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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

160: The Schlitterbahn Death Slide

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

History, Social Sciences, Science, True Crime

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Kansas City, Kansas was home to the world’s tallest...and deadliest waterslide..

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0:36.0

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Slide into death. I'm Jason Horton.

1:03.0

I'm Rebecca Leeb.

1:04.0

And this is Ghost Town.

1:20.0

Authorities are still investigating how a water slide named Verookt, which means insane in German,

1:26.0

led to an inconceivable tragedy for one Midwestern family.

1:31.0

On Sunday, August 7, 2016, 10-year-old Caleb Schwab began the 264-step climb to the top of the world's tallest water slide,

1:40.0

at Schlitterbahn Park in Kansas City.

1:43.0

In the 18 seconds it takes to ride the slide, the 76-pound Caleb would hurl into the air

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