Pompeii Ep 1 | The Mountain Wakes (Start Here)
from Survive the Story: Choose Your Path Through History Hosted by Four Fireflies Media
Start here: Pompeii, Episode 1. At the end, you choose: Episode 2 or Episode 3. You're a kid working in your family's bakery in the Roman town of Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupts and stones start falling from the sky. Your father wants to run for the harbor, but across the street your neighbor's dog, Bruno, is chained in a doorway. What do you do? Heads-up: this story is set during a real disaster in which real people died. Fun fact: we never say the date of the eruption, because historians are still arguing about it. Old copies of Pliny's letter say August. A charcoal scribble found in Pompeii in 2018, plus autumn fruit and warm clothing in the ruins, point to October. In 2024 the director of the Pompeii archaeological park reopened the case for August. The jury is still out. Sources: Pliny the Younger, Letters 6.16 and 6.20; Michigan Tech's AD 79 eruption timeline; Herculaneum Archaeological Park; Live Science (Steven Tuck) on where Pompeii's refugees fled; Archaeology Magazine (2023) on the Pompeii bakery mill; USGS volcano safety guidance. How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release. © 2026 720 Connections LLC
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