Aberfan: The Disaster That Was Allowed to Happen

<p>On a foggy Friday morning in nineteen sixty-six, a mountain of colliery waste slid down onto a Welsh mining village and engulfed the school directly below it. A hundred and forty-four people died. A hundred and sixteen of them were children.</p><p>It was not an act of God. It had been warned about, in writing, for years. August Mercer tells the story of how completely, and how obviously, Aberfan could have been prevented. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.</p><p><em>Followed for a new story every day. A Dark Whisper Studios production.</em></p><p><em>#history #truehistory #truestories</em></p>