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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Martinique’s Doomsday and the Man Who Survived

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

On May 7, 1902, a man named Ludger Sylbaris was thrown in jail – and it saved his life.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Baudelaar, how's it gone?

0:02.0

How you doing, Dylan?

0:03.0

I'm good. You're in the studio. It's fun to see you in the, like, real recording studio.

0:08.0

Yeah, you know, it's nice to come into the city, feel like I have a job, you know, do the thing.

0:12.0

Yeah. And you're going on like a family trip soon, too, right?

0:16.0

I am. I am. I'm going to Grenada in the southeast of the Caribbean.

0:24.5

It seems like you've taken an interest in that part of the world.

0:27.8

You've been pitching some, like, stories from the Caribbean lately.

0:29.0

Yeah, absolutely.

0:34.1

You know, my interest, it started in Haiti, but then, like, I found these parallel stories in other parts of the Caribbean, right?

0:35.4

And then, like, these other islands in the Caribbean have similar ingredients, right?

0:40.6

Like, you know, European colonizing and, you know, indigenous people, Africans brought there.

0:45.5

But they each created something unique at the same time.

0:49.3

There's a lot there.

0:50.5

Totally.

0:50.6

Yeah. Yeah. So like in my search throughout the Caribbean, I found this one story that I think, I think you're really going to be into it.

0:58.2

Where are we going in the Caribbean?

1:00.2

All right. We're going to Martinique, Southeast Caribbean, and we're telling the story of a volcano eruption.

1:09.6

This is like one of the most disastrous volcano eruptions of all time, right?

1:13.8

This is like one of the truly like ultimate volcano disasters.

1:18.7

Yes, absolutely.

1:19.7

Right at the turn of the century, 1902 clears out an entire city and only one man survives.

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