This Volcano Killed 100,000 People in One Night

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]This volcano killed 100,000 [music] people in one night, and that was just the warm-up. April [snorts] 1815, Indonesia, Mount Tambora explodes with the force of 50,000 Hiroshima bombs. The blast erased [music] everything within 600 km. An entire language died that night, gone forever. The sun went dark for 2 years, the planet froze, India's monsoon collapsed, [music] unleashing that killed millions. In America, snow fell in June. People ate cats, then rats, then each other.

[00:00:39]In Switzerland, a mother cooked soup from her own children.

[00:00:42]Documented. Tambora is [music] not the strongest volcano on Earth. Beneath Yellowstone sleeps a beast 100 times bigger.

[00:00:52]And it's waking up.

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