Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The ground rumbles. A dark wave bears down upon you. There is nowhere to run. You're in the Boston Molasses Flood.

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Writer: Louise Hung
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Selected Sources/Further Reading

Puleo, Stephen
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Beacon Press. January 15, 2019

"The Great Molasses Flood"
vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2019/01/the-great-molasses-flood

"100 Years Ago Today: Molasses Crashes Through Boston's North End"
boston.gov/news/100-years-ago-today-molasses-crashes-through-bostons-north-end

"The Great Molasses Flood of 1919"
historiansforhistory.wordpress.com/2024/03/19/the-great-molasses-flood-of-1919-by-jessica-wadley

"‘There was no escape from the wave’: These are the 21 victims of the Great Boston Molasses Flood"
boston.com/news/history/2019/01/13/victims-great-boston-molasses-flood-1919

"‘Masses of wreckage’: The painstaking cleanup and tragic aftermath of Boston’s Great Molasses Flood"
boston.com/news/history/2019/01/14/great-molasses-flood-cleanup-aftermath

"What people saw and felt in the first moments of Boston’s deadly Great Molasses Flood"
boston.com/news/history/2019/01/13/first-hand-accounts-great-boston-molasses-flood

"The Science of the Great Molasses Flood"
scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science