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The Sweet, Sticky Death of Boston’s North End | The Missing Chronicles
On January 15, 1919, a massive industrial tank in Boston’s North End burst, unleashing a 25-foot high wave of molasses moving at 35 miles per hour. This episode of The Missing Chronicles details the catastrophic Molasses Flood, exploring how thermal expansion and structural negligence led to one of history's most bizarre yet deadly disasters. Host Gina Hurst guides listeners through the physics of non-Newtonian fluids, the immediate devastation that killed 21 people and injured 150, and the eerie folklore that the neighborhood still smelled of syrup decades later.
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