We Heart Disasters… with John Marr

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Host Dylan Thuras meets a teenage hero: author John Marr, who created the infamous Murder Can Be Fun zine and chronicled tales of unusual amusement park ride deaths and other odd disasters READ MORE: You can see back issues of MCBF here.

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0:00.0	Disneyland has been called the Happiest Place on Earth.
0:09.6	Disneyland evokes images and fantasies of life and happier, more pleasant and more exciting
0:14.6	worlds.
0:16.8	But beneath this glittering facade lurks something malevolent, something lethal.
0:23.1	For not all the millions of guests, never visitors, patrons or suckers, entering the park
0:29.7	in search of fantasy and pleasure, survive, see the electric parade.
0:36.5	They will leave the park in body bags.
0:41.4	Lovely.
0:42.4	Yeah, it is truly lovely.
0:44.4	What?
0:45.4	Maybe you could tell me what that is from.
0:47.4	OK, that is from the single best thing I have ever written.
0:51.6	It's called Death at Disneyland.
0:53.7	Death at Disneyland.
0:56.6	I'm Dylan Thores and this is Atlas Obsgira.
1:00.1	Today, I'm talking to someone who, when I was just a teenager, just a young and impressionable
1:06.0	kid, filled my head with tales of death and disaster and murder and mayhem.
1:13.6	Someone who first told me about the tale of the great Boston molasses for him.
1:18.2	And someone who before today, I had never actually spoken to before.
1:23.8	And as it turns out, I think had been waiting 25 years to say thank you to him.
1:29.2	We will meet this infamous author after this.
1:34.9	Actually, before we even meet the author, I need to fanboy out just a little.
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