The Sinking of the Lusitania
Added 2023-12-05 11:15:05 +0000 UTCAs with many disasters, there are a few stories about people who – at the very last minute – decided not to board the doomed ship. One that I found particularly interesting is a story concerning a woman named Alta Piper, daughter of the famous psychic medium Leonora Piper.
Alta was due to sail on the Lusitania, but didn’t board. She later claimed that she heard a voice the night before informing her that if she entered her berth she would never emerge alive.
Deeply unsettled, Alta tried everything she could think of to miss her sailing. She protested that she didn’t have her passport, but Cunard agents told her it could be delivered to her destination. She said she was running late, but was advised that the sailing had been delayed two hours. And then, finally, she simply packed and repacked her case until it was too late to board.
Whether the story of the mysterious voice warning her of danger is true or not, I can’t help but find Alta’s attempts to miss her sailing (without just refusing to sail) oddly relatable!
Comments
Another interesting one - with quite a few things in common with the Tenerife Airport Disaster. Will add it to the list!
Fascinating Horror
2023-12-11 16:36:21 +0000 UTCThanks for sharing this. I used a few snippets from this animation (which is now out of copyright) to accompany the account of a sailor who survived the sinking on my other channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKpcoZDW6KY. It was only after reading comments like this that I realised just how important and influential that animation was!
Fascinating Horror
2023-12-11 16:12:55 +0000 UTCI am so impressed at how you cover all the political and military circumstances leading to the sinking in a short video. Wanted to share a really interesting memorial. Animation pioneer Winsor McCay produced a haunting re-creation of the death of the Lusitania. https://youtu.be/wq7hMuiz1mI?si=yqkRyb397tdYO6Xp
Elizabeth Finkler Hanasaki
2023-12-05 17:21:44 +0000 UTCHow about a video on the 1996 Quincy Airport disaster? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Quincy_Airport_disaster
Michael Rutherford
2023-12-05 14:15:14 +0000 UTC
