The Burnden Park Disaster | A Short Documentary

The Burnden Park Disaster | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

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"On the 9th of March, 1946, football fans gathered at the Burnden Park stadium in Bolton, near Manchester in the UK..."
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:41 - Background
03:14 - The Burnden Park Disaster
06:56 - The Aftermath
MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
SOURCES:
► “Sir Stanley Matthews” published by the National Football Museum, 2002. Link: www.nationalfootballmuseum.co...
► "Burnden Park football disaster remembered 65 years on" published by BBC News, March 2011. Link: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...
► "Remembering The 33: The 75th Anniversary of the Burnden Park Disaster" published by Bolton Wanderers FC, March 2021. Link: www.bwfc.co.uk/news/2021/marc...
► The Hillsborough Stadium Disaster Final Report by Rt Hon Lord Justice Taylor, published by the Home Office, January 1990. Link: www.jesip.org.uk/wp-content/u...
► "'I was young, I thought they had fainted. I didn't know they were all dead'" published by The Blackpool Gazette, March 2016. Link: www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/ne...
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@DrumWild Жыл бұрын

As a survivor of The Who 1979, I have avoided large crowds ever since. For me, it's just not worth it. Nothing is worth it.

@vladimirenlow4388 Жыл бұрын

FH has covered that one too, and it sounds just as dreadful as this one. I was especially appalled by how the cops dismissed all the people being injured as crazed druggies and didn't want to help them. I am glad you survived and that, if anything, it helped you avoid similar threats later.

@joannmartinez8295 Жыл бұрын

You're absolutely right!😢

@joannmartinez8295 Жыл бұрын

I can't imagine how terrible that must have been for you! And you are absolutely right nothing is worth it!😢

@goodsolonius7305 Жыл бұрын

Guarantee that all 33 who died got there early and paid for their seats.

@aisforapple2494 Жыл бұрын

@@goodsolonius7305 The concert was general admission. That's why there was the stampede. About two weeks after the tragedy, Cincinnati banned general admission events in the city all together.

@paulbowman1762 Жыл бұрын

Oh mate you've just brought back memories of my Dad ! He was a survivor on this day ! He told me he was being crushed and couldn't breathe when out of nowhere an older man picked him up and he was passed over people's head to safety ! He died at 84 yrs 4 year's ago and I miss the old bugger massively ! Cheers for this and godbless Dad wherever you are mate ! Miss ya !

@danadoozer9990 Жыл бұрын

Dad's are the best! God bless yours❤

@bexjones6770 Жыл бұрын

♥️

@michaeldonoghue9015 Жыл бұрын

That’s so fortunate he survived!

@paulbowman1762 Жыл бұрын

@@danadoozer9990 cheers Dana 👍x

@paulbowman1762 Жыл бұрын

@@bexjones6770 Cheers Bex 👍

@biggiouschinnus7489 Жыл бұрын

Lots of these poor people were returned armed forces. Imagine surviving Anzio or Caen, only to be killed going to a football match.

@margin606 Жыл бұрын

That's a good point

@marvindebot3264 Жыл бұрын

Good point, how fecking tragically unfair is that?

@randomlyentertaining8287 Жыл бұрын

At least they died at home. Better than dying in a foreign land. Better not to have died at all, obviously, but little comforts.

@alice45-fgd-456drt Жыл бұрын

@@randomlyentertaining8287 But they also died by injury from their own. Dying in war is horrible but at least it's considered relatively honourable to die while defending your own people. In this case, they were trampled by their own. In a way that almost feels worse.

@jamessimms415 Жыл бұрын

@@alice45-fgd-456drt Obviously Random Entertaining never served a day in the military, except for being a Keyboard Warrior.

@tabularasa Жыл бұрын

Human crush stories are the worst. Horrifying to think of the physics, how a crowd can act as a fluid, at a certain density. I still think of the recent crush in Itaewon, Seoul, last Halloween. All preventable, with proper crowd control. Peace to the victims and their families

@mwethereld Жыл бұрын

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals" Kay (Tommy Lee Jones, 1997)

@pjousma Жыл бұрын

Peace, I also think it's one of the worst ways to go. Just imagine, brrr.

@tabularasa Жыл бұрын

@@mwethereld I appreciate that quote in the context of the MiB movie, but it doesn't apply to these crush situations, because it blames the victims. It's not right. They victim-blamed in the Hillsborough disaster, and other events. The responsibility is with event organizers, security guards, city officials... not those who asphyxiate under the pressure of hundreds of bodies. If we analyze how these things occur, it's pretty common that the people in the back have absolutely no idea of what's happening in the front. And everyone in between... is just stuck. There's *no room* to be dumb or panicky. If you've ever been in a very tight crowd situation like this, where you could lift your feet up off the ground and remain upright, you understand what I mean. These things don't happen like an animal stampede. It's generally a gradual increase of density of humans per square meter, until a critical mass is reached, and tragedy strikes

@not_them Жыл бұрын

Crowd turbulence is a horrible thing

@acorr14 Жыл бұрын

@@tabularasa So yes, they're dumb, panicky animals that were stupid enough to let themselves act like a fluid in a crowd. Serves them right for betraying the solid state of matter. Like just don't push and shove?

@hdng1984 Жыл бұрын

As a Bolton fan, thank you for this. It's often overshadowed by Hillsborough, Heysel and the Bradford Fire. I should clarify, I'm not measuring these tragedies against each other, but the Burnden Park disaster is rarely commemorated by those outside of the BWFC community.

@pixelapocrypha Жыл бұрын

I'm not hugely into sports but I think it's really cool that the team keeps the tragedy in their history rather than trying to forget about it.

@marvindebot3264 Жыл бұрын

Full marks to your club and it's fans for not forgetting and still honouring those who died 75 years later, respect.

@johnwalters4792 Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@DaveSCameron Жыл бұрын

Respects mate, lost a good mate at our Forest Semi and I'm glad you're getting your tragedy noted here.

@mmw4990 Жыл бұрын

I think it's probably just the time that has passed compared to the other tragedies. Still should be remembered of course but that is probably why

@Drunk_Karsa Жыл бұрын

My disabled grandfather was at this game. News that something had gone wrong and that people had been hurt quickly passed by word of mouth in the local community and my grandmother spent several terrified hours awaiting news that he was among the casualties when he didn’t return as expected. Turns out he’d been helping tend to some of the less-severely injured people.

@kymo6343 Жыл бұрын

"As it became more crowded in the stands, some people became uncomfortable and decided to leave", and that is what we call having Situational Awareness!

@richard6440 Жыл бұрын

Uncomfortable is putting your underwear on inside out. some people became " Scared " and decided to leave",

@kymo6343 Жыл бұрын

@@richard6440 It's not always obvious fear though. Sometimes you really just feel uneasy, like you need to move but not a total full blown "I NEED TO GTFO" terrified feeling. Either way though you should listen to your gut feeling.

@danadoozer9990 Жыл бұрын

I thought that too!

@janebaker4912 9 ай бұрын

I wish he hadn't left the door open though

@trentvlak 8 ай бұрын

The gift of fear ;)

@mikezerker6925 Жыл бұрын

It’s amazing how many safety measures that we take for granted, had their beginnings in some form of tragedy!

@bwalker3238 Жыл бұрын

The saying, "Safety procedures are written in blood", is a fact. The sad part is sometimes it's profit over people in many recent events.

@rbitrary Жыл бұрын

@@bwalker3238 Was going to comment that exact quote. A good reminder to never scoff at safety rules. If it exists, it's because someone was hurt.

@jonslg240 Жыл бұрын

Nowadays if they took out the seats at an arena and made it standing-only, only 1/20th of the capacity would show up lol

@Hecatom Жыл бұрын

There is a reason why it is said that Security/Safety rulebooks are written with blood.

@Gamble661 Жыл бұрын

I live just outside Boston, MA in the US. There are multiple fire regulations in place in the US due to the Cocoanut Grove Fire in 1942 that killed 492 people (still the 2nd worse is the country) and scarred many more for life. The Grove was a popular night club that was overcrowded with very combustible decorations and very few exits. The main one was a revolving door that almost immediately jammed with people trying to escape. Bodies ended up piled up inside it. One result was a new safety law that all revolving doors in the US have to have regular doors on either side of it. There's also still a city ordinance in Boston prohibiting any business being called the Coconut Grove.

@charisselinnell-morton4137 Жыл бұрын

My Family Gp was actually at this disaster! He was just telling me about it …he is 92 now but his account of everything sounds as if it happened yesterday. That’s how awful it was .

@disssmith3102 Жыл бұрын

That's how good his memory is at age 92!!

@dilwyn1 Жыл бұрын

@@disssmith3102 As We age, we remember more of the past, but little of yesterday!

@Jabarri74 Жыл бұрын

@@disssmith3102 Unfortunately horrible things like this are burned into the memory sadly happy memories not always as much

@teaguejelinek4038 Жыл бұрын

Quit lyin

@Jim-so3zm Жыл бұрын

@@teaguejelinek4038 Quit spamming the same comment

@noraleestone2859 Жыл бұрын

I was present on the Champ de Mars during the centennial of the Eiffel Tower in 1989. There was a very large crowd present for the fireworks display, and I suddenly felt very uncomfortable. I persuaded my friend to leave, and go back to our apartment to watch the festivities on TV. Just as we got to the outside edge of the crowd, something happened. Who knows what - a fight, most likely. But the crowd surged outward like a giant wave, and we were among the lucky ones who weren't knocked to the ground. Since then, I've avoid all large crowds.

@angelachouinard4581 Жыл бұрын

I've done lots of high risk activities and always been told follow that little voice that says something's not right. Most people are not thinking on alert at a social event. You have good instincts, keep on trusting them. I also now avoid large crowds. Often you can see more on the televised version anyway. Glad you got away safe.

@teaguejelinek4038 Жыл бұрын

Quit lyin

@puppiesarepower3682 Жыл бұрын

@@angelachouinard4581 Is that why the Dangerous Women concert turned out the way it did? Where was the instinct?

@puppiesarepower3682 Жыл бұрын

Too bad we can't say the same of the girls that exploded at the Dangerous Women Concert. Poor things' inner voice failed them.

@daviddunsmore103 Жыл бұрын

@@puppiesarepower3682 What event was that? I've never heard of it before. When and where was it, etc.? Thanks for explaining!

@centurion262 Жыл бұрын

My granddad was a season ticket holder for Bolton wanders from the 30s right up until he died in 2010, he missed this match as he was working and couldn't get off and said at the time he was super pi$$ed off he had to miss it but was glad later that he had missed it!

@SteRDLK Жыл бұрын

Aye, a drab 0-0 draw, he missed nothing

@gsdalpha1358 Жыл бұрын

As someone who was caught in a crush in the mid 1970's, there is nothing you can do! You can't move away because everyone's wedged against you and around you. You can't scream for help because everyone's screaming. You can't raise your arms to push people away because your arms are pinned in to your sides by bodies crushed against you. I had a small ice chest cooler which was literally pulled out of my grasp never to be seen again. By some miracle the crush finally eased, but I haven't been to another crowded event since.

@gentlespiritjw4904 Жыл бұрын

If that happened to me, I also would never go to a crowded event again. I'm so glad that you escaped without injury (physical), but I'm sure it was traumatizing. Take care. Jean in California

@keathgraham2742 Жыл бұрын

I've been to Mardi Gras on the big day in New Orleans when the crowds were unmanageable. I could not help but go whichever way the crowd went. should something bad have happened, there would surely have been stampede deaths. Never again.

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Жыл бұрын

I think often you can't breathe in as you're squashed and often. That's what kills you.

@laurenurban3942 7 ай бұрын

Happened to me too at an outdoor concert on Long Island. I felt the crowd closing in and I quickly pushed my way off to the side, under a fence and out of the crush zone. I thought I was going to faint.

@gsdalpha1358 7 ай бұрын

@@laurenurban3942 Yes! People who haven't gone thru it can't understand what it's like. You were so lucky!

@exactlywhatisaid Жыл бұрын

it's hard for ppl to comprehend the immense crushing power of a crowd. i was at Woodstock '99 as a skinny 15 year old and i have vivid memories of being completely powerless to the surging ebb and flow of the crowd. legit thought i was going to die multiple times

@elliottprice6084 Жыл бұрын

If only proper action had been taken after this tragedy, other more well known football crushes could have been averted. It's sad that this did not happen, and it's sad that this tragedy is largely forgotten. But credit to Bolton Wanderers do a fantastic job of remembering the victims of this tragedy

@craigpridemore7566 Жыл бұрын

When I heard, 'but not none of it was put into law...' I just sighed and said to myself, 'good team management will do the right thing and bad team management will do the cheapest thing.'

@TheGiantKillers Жыл бұрын

In truth, it's unlikely that any of the future disasters would have been averted for many reasons. Mostly the British public's general attitude towards health and safety in the 50s, 60s and 70s was largely negative or, at best neutral. Health and safety, beyond the most basic of safety measures in all things, was considered annoying and over officious by most people. The best example of this was the highly negative public attitude towards using seatbelts in cars. While todays society could be criticised at times for being too litigant, before the 1980s our society probably wasn't litigant enough. Perhaps it was a combination of a hangover of world war two and the dying class system but unless compensation was offered after an accident or disaster, people would rarely seek it or press the powers that be to find anybody liable, so there was little need to provide anything more than the most basic of health and safety regulations.

@frankquinn1296 Жыл бұрын

Elliot, I can recount every minute of the Hillsborough disaster to this day, I moved to Canada in 2000, I was interviewed by a Canadian police officer ( Mountie ) who had studied the Hillsborough disaster as part of his university thesis, this was in the early 2000`s, I made my statement about what I experienced as part of the inquiry as a survivor. He looked at me and told me this is most factual evidence I have ever heard from anyone. I just told him , this is not something you forget. The human mind can retain so many things , but i can tell you exactly what happened that day. I know now that I have post traumatic stress syndrome. I was asked by the PC have you sought any help^, I said no, I still cry everytime anything related to Hillsborough is mentioned. It does mentally affect you in ways you dont know.

@tmilesffl Жыл бұрын

Safety measures were put in place in future stadiums and yet these same things still happened.

@MasonMsotsos Жыл бұрын

It’s true that if we don’t remember history, especially the tragic parts, we can be doomed to repeat them. Sadly crowd crushes can happen so quickly, it can be before people react, so it’s important to be aware so it doesn’t happen to you!

@MorbidMidnight Жыл бұрын

It's horrific to think that more than two dozen people died, and a majority of the people in attendance didn't have the faintest clue that people were in mortal danger & dying around them. Somehow I'm not surprised they finished out the game though. Great video as per usual!

@aaronando1218 Жыл бұрын

Spoilers

@derstoffausdemderjoghurtis Жыл бұрын

tbf under those circumstances it was probably was the safest thing to finalize the game

@ismayb754 Жыл бұрын

Well it was actually the quickest and safest thing to do. It's horrible, but it had to be done. Trying to communicate to 85,000 people, in the days before technology, that the game was cancelled and everyone was to leave, would have led to absolute chaos and misinformation. And probably way more deaths.

@Jason-rn4jk Жыл бұрын

@@derstoffausdemderjoghurtis people were dying, they needed medical attention how is a game more important. It should’ve been ended and all taken to the hospital, instead they layer dying watching a game go on. Horrific

@quillmaurer6563 Жыл бұрын

@@Jason-rn4jk The video explained in detail why this decision was made - it wasn't because the game was seen as more important, but that cancelling it, especially without clear mass communication, would lead to far greater chaos and likely more injuries or deaths. Continuing the game was deemed to be the least harmful option.

@Louisa.Bowman23 Жыл бұрын

I was almost crushed against a metal rail barrier when I attended a red carpet movie premiere and I almost had the breath knocked out of me. I was lucky that security staff noticed and demanded the crowd not to push.

@Lelabear 7 ай бұрын

Had a similar experience when I accompanied my daughter to a punk concert for her 18th birthday. I was up front when the main band came on and was crushed up against the railing by the crowd mobbing the stage, I could feel my ribs about to crack! Luckily a bouncer noticed and came over and plucked me out of the mash. Bless him, he saved me a lot of grief.

@peckishpagan Жыл бұрын

It’s touching to know that it was common practice to “crowd surf” people to safety when they fainted. I’m left wondering why this isn’t still common practice. Still… it must have saved at least a few lives.

@Varangian_af_Scaniae Жыл бұрын

10+ years ago when I used to frequent rock concerts, crowd surfing happened a few time while I was in the mosh pit. Sports events are so cleaned up these days (in Sweden) but I believe they too take care of each other if need arise.

@nlwilson4892 Жыл бұрын

It does still happen at gigs but crowd management strategies try to reduce crush so that people don't faint and those most likely to suffer are right at the front.

@peckishpagan Жыл бұрын

To be fair, I’ve crowd surfed in a mosh pit (also decades ago lol), which is why I find it thought provoking that it still happens in controlled chaos, but this is the only time I’ve heard about it happening in actual chaos.

@picklesxrxkewl Жыл бұрын

moving people when they're been injured can just as easily cause further harm. unless you know how or why they fainted, leaving them might be the better choice.

@peckishpagan Жыл бұрын

@@picklesxrxkewl the exact opposite of that is taught in first aid training

@chegeny Жыл бұрын

Excellent as always. I've a fear of crushes, with Hillsborough one of my childhood memories. The Burden Park disaster seems so overshadowed by horrific events since. It was good that Bolton recognised the disaster and a remembrance the dead in 2016.

@amber-zu2yb Жыл бұрын

I also have a fear of crushes, though it was because my grandpa told me about the Victoria Hall disaster when I was a little too young and I've avoided large crowds ever since D:

@vladimirenlow4388 Жыл бұрын

@@amber-zu2yb FH has covered Victoria Hall and yes, that's not a story little kids need to hear.

@davidci Жыл бұрын

Description: "On the 9th of March, 1946, football fans gathered at the Burnden Park stadium in Bolton, near Manchester in the UK..." Oh... oh no... it's gonna be a human crush, is it?

@craigpridemore7566 Жыл бұрын

Yep did the same thing.

@classicmicroscopy9398 Жыл бұрын

Large amounts of people gathered in a space too small to accommodate them seems to be part of the recipe of the majority of the worst disasters.

@nlwilson4892 Жыл бұрын

I worked in event security. Crowd crush is the biggest killer by far at events. But it isn't always too many people. There was another one where someone falling on the stairs on the way out caused many deaths, bottlenecks as people are trying to get out is a huge factor, other have been people trying to push in because they haven't enough entrances and they don't want to miss the start. Some sort of incident people are trying to get away from can be another one. Hillsborough was largely due to the police not understanding which gates led to where and letting people in when that stand was already crowded.

@craigpridemore7566 Жыл бұрын

And, ultimately, it's our responsibility to, if the 'alarm bell' in our head goes off, GET OUT!!

@classicmicroscopy9398 Жыл бұрын

@@nlwilson4892 Thanks for sharing that. :)

@classicmicroscopy9398 Жыл бұрын

@@craigpridemore7566I 100% agree.

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Жыл бұрын

@@craigpridemore7566 you haven't been in a packed crowd, then. Good luck on that one. I've had it take 20 minutes to cross a (decent sized, but hardly staduim sized) room or a big deck.

@adriandunne4382 Жыл бұрын

During the 1937 British Coronation there were a number of crowd crushes and falls from heights along the route. Over 10,000 people were injured or became ill from all causes and two died. During the last Russian Coronation in 1896 a public distribution of gifts took place at Khodynka resulting in crowd crush which killed 1389 people and injured a large number.

@lowtechredneck6704 Жыл бұрын

There are probably linguistic barriers and censorship by the Tsar's government to deal with, but this Khodynka event you mentioned sounds like something this channel should cover, I had never heard of it.

@Olhado256 Жыл бұрын

Wow, this is my first time hearing about the Khodynka Tragedy. The number of dead is mind blowing.

@mournblade1066 Жыл бұрын

Never heard of that one before, either. Here's a link to an article about it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khodynka_Tragedy

@quillmaurer6563 Жыл бұрын

Holy crap, that's massive! Really should be an episode. Reading about it, I wonder if it had a greater role in history beyond the deaths, the Tsar's callous response maybe hurting his public perceptions and contributing to - even if in a minor way - the later unrest and revolutions.

@maryeckel9682 Жыл бұрын

@@quillmaurer6563 just another brick in the pile.

@marvindebot3264 Жыл бұрын

They had to keep playing the poor buggers, imagine what could have gone down had they stopped. It was the correct decision as tough as it would have been to make. Full marks to the club for keeping the memory alive as well.

@gigabytemon Жыл бұрын

It's awful that people perhaps didn't take the disaster as seriously as it should have been and moved on so quickly. But it warms my heart that the football club keeps the memory of the people lost that day as part of their history, and regularly commemorate the anniversary of the disaster.

@MeTube3 Жыл бұрын

In 1946 much worse things were fresh in the memory.

@EthanBradley Жыл бұрын

Love your vids, seen every single one. No loud music, no change in tone, no sound effects, just pure story telling. Your voice alone with images of the events is simply perfect, thank you! Keep em coming

@stephencopps1561 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this,I never knew about the Burnden Park disaster!RIP

@1951GL Жыл бұрын

My father was there in 1946, a serving soldier, aged 18, in army boots and 5'11'' tall. He did not realize what had happened. It had been reported on the radio and he returned home to find his mother in a blind panic, thinking he was dead. Another world.

@cmsxcb Жыл бұрын

Gosh this brings back so many ghosts for me. My grandad and my uncle (freshly returned from fighting in Burma) were supposed to go to this match but my uncle was asked to work that morning. My uncle died in an accident at work that day (he was only 23) but my grandad reckoned that they'd both have died instead if they'd gone as it happened where they normally stood. Grandad was a broken man from that day onwards.

@zurirobinson2749 Жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry. What a horrible and darkly ironic tragedy. If your grandfather is still alive, I hope he's as okay as he can be after living through that. If not, may he rest in peace.

@hansdieter4537 11 ай бұрын

How full of shit people here are, that's the real horror story.

@dlwhdtjr100 Жыл бұрын

Crowd crush disaster happend in many place, many country. But people really don't know how dangerous it could. We learn about how to survive from building fire, earthquake, plane crash, car crash...but we don't know how to survive from crowd crush. There should be something, at lest a PSA or documentary to learn how to survive from crowd crush. It could save many lives.

@nlwilson4892 Жыл бұрын

Once you're in the crush there is nothing you can do. The best is to see it starting and stay back. Don't rush to be first out of a big event, avoid being front middle at music events, it there's stairs keep to the side and hold the handrail, stair or corridors with corners keep to the inside. Those people that left that match before it happened probably remembered the history of previous crush events.

@_kaleido Жыл бұрын

One thing I’ve heard is to keep your hands up by your chin, wrists and elbows flush together. That way even if you can’t get out of the crush, there’ll at least be a bit of extra space by your chest and stomach to be able to breathe in a little more

@davidcox3076 Жыл бұрын

To add to the good advice, above, check out the exits when you enter a venue. People have a tendency in an emergency to leave via the gate that they entered. Moving to another exit may keep you away from a crush.

@nlwilson4892 Жыл бұрын

@@davidcox3076 This was highlighted in The Station fire, hardly anyone used the fire exits, people all headed for the main entrance as that is what they were used to using. These days stewards sports events are told to direct people to specific exits and constantly call to people to get them to follow instructions "Exit this way, this way will be quicker" All stewards at UK sports events do a specified training course and crowd crush is very much part of that. In football grounds the sections are usually segregated so that people can't all head for the same exits.

@AJWRAJWR Жыл бұрын

Stop, drop and roll away from the crush.

@naturalroyalflush Жыл бұрын

We watched the Hillsborough disaster unfold on live tv in South Africa. I had left to do something when my wife came running in with tears streaming down her cheeks. She kept repeating “people are dying “ it was terrible. Reading the reports afterwards left me horrified at the media and the actions of the police. I hate close crush crowds.

@vustvaleo8068 Жыл бұрын

can't blame the guy for felling sick as people watch him play while not caring the dead bodies being removed while the game is still on going, great of him to donate to the victims.

@nlwilson4892 Жыл бұрын

Most of the people would not have known that people had died, they thought they'd simply fainted. That was explained in the video.

@TheSecretLover Жыл бұрын

It’s so hard to curb the disgust you feel when hearing the events keep going even knowing that it’s usually the best course of action during events like these.

@Tindometari Жыл бұрын

The beastly thing is that the people participating in the event -- strange as it seems -- are likely to be the last people to become acutely aware that any kind of disaster is happening. Footballers are focused on playing; rock bands have the lights in their faces. Even at the Station fire, the members of Great White twigged to the danger later than the crowd even though the fire was visible on stage next to them.

@JOHN-wk5zv Жыл бұрын

As a Bolton Wanderer myself, thank you for covering this tragedy . My Grandad was at this match and my Grandma was frantic with worry until he got home. She clearly remembers the fleets of ambulances heading towards the ground and the rumours of something terrible having happened. Most have been awful especially as my Grandad had only just got back from the war. It is known as the forgotten tragedy in Bolton. Coming as it did just after the horrors of WW2 and happening in an unfashionable corner of Lancashire. Pity lessons weren't learned and future tragedies involving crushes at football matches prevented. Will always be remembered by The Bolton Wanderers though.

@ytknits4892 Жыл бұрын

Imagine being those poor players, aware that people had been hurt and possibly killed and having to put on an entertaining match within metres of the dead and injured.

@michaelbiscay9836 Жыл бұрын

It seems harsh, but the decision to keep playing was probably the smartest thing they could have done. If they had cancelled the match, who knows how much worse this could have been.

@paulcooper8818 Жыл бұрын

Continuing the match saved lives. There are always people in crowds like this that will not act responsibly and feel like their petty frustration should be shared with everybody. Recent world events have demonstrated it is still true.

@worldcomicsreview354 Жыл бұрын

The riot in South America where people all tried to get out at the same time. Whenever I go to big events I always wait around after the end and don't leave right away.

@mentaldavethefirst Жыл бұрын

Glad you covered this. A forgotten and shameful event in the history of the sport

@Satellite_Of_Love Жыл бұрын

After caving incidents, crushes are the second most terrifying subject on this channel for me due to severe claustrophobia. The thought about not being able to move or breathe trying to escape something is frightening.

@awalkinthedark5267 Жыл бұрын

My father took me to Burnden park many times to see the Wanderers when I was little but I dont remember this ever being mentioned. Thank you for the video.

@honeyquartz2116 Жыл бұрын

Crowd crushes are genuinely one of my biggest fears like ever, that idea of that many people having absolutely no control over the fact that they're literally being crushed to death?? Probably the worst way to go ever

@AS-rm5he Жыл бұрын

As with the Le Mans disaster, carrying on was absolutely the right thing to do. It's awful to think of a football match going on whilst the dead and dying are laid right by the pitch, however.

@Jabarri74 Жыл бұрын

Its a bit sketchy thinking that some of those died as they received no first aid and were just covered in coats and left to well die

@quillmaurer6563 Жыл бұрын

While most fans probably believed all was well, I get the sense the players were fully aware of what was going on, and were asked to keep playing to pacify the crowd - that would be a very hard thing to do, but they knew they must.

@ismayb754 Жыл бұрын

It's horrific that they carried on playing a full game of football knowing that people had died, yet I completely understand why it had to happen that way. Trying to communicate, without technology, to 85,000 people that the game was cancelled, would have ended in utter chaos and probably more fatalaties. Playing the game was actually the quickest and safest thing to do. But how sinister.

@pheart2381 Жыл бұрын

Horrible to think of laying under a coat fatally injured waiting for help,but instead hearing the football match.

@torpedodropkick59 Жыл бұрын

No loudspeaker information and not enough entrances! 😢

@angietunstall2555 Жыл бұрын

2/1/71 Ibrox Park disaster. 66 killed. I wasn't there but saw the news on TV and remember the newspaper pics of the terrace and the array of mangled railings, which give a vivid idea of the force of the two masses of human bodies advancing on and crushing each other. I've never forgotten it, the Bradford Park Avenue, and Hillsborough Disasters, together with the Heysell Stadium disaster abroad. Going to football matches and coming out unscathed wasn't always a nailed-on cert, though thankfully, in the grand scheme of things, disasters are rare. With the huge numbers of spectators, if anything does happen, it will be many not few who will be affected.

@borderlands6606 Жыл бұрын

Ibrox had steep terracing, it was an accident waiting to happen. Burnden Park was shallow at the railway end, as can be seen from the photographs. It must have been the sheer volume of people that caused the crush.

@alistairthow1384 Жыл бұрын

I had absolutely no idea about this tragic accident, it just goes to show how sometimes things just slip under the radar. The Paisley cinema fire is another example of a tragedy that is almost unknown outside of the local community.

@UlshaRS Жыл бұрын

The sheer number of crush incidents that happened in the UK make me wonder how often they occurred at the Roman Coliseum.

@sixtyshippee Жыл бұрын

Deaths were part of the entertainment in the Roman Coliseum.

@eadaoinmurphy20 Жыл бұрын

Post war incidents are always so sad, especially something that's loved as much as football. It's events like this that always gets talked about, also I knew something was going to happen the minute you said railway line. Who's my man united fans here in the comments

@coffeeNTrees Жыл бұрын

when your intro starts i know there's a very large chance i'm about to be told a story I have never heard before. thanks for that.

@braves9652 Жыл бұрын

Same. I don't ever watch other videos of this nature but with this channel I know it will be done with respect and dignity.

@bmused55 Жыл бұрын

Imagine surviving WWII just to be crushed to death at a poxy Football match

@angelawhite2022 Жыл бұрын

When you see the picture of alllllll those people crowded together, you know it’s gonna be a crush… RIP

@michaelrowland6229 Жыл бұрын

My father had been a Japanese prisoner of war for 4 years and went to meet some army mates and go to the match but when he got to the turnstile the fear of a closed space made him turn round and go home it probably saved his life it happened several years later when he took me to a amatuer cup final replay between Enfield and Skelmersdale we had to sit on coach why the match was played didn't understand then but do now my dad was a brave man I might add

@borderlands6606 Жыл бұрын

Like the Farnborough air show disaster of 1952, when a jet disintegrated and the engine ploughed through the watching crowd, the show went on. Mass death was a recent phenomenon from war, and people carried on regardless. Seems heartless now, but the population were used to seeing the dead and dying. On a lighter note, it must have been difficult to concentrate on trains in the signal box on match days.

@georgespencer8429 Жыл бұрын

I used to think that it was lucky that a train hadn't passed the stadium while people were escaping onto the track, however the man in the box probably had all traffic halted.

@margm4 Жыл бұрын

This really spoke to me. It happened the very day I was born apparently. Makes me feel really ill. May those who died RIP. 🇦🇺🇦🇺

@MrJoegotbored Жыл бұрын

Crowd control is not for amateurs. It's incredibly difficult and must be managed with physical barriers, not humans. If you go to a large event in modern times, pay attention to exits, stairwells, sprinklers, first aid booths, narrow corridors, movable partitions, and large and abrupt elevation changes. Make sure you know which direction you plan to move if you sense danger.

@teaguejelinek4038 Жыл бұрын

Nah

@djalland1 Жыл бұрын

I'm pleased you've covered this. As you said, it seems to have faded from public consciousness, possibly because of the proximity of WWII. The first I'd heard of it was in a book about the Hillsborough disaster which, had more lessons been learned from Burnden Park, may never have occurred itself.

@purplecelery7380 Жыл бұрын

I mean, I get the decision to go ahead with the game, for fear of upsetting the crowd even more. But what about the risk to the injured spectators lying on the edge of the pitch? Imagine lying there with cracked ribs and broken bones, then the ball whacks you in the head as a result of a stray kick?

@miamiamia888 Жыл бұрын

A handful of years ago I attended a festival style Imagine Dragons performance. 80,000 people at least spread over a large field in Quebec, CAN. A sudden, extreme thunderstorm shut down the event and people were rushing to try and get their possessions out of rented lockers and also people trying to leave through one of 8 exits in the pouring rain. Everyone was in the streets trying to find a bus or a ride. Fortunately I was able to walk to my hotel. That was the one emergency mass event I've been part of.

@gentlespiritjw4904 Жыл бұрын

I can't imagine how scary that must have been for you. So glad you had a hotel room within walking distance! Jean in California

@davidcox3076 Жыл бұрын

No matter if it was just after World War II or the present day, crowd dynamics don't change. There is always risk with masses of people in a confined area. We often forget this, to our detriment.

@hulme187 Жыл бұрын

The Itaewon Halloween crush in Korea was very bad with over 150 people dying. I'm glad I wasn't there that night.

@geoffmorris1769 Жыл бұрын

My dad and grandad were at this match standing in the Manchester Road Paddock closest to the roofed Great Lever End of Burnden Park. They knew nothing about the tragedy until they arrived home. They too thought people had fainted.

@elmin82 Жыл бұрын

I know it's recent but can you talk about the crowd crush that happen in Seoul ,South Korea at Halloween

@alexmyers4715 Жыл бұрын

I been thinking that a future project you may wanna consider is the Kelly Barnes Dam break, which resulted in the 1977 Toccoa Flood. It’s one of the more forgotten disasters in North Georgia history but it was serious taking the lives of 39 people. You do an amazing job with these documentary videos and I thought that topic would be done exceptionally.

@anorganlover6281 Жыл бұрын

I hate football with a passion - but I love stories like this with a passion ! The human-side of the game that is so emotional and deeply meaningful.

@johneeeemarry34 Жыл бұрын

This is because your a gay “organ lover” , your in tune with your female psych , you like ‘people’ stories as do slightly overweight women who read “people” and “hello !” magazine. There’s nothing wrong with being totally gay. Just embrace it , live your life .. wishing you all the best on your journey..

@drdrayfromla99 Жыл бұрын

Had no idea of this disaster. Only knew about Hillsborough. Thanks for shedding light on these less known events and congrats on hitting 1 million subscribers!

@opo3628 Жыл бұрын

People who complain about queue lines and capacity limits and such *really* should learn about incidents like this where proper crowd control was not implemented.

@reagan2347 Жыл бұрын

Human crushes are the scariest things ever. I can not imagine the terror.

@denisepleines1513 Жыл бұрын

Right up there with being trapped in a raging fire!

@derekmills1080 Жыл бұрын

I happened across this clip by accident. My dad’s brother, Uncle Harold had just been demobbed and attended this match with his friends. He used to mention helping to pass people over his head to the ground in front of the stand at the railway end (called the ‘embankment’ end). My dad hadn’t yet been demobbed so obviously didn’t attend the match.

@Dash8Q400Channel Жыл бұрын

There is also the Bradford city fire at Valley parade if you haven't looked at it yet.

@KCzz15 Жыл бұрын

This is by far the closest disaster to me I've ever heard of, and I'd never heard of it before today. Huh.

@Jabarri74 Жыл бұрын

I even went to Burnden Park to watch Grimsby play there and I didn't know of it either, so you aren't alone :)

@Zimin_Anatoly2000 Жыл бұрын

Finally,another viideo And disaster i never heard about earlier Thank you

@peterbusby2213 Жыл бұрын

I wish all documentaries were presented this way, calm and matter of fact.

@richard6440 Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Clearly spoken , not to fast , easily understood. Well done.

@helengraves7850 Жыл бұрын

I was in the UK in 1985, when the Bradford City stadium fire killed so many people. The BBC ran so much terrifying footage - I've never forgotten it.

@StrongDreamsWaitHere Жыл бұрын

I’ve noticed that “Well I never” is the arsenic channel, and “Fascinating horror” is the football stampede channel.

@thebrothers3971 Жыл бұрын

I read Stanley Matthews memories of the disaster in his book 'Feet First Again'

@NekoCat999 Жыл бұрын

As soon as he said more people than expected would show up, tickets were being sold at the gate instead of in advance, and there were only a few turnstiles I knew what was going to happen

@margaretbanks8969 Жыл бұрын

I was born in 958 have followed football all my adult life yet I've never heard of this. Thanks.

@ThePolerbearproducts Жыл бұрын

What’s the secret to living over 1000 years?

@johnhead1643 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations on your extended lifespan!

@sidearmsalpha Жыл бұрын

Videos like this show how something so trivial like attending a football match can turn into something deadly. And history shows that it happens quite often. I'm glad I don't like attending concerts or being in large crowds. What a pointless way to die.

@alfiekay4808 Жыл бұрын

Bolton supporters took the blame and it was rarely spoken about by us in the years after. All respect to the Liverpool fans that stood up to the authorities and and refused to be blamed when similar happened at Sheffield.

@KomradeCPU Жыл бұрын

imagine surviving the war, maybe even a close one, just to die like that; 0,04% for 85k, however those were human lives and I bet authorities knew of the imminent danger but the fear of being overwhelmed, as you said, together with inefficient safety measures made it possible to happen. even to this day, people are crushed like that under special circumstances.

@benjaminosterloh3605 Жыл бұрын

Worst part about DST: thinking your videos are late and fearing the worst 🤦🏻‍♂️

@MusicoftheDamned Жыл бұрын

I was confused for about a minute myself about 75 minutes ago before realizing "oh, yeah, he gets to escape the stupidity of Daylight Savings Time". Must be nice.

@benjaminosterloh3605 Жыл бұрын

@@MusicoftheDamned ~ Assuming he’s in the UK, he just gets hit much later than us Americans Last week of March for them

@MusicoftheDamned Жыл бұрын

@@benjaminosterloh3605 Huh. Noted. I honestly can't tell whether that's "better" or even worse, though I guess it's moot when DST as a whole is utterly unnecessary, British or otherwise.

@andrewkelley9405 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for highlighting this.

@megiab Жыл бұрын

well done, sir. thank you for the care you took with this story

@aldestyoseptianm7387 Жыл бұрын

Can you make Kanjuruhan Stadium tragedy? it's located in malang, East Java, it happened on october 1 2022, its the most deadliest football tragedy in modern history with 174 people died

@AJShiningThreads Жыл бұрын

Your writing is always excellent!

@TimelordUK Жыл бұрын

I have lived in bolton for 54 years and never knew this.

@eillomesorwolrab Жыл бұрын

I watch ur videos all the time I can’t believe you did a video about Bolton! I was so surprised when I heard you say it

@daviddwyer5568 Жыл бұрын

Good work on this one. The forgotten football stadium disaster. Sadly it wasn't the first or the last. For some reason when it is football supporters that are involved there a possibility of reluctance to learn the lessons. I say that as someone who felt afraid of being involved in something similar (during the 1980s) at least once.

@Jabarri74 Жыл бұрын

Easy to demonise football fans as it used to be the common mans game

@bluevan12 Жыл бұрын

@@Jabarri74 However I suspect fans don't exactly help themselves at times and are just as ignorant as the authorities hence the issues which are creeping back into the game as older fans die and younger fans who weren't born when the last great tragedy occurred fail to heed the warnings.

@paulbyrne2893 Жыл бұрын

No need to Americanise the team names - they were Bolton Wanderers and Stoke City not The Bolton Wanderers and The Stoke on Trent Potters.

@scottthomas6202 Жыл бұрын

If a disaster doesn't produce positive safety changes to prevent similar accidents in the future, ,then those lives lost were truly wasted. Stadiums often have the equivalent of a small city shoved in a big bowl....

@jillwiegand4257 Жыл бұрын

I really like to watch these videos. Not only do I love history, but it brings light to the past hoping it will never repeat itself. RIP to all who lost their lives that day.

@davidstevensasidewayslook8831 Жыл бұрын

I remember when I first started going to Spurs @ White Heart Lane in the 1960's, the terraces were rammed and people often feinted, obviously a serious accident waiting to happen, its a wonder it didn't happen there…...

@tonisiret5557 Жыл бұрын

It's a shame that lessons were not learned, & that the Government passed the buck not making safety a priority. But then, the country was in pieces, so none of them cared of the fate of some people at a football match 🤷‍♂️

@ElementofKindness Жыл бұрын

Last time I was in an overcrowded venue, was the Pennsylvania Sportsman's Show at the Harrisburg Fairgrounds. They had added a huge amount more parking, and in turn, many more people allowed into the buildings. The last time I went (probably 20 years ago now) it was the tipping point where I couldn't hardly move through the crowded halls, it was so full. I left knowing that anything triggering panic, would mean certain chaos and deaths.

@Liz-cmc313 Жыл бұрын

These types of stories make me claustrophobic. So sad.

@seandelap8587 Жыл бұрын

I suspect because it happened just after the most devastating event of the 20th century it's never gotten the attention it otherwise might have certainly not to the extent of Hillsborough or the Bradford fire for instance and of course the English football league had yet to get up and running after being suspended for several years so it wasn't a peak football period when this disaster happened so that's another reason why it's been overshadowed by similar disasters

@gentlespiritjw4904 Жыл бұрын

It upsets me when I hear about people getting crushed at a sold out concert. The only entertainer I know of who watches out for women fainting or becoming unwell, is Harry Styles. He has stopped concerts to have the house lights turned on, in order to get aid to the victim, hand out water bottles, etc. He is so caring, always on high alert to watch for possible surging and crushing. That should be the norm for all entertainers.

@elye0987 Жыл бұрын

A number of artists have stopped concerts out of concern for injured or at risk fans. A lot of these stories came out after astroworld. Adele, Linkin Park, Nirvana, Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, SZA, ASAP Rocky etc.

@johneeeemarry34 Жыл бұрын

Styles don’t actually care, he doesn’t need anymore cash currency, because he’s rich, so he’s now greedy for virtue currency..Stop buying into this dress wearing mans repulsive rhetoric, and his vile staged faux humanitarian actions..

@tedfixed Жыл бұрын

The most relaxing voice on the internet.

@andrewlydecker811 Жыл бұрын

I was at Camp Randall Stadium in 1993 when Wisconsin beat Michigan. There was a similar crowd rush that was blocked by a steel railing. Many people were injured but it was a miracle that no one was killed.

@timeladyshayde Жыл бұрын

I've been refreshing the KZfaq home page all morning waiting for this to upload.

@thefonzkiss Жыл бұрын

Get a life.

@timeladyshayde Жыл бұрын

@@thefonzkiss Can’t be bothered.

@theRoyalHypnoCrown Жыл бұрын

Hello! I want to congratulate you on your videos, and also ask: have you ever done a video about the Guatemalan Mateo Flores stadium tragedy October 16 1996? I'd like to see your take on it. Keep up the great work!

@mklaebel Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing the story of that disaster on the news. I was a teenager at the time. Never been a fan of crowds and things like this just reinforce that feeling.

@daffers2345 Жыл бұрын

He has an email posted in the description. Try sending him an email to request this one. He was courteous enough to respond to my suggestions. :)

@dx1450 Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing one such incident on the news in the late 80's or early 90's, where people were pressed up against a fence and had no way out.

@daffers2345 Жыл бұрын

That may have been Hillsborough. There are some videos and footage online.

@denisepleines1513 Жыл бұрын

The Who concert? I think in Cincinnati 80a

@michellekellett1564 Жыл бұрын

St John Ambulance volunteers did more than expected of them that day and at Hillsborough. Respect to them.

@seandelap8587 Жыл бұрын

You never hear of disasters like this happening in rugby has there been any such tragedy in rugby that has happened which you could cover

@moodimoss406 Жыл бұрын

Hello, FH! I would like to submit an incident for your April 1st video. Have you heard of the Attack on the Halberd? Even though all of the crew and captain survived, the rebel who attacked it and caused it's sinking is still alive as well, even getting merch made of him! He's faced no repercussions for his actions since, because the media in the country where this happened, Dreamland, has painted him as a hero. But behind his cute facade is a heartless killer of waddle dees and the food they live on! That's all, FH. Have a nice day! :)

@appleandaria6947 11 ай бұрын

That's not going to work. Kirby is too iconic and it would probably be too obvious.

@moodimoss406 11 ай бұрын

@@appleandaria6947 Isn't about if it works or not I just think it would be funni.