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The Sweet, Sticky Trap: The Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 | The Last Known
On January 15, 1919, the North End of Boston was engulfed by a catastrophic industrial disaster that defies modern imagination: the Great Molasses Flood. This episode of The Last Known, hosted by Teresa Howarth, reconstructs the terrifying sequence of events when a massive steel storage tank holding 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst open, unleashing a wave twenty-five feet high moving at thirty-five miles per hour. For listeners interested in true crime, historical mysteries, and engineering failures, this narrative explores how a simple thaw turned a sweet commodity into a suffocating…
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