EPISODE · Jan 10, 2023 · 26 MIN
Plain Hell: The St. Elizabeth's Hospital Fire of 1950
from Strange and Dreadful Things · host John Brassard Jr
in the early hours of January 7, 1950, flames illuminated the night sky around Mercy Hosptial. An orderly was one of the first to see a mental hospital on the grounds engulfed in fire, but he would be far from the last. By the next morning, it would become one of the worst hospital fires in United States History.
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Plain Hell: The St. Elizabeth's Hospital Fire of 1950
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