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Welcome to Aaron Menke's Cabinet of Curiosity's, A Production of IHeart Radio and Grim and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

When it opened, it was enormous.

The Hyatt Regency Hotel opened in downtown Kansas City in July of 1980.

It's 45 stories tall and has 750 rooms.

One year in the history of the hotel, on July 17th of 1981,

1,500 patrons attended a monthly dance party at the hotel.

They filled the large lobby, including these suspended walkways, that stretched across the atrium from the second, third, and fourth floors.

Suddenly, everyone on the walkways heard a loud snap from above, and then they were falling.

Time slowed, and all sound seemed to disappear as the fourth floor walkway with hundreds of

people on it came loose from its steel suspension rods, and crashed onto the

second floor walkway below it. That walkway immediately fell as well, with both of them plummeting

to the lobby below. Dozens of people were instantly killed by the collapse of the walkways. Most

were completely crushed, but some were cut in half or had limbs severed.

Loose electric wires swung across the lobby and a broken water line from the fourth floor

sprayed water down onto the catastrophe below.

For those people trapped beneath the rubble, there was now a risk of drowning as water began

to pool beneath them.

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