Martinique’s Doomsday and the Man Who Survived
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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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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