In the course of listening to podcasts you discover long-ago stories that have been forgotten or filed away in the dusty annals of history. Listening to one I follow called Cautionary Tales I found out about a horrible disaster that happened at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency back in July of 1981 that killed 114 people and injured another 216. The details are sad and gruesome...but darkly fascinating in a way I found made me uncomfortable. We all slow down to look at accidents, I know —some more than others— but I don't tend to dwell on genres like horror or true crime partly deliberately in the belief that there's something a little sick about obsessing over these darker human impulses. During the first specific (if not particularly graphic) description of the injuries suffered by people crushed by 60-tonnes walkways that collapsed onto partygoers in the lobby of the hotel I could have stopped, but I didn't. Is this a laudable determination to face the truth of an event no ...
