Have you ever wondered why school buses stop and o...  ...ll, 25 students, plus the driver, perished in the tragedy .That accident directly led to the regulation that...

There are plenty of lighthouses left along the ear...  ...xample, Flannan Island Lighthouse in Scotland saw tragedy only a year after it became operational. The ligh...

Want to relive some of history's greatest disasters in all their glory but don't want to deal with the whole death and injury thing? Then check out Disaster Dioramas and their collection of all kinds of historical traged...

Atlas Obscura has a roundup of tragic love tales from classic literature. In Ovid's story of Pyramus and Thisbe, two young lovers, forbidden to marry because of family rivalries whisper their forbidden love through crac...

You think you've got it bad? What if a bat took off with your monocle and it's not even insured? This is the first example I saw of the comics of Ben Dewey at Things Could Be Worse. The tragic things that happen in e...

When we think about presidential tragedies, we most often go straight to the assassinations - especially Abraham Lincoln and JFK. But those are certainly not the only disasters to happen to a president. These sad tales a...

We may not be at the top of the food chain, exactl...  ...oning the following day.People capitalized on the tragedy , though – many of the residents ran out to...  ...judge presiding over the trial declared the whole tragedy an Act of God, finding the company free of fault....