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The Garcia family set out to celebrate Maria's 27th birthday and faced an unimaginable tragedy due to a flash flood. With three generations and 14 family members on the trip, only a few survived. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrencepod Occurrence is hosted by Tatiana Sources https://weather.com/safety/floods/news/2025-04...

When Sky's calls to her mother, Donna, go unanswered after she leaves the hospital, it reveals a series of events in Death Valley that no one could have anticipated. Donna, along with her daughter Gina and visitor Jenny, becomes lost because of their GPS in Death Valley's unforgiving desert landscape. DONATE HERE: https://dvnha.org/donate/ To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occur...

In 2016, Czech tourists Pavlina Pizova and Ondrej Petr went on a hike through New Zealand’s Fiordland National Park on the Routeburn Track during the off-season. Ignoring warnings and severe winter conditions, they continued their journey, leading to catastrophic consequences. Death Valley Germans Episode: The Tourist Who Vanished In the Hottest Place on Earth To view the list of sources, visit: https://www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: https://www.instagra...

Chris Lemons embarked on a routine diving job, only to be left stranded 328 feet underwater in the North Sea without oxygen for over 30 minutes. Trapped and disconnected from his lifeline with a five-minute survival limit, Chris somehow managed to survive. To view the list of sources, visit: https://www.occurrencepod.com Plura Cave Diving disaster episode: https://occurrencepod.com/episode/plura-cave-diving-accident Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@occurren...

A well orchestrated media plan, family connections, a southern politics all have one thing in common in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.... This is part 3.5 of the untold stories of Hurricane Katrina. To view the list of sources, visit: https://www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@occurrencepod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@occurrencepod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/@occurrencepod Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/@occurrenc...

As investigators look into what happened in the walls of healthcare facilities around New Orleans, people start to realize its not just the hospitals possibly covering up what contributed to the death count. This is part 3 in the about the untold stories of Hurricane Katrina. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrencepod Occurrence is hosted by Ta...

In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, the conditions in the city take an unprecedented turn for the worst. Overwhelmed staff inside of hospitals take two very different approaches to patient care. Suffering and chaos continue at the Superdome, convention center, and hotels, where desperate survivors faced heat, hunger, and a lack of basic necessities. Law enforcement and vigilantes, take advantage of the city's struggle for survival with misinformation and media sensationalism running rampant. Any s...

New Orleans residents during Hurricane Katrina never could have imagined the scope of disaster they would suffer through. No one could, because it wasn’t Hurricane Katrina that was the worst part of their ordeal, it was everything after. This is part one of a multi-part series that reveals the shocking truths behind one of the most devastating disasters in American history. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikT...

When Chicago officials were warned about a nationwide heat wave, they didn't take it seriously. What happened as a result of that, and what is uncovered leading up to and after the deadly heat wave reveals a pattern prevalent today. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrencepod Occurrence is hosted by Tatiana Sources Chicago Death Rates 2024 ...

When passengers boarded flight Pan Am flight 1736, they never imagined they would find themselves in the middle of the largest aviation disaster the world has ever seen. What led up to the disaster, was almost as unimaginable. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrencepod Occurrence is hosted by Tatiana Sources Pan American Memorial Foundatio...

In 2010, the Love Parade was hosted in Duisburg, Germany. A horrific disaster at the festival killed and injured hundreds of attendees, tarnishing the memory of a once-wonderful music festival forever. The controversies that followed left this disaster unresolved for nearly a decade and left many wondering why. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrence...

What initially seemed like a trivial issue in a London, England brewery, quickly escalated into a catastrophe when an impoverished neighborhood was flooded with over 320,000 gallons of beer. Great Molasses Flood Episode: When Boston Drowned In Syrup | Great Molasses Flood To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrencepod Occurrence is hosted by Tat...

A Cleveland, Ohio nonprofit chapter attempted to break the world record for largest balloon release. Things leading up to the release didn't go according to plan, but everything after was believed to be worse. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrencepod Occurrence is hosted by Tatiana Sources https://youtu.be/MIM-pJP5A0o?si=vY3URcIHjKcwhy...

Daring cave diver Agnes Milowka was known for going beyond the end of the line and pushing the boundaries of diving. During a routine dive trip at Tank Cave in Australia, something went wrong. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrencepod Occurrence is hosted by Tatiana Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Milowka https://commons.wik...

When patrons attended the 8th anniversary party of the Lame Horse nightclub, they had no idea what would happen before the party was over. They never could have imagined the scope of negligence exposed after hundreds were killed and injured in Russia's deadliest club fire. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrencepod Occurrence is hosted by Tatiana ...

Venturing into caves when it rains is ill-advised, but what happens when cavers do just that? In caves all over America, cavers went into caves that didn't stay dry while they were inside, and not every story turned out alright. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrencepod Occurrence is hosted by Tatiana Sources https://www.upi.com/Archive...

In February 2013, Chelyabinsk, Russia was hit with an unforeseen meteor that wasn't even the meteor predicted to be near Earth that day. Thousands were injured by a meteor scientist didn't see coming. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrencepod Occurrence is hosted by Tatiana Sources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6uOzFo2MQg https://www...

The Kim family were on their way home after a Thanksgiving trip and things went terribly wrong after they made a common mistake. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrencepod Occurrence is hosted by Tatiana Sources https://www.oregonlive.com/editors/2013/04/kim_familys_fatal_oregon_journ.html https://www.rv-times.com/ https://www.latimes.co...

In March of 1982, a boy scout troop visited Crooked Camp Cave in New Jersey. Two of the boys in the group were brothers who would leave that day without their father, Sergeant Donald Weltner. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrencepod Occurrence is hosted by Tatiana Sources https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/29/nyregion/scout-leader-trapped...

The Bolton Strid is part of the river wharfe in England, and is as picturesque as it is deadly. When William de Romilly became the first recorded victim of this river, he had no way of knowing that his passing would change everyone’s perception of the river forever. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrencepod Occurrence is hosted by Tatiana S...

Two divers entered one of the largest sinkholes in the world 10 years apart, and their trip went completely off script. The details surrounding both incidents are so entwined that the stories of Dave Shaw and Deon Dreyer are tied together forever. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrencepod Occurrence is hosted by Tatiana Sources https://en...

On Halloween night 1963, Janie White went to the Holiday on Ice show in Indianapolis. What followed would be the worst disaster in Indiana's history and a night she and many others would never forget. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrencepod Occurrence is hosted by Tatiana Sources https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/indian...

Egbert Rimkus, Cornelia Meyer, and their children vanished during a 1996 trip to Death Valley. What began as an adventure turned into a survival situation in one of the world's most unforgiving landscapes. Despite extensive search efforts, the family's fate remained a mystery for over a decade. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @occurrencepod TikTok: @occurrencepod Facebook: @occurrencepod Twitter: @occurrencepod Occurrence...

37 year old James Henry O'Neill was superintendent of the great railway cascade division and responsible for keeping mail, freight, and passenger trains moving for the entire Western half of Washington state. O'Neill and his men had a reputation for being able to handle snowfall in the area, keeping the lines open and having no passenger fatalities. Until a forecasted storm headed his way caused the worst avalanche disaster in American history, killing and injuring hundreds. The Dark Side ...