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Morbid

The Pickwick Club Disaster

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

Comedy, Dark History, Paranormal, True Crime

4.4100.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In the early morning hours of July 4, 1925, the crowd at The Pickwick Club in Boston were celebrating the holiday at the “Before-the-Fourth” dance when roughly fifty couples took to the dance floor for one of the final songs of the night. With so much revelry and vibrations from the dancing, no one noticed the subtle sounds distressed infrastructure makes just before a tragedy, and even if they had, there likely wasn’t enough time to avoid the disaster. Around 3:30 am, the ceiling above them collapsed, as the entire five-story building came down on top of them, killing forty-four people and injuring countless more. At the time, the Pickwick Club disaster was the deadliest building collapse and one of the worst accidents in in the city’s history. It was followed by large investigation, during which the disaster was temporarily blamed on the Charleston, and a sensational trial aimed at punishing those responsible. However, in the one hundred years since the disaster, the tragedy at the Pickwick Club has been largely forgotten, overshadowed by larger and more devastating accidents.

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0:00.0

Hey, weirdos. I'm Elena. I'm Ash. And this is morbid.

0:04.0

Yay. And you know what's crazy? We don't have any business. No business. No real business. No. And I sound more like a real person this time. Yeah. You know somebody literally said who narrated the last word? Yeah. And the thing is, this is why you need to listen to the beginning of the episode. Because I told you. This is where we tell you if one of us is sick, we might sound a little weird or like, you know, whatever's going on.

0:38.6

I just love that somebody was like, who the fuck was that? It's like, I'm sorry, okay? I know. I don't know what to tell you. And I think somebody else was like, what happened to Ash's voice? And I was like, if you listen to the beginning, we said it. Well, like, babes, only so many things can happen. Yeah. I don't know.

0:56.1

Ursula visited me in the night and took it.

1:10.3

Like what? Just listen to the beginning. Come on. It's just us chatting with you. It's us trying to catch up with you. That's all it is. Tell you what's going on. I'm trying to connect. But that's all. We won't connect this time because there's no business. I'm not sick.

1:11.1

No.

1:11.5

I mean, just hot.

1:13.4

The only thing I can not sick. No. I mean, anymore. Just hot.

1:13.3

The only thing I can say is get tickets to the live show while they're available while they're

1:17.5

hot. Radio City music called June 27. For some reason, I keep saying like, get it while it's hot.

1:24.6

And I keep thinking of the Sex in the City thing. Get it well it's hot. And it's of sex in the city thing get it well it's hot and it's one of

1:29.5

the most cringy clips ever because it's when she's dressed in like a Parisian and is she holding the

1:36.9

McDonald's right yeah get it while it's hot I don't know why it's been like my vocals

1:43.7

Stimp lately I love that a lot So get them while they're hot. And picture us in the race saying that. Yeah, do that. And pre-order The Witcher Legacy. Yeah, get that while it's hot. Well, it's hot. Do it. It's great. I promise. I love it. That's my guarantee.. That it's great. Guaranteed. Great. It's a great. You should put that on the cover.

2:05.9

Little period to the trilogy. I like it. So, so go for it. Not an ellipsies. A period. Okay.

2:13.2

A trilogy. Okay. Didn't say to the series. Okay. Okay.

2:17.4

All right. I see what you're doing. It's its own little story. Okay. Didn't say to the series. Okay. Okay. All right. I see what you're doing. It's

2:20.3

its own little story. I like that. Yeah. All right. But that's it. So here we are. We're going to start.

2:26.4

All right. Today we're going to talk about something that I think needs to be taught to more people,

2:33.8

this thing that happened, especially people

2:35.7

of Massachusetts. Because I didn't know about this. And I was like, hi, born and raised. Am I going to

2:42.3

know about this? What? No, absolutely not. Okay. Because like, I don't think most people don't know.

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