What Was That Like

Apr 09, 2021 • E76 • 00:49:32

Imagine walking along a trail near the edge of a cliff with a steep dropoff. Suddenly your footing slips, you have nothing to grab on to, and you’re in free fall for a few seconds, and you land 100 feet (30 meters) on the rocks below. Gil told me exactly...

Mar 26, 2021 • E75 • 01:01:09

Woniya knows how to survive. She was a contestant on Alone, Season 6 – Alone in the Arctic. She survived on her own for 73 days – building a shelter, finding food, and trying to stay warm in the vast cold Arctic winter. In this episode, she tells the stor...

Mar 12, 2021 • E74 • 00:42:00

Daril was a rookie police officer in Denver. He was working on a quiet Sunday morning, and made a “routine” traffic stop that was anything but routine. The man he stopped had just escaped from prison and would do anything to avoid going back.

Feb 26, 2021 • E73 • 00:57:29

Matt is a pilot. One day he was flying a small plane. For the first 30 minutes of the flight, everything seemed to be going fine. Then, as he flew over the Quebec wilderness, things went terribly wrong.

Feb 19, 2021 • E72 • 00:49:57

Not a normal episode! A bunch of listeners called in their questions and I answered them.

Feb 12, 2021 • E71 • 00:34:04

Deneen was the first car in line at a railroad crossing. She and her young girls, ages 4 and 2, were having fun and counting the coal-filled cars as the train rumbled by, just a few feet in front of them. Then Deneen realized that the train’s wheels were...

Jan 29, 2021 • E70 • 01:07:40

On December 26, 2004 there was a huge earthquake in the Indian Ocean. This caused massive waves to come ashore without warning in multiple countries. The 2004 tsunami killed more than 227,000 people. Aaron witnessed the disaster and was lucky to be among...

Jan 15, 2021 • E69 • 01:32:51

Kira was walking to work on a downtown street. It was dark, because it was 3:30 am. She thought everything was fine. Then she realized she was not alone.

Jan 01, 2021 • E68 • 01:18:47

As a resident of Alaska and an avid outdoorsman, Dan was very familiar with bears. He had even had a few encounters with bears in the wild, and knew how to stay safe in those situations. But one day he ran into an angry grizzly bear who changed his life f...

Dec 18, 2020 • E67 • 00:45:16

Steven, 18 years old, was on his way home from an overnight shift at work. Around 6:30 am, he got into the first car accident of his life – a minor fender bender – and was exchanging information with the other driver. He had no idea that his second crash,...