Pripyat — The City That Died in One Night

THE SINISTER PAST · Oct 21, 2026 · 12m

At 1:23 AM on April 26, 1986, a routine safety test inside Reactor Four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant went catastrophically wrong — and thirty-six hours later, a purpose-built Soviet city of fifty thousand people was emptied in under four hours, never to be permanently lived in again.

This episode covers the disaster hour by hour: the flawed test, the firefighters who climbed onto an exposed radioactive core with no protective gear, the Soviet cover-up that only broke because of radiation alarms in Sweden, the liquidators nicknamed 'bio-robots', and the ghost city — Ferris wheel and…