diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 671d48a..70d2cd5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ ambiguous situations.
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Fixed
+- Forum crawling crashing when parsing empty (= 0 messages) threads
+
 ## 3.4.1 - 2022-08-17
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/PFERD/crawl/ilias/kit_ilias_html.py b/PFERD/crawl/ilias/kit_ilias_html.py
index 7bab152..8795512 100644
--- a/PFERD/crawl/ilias/kit_ilias_html.py
+++ b/PFERD/crawl/ilias/kit_ilias_html.py
@@ -937,6 +937,13 @@ def parse_ilias_forum_export(forum_export: BeautifulSoup) -> List[IliasForumThre
     for p in forum_export.select("body > p"):
         title_tag = p
         content_tag = p.find_next_sibling("ul")
+
+        if not content_tag:
+            # ILIAS allows users to delete the initial post while keeping the thread open
+            # This produces empty threads without *any* content.
+            # I am not sure why you would want this, but ILIAS makes it easy to do.
+            continue
+
         title = p.find("b").text
         if ":" in title:
             title = title[title.find(":") + 1:]