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Amusement Park Disasters (Volume 2) : Theme Parks

Explore episode Jun 22, 2026

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Bogdan Dellerot and the Rivers of America (1973)

At 24:42 · chapter starts 24:10

Seven years after Thomas Cleveland's death, two brothers found a different way to try to get free entertainment at Disneyland. Bogdan Dellerot, 18, and his 10-year-old brother Dorian took the ferry to Tom Sawyer's Island in June 1973 and hid from security until after the park closed. Then they entered the water to swim back to shore. Dorian quickly exhausted himself, and Bogdan tried to carry him by having Dorian wrap his arms around his neck — a decision that proved fatal. Both became too tired to continue. Park security heard Dorian's cries and rescued him by boat, but Bogdan had already slipped beneath the surface. His body was found the following morning, lodged in the rapid section of the river. A decade later in 1984, a similar tragedy would strike the same waterway when two drunk visitors stole a maintenance boat, hit a rock, and one drowned.

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