When Sweet Turned Deadly: The Great Boston Molasses Flood

On a sultry January day in 1919, the unthinkable took place in Boston's North End. A massive reservoir overflowing with delicious molasses ruptured suddenly, unleashing a wall of thick, brown goo that consumed the streets below. Scores of people met their fate in the unforeseen disaster, buried under the unexpected force of the molasses. The sight

read more