroyed the decks wasn’t straight up, but diagonal. Which left the open boilers exposed to nothing but air. This led to people by the hundreds sliding back and falling directly into the boilers themselves leaving them to a fate worse than drowning.
Also for those that jumped in the water. There are accounts of men holding onto each other (specifically those that could swim) and quite literally pulling groups down below the surface to never come up again.
Horrible
That’s a really horrific detail …. Cheers sedd 👍🏽
awful but fascinating. where did you learn this?
@@kevinmathewson4272 I took quite a few military/wartime history courses in college. I focused all my projects on forgotten but significant disasters including train collisions, plane crashes and shipwrecks such as this and the Wilhelm Gustoff.
Also here’s a link to a more descriptive video.
ua-cam.com/video/ZypDpYQC5Rk/v-deo.html
@@SeddieWeddie this is awesome, thank you for sharing
I can't even imagine how it must have felt for those soldiers going from the horrors of war to the terrible conditions of the POW camps to dying on the way back home. RIP
My great great grandpa was released from a pow camp, and died in the explosion. My grandma told me the story as a kid. I always felt it was a double travesty. God bless.
@@died4us590 that's a tragic and fascinating piece of history right there. god bless you and your family
+Super Saiya-jin Vegeta
One of my ancestor's brothers suffered similar. He was captured and sent to a Union POW camp, possibly Point Lookout but I really don't know where exactly.
Wherever he was, they weren't being fed. They starved in what were basically concentration camps for years until the war's end. Keep in mind that he'd also lost his leg in the war, so crippled, starving, and sometimes beaten.
He was a picky eater before the war, but there he prayed that if he ever got out alive, he'd never waste a speck of food again.
He never actually made it back home, my family lived around Mississippi at the time and assumed he had died, and wouldn't have been able to contact him as they had to abandon their property and move further west for opportunities in Texas. He survived, but was more or less confined to Virginia because he had been permanently crippled. He had a family there, and it's through their records and some luck in finding them that we know now that he lived. We also know he kept true to his promise, he never wasted any food for the rest of his life, wiped his plate clean with the rolls before eating them. He was grateful to be alive, but he still missed his family, as he told his new family all about them.
And they were so young!
same here, almost.
my third great grandfather survived Cahaba/ Castle Morgan and the explosion and sinking.
He was deformed by it though and lived just 16 yrs after returning home.
Pvt John Wood
Tn 3rd Calvary, Co C
Toe to Toe
Cahaba was less lethal than Andersonville by the grace of God alone.
30,000 men were crammed into Andersonville's 42 acre encampment but at Cahaba 3000 men were held in a converted cotton warehouse that measured out to just about a half acre of sq footage.
My uncle was a WWII vet, and shortly before he died he told me a story about seeing an accident that killed a man after the war. Apparently the guy was hanging out of a tank shouting he was so happy to be going home, but the tank turret wasn’t secure and swung around and took the fellows head off. My uncle said it was the only time in the whole war that he wept, because the war was over but this man still never got home.
My wife’s great uncle was riding in the back of a transport when they hit a pot hole and he fell out. He was ran over by a willies jeep and killed. The transport was on the way to the harbor to send them home.
@@Ethan1123Ac yeah, my uncle told me it was the cobblestone street that shook the turret loose. The war may have been over, but it was still plenty dangerous.
Jesus. 😳
I gasped aloud when I read that and it scared my 2 and 3 year old lol.
How terrifying… 😢
I'm quite late to the party and your post caught my eye. My son was serving in the war in Iraq. While traveling in a convoy my sons first lieutenant was standing up while riding in a Bradley. That was a big no no. Insurgents would string wire across roads in the hopes of killing service members. Sure enough he was promptly decapitated while being warned to get down. My son was running towards him and witnessed it.
War is never pretty, that's exactly why we should avoid it at all cost!
".... their lives were treated as extraordinarily cheap...." fate of soldiers throughout history
That's certainly true, including today. Despite all the lying platitudes most politicians give about "caring for soldiers/vets".
$8 a head in 1865 comes out to $144.14 in 2022. Still incredibly cheap accordingly, but dude stood to make a pretty penny. Even just a couple hundred soldiers onboard might have solved his money woes but he got greedy.
That is horrible, they finally were going home after their side won. They had to be so relieved and excited to be heading home and then this happens. Drown while being covered in burn and or crushed, after spending who knows how long on the battlefield and then in a prison camp. Wow, whenever I feel life is not being fair I'll have to think about this.
It's even worse that many had to relive the horrifying memories of the war as a result. They were suffering mentally and physically
War's never really over until you're safe back at home. And for many with trauma, not even after that.
Worse: Many of them had been released from *Andersonville* ... which was a POW-camp horror story.
@@Tindometari Exactly.... Horrible place.
Goes to show that there's no God caring for us.
You forgot to mention that most of these POWs were from the infamous Andersonville camp, which is basically the hell on earth by itself. That is why the POWs were more than eager to get back home by any means possible.
What?! but americans dont commit atrocities let alone agaisnt it's own people, history books written by americans say so.
@@Canadianvoice what history books are you reading? We learned about andersonville in HS. Also Japanese internment camps during WW2
@@veronicavatter6436 that person is being sarcastic.
@@basiliska Veronica was pointing out that Canadianvoices comment was wrong.
@@Canadianvoice You're Canadian. How the hell do you know? Stop generalizing our entire country. DAB
The book "Final Voyage" gives a whole chapter to this tragedy. Riveting reading, unbelievable actions by that captain....
Nice one for the recommendation. *🙋
Oh thank you for the recommendation! I’m always looking forward books about disasters. Do you have any other suggestions?
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough (about the 1889 Johnstown flood) and A Weekend in September by John Edward Weems (the 1900 Galveston Hurricane) are two disaster books that I rate among my general list of favorite books. For maritime disasters, I liked Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle, and Dead Wake about the Lusitania.
Subbed to your channel my guy. Looking forward to the content
Funny how this is the worst US maritime disaster in history and I didn't know anything about it until today.
Same
I swear there are like 8 worst disasters in US maritime history
@@cdeye7032 in america we fuck up big or we go home
@@cdeye7032 such as?
I didn't know about it either, and that's probably because it happened in the United States itself. Usually, when you hear about maritime disasters they're happening at sea.
"A series of bad decisions and unfortunate circumstances"
The story of my life.
Yep, me too
I'm sure Lemony Snicket poached this from somewhere.
Same....same
Each year for me is just one Sultana after another.
Same here.
One of my relatives was onboard the Sultana. He managed to save several people by throwing anything he could find that could float overboard. Unfortunately tho he wasn’t among the survivors but his body was recovered.
💔🙏
respect to him❤
Crywolf854... One of my 3x great grandfathers was on board and managed to survive despite not being a good swimmer. Have you ever been to a descendants and friends reunion?
@@deecody5427 No I haven’t.
His story must have been told by some other surviving victim then probably somone that helped him throw those improvised flotation devices overboard.
There WAS something that came out of all the Steamboat Boiler Explosions. ASME, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a professional organization that developed standards for Manufacture and Maintenance of those very same Boilers. Note: Government regulators literally refer to ASME standards when regulating and coding.
ASME started from Steamboat Boiler Explosions, but now they have developed standards for just about every construction and building material out there.
Safety standards are almost always out of hindsight, aren’t they?
Wasn't just steamboat boilers- it was all boilers including industrial and heating. It was a huge problem back then.
@@drockman92 Unfortunately, these types of regulations are always written in blood.
I saw this and my first thought was, "Oh, maybe that inspired the ACME company!"(from Wile E. Coyote and the roadrunner cartoons) Probably not, but their names are similar enough that it made me think of that lol
@@P_RO_ And locomotives. When steam locomotive boilers blew, the results were not pretty.
This story is another perfect definition of fascinating horror.
It's truly a fuqin fantastic channel isn't it my friend* 🙋
Imagine fighting in a war, becoming wounded or captured and subsequently dying on the final trip home. Worse still having your body just float back to the dock your vessel departed from.
Also, at $480,000 in today's money I can see why the captain crammed everyone onboard.
I have a cemetery behind my house in Ohio with many Civil War soldiers buried there. The saddest one is the soldier who died at Appomattox on the day Lee Surrendered to Grant.
@@katieandkevinsears7724 Wonder how many battles were fought before news got to those people that the war had ended. How many died fighting in a war that was over. Sad really.
It should've been "every person brought home alive"
Filling it to capacity would have earned around $90,000, allowed for a safer and ergo faster trip meaning he might have been able to go back for more, and he would have actually been alive to receive the money. This is what greed earns
@@marclytle644
Well they fought on in Texas. Word did not reach Texas that the war was over and the slaves were freed until June 19th, which is now celebrated as Juneteenth. My birthday happens to be June 19th but I did not learn about the history of June 19th until my family moved from Oklahoma to Texas just before my 10th birthday and threw a birthday party for me inviting all the kids on our street. The other kids told us about the history of June 19th. That was in 1966. Later the holiday spread to other states and became Juneteenth as we know it now. In recent years I’ve met many people who celebrate Juneteenth and don’t know what they are celebrating, even black adults in Texas, and I have told them why it is a holiday. The end of slavery in Texas!
Being that I was born and raised in Memphis, and I love US civil war history, I have heard this story all of my life. I went to a private school in west Memphis Arkansas, and my arkansas and world history teacher is the curator of the sultana museum in Marion Arkansas. I was actually one of the civil war reenactors that helped with the dedication of the sultana monument, there in Marion in 2000. The actual sultana is buried in a farmer's field about 10 miles from the present day river channel. I love your channel, keep up the great work!
Wow! That's really cool. I have family in West TN and my next trip there I'm gonna make a point to go to the museum.
@@earnedmystripes2382 it's not very big, but its interesting. There is a historical marker on the Tennessee side of the river. It's down by the Memphis visitor center.
I believe that Mark Twain refers to the ship in one of his articles, and predicted it would be found in a farmer's field!
It's crazy that news of the disaster was 'carried' into Memphis by survivors screaming about it as they floated past....
“Oh look Beauregard, there’s a man floating in the river.”
“THE SULTANA EXPLODED! PEOPLE ARE DYING!”
“Fascinating. Thank you for the news update old chap!”
today, we have Twitter
I lost it at two thousand pairs of pants that were categorized as contraband.
Not shocked about the fact that he was aiding the enemy huh?
@@pvtread5207 That happens all the time. Pants being considered contraband is funny.
I guess carrying ANYTHING that would help the Confederacy in any way was considered contraband. But still...pants? 😂
In wartime, what *can't* acquire black-market value?
@@OpalBLeigh We're talking about Confederate soldiers who've been out fighting for a long while. Exposing the enemy to their underwear might well constitute an atrocity.
Her wreckage was found in 1982 under a soybean field. It was quite an archeological discovery.
The fact that it was found under a soybean field says a lot about how much the Mississippi changes course over time. I think a similar shipwreck originally on the Missouri River near Kansas City was also found under farm fields miles away from the present-day river.
My surname is Sultana and I was born in 1982 , I wonder what month they found it
@@andyjay729 You're correct, it's the steamboat Arabia and it was a supply ship that sank in 1856 fully loaded so the recovery included a trove of artifacts. There is a museum dedicated to it in Kansas City Missouri.
"In the end, the boat did not overbalance. It EXPLODED instead!!"
This whole thing is just reading out like an episode of the Three Stooges, except real people are making the decisions. >
Yeah I felt bad for laughing, the phrasing was funny
I always learn so much from your stories.
Never take a ride on an overcrowded boat
Never get trapped in a cave
Never go to an event venue that doesn’t have adequate emergency exits
Never think “it’s only fog, the air is just fine for breathing “
…. And the list goes on!!!
Don't leave your house, either...
“I picked a bad day to give up amphetamines”
I really like how you mainly cover the obscure and/or forgotten. We owe it to the poor souls who perish in these disasters to never forget. Keep up the good work F.H your work is unique and there is no other channel quite like it. Thanks 👍
I've done some reading about this disaster, it's horrifying. It's odd it's so un-spoken of compared to other sinkings.
I hadn't heard a thing about it so once again I'm grateful to this and all of the channels which share crucial history with us ,if we don't know our history then our lives are a mystery* 🙋
The love of money causes suffering. Suffering for yourself as well as others. Ego & greed will always lead down these paths.
#facts
True. But it’s not always the LOVE of money. It’s also the NEED of money. Like it or not, everyone needs money to survive in our modern day society. In this case, the boat captain’s pay was CUT, prompting him to look for other, more lucrative jobs.
Love your vids!
You should definitely cover the Doña Paz incident - the deadliest maritime disaster of Philippines. It was the collision of a passenger vessel and an oil tanker that killed 4300+ people and only leaving 24 to survive. My grandfather was supposed to be a crew on that ship but he bailed out last minute. The details of this incident is so fascinating and horrific. People who managed to get off the burning Doña Paz was scorched alive due to the oil of the tanker spilling in the waters. The Doña Paz itself was only meant to carry 2000+ passengers but on the night of the collision (Christmas) it was greatly overloaded. It remains to be the Philippines' deadliest maritime accidents to this day.
Yeah
I remember watching a video on this. I thought it was by Fascinating Horror but I guess not. I had forgotten the insane number of victims and when I read that number I thought surely you mistyped but looked it up and nope. 😱
Jesus
My ancestor died at Andersonville prison, so just to provide some perspective:
Many of the prisoners on this ship looked like they came right out of the Bataan Death March. Prison conditions were horrendous, and deserving of an episode in itself.
I thought the Civil War prisoners would have it easy, since both sides were American, but it seem that no matter the country, there's more hatred during a civil war than during a "normal" war.
+Anonymous McAnonymous
I remember hearing that early in the war, due to what's basically just extreme laziness, each side made any enemy soldiers they had captured sign a form agreeing that they wouldn't re-enlist and just go home, then released them. To nobody's surprise, few actually followed these directions, so both sides ended up sticking their enemies in prison camps and treating them like garbage instead.
Wow. Glad this is being covered. I have heard of this event on UA-cam many years ago.
You should also cover New York’s famous forgotten disaster, “The General Solcrum”.
This was pre- Titanic ship in the turn of the century right in NYC’s harbor. Over 600 men women and children either burned or drowned when a ferry caught on fire.
Turns out the life vests were rotten, so when people put one on and jumped overboard, the “life vest” was more of a death vest. Killing many.
*General Slocum
God almighty what a nightmare. Thank you for the education just now I will read up on that. And right in the harbor? Incredibly tragic. Again thank you.
It’s amazing how often cost cutting shortcuts end up being deadly. Negligence kills.
I've never heard of this incident until now; I'm glad their story is being told. You make very good content on your channel, but I tend to watch sparsely because tragedy weighs heavily on me. Thanks for the quality stories.
It's a hard burden having a good heart and truly care for other folks and their wellbeing. It takes a big, strong person to handle it God bless you. Nothing in this world better than folks that love you.
Agreed. Content is excellent! However attractive I find freak accidents for some weird reason, I have to limit my watching to maintain positivity. I never knew this story. Glad I caught it.
I feel the same way. Especially when I hear of ones that happened near where I live such as this and/or that happened during my lifetime. 😞
I always look forward to hearing the history you bring to us all. I am no Spring chicken, yet most of your content I have never heard about! Which makes it even more enjoyable to listen to. You Voice has a lovely tone to it, and when you emphasize a word it never sounds forced , all in all allowing for seamless , engaging and enjoyable videos. TY oxoxo keep safe people COVID is looking for new Victims, don't let it be you.
Thank you for your positivity
Yes ma'am, the man has a superior narrative voice and like you say, seamlessly emphasizes. I love his work, and bless you for such a positive compliment to our man here.
THANK YOU!!!! I live in the immediate area where this disaster happened and yet it’s not widely known to many people including those who live here. The city of Marion is in the process of opening up a permanent museum though I don’t know when.
I think the hope is the museum opens sometime in 2023. I'm a descendant of a survivor and have attended several of the annual reunions
They need to make a movie about this,it would capture more hearts and bring it back to life. Rip to those who lost there lives.
MAJORJ As long as they don't romanticise it like the truly awful Titanic movie.
@@ticketyboo2456 maby from a soldiers view of it all,from the battle,to getting wounded to boarding the boat and surviving. I’d watch it.
@@majorj3896 That sounds like a movie I'd watch too, gripping and profound and nobody dropping a stupid necklace into the sea.
@@majorj3896 there is a very well done documentary about it out called Remember the Sultana narrated by actor Sean Astin. And if you're wanting to read first hang accounts from survivors check out the book by Chester D Berry called Loss of the Sultana and reminiscences of survivors that was first published in 1892. The university of Tennessee press has republished it.
One of my 3x great grandfather's was a survivor
@@deecody5427 thanks will definitely look in to this.
A Fascinating Horror mandate: "On this date, it was grossly overloaded..."
Could you do a video on the sinking of "Estonia" ship near the Baltic sea?
he could, but, "would" he?
I want the same thing and have asked this before. Video, please? :3
I was about to tweet him about it today. There was a press conference on the latest inquest to the sinking today but I didn't get a chance to watch it fully yet as I was at work. They were discussing the holes on Estonia's side but I didn't catch the conclusions. Anyway, there's some brand new information potentially available
More awesome than usual sir. As a hobbyist Civil War re-enactor/historian, I love how you presented this history of a truly tragic occurrence. My Confederate desendant. Pvt. RH Bell told of hearing the news and recorded it in one of his 4 journals saying, "Yankee or not, the field is where those men deserved to die if need be, not being steamed home upriver in a fiery small hell, my heart breaks and skin clatters at the though of the same happening to our lot and myself". Very well done and I feel it honors the men who lost their lives aboard, so painfully close to making it home. War truly is Hell and money lies at its core.
Confederate "descendent"? Jeez, how old r u? ;-)
@@nikobellic570 sorry that throws anything into question, was meant to be a complement and comparison, not English class.
It says a great deal about the character of the Southern people that the survivors of this horrible tragedy were treated, not as "former Yankees" but as men who needed help by folks that, only months before, they were at war with.
Here in Memphis, we sometimes refer to the Sultana as the “Titanic of the Mississippi”
I once bought a boat that spent its time in the Mississippi River. The previous owner had 'helpfully'removed the water inlet filters "because they clog too much". He must have been a distant relative of that dumb greedy captian.
A fool and his boat are soon parted ...
Some people were just born stupid.
BOAT= Break.Out.Another.Thousand. Very expensive toys.
He removed filters?!?
I... Have no idea how bad that really is, but it strikes me as a bad idea so much that I'm livid reading this.
As always, thank you for memorializing those who would otherwise be lost in time 🙏🏻😔
I requested this! Amazing to see a channel take requests and actually make them into videos
A fantastic video as always, with just one point of contention: fire-tube boilers were hardly "unconventional". In fact, they were the only type of boiler available until 1900 when the first practical water-tube boilers were developed for maritime use. I know it's just one word, but it could still mislead folks, so wanted to nip that in the bud.
I was just about to comment something similar. I think he might have mixed up the fact that Sultana's boilers were a new, temperamental design (and that the physics behind boiler operation weren't particularly well understood at the time) with the idea that fire tube boilers were unconventional. They were anything but, for all applications on both sea and land. 50 years later, Titanic was still equipped with a fire tube boiler design, the Scotch marine boiler, so they were still pretty common, if perhaps just starting to fall out of favor, in 1912.
Brick Immorter also made a video on the Sultana, and I think he does a much better job going over the technical details.
Please cover the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff! It’s the largest loss of life in maritime history and sadly thousands of civilians were lost:(
Being on one of the lower decks that got pinned by the fallen upper deck would be a truly terrible way to go 😔
That'd at least be quick. Given the choice, I'd pick that over being thrown, severely burned, into cold Muddy Miss water in the middle of the night to suffer and drown at leisure.
Several years ago I went to the Civil War Museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin. One of the displays was a piece of the furnace brick used in the boilers from the Sultana. The actual ship was found under a soybean field near the Mississippi back in 1982 by local group (lead by a local Attorney Jerry Potter) sponsored by the novelist Clive Cussler (Raise the Titanic). They found blackened sections of the hull, the remains of the boilers, and other pieces of the wreck. Many of the parts are now in a museum, but other parts are lent out as part of traveling exhibits on the Sultana Disaster.
This is the first channel like this where they have pronounced Arkansas correct. Kudos!
9:03 for those wondering
why is not Ar-Kansas? America, explain!
@@earnedmystripes2382 when the French encountered the Quapaw tribe here, they named the area based on a pluralization of the Quapaw tribes because they couldn't be bothered to learn the names of the other native tribes here.
@@IrishMorgenstern Leave it to the French to name places that sound nothing like they are spelled. See also: Sault Saint Marie.
Gees, imagine having been freed from a prison situation only to die on the very boat sent to rescue you
I have heard of this disaster, but never had it discribed in such depth. I had no idea there were other types of boilers. Thank you.
There are some great books about the Sultana out there by Jerry O Potter and Gene Eric Salecker. Both of their books came out in the 90s, but are excellent. As it happens, Gene has a new book about the Sultana coming out next month
Thanks for another great presentation! I look forward to your stories and click on them as soon as I see them in my feed. Good job!
Imagine surviving fighting in the Civil War and being held in a prisoner of war camp for weeks to months or even years, just to die trying to get home
Your channel just gets better & better; the sourcing, the writing, brilliant! And good to see that the subs count is swelling 👌👍
One of the best channels on this platform.
Thank you for these compelling and respectful videos.
Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into this ❤
"Ultimately no one was held responsible"
In this case, expected. The man responsible would have been on the bridge, which was blown to bits in the explosion. He might not have been held responsible by men, but ultimately, it seems that he was held responsible by a Higher Authority instead. Killed by his own greed and foolishness.
In brutal older times, people were desperate to become rich and obtain some comfort and power. Taking risks was considered manly. His family probably mourned him as much as the $18000 dollars they lost with him or even much, much less.
@jetblackjoy What is witht he past tense there? All of that is STILL that way and it causes tragedies to this VERY DAY.
This is an excellent channel. 👍🏻🇬🇧
This story has been told many times but you brought new life to it. Good job!
When you board a steam boat to sail back home… But that strange guy in a robe carrying an oar asks you for two coins on entry.
Your videos help mark out the week: I know it's a Tuesday when a new video drops. Thank you.
I‘d love to see the Hinterkaifeck murders being covered here sometime
Oooh yes. Very interesting case, would love to see it covered here.
This channel is incredible. I never once doubt your knowledge and have absolutely never felt you told a story being anything but respectful to the victims and humble about the event. Such a rarity in this format. Thank you.
Thank you so much for sharing this sad true story. For a few years I've been urging a few other YT channels to cover it, but without success.
I recommend the Ladbroke Grove rail crash (or the Paddington rail disaster) as a future topic.
Please cover the 1888 Schoolhouse Blizzard.
Thank you.
Where was that mate?
@@MrAshyb87 The Children's Blizzard of 1888 (also called the Schoolhouse Blizzard) was in the U.S. Great Plains area, covering several states, including Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The day had started off unseasonably warm, so a lot of children went to school without their coats. Then when they tried to walk home, they got lost in the zero-visibility conditions and froze to death. Even children who tried to shelter in the schools with their teachers were not always safe, if they ran out of fuel for the stove. The part that makes this a preventable tragedy is that the Weather Bureau had predicted the blizzard, but people in those regions didn't get the message in time, so most people were not prepared. 235 people died. Obviously, people other than school children got caught in this--adults out working their farms or moving around town--but it was called the children's blizzard because basically it hit just as school was letting out. I would love to see Fascinating Horror cover this tragedy.
@@LunaMurphy What an absolute tragedy. I agree; I think Fascinating Horror could make a very interesting episode out of this event. Thanks for your info, I'd never heard of this before.
@@MrAshyb87 It covered several states. Miss Angela here has made a good synopsis. Cheers!
Every video you upload leaves me wanting for more. Excellent storytelling! And the music!
Have I mentioned to you how much I love your videos? They are so good! Love your channel. ❤️
been waiting for you to cover this! idk why hollywood hasn’t made it into a movie yet it’s so interesting and they could show the story in sooo many different ways. picture something like the titanic but throughout the movie shows flashbacks of each main character and their lives before the incident and before the civil war
Probably because its something original, not a reboot pre-quel or superhero movie.
This is why i haven't gone to the movies in years.
Different situations, same reason: money. This wouldn’t be as remarkably profitable as a feel-good film or a power fantasy. That’s where the money is for Hollywood. If a movie about the Sultana ever gets made, it will probably be made by an indie studio or director, since they still have the heart to cover art and tragedy.
Modern movies would definitely inject bias into the accounts, or possibly even straight-up lie at the point that the people of Memphis, many of whom likely fought for the South, rowed out to rescue the Union soldiers.
Titanic totally lied about officer William Murdoch killing passengers and then himself, when the reality was that Murdoch died getting as many people as he could to safety (he is honored in his hometown in Scotland as a hero, and they were pissed about the movie), so I wouldn't put it past modern Hollywood to get in that "all southern people are evil racists" agenda and have them deny help to the victims instead. Especially these days, given that it seems they want to stir up as much tension as they can.
Jordan, there was a full length documentary released a few years ago narrated by Sean Astin that's amazing. I had an ancestor on board who survived.
While I think a Hollywood movie would be interesting, I'm so afraid they would mess up the story completely and not give correct information.
Survivors jumping off the SULTANA into the swift moving CURRANT were swept downstream, RAISIN the alarm in nearby Memphis.
Dammit. LOL
Dad? Is that you?
Oooh, very witty! I like it! 😆
Appreciate your work on these. My favorite videos to watch while doing my makeup in the morning.
It's crazy, ever since I heard about this channel a few months ago, I thought the Sultana would make a great addition to it. But I thought it would probably take years before we got to it. Thanks so much for doing far sooner than I expected!
Big fan from the US here! I've noticed your affinity for maritime incidents, and would love to see a video about the collision of M/V Summit Venture with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. I'm sure there's enough information out there where you could make another excellent video about the tragedy.
I've been wondering how Fascinating Horror feels about the Astroworld crush. Truly a horrifying thing
Me too. Huge tragedy
I love your trademark intro/exit music. Really makes the video (as well as your voice and content).
Another amazing documentary on an incident that I've never heard of until now. Great work!
Steamboats were death traps in general. Before the pandemic, I volunteered with the state's archaeology department, and there was a list of steamboat wrecks, pre-2019, that we had located. Last I heard, we didn't know exactly how the flood shifted things around, so that list might not be accurate anymore.
Love these videos
I have been a listener and subscriber of Fascinating Horror for quite some time now and something that I truly appreciate is that if there is anything positive about the story you're sharing, you never fail to include it. Memorials, dedication ceremonies, amped-up safety protocols...you know, pretty things! I love to see Humanity dressed up in its Sunday best.
I finished this whole channel in less than a week. You've done great work here.
4:22 Fire-tube boilers are ubiquitous on steam locomotives, but trains have a much easier time maintaining a consistant water level since they don't rock and slosh like floating boats.
I once read somewhere that many of the soldiers were coming from the Andersonville camp, which was one of the worst pow camps of the war.
Yes, that's true. But there were also soldiers on board from Cahaba prison in Alabama, which is where a great great great grandfather of mine was.
Yes, my gg-granduncle survived Andersonville, and was lucky enough to avoid the Sultana.
He fought for the Union even though he had just arrived from Germany.
I had mentioned this exact story on your ideas for stories once nearly a year ago. Im just an hour away from where this happened in Arkansas. Thank you for sharing this horrific tragedy with everyone.
I live in Vicksburg, Ms. and I watch these river boats dock all the time. I love watching them, and I had never heard of this story before finding it here on your channel. Thank you so much for sharing!
You should take a look at the Mount Erebus disaster. Would make for a good video
While the location is a secret, the wreck site was found recently, strewn along what is now a farm alongside the modern day course of the river.
Great video, and may I suggest a few topics?
Convent Crash
Grenfell Tower
Demon Core
The demon core was already covered by another channel, one that focuses on nuclear accidents.
@@anonymousmcanonymous3055 Yep. It's a meme on that channel now. I know just the one.
Awesome as always. So sad, those poor folk would have been so happy at the thought of going home.
I love your channel!!! Please keep them coming!!!
A lot of the soldiers were from Michigan, I go to college in a small town here and there’s a monument to the Sultana victims outside the town hall. So they are remembered, even if it’s only in a small way.
Loaded five times over its maximum capacity? That’s just insane, that’s over 1500 people loaded onto a boat meant for 300. The crew seemed very ignorant of the danger, asking people not to move because they could feel the ship swaying with so much weight. The entire thing was a recipe for disaster and profit literally put ahead of safety.
Nothing beats oatmeal and a fascinating horror video on a cold tuesday morning
Another belter of an upload young man, thank you and have a safe and sound week* 🙋
Every time I watch one of these I think “maybe it will be okay” and then I remember what UA-cam channel I’m watching.
Great video as always. The only thing I would say I would’ve liked to see is just a map on the Mississippi River of the original route
That gets complicated because the Mississippi meanders; its channel constantly shifts. The Sultana sank in the middle of the river, but the wreckage was found buried in a soybean field over two miles from the current position of the river. The wreck hadn't moved; the river had, and the Mighty Miss does that a *lot*.
Thank you for covering this. Too many people have no idea it ever happened
I just want to say, my friend, you've really caught on to something here. These are just so superbly well done, each and everyone of them. You are in possession of a very unique niche and I would dare anyone to do it better. Hard act to follow, you are. 👍👍👍👍
Fascinating HISTORY. The things we are never taught in school. Thank you for another phenomenal video.
Can you do the The Sinking of Schooner Alexander of Læsø 1856 (Skonnerten Alexanders forlis
ved Læsø november 1856)
A story that I did a video of, but want your version of it.
A tragic event which shows the danger of the winter snow and how quickly things could go bad
Another tremendous and informative videos! Would love to see you take on the Love Canal incident in Niagara Falls, NY.
In a weird coincidence, my father and I were just discussing this a few days ago, and I was considering sending you an email recommending it as a possible topic! Great video as always!