Grim Fixtures

The forgotten disasters behind ordinary things. A new story every day.

Near Dayton, Ohio, there are five dams that were built without gates, and on Wall Street there is a stone wall that nobody ever repaired. The time on your phone matches the time in the next town over. Grim Fixtures tells the story behind one thing like that every day, in about ten minutes. It starts with the thing you can still find and works back to the day that put it there.