63: The Bath School Disaster (Part 1)

An Old Timey Podcast

True Crime, History, Comedy

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🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

It was unspeakable. Unthinkable. In 1927, a school board member set off a series of explosions that killed 38 children, 6 adults, and injured at least 58 others. That act of domestic terrorism became known as the Bath School disaster. It rocked the small farming community of Bath Township, Michigan, and left people wondering how a seemingly “normal” man like Andrew Kehoe could have done something so terrible.

Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from:
Bath School Museum. Bath School Museum. https://bathschoolmuseum.org/.
Bernstein, A. Bath Massacre: America’s First School Bombing; The University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 2009.
Schechter, H. Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer; Little A: New York, 2021.

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0:00.0	Hear ye, hear you. You are listening to an old-timey podcast. I'm Norman Caruso. And I'm
0:06.9	Kristen Caruso. And in this series, I'll be talking about the bath school disaster. Oh,
0:12.8	ew. Oh, uh-oh. Okay, here's a thing. The word bath sounds fun. But school disaster. You do love
0:20.4	taking baths. That's true. I do. Yeah, I know it's controversial. Some people think it's disgusting and should be banned. But, you know, we don't have time for that. Okay. Bath school disaster. Mm-hmm. You know, Norm, last week I brought a fairly fun tale about disco. Yes.
0:39.3	And you're talking school disasters.
0:40.0	I am.
0:48.0	And I'm not going to give away my next series, but holy hell, are we about to be depressed for a while on this podcast?
0:53.2	The melancholy will be setting in strong for our listeners.
0:54.8	Sad Girl Summer.
0:59.5	I'm in my trying to grow a mustache summer, as you can see. Oh my gosh, you're in your insecure about it, summer.
1:03.2	Okay.
1:03.8	What does that mean?
1:05.4	What do you mean?
1:06.1	What does it mean?
1:07.4	You've been growing this mustache for a couple days now.
1:10.7	Yeah.
1:11.3	And every day you talk about how bad it looks and how you should just shave it and you can't grow facial hair.
1:18.8	Right.
1:19.0	And it's a whole thing.
1:20.5	Right.
1:21.3	And I have occasionally giggled when you say this stuff.
1:26.4	And then last night, you tried to reverse Uno this whole thing.
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