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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

46: The Winecoff Fire: The Deadliest Hotel Disaster in American History

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On the night of December 7th, 1946, a woman working the night shift at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia smells smoke. A few floors up, a man is woken by cries for help. Within two hours, almost half of the guests will be dead.

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It was 3 a.m. on December 7th, 1946.

0:36.0

Alice Edmund sat in a closet reading a comic book.

0:39.4

She was a few hours into her overnight shift at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia,

0:44.5

and at this point, she needed some quiet.

0:47.5

Whenever the night's overwhelmed her, she'd close herself in a utility closet and read

0:51.4

comics until she was notified of guest needed help.

0:55.0

That night had been rowdy.

0:57.8

There was a group of teenagers staying in the hotel for the Georgia Youth Assembly who

1:01.5

had been running up and down the halls, causing a ruckus for the other guests who were quick

1:06.4

to complain to Alice.

1:08.7

They had finally gone to sleep.

1:10.5

But even still, in the wee hours of the morning, she could hear a loud poker game happening

1:16.1

in the room next to her.

1:17.8

She knew at any time they'd come grab her for a few more sodas, some alcohol, to ask

1:22.8

for some sandwiches from down the road, but for now, she was in her own world.

1:27.7

Curled up with her book, enjoying being off her feet, that's when she smelled something.

1:34.4

It was as if the cigarette smoke from the poker game had wafted into her closet.

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