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Fresh Hell Podcast

E216: The Halifax Explosion (part I)

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True Crime

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

On 6. December 1917, the busy WWI port of Halifax, Nova Scotia was devastated by the largest man made explosion the world had ever seen. We discuss the devastation and heroism in the aftermath of this tragedy.

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You're listening to the Fresh Hell Podcast. Fresh Hell contains stories of a disturbing

0:16.8

and often graphic nature and is intended for a mature audience.

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Please don't let your kids listen to this or they might turn out like us.

0:24.0

Hi, I'm Annie in America.

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And I'm Johanna from Austria, and you are listening to your favorite international podcast.

0:38.0

Hi everyone.

0:39.5

Happy Thanksgiving.

0:40.5

Today is Thanksgiving.

0:41.5

This episode will drop tomorrow. Quick reminder. We'll do

0:45.2

Patreon thanks next week maybe, but just a quick reminder that the get-together is

0:50.2

the 30th. Yes and a special shout out and thanks to our YouTube listener

0:55.8

so-keldep who left a comment pointing out that we should create

1:00.1

playlists to help listeners to continue listening you just want to listen to us all day and thank you so much I don't know why I haven't thought about it and it makes so much

1:09.9

sense consider it done I'll do it by the end of the month beginning of next month it does we have the best

1:15.7

listeners honestly the best and also like if you can't tell we're doing this alone and if you want to know more about how to contact us or how to support us,

1:27.0

please listen until the end because that's when we'll tell you all about that.

1:31.0

I'd say, let's dive right in. And today Annie has a timely and local, well to her local topic for us.

1:40.5

That's right, if you are in the Boston area or New England, you probably already

1:47.5

know that every year the city of Boston gets its huge gorgeous annual Christmas tree from Nova Scotia.

1:55.0

The reason that they send us a gorgeous tree every year is as a thank you to

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Boston for the city's response and aid after the horrific explosion that devastated

2:05.8

Halifax in 1917. I know that this story has been covered a lot so if you are thinking you already know everything

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