I visited Pompeii a couple years ago and I was completely in awe. The ruines themselves are very impressive, but it was our amazing tour guide who made the city come back to life. She told us about daily life in the city so vividly I could easily imagine what life must've been like back then. I'd love to visit again some day because there was also a lot I didn't get to see. Although it's very tragic what happened there, it's mind blowing that we have such a place that's pretty much frozen in time.
The tour guides bring the passion and make the tours very interesting. Whilst we did our own Vlog, it was our tour guide that inspired us with the info he provided.
I watched a documentary on Pompeii and realized visiting Herculaneum would be more interesting than Pompeii. Pompeii has the ash people preserved, but Herculaneum has their city preserved in ash, showing original tile and streets where vendors sold goods. Community washing stations and furniture. If I ever visit this area, I'll be sure to see both sites.
yeah Pompei is bigger but herculaneum is more intact, even if is really small! You should visit both, they both deserve it, and if i can advice you, the site under the city of Naples is really interesting too, you can see both greek and roman cities. But are underground so you should be ok with close spaces.
I think I even saw on a documentary they had found wood from above a door that was preserved though brittle. The pyroclastic flow preserved some amazing finds in Herculaneum.
@@phoradio1277 there’s a gravel rd leading up there , some of it is a easy walk , some parts are really steep lol so yeah both . But there’s a consession stand at the top of the mt ❤️
I was in Pompeii and Sorento for months in 1998. I fell in love, but I had to go home. Went back in 2016 to see David Gilmour (Pink Floyd lead singer, lead guitarist) perform in the amphitheater.
Pompeii's misfortune was to be downwind from Vesuvius. The major city of Naples is actually closer but was not in the path of the debris field when the volcano blew. Pompeii was a prosperous resort for the wealthy, more like a Palm Springs. The commoners of Naples were spared.
Better still the eruption of ancient Krakatoa that supposedly happened in the 6th Century, which they believe was so massive it caused worldwide changes in climate!
I live just south of Mt St Helens in a town called Vancouver. I was 12 when she blew in 1980. My town survived because the eruption was a bilateral blast on the north side of the mountain.
I visited Pompei......you won't manage to see everything in one day. But there's a whole amphitheatre and you can see streets and shops and houses...it's pretty amazing. I was staying in Naples and we went on a day trip. Vesuvius towers over the whole area. It's a constant reminder of what may happen.
Random fun fact : Mount Vesuvius' eruption is only rated as VEI 5 and is around an order of magnitude smaller (10 times smaller) than Krakatoa, Novarupta, and Pinatubo which were VEI 6.
Don't forget Santa Maria. Three VEI 6 eruptions in 20th century. Although the VEI 6 eruption of Maria in 1902 was smaller than Pinatubo and Novarupta, it's still 10x stronger than Vesuvius.
During the Allied occupation of that territory in WW2, Sir Christopher Lee, while stationed there with the RAF (I believe, he may have been with the OSS by then), actually freakin *climbed* Vesuvius just days before that eruption. Yet another tally on Sir Lee's incredible life.
There's a super volcano in Italy too. Right across the bay of Naples from Mt. Vesuvius. It's called Campi Flegrei. There's actually several all over the planet. But super eruptions aren't very common. Most won't produce an eruption larger than a VEI5 and even more likely it would be lava flows. Human carbon emissions are going to mess with the planet way more than a single volcanic eruption.
It may be hard to do a timeline, but I would like to see a video on one of the major hurricanes of history. Like the Great Galveston hurricane, or hurricane Katrina.
I'd love to see that. I was born in Florida and still there. I was young as hell but I remember Andrew. Tore the screen door off of my grandma's front of the house. I've always been fascinated with them. There was a pretty tragic one in Key West back in the days. There's a documentary on here.
Or the 1938 New England hurricane - total surprise and moved up The Atlantic at over 60 mph before crashing ashore. "A Wind To Shake The World" is a great book about it.
The 1900 Galveston hurricane would be an excellent choice. Telling that storm's story would show how poor forecasting, senority and politics potentially cost thousands of people their lives.
Man, this is something. What a fascinating timeline of the history of Pompeii. I've heard about Pliny eruptions, mentioned that it happens every 1000 years and Mount Vesuvius is active. 3 million people who live below it are in active danger.
“And The Walls kept tumbling down in the City that we lost. Grey Clouds all over spilled from the darkness above”. Pompeii, a 2013 international Pop hit by Bastille.
Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii 1972 is an amazing movie. Just the band playing for the lost spirits of a ghost town destroyed over a thousand years before.
Your comment threads are always so dope! Just ppl trynna learn history! Thanks for teaching some dope topics and actually make it interesting for us to keep coming back!! You the best weird history!!
Our airfield at Rabaul was directly beneath the volcano. When it erupted in 1994 the entire airfield was buried in ash. Aircraft are still buried there for future archaeologists to find and dig up..
I live in The Netherlands, where on February 1st 1953 the sea came raging in. Surprising 1836 people at night and took them away, while leaving countless more homeless
It's weird to think of "tourist destinations" from thousands of years ago. It never occurred to me that people from that era traveled to popular vacation spots
This channel deserves more subs. 3.6 million isn't enough. I didn't actually know I liked history until I found this channel. I can only imagine how many teachers are putting on your videos to teach Children around the world. I wish I had this when I was in school!
I live in the Ozarks and the New Madrid Fault Line is something that has always haunted me, because it’s said that it will not only shake us in its own right, but will trigger the Yellowstone Super-volcano too. What a timeline. :D
Learning about history is still one of my most favorite past times, even coming back to old and famous topics is still one of my most favorite things to do.
Love these videos! 🥰👏🏻 Looking back in time is so insane to me. I can’t imagine how I would have lived during this time Vs back then 🤔 Awesome stuff! 🙃
TY for this video. Memories: I’m so glad that I visited Pompeii back in 1969. The professional tour was excellent and I took slides of the excavation to use in my high school art classes I taught in 1973-1982. My trip to Italy in 1974 I was just in Rome and other several other countries.
what a timing, we have a volcano eruption in Spain, right now, people have lost their houses and no one has an idea when the volcano will stop throwing lava
Can't wait for the Timeline for human being, from the stone age to extinction. Also, Pliny The Chads, saving and registering this whole event, surely wasnt fun
The closest volcano near me is Mt. St. Helen. It is connected to the Super Volcanoes of The Rocky Mountains of Yellowstone National Park. Kind of a scary place to live in the U.S.
Mt. St. Helens is in the Cascade range and isn't connected to Yellowstone. Yellowstone is a hot spot volcano that formed in a weak spot of the Earth's crust, like Hawaii. The Cascade volcanoes are subduction zone volcanoes caused by the Juan De Fuca plate sliding under the North American plate.
Lol if it ever goes off people 2000 years later will be like “why the hell did they live so close in the first place” as we did with the romans. Welp🤷🏼♂️
They built two towns next to the volcano - Naples & Pompeii. Actually Naples is closer to Mt. Vesuvius compared to Pompeii. But people of Naples were lucky.
There are actually good reasons to live on or near a volcano (especially in more ancient times) and that is that volcanic ash makes for really furtile soil.
Right, ppl still go back to rebuild on Mt. Etna. You'll see roofs of buildings sticking out of the black soil going up Etna. And why? They can grow lemons the size of footballs - it's incredibly fertile soil.
I’m from Costa Rica, which is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. There are around 100+ volcanoes, some are extinct, some dormant, but five of them are currently active. Not to mention earthquakes are a normal thing here, 10 000 or more per year! A very dangerous place to live…😅
Visited Pompeii recently and they have done some amazing restoration work, they have added roofs to some of the buildings. Creating them in the same way they did using the same methods back then. Very inspiring seeing the mosaic floors, underfloor heating systems in the bath houses. It must have been such a beautiful place to be.
@@simianto9957 The largest non-nuclear explosion that occured in 1917. 2 ships collided, one with 2600 tons of explosives on board. The resulting massive explosion caused the deaths of 2000 people and caused massive damage for miles around
I can understand them living around it during Roman times, because they had no understanding of anything beyond superstition, but they've now got a bloody great city all around it! Madness!
I used to live in Naples Italy for a short time and my family and I have actually hiked up the volcano. Now that I’m older that seems absolutely wild but it’s a cool thing to get to tell people
I remember visiting Pompeii years ago with my parents and the plaster casts are sobering. Although death would have been relatively quick, the expression on the faces of some of the victims and the plaster cast of a dog in its death throes indicates it would have been painful and distressing.
The 79AD eruption happened in late October or early November, not in August. A recent archeological find in Pompeii proves that the city was still intact in mid October of 79AD. There's always been doubt about the August date because chestnuts were on sale in the markets, and the left over from pressed grapes were found. Both the chestnuts and grapes are not ready for harvest until about October. There no way they could have been selling chestnuts or making wine in August.
I live in Greece, so our two major disasters are ( exept from fires ) earthquakes like the one in 99' & of course, the Thira ( Santorini ) Volcano, which last time, erupted in the 1950's.
i’d love to see a video of the Khmer Rouge! my family lived through and (fortunately) escaped that war in Cambodia and it’d great for others to learn about it! 🥺
Only approximately 15% of the city has been cleared of ash and detritus. That’s an incredible amount of undiscovered still buried history waiting to be re-discovered! One of my favorite places to read about
New Yorker did an article on pompeii's uncovered areas it was historically a "retreat area" and was popular with leisure pursuers and also buildings had some preserved art on walls of common gods.
In my part of the globe, the most talked about local natural disaster events are the Palm Sunday Tornadoes and the Blizzard of '78... Both of which happened before I was born.
Just left there, they're excavating right now, it's HUGE and they are not only renovating but also excavating the final 1/3 of the city still under ash. If you haven't seen it, go. It's incredibly moving.
I live in Evanston Wyoming and hearing that the Yellowstone volcano going off when it does will go far I'm curious if where I live will I be safe or have to evacuate
@@AbsyntheAndTears right but just the thought of being near a volcano now I can relate to the ppl of Pompeii but it would be interesting to see what it does and how big of eruption it will have
Since Yellowstone is a super volcano, The whole globe will be effected by either the initial blast or from the after effects. The Earth is likely to experience severe weather changes and an endless winter for years, depending on how much ash gets thrown into the atmosphere. The last time Yellowstone erupted hundreds of thousands of years ago it threw 240 cubic miles of ash and rock into the atmosphere, no one and no where on Earth would be unaffected by such a catastrophic event. Pray it doesn't happen for another couple hundred thousand years.
Without a doubt, if Yellowstone were to erupt, Wyoming will no longer exist. Shit, parts of Utah and Idaho will cease to exist as well. There's a great chance that when it does finally explode, it may leave a chasm like the Grand Canyon. It's gonna be extremely ugly.
I visited Pompeii back in 1985, it truly is an awe inspiring place. The streets flanked by ruined buildings are surreal. It is also very sad to see the plaster casts of the people who perished.
Mount Mazama erupted about ten thousand years ago creating Crater Lake here in Oregon, can you do a story about that as well as the possibility of other eruptions in the Pacific Northwest such as Mt. Shasta and others in the Cascade Mountain range?
Could you please do a video regarding the 1902 volcanic eruption that occurred on the Caribbean island of Martinique and one about the killer earthquake that wiped out parts of the Caribbean island Jamaica (sorry, but I can't remember the exact date of the earthquake)?
@ Weird History These aren't in the vein of a natural disaster, but would you consider doing a video on the Three Mile Island incident and the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire?
i am glad i got to visit pompeii in the 80's. today i live in washington state and not far from town there is a vulkano. been a long time since it erupted but mnt st helen war dormant for a very long time and then boom !
This was an interesting video. Everyone has heard of Pompeii, but I've never known the exact details. I wouldn't mind seeing another video on a historical disaster.
@@IrishMike22 It's not really a hard concept to understand... for example I did not know any names of survivors, how long people actually survived until the city was destroyed, when the site was rediscovered, etc.
They didn’t really know what was going on, knowledge of volcanoes was practically nonexistent, especially to everyday folks. When the ash came, they likely thought it would just blow over, they had no idea what was to come. Many did leave as it kept getting worse, some thought they could ride it out. It’s hard to just leave, especially when you have small kids, or are pregnant, etc. About the worst thing I saw there was a pregnant mom trying to shield her toddler, who was lying beneath her. I had a 2 year old at the time, I can’t imagine how scared and powerless she must have felt. Hopefully it was quick.
In my country one of the active volcano is called Taal located in Batangas City Philippines is quite interesting and horrifying at the same time, it blows-up last year and many people on that island got affected by it and destroyed their livelyhood.
I saw Pompeii in 2019 and it was heartbreaking.. there were WAY more casts of people than I thought there'd be.. including a pregnant woman and a dog.. 😩😭😭😭
It's amazing how many people stayed behind even with the amount of hours that went by before the flow. I'll never understand that but the same thing happens at other eruptions, even in modern times. People are stubborn. Also, this happened on my birthday 😑
most of them likely had no idea what was happening. They probably didn't even know Vesuvius was a volcano and that the black cloud blocking out the sun was the world coming to an end. Doesn't really matter where you are in that situation, whether you stay in your home or you're 100 miles away. If the world's coming to an end, there's not much you can do except pray to every God you can think of. If more of them had known and understood what was happening - that by getting far away they could survive - they likely would have done so. That's my theory anyway :)
I visited Pompeii a couple years ago and I was completely in awe. The ruines themselves are very impressive, but it was our amazing tour guide who made the city come back to life. She told us about daily life in the city so vividly I could easily imagine what life must've been like back then. I'd love to visit again some day because there was also a lot I didn't get to see. Although it's very tragic what happened there, it's mind blowing that we have such a place that's pretty much frozen in time.
The tour guides bring the passion and make the tours very interesting. Whilst we did our own Vlog, it was our tour guide that inspired us with the info he provided.
I watched a documentary on Pompeii and realized visiting Herculaneum would be more interesting than Pompeii. Pompeii has the ash people preserved, but Herculaneum has their city preserved in ash, showing original tile and streets where vendors sold goods. Community washing stations and furniture. If I ever visit this area, I'll be sure to see both sites.
yeah Pompei is bigger but herculaneum is more intact, even if is really small! You should visit both, they both deserve it, and if i can advice you, the site under the city of Naples is really interesting too, you can see both greek and roman cities. But are underground so you should be ok with close spaces.
I think I even saw on a documentary they had found wood from above a door that was preserved though brittle. The pyroclastic flow preserved some amazing finds in Herculaneum.
My understanding is that Herculaneum was the more posh resort city while Pompeii was "middle class".
Don't forget that library which might have belonged to Julius Caesar's father in law...
I wanna go to all these places cause yall now
He’ll never run out of ideas way to much history to discuss
Waaaaay to many history bro 😎😂
Unless he smokes to many weeds
Thank God
This reminds me of that family guy episode and those swedish guys trying to be cool in america
Do none of you honestly not know it's "too"?
I’ve actually climbed Vesuvius back in 2012 , there’s a little pine tree inside of it ❤️
Not trolling but actually curious, climbed or hiked?
@@phoradio1277 im pretty sure both terms are correct
@@phoradio1277 there’s a gravel rd leading up there , some of it is a easy walk , some parts are really steep lol so yeah both . But there’s a consession stand at the top of the mt ❤️
I was in Pompeii and Sorento for months in 1998. I fell in love, but I had to go home. Went back in 2016 to see David Gilmour (Pink Floyd lead singer, lead guitarist) perform in the amphitheater.
@@williamthompson5504 that sounds awesome I bet that’s a great memory!! :D
Just saw an amazing exhibit in San Francisco of recently found treasures from Pompeii. The art was beautiful
Pompeii's misfortune was to be downwind from Vesuvius. The major city of Naples is actually closer but was not in the path of the debris field when the volcano blew. Pompeii was a prosperous resort for the wealthy, more like a Palm Springs. The commoners of Naples were spared.
It'd be interesting to see timelines of past natural disasters and make them into a series! I'd love to see one for the Krakatoa eruption!
Better still the eruption of ancient Krakatoa that supposedly happened in the 6th Century, which they believe was so massive it caused worldwide changes in climate!
"Probably seemed like the end of the world...."
If they died, for them it was.
In any case it was the end of their world.
Wb the poor bastard who survived ran far away and was decapitated by a block of granit being blown upwards and out
@@chadwickmacarthur4760 some guys have all the luck.
I mean, it's not always good luck, but you know 😉
I live just south of Mt St Helens in a town called Vancouver. I was 12 when she blew in 1980. My town survived because the eruption was a bilateral blast on the north side of the mountain.
I visited Pompei......you won't manage to see everything in one day. But there's a whole amphitheatre and you can see streets and shops and houses...it's pretty amazing. I was staying in Naples and we went on a day trip. Vesuvius towers over the whole area. It's a constant reminder of what may happen.
Random fun fact : Mount Vesuvius' eruption is only rated as VEI 5 and is around an order of magnitude smaller (10 times smaller) than Krakatoa, Novarupta, and Pinatubo which were VEI 6.
Thanks. I’ll surely sleep calmly tonight.
Don't forget Santa Maria. Three VEI 6 eruptions in 20th century. Although the VEI 6 eruption of Maria in 1902 was smaller than Pinatubo and Novarupta, it's still 10x stronger than Vesuvius.
@@maxwellmueller9384 go read about Yellowstone and what happensifit blows
When I see Pinatubo, I like
@@iambored2094 If Yellowstone blows Yogi Bear........🤔 Wait let me start over 😂
During the Allied occupation of that territory in WW2, Sir Christopher Lee, while stationed there with the RAF (I believe, he may have been with the OSS by then), actually freakin *climbed* Vesuvius just days before that eruption. Yet another tally on Sir Lee's incredible life.
This makes the super 🌋 under Yellowstone even more terrifying 😱
It would require bout 10 modern nukes to activate it all at once and right weather
There's a super volcano in Italy too. Right across the bay of Naples from Mt. Vesuvius. It's called Campi Flegrei. There's actually several all over the planet. But super eruptions aren't very common. Most won't produce an eruption larger than a VEI5 and even more likely it would be lava flows. Human carbon emissions are going to mess with the planet way more than a single volcanic eruption.
It may be hard to do a timeline, but I would like to see a video on one of the major hurricanes of history. Like the Great Galveston hurricane, or hurricane Katrina.
This would be an awesome topic.
I'd love to see that. I was born in Florida and still there. I was young as hell but I remember Andrew. Tore the screen door off of my grandma's front of the house. I've always been fascinated with them. There was a pretty tragic one in Key West back in the days. There's a documentary on here.
Or the 1938 New England hurricane - total surprise and moved up The Atlantic at over 60 mph before crashing ashore. "A Wind To Shake The World" is a great book about it.
The 1900 Galveston hurricane would be an excellent choice.
Telling that storm's story would show how poor forecasting, senority and politics potentially cost thousands of people their lives.
Check out Houston Public Radio’s series about the most devastating hurricanes that hit Texas.
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Man, this is something. What a fascinating timeline of the history of Pompeii. I've heard about Pliny eruptions, mentioned that it happens every 1000 years and Mount Vesuvius is active. 3 million people who live below it are in active danger.
A+ video!
What a scary event, I can understand why it hasn't been forgotten!
I grew up here in Central New York and the worst thing that we get here is heavy snowstorms! Pretty thankful for that.
"We're in Pompeii... And it's Volcano Day!"
“And The Walls kept tumbling down in the City that we lost. Grey Clouds all over spilled from the darkness above”. Pompeii, a 2013 international Pop hit by Bastille.
Looking for this comment!
Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii 1972 is an amazing movie. Just the band playing for the lost spirits of a ghost town destroyed over a thousand years before.
Your comment threads are always so dope! Just ppl trynna learn history!
Thanks for teaching some dope topics and actually make it interesting for us to keep coming back!! You the best weird history!!
“It was an explosive event. Lots of hot people on Pompeii.” - Pliny the Joker
Our airfield at Rabaul was directly beneath the volcano. When it erupted in 1994 the entire airfield was buried in ash. Aircraft are still buried there for future archaeologists to find and dig up..
I live in The Netherlands, where on February 1st 1953 the sea came raging in. Surprising 1836 people at night and took them away, while leaving countless more homeless
It's weird to think of "tourist destinations" from thousands of years ago. It never occurred to me that people from that era traveled to popular vacation spots
And it’s still a tourist destination to this day
This channel deserves more subs. 3.6 million isn't enough. I didn't actually know I liked history until I found this channel. I can only imagine how many teachers are putting on your videos to teach Children around the world. I wish I had this when I was in school!
I live in the Ozarks and the New Madrid Fault Line is something that has always haunted me, because it’s said that it will not only shake us in its own right, but will trigger the Yellowstone Super-volcano too. What a timeline. :D
Learning about history is still one of my most favorite past times, even coming back to old and famous topics is still one of my most favorite things to do.
Love these videos! 🥰👏🏻 Looking back in time is so insane to me. I can’t imagine how I would have lived during this time Vs back then 🤔 Awesome stuff! 🙃
TY for this video. Memories: I’m so glad that I visited Pompeii back in 1969. The professional tour was excellent and I took slides of the excavation to use in my high school art classes I taught in 1973-1982. My trip to Italy in 1974 I was just in Rome and other several other countries.
Thank you for the visual. TOTALLY AWESOME. Philadelphia USA
what a timing, we have a volcano eruption in Spain, right now, people have lost their houses and no one has an idea when the volcano will stop throwing lava
Wow I saw the Pompeii site and that scary af volcano in May of 2012. It was kinda creepy when I saw the casts of some of the victims 😢
Pliny the Younger is basically Pliny Jr.
today, he'd go by the name "lil pliny"
Yep
I totally love this channel. 💖🙏🏻
Can't wait for the Timeline for human being, from the stone age to extinction.
Also, Pliny The Chads, saving and registering this whole event, surely wasnt fun
The closest volcano near me is Mt. St. Helen. It is connected to the Super Volcanoes of The Rocky Mountains of Yellowstone National Park. Kind of a scary place to live in the U.S.
Mt. St. Helens is in the Cascade range and isn't connected to Yellowstone. Yellowstone is a hot spot volcano that formed in a weak spot of the Earth's crust, like Hawaii. The Cascade volcanoes are subduction zone volcanoes caused by the Juan De Fuca plate sliding under the North American plate.
Lol if it ever goes off people 2000 years later will be like “why the hell did they live so close in the first place” as we did with the romans. Welp🤷🏼♂️
If Yellowstone goes, being in almost half the U.S. would be scary to live in.
@@cheesecream8472 I live 150 miles from Yellowstone so if it erupts, there will be no hope for me, I'll be a crispy critter!!😵
@@dazednotconfused1503 it did in 1980, people moved right back...
HUMANS: Let's build something near the volcano
MT. VESUVIUS: When will they ever learn?
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Greeks and romans didn't know that it was a volcano
It was those fertile soils
They built two towns next to the volcano - Naples & Pompeii. Actually Naples is closer to Mt. Vesuvius compared to Pompeii. But people of Naples were lucky.
That volcano definitely had read about 'scorched earth' tactics. 🤷♀️
Im excited for this. I visited pompeii a few years ago and it was incredible yet spooky in some way
There are actually good reasons to live on or near a volcano (especially in more ancient times) and that is that volcanic ash makes for really furtile soil.
Yeah, but the whole "being incinerated in under a second" thing is a hangup for some folks......
@@IrishMike22 picky picky... 😂
@@Draxxdemsklounst right? I say roast some weenies and make some smores 🤣
Right, ppl still go back to rebuild on Mt. Etna. You'll see roofs of buildings sticking out of the black soil going up Etna. And why? They can grow lemons the size of footballs - it's incredibly fertile soil.
@@jenniferlonnes7420 now I want a giant glass of lemonade
My grandpa in wwii was stationed near Pompeii and it erupted on him putting holes in their tents and it was pretty scary
*The floor is lava*
Coolest game in 79 AD Pompeii.
😂
I guess the ceiling too
You did not @@panagiotispengu282
Best ancient history story come from this channel i Love it
I’m from Costa Rica, which is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. There are around 100+ volcanoes, some are extinct, some dormant, but five of them are currently active. Not to mention earthquakes are a normal thing here, 10 000 or more per year! A very dangerous place to live…😅
Visited Pompeii recently and they have done some amazing restoration work, they have added roofs to some of the buildings. Creating them in the same way they did using the same methods back then. Very inspiring seeing the mosaic floors, underfloor heating systems in the bath houses. It must have been such a beautiful place to be.
This is a place that’s on my bucket list to visit. So much history in one place!!
Awesome to see all these videos. How about a timeline of the Halifax Explosion?
Ah yes, the Canadian Pompeii
Halifax?
@@simianto9957 The largest non-nuclear explosion that occured in 1917. 2 ships collided, one with 2600 tons of explosives on board. The resulting massive explosion caused the deaths of 2000 people and caused massive damage for miles around
@@ss-2203 oh rip
I really enjoyed Fascinating Horror’s video of this! Give it a look
If I could go back in time I would visit Pompeii and Herculaneum before the eruption. I would love to see how they lived.
I can understand them living around it during Roman times, because they had no understanding of anything beyond superstition, but they've now got a bloody great city all around it! Madness!
There are towns and homes all over dozens of volcanoes. Rolling the dice for that beautiful view and rich soil.....
I used to live in Naples Italy for a short time and my family and I have actually hiked up the volcano. Now that I’m older that seems absolutely wild but it’s a cool thing to get to tell people
Yeah thats amazing but sounds like a scenic hike😂
Excellent video!
I remember visiting Pompeii years ago with my parents and the plaster casts are sobering. Although death would have been relatively quick, the expression on the faces of some of the victims and the plaster cast of a dog in its death throes indicates it would have been painful and distressing.
The 79AD eruption happened in late October or early November, not in August. A recent archeological find in Pompeii proves that the city was still intact in mid October of 79AD.
There's always been doubt about the August date because chestnuts were on sale in the markets, and the left over from pressed grapes were found. Both the chestnuts and grapes are not ready for harvest until about October. There no way they could have been selling chestnuts or making wine in August.
The records say otherwise.
I live in Greece, so our two major disasters are ( exept from fires ) earthquakes like the one in 99' & of course, the Thira ( Santorini ) Volcano, which last time, erupted in the 1950's.
What painting is this? It's sad, but beautiful!
i’d love to see a video of the Khmer Rouge! my family lived through and (fortunately) escaped that war in Cambodia and it’d great for others to learn about it! 🥺
Only approximately 15% of the city has been cleared of ash and detritus. That’s an incredible amount of undiscovered still buried history waiting to be re-discovered! One of my favorite places to read about
New Yorker did an article on pompeii's uncovered areas it was historically a "retreat area" and was popular with leisure pursuers and also buildings had some preserved art on walls of common gods.
Hello i love ur vids keep it up and u taught me more than my school taught me
In my part of the globe, the most talked about local natural disaster events are the Palm Sunday Tornadoes and the Blizzard of '78... Both of which happened before I was born.
Giant mountain has eaten 20,000 ppl and a military base.they still decide to put 3 million ppl near it in modern times. What's history?!
“Imagine dying from inhalation of smoke, what a horrible way to go” - me watching this video while smoking a cigarette
My namesake! Thanks for this. 🌋
Just left there, they're excavating right now, it's HUGE and they are not only renovating but also excavating the final 1/3 of the city still under ash. If you haven't seen it, go. It's incredibly moving.
I live in Evanston Wyoming and hearing that the Yellowstone volcano going off when it does will go far I'm curious if where I live will I be safe or have to evacuate
Probably even people in Phoenix will have to evacuate when that one blows
@@AbsyntheAndTears right but just the thought of being near a volcano now I can relate to the ppl of Pompeii but it would be interesting to see what it does and how big of eruption it will have
Since Yellowstone is a super volcano, The whole globe will be effected by either the initial blast or from the after effects. The Earth is likely to experience severe weather changes and an endless winter for years, depending on how much ash gets thrown into the atmosphere. The last time Yellowstone erupted hundreds of thousands of years ago it threw 240 cubic miles of ash and rock into the atmosphere, no one and no where on Earth would be unaffected by such a catastrophic event. Pray it doesn't happen for another couple hundred thousand years.
cucumber yes and seeing videos on it scares me so that's why I'm curious about it of its next eruption
Without a doubt, if Yellowstone were to erupt, Wyoming will no longer exist. Shit, parts of Utah and Idaho will cease to exist as well. There's a great chance that when it does finally explode, it may leave a chasm like the Grand Canyon. It's gonna be extremely ugly.
Weird history channel > History channel
I visited Pompeii back in 1985, it truly is an awe inspiring place. The streets flanked by ruined buildings are surreal. It is also very sad to see the plaster casts of the people who perished.
I live in Manitoba. The only danger here is the cold.
Please do a video on Port Royal, Jamaica, when an earthquake caused a good third of the city to slide into the sea because of liquefaction.
But if you close your eyes
Does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?
I think it would be interesting to see a video about Herculaneum.
It would pretty much be exactly the same as _this video_ (except substituting Pompeii for Herculaneum)
Every time I see Vesuvius it reminds me of Friends when Joey was talking about Mount Vesuvius from the encyclopedia he read 😂
Nahhhhh I think I'm gonna stick with the V and see how it ends😂👍
@@phoradio1277 😂😂😂
What is really amazing is how we can know what happened that long ago but things a hundred years ago are still such a mystery…
Mount Mazama erupted about ten thousand years ago creating Crater Lake here in Oregon, can you do a story about that as well as the possibility of other eruptions in the Pacific Northwest such as Mt. Shasta and others in the Cascade Mountain range?
Love your channel! The biggest natural disaster living near me ... is me! :)
Could you please do a video regarding the 1902 volcanic eruption that occurred on the Caribbean island of Martinique and one about the killer earthquake that wiped out parts of the Caribbean island Jamaica (sorry, but I can't remember the exact date of the earthquake)?
@ Weird History These aren't in the vein of a natural disaster, but would you consider doing a video on the Three Mile Island incident and the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire?
I would think that the heat would reach them before the ash and lava. Thank you for the video! ✌🏻💙💡
i am glad i got to visit pompeii in the 80's. today i live in washington state and not far from town there is a vulkano. been a long time since it erupted but mnt st helen war dormant for a very long time and then boom !
This was an interesting video. Everyone has heard of Pompeii, but I've never known the exact details. I wouldn't mind seeing another video on a historical disaster.
"Everyone" has heard of Pompeii but you've never known the details? Doesn't make sense mate.
@@IrishMike22 It's not really a hard concept to understand... for example I did not know any names of survivors, how long people actually survived until the city was destroyed, when the site was rediscovered, etc.
The question here is... why they didn't evacuate immediately in the first place?
hedons do this because they love comfort of their home too much to give it up even in bad situations.
They didn’t really know what was going on, knowledge of volcanoes was practically nonexistent, especially to everyday folks. When the ash came, they likely thought it would just blow over, they had no idea what was to come. Many did leave as it kept getting worse, some thought they could ride it out. It’s hard to just leave, especially when you have small kids, or are pregnant, etc. About the worst thing I saw there was a pregnant mom trying to shield her toddler, who was lying beneath her. I had a 2 year old at the time, I can’t imagine how scared and powerless she must have felt. Hopefully it was quick.
Of the 4 videos I've watched about Pompeii, Weird History gave me half of them...
Absolutely insane to me that people still choose to live there. We really are a stubborn species.
Centralia mine fire
Or Johnstown flood
might be a good topic for the future 😉
In my country one of the active volcano is called Taal located in Batangas City Philippines is quite interesting and horrifying at the same time, it blows-up last year and many people on that island got affected by it and destroyed their livelyhood.
Great video!
I saw Pompeii in 2019 and it was heartbreaking.. there were WAY more casts of people than I thought there'd be.. including a pregnant woman and a dog.. 😩😭😭😭
Make a video about the "Perfect Storm" saga.
@Weird History; 4:24 "inches, miles"; Please include metric measurement units in the video.
That is so sad. Alexa, play, "Cities in Dust" by Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Surprised you didn't mention the art work found in the excavation of Pompeii, the stuff they didn't want the public to see.
I live in FL and there have been some pretty insane hurricanes here in the last century - you should make a video on them!
It's amazing how many people stayed behind even with the amount of hours that went by before the flow. I'll never understand that but the same thing happens at other eruptions, even in modern times. People are stubborn.
Also, this happened on my birthday 😑
most of them likely had no idea what was happening. They probably didn't even know Vesuvius was a volcano and that the black cloud blocking out the sun was the world coming to an end. Doesn't really matter where you are in that situation, whether you stay in your home or you're 100 miles away. If the world's coming to an end, there's not much you can do except pray to every God you can think of. If more of them had known and understood what was happening - that by getting far away they could survive - they likely would have done so. That's my theory anyway :)
I live in Washington DC. Does the US Congress classify as a close by natural disaster.
Yes
Yes!
"that vesuvius is so hot right now..."
- pliny mugatu, AD 79 -
Why did I feel so surprised someone from that time period would use the word, “blotched”?
Amazing
Have you done the hindenburg?
I live next to Yellowstone
same lol