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Fascinating Horror (Web Video)

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Fascinating Horror (also known as Kristian Crow) is a YouTuber from the UK who produces short documentaries primarily focused on historical accidents, disasters, and other tragedies. A key feature of the channel is doing away with the sort of sensationalism that might be present in other videos of the same type, instead putting emphasis on respectful presentation and thorough research. New episodes are released on Tuesdays.Since the channel's debut in January 2019, it has gained 660,000 subscribers as of October 2021. There is also a German-language version of the channel called Faszinierender Schrecken.
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Drunk Driver: The 1987 Chase, Maryland train collision was the result of Conrail operators Ricky Gates and Edward Cromwell being stoned on the job. Gates later admitted that it wasn't his first time smoking pot on duty, and it's unlikely to have been Cromwell's first either. In addition to this, Gates had a history of driving his car under the influence of alcohol. As a result of the accident, random drug tests were implemented to prevent further cases of drivers being high on the job.
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Madness Mantra
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Madness Mantra: Saudia Flight 163 flight engineer Bradley Curtis repeated the phrase "No problem, no problem, no problem" in what appeared to be an attempt to calm himself, unfortunately likely exacerbating Captain Khowyter's obliviousness to how bad the situation was.
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Heroic Dog
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Heroic Dog: One short is about Juliana the Great Dane, who saved her owners from a bomb in World War II, and later from a fire in their shoe shop.
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Death of a Child: A few of the incidents covered, such as the Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour disaster, the Victoria Hall disaster, or the Iroquois Theatre fire, involve multiple casualties of children or teenagers.
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Bittersweet Ending: As tragic as many of the topics are, there is a running theme that the deaths and injuries were not in vain, as they led to improved safety standards or equipment that help prevent or mitigate similar accidents.
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They Just Don't Get It
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They Just Dont Get It: Even though his plane was on fire and he needed to get everyone off as quickly as humanly possible, Captain Khowyter of Saudia Flight 163 treated the emergency landing as just a regular landing. He wasted time he could have spent depressurising the plane doing things like turning the "no smoking" lights on, and taxied off the runway rather than making an emergency stop, wasting valuable seconds that likely would have meant at least someone got off instead of choking to death on butane and plastic combustion byproducts. In general, he seemed to be utterly oblivious to just how bad the situation was; he didn't order an emergency evacuation, and in fact uttered the words "Tell them to not evacuate" at one point.
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Early-Installment Weirdness
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The first year or so of videos used different intro music than the well-known "Glass Pond". Also, a few episodes fall outside of the theme of accidents and disasters, like one about the disappearance of tourist Lars Mittank or a feature about serial killer Ed Gein. He began to use "Glass Pond" from the Zeebrugge Ferry video onwards.
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Public Domain Soundtrack
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Public Domain Soundtrack: The public domain track "Glass Pond" by Public Memory has been used as background music since the Zeebrugge Ferry episode from May 2020, and is considered the unofficial theme of the channel as a whole.
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Formula-Breaking Episode
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Formula-Breaking Episode: The final video of each calendar year is about something where no life was lost, such as the Miracle on the Hudson plane crash.
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Horror Host
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Horror Host: The host is one of the more sedate and respectful examples of the trope, since he narrates real-life tragedies.
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Not Me This Time
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Not Me This Time: While most of the theme park incidents are blamed on negligence on the park's part, the 2008 Batman Rollercoaster decapitation incident was entirely down to two park goers ignoring the warning signs about trespassing. Likewise, unlike most train and bridge incidents where negligence can be blamed, the Tangiwai Bridge disaster was not really blamed on anyone because the bridge in question had been built with safety standards and knowledge of the impact of floods and lahars of the time it was built (1908). People back then never could have anticipated the magnitude of the lahar that caused the collapse of the bridge in 1953. A natural disaster at its finest. The Mount Erebus disaster, rather than negligence, can be traced to genuine transcription errors, first in the initial flight pattern being input incorrectly, then in a pilot incorrectly inputting a change, inexperienced pilots trusting the route they were given, and whiteout affecting their judgement. That Air New Zealand failed to catch this, and tried to blame the pilots of the crash for this disaster, though, was negligence.
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My God, What Have I Done?
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My God, What Have I Done?: Ricky Gates became a substance abuse counsellor as a result of his role in the 1987 Maryland train crash, which was caused by him and his brakeman being stoned on the job, and admitted in an interview with The Baltimore Sun, "I wouldn't trade a day of what I'm going through now for any of those so-called 'good times' I had in the past."
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Deadpan Snarker
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The "Fascinating Failures" spin-off series hosted on the secondary channel, focused more on gaffes made by companies and people making (non-fatal) mistakes rather than tragic disasters, tend to be much more light-hearted than the main series, featuring brighter cartoon artwork to accompany them and the host's normally morose narration is much more cheerful, snarky, and humorous.
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No OSHA Compliance: Automatically applies to any covered accident that took place before OSHA was founded.
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Compressed Adaptation: The April Fools' Day 2022 video covering "The Isla Nublar Incident" does not go into detail about Dennis Nedry's role in sabotaging Jurassic Park's systems, and does not name any character except for John Hammond. Specific details about the damage the dinosaurs caused are also left vague.
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick
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Hypercompetent Sidekick: The flight attendants of Saudia Flight 163, who kept passengers as calm as possible and tried to fight the fire, all while dealing with a captain who had to have things repeated to him, didn't clearly order them to evacuate, and was seemingly oblivious to the severity of the situation. Though their efforts ultimately did not save anyone on the flight (including themselves), they received posthumous commendations for their actions.
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Lighter and Softer: At least one episode released around the winter holidays each year will feature a gentler topic, such as an accident that didn't result in loss of life. The "Fascinating Failures" spin-off series hosted on the secondary channel, focused more on gaffes made by companies and people making (non-fatal) mistakes rather than tragic disasters, tend to be much more light-hearted than the main series, featuring brighter cartoon artwork to accompany them and the host's normally morose narration is much more cheerful, snarky, and humorous.
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Skeletons in the Coat Closet
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Skeletons in the Coat Closet: The "Secret of Pirates of the Caribbean" short episode has the titular ride use actual human skeletons during its earlier years, as the technology wasn't advanced enough to make a realistic artificial skeleton, so they used some human skeletons donated to them by the UCLA Medical Center. After technology caught up to make realistic fake skeletons, the skeletons were repatriated for burial.
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April Fools' Day
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April Fools' Day: "The Amity Bay Shark Attacks", a mockumentary that presents the events of Jaws as if they really happened, was the gag for 2021. Apart from the subject, it's identical in style to the other real episodes. For 2022, they covered "The Isla Nublar Incident". At the end of the video, the narrator even mentions that the 1993 incident "was not the last mass casualty event at the island". 2023 gave us their coverage of "The Sinking of the SS Poseidon". For 2024, they covered "The Glass Tower Disaster".
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Creepy Crows
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Creepy Crows: He uses crows as a channel icon.
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