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Are you ready to face the wild? Extreme Survival throws you headfirst into the most unforgiving environments on Earth.
This is where raw human instinct meets the brutal force of nature. Extreme Survival explores true stories of survival, from harrowing wilderness escapes to mastering essential bushcraft skills. We break down the strategies, mental fortitude, and gear that make the difference between life and death.
New episodes drop daily, Monday through Sunday, at 4:00 AM. Each installment delivers gripping narratives, expert insights into survival techniques, and practical tips for wilderness preparedness that will sharpen your own capabilities.
Perfect for adventurers, preppers, and anyone fascinated by the limits of human resilience against extreme conditions. If you're looking to understand what it truly takes to endure, this podcast is for you.
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This is where raw human instinct meets the brutal force of nature. Extreme Survival explores true stories of survival, from harrowing wilderness escapes to mastering essential bushcraft skills. We break down the strategies, mental fortitude, and gear that make the difference between life and death.
New episodes drop daily, Monday through Sunday, at 4:00 AM. Each installment delivers gripping narratives, expert insights into survival techniques, and practical tips for wilderness preparedness that will sharpen your own capabilities.
Perfect for adventurers, preppers, and anyone fascinated by the limits of human resilience against extreme conditions. If you're looking to understand what it truly takes to endure, this podcast is for you.
Subscribe now and prepare for the unexpected.
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21 SET 2026 · She Left Her Tripod on the Causeway - Why Angela Walked Out Alive
A woman left a carbon-fiber tripod on the causeway at 7:10 a.m. on June 8, 2017, and a driver saw a still orange jacket in the water that wasn’t a person-Angela Vaughn was out on the fog-shrouded tidal flat, bootless and running out of dry ground. She had written “low tide 4:47 a.m., window approx. four hours, north arm Pelican Spit” and “Bring extra socks” in her notebook-so why did she leave gear behind and walk away into the rising tide instead of staying with her planned safe point?
In this episode, we follow the timeline of that morning and the concrete choices Angela made: the GPS notes, the Gitzo tripod, the gravel ridge called Pelican Spit, and the objects she left to be found. What does her deliberate planting of equipment and stones tell us about how she expected to be rescued-or not?
Person: Angela Vaughn
Date: June 8, 2017
Location: Millhaven tidal flats, Pelican Spit north arm
Time observed by driver: 7:10 a.m.
Equipment left: Gitzo carbon-fiber tripod and tripod bag
- Angela was 22 years old at the time and had worked three jobs plus weekly volunteer shifts at Brackwater Sanctuary for 14 months.
- Her notebook entry listed low tide 4:47 a.m., a roughly four-hour window, and GPS coordinates for the north arm of Pelican Spit.
- Pelican Spit north arm measures roughly 60 feet long and 8 feet wide and remains above full high tide.
- She had been on the flat since about 5:00 a.m., shooting for roughly 40 minutes in near-zero visibility fog.
- In her jacket pockets she carried twelve pounds of flat stones collected from the causeway berm and left the collapsed tripod at the causeway-side end of the ridge. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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20 SET 2026 · The Boots, The Bug, and the Woman Buried at 9,000 Feet
A single left Scarpa mountaineering boot, size seven, lace tied and upright on a boulder at 9,200 feet - no blood, no pack, no person - became the message that flipped a three-day search into a survival puzzle. How did a structural inspector who filed plans down to the last detail end up injured, buried in snow, and effectively erased by a device that reported her at 12,400 feet?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from Brenda Patterson’s summit photo at 1:45 PM on May 10 to the discovery of the boot on the morning of May 13, and follow how a GPS firmware bug and a misrouted SOS cost precious time and redirected rescuers - could those failures have been the difference between life and death?
Person: Brenda Patterson
Occupation: Structural inspector
Date: May 10 (summit photo 1:45 PM) and May 13 (boot found at 9:22 AM)
Location: Calvert Peak summit 12,400 ft; boot found at 9,200 ft in boulder field
Device issue: Garmin inReach GPS firmware bug documented July 2019
- Brenda summited Calvert Peak at 12,400 feet and took a photo timestamped 1:45 PM on May 10.
- At approximately 3:10 PM on May 10 she slipped on wet snow, fractured the lateral malleolus, and self-arrested with her ice axe.
- By about 4:30 PM she had descended roughly one mile and stopped at ~9,000 feet to pitch a tent and send an SOS.
- The Garmin inReach SOS transmitted with GPS coordinates fixed to the last satellite fix (the summit) due to a firmware bug later acknowledged in June/July 2019.
- Search and rescue mobilized on May 11 using summit coordinates, searching above 11,000 feet while Brenda was actually at about 9,000 feet. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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19 SET 2026 · The Candle That Should Have Drowned: Alone 61 Hours Above the River
A lonely white candle burned down to a perfect pool of wax and traveled four miles of moving river without tipping or taking in a drop-an impossible detail that pulled rescuers back toward a single truth. How did a methodical paddler end up sixty-one hours stranded on a limestone cliff while her neat gear remained exactly where she left it?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a Saturday evening launch to the radio call that found a drifting canoe, tracing what the episode covers: the river conditions, the equipment that stayed with her, and the physical evidence that explains how she survived-how did a broken ankle, six ounces of rainwater, and a candle become the clues to her rescue?
Person: Gail Russo
Date: April 6-9, 2019
Location: Mallet River, Talbert Landing to Fenwick Crossing
Injury: displaced fracture of the distal fibula (left ankle)
Duration stranded: nearly 61 hours
- The canoe had traveled four miles of moving river and remained upright with a candle standing in its glass holder.
- Gail launched at approximately 7:00 PM on Saturday, April 6, 2019, and texted at 6:14 PM from Gideon.
- The water gauge at Talbert Landing read 2.4 feet the evening she put in; her checklist warned to scout the Narrows above 2.0 feet.
- She reached the Narrows at river mile 1.3 between 7:45 and 8:00 PM, where the canoe capsized and she climbed 18 meters of wet limestone.
- She survived roughly 61 hours on a limestone cliff about 40 feet above the river, rationing roughly six ounces of rainwater. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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18 SET 2026 · Buried Alive for 87 Hours: The Silo That Shouldn't Have Held Him
Cold air and forty tons of wheat trapped a 26-year-old inside a concrete silo for 87 hours after a four-second collapse-he survived breathing through a four-inch steel auger tube. How did a routine repair job, a missed dog feeding at six, and a single signed certification combine to leave him buried and still alive?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from the March 5 collapse through the first search steps and the improvised survival tactics used inside the silo, asking how administrative oversights and small routines shaped the outcome.
Person: William Whitley
Date: March 5, 2014
Location: Albright farm, Prentiss County, Mississippi
Duration: 87 hours
Object: four-inch steel auger tube
- The silo collapse happened at 3:26 PM and took four seconds to dump forty tons of winter wheat into the east silo.
- William Whitley was 26 years old and had been working agricultural construction in Prentiss County for three years.
- William was buried to his shoulders with his arms pinned and suffered two rib fractures from chest compression.
- William discovered an auger intake approximately three inches from his right hand and used it to breathe by pressing his face to the intake about forty-five minutes after burial.
- The east silo had a documented stress fracture in the lower concrete ring from an inspection months earlier, and the farm manager had signed a certification that morning stating the silo was empty despite about forty tons remaining. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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17 SET 2026 · She Vanished Into White: How a Folded Wing Betrayed Survival
A tangerine paraglider wing, folded with surgical precision, sat bone dry inside a forgotten cistern on a mesa-no footprints, no pilot, no harness, and temperatures had been as low as 9°F. How did a 30-pound wing end up perfect and dry a mile and a half from the nearest road while the pilot remained missing?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from a missed weekly call to a folded wing in a cistern and the small, organized habits that converged to save a life. What chain of ordinary routines and unexpected discoveries turned a forty-eight-hour mystery into a rescue?
Person: Emily Farrell
Date: February 12-14, 2019
Location: Alvarez Table, east of Ridgecrest, California
Age: 48
Equipment: Advance Sigma 9 paraglider (tangerine)
- Emily had 17 years of paragliding experience and had flown across four states.
- The wing weighed nearly 30 pounds and was found folded inside a cistern with no surrounding footprints.
- Alvarez Table sits at 9,300 feet and is an oval approximately 600 meters across.
- The cliff bands around the plateau drop between 30 and 80 feet on all sides.
- The night before the missing call the temperature dropped to 9 degrees Fahrenheit. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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16 SET 2026 · Forty Meters Down: How a Rubber Band Saved a Diver
Fear spikes when you realize a man ran out of air forty meters below the surface and still climbed up-no boat, no bubbles, no clear explanation. A single rubber band, a rolled sleeve, and a cut line with twenty-two meters missing are the strange facts that let this survivor live-how did those pieces come together?
In this episode, you will hear the documented county file and witness statements describing what happened at Cordova Ledge, the physical evidence recovered, and the quirks in Troy Richardson’s training and routine that matter to the outcome. How did a propeller make two cuts and leave twenty-two meters of line missing, and what role did a tiny rubber band play in keeping him alive?
Person: Troy Richardson
Location: Cordova Ledge, Cordova Ledge, Florida
Date: Saturday morning in January (entered water at 6:45 a.m.; hand broke surface at 7:18 a.m.)
Status: Conscious and talking to rescue personnel by 7:40 a.m.; fourteen hours observation at Mercy General
Injuries: Laceration elbow to wrist (left forearm), dislocated right shoulder, nitrogen debt headache
- Troy descended forty meters on a single breath and was conscious by 7:40 a.m.
- The descent line was six-millimeter braided polyester anchored at 12 meters and weighted near 40 meters.
- The propeller made two separate cuts; 22 meters of line between upper and lower stubs was missing.
- Troy’s static apnea personal best was five minutes and forty seconds; his deepest documented dive was fifty-one meters.
- He logged training four mornings a week and recorded resting heart rate daily in a green spiral notebook. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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15 SET 2026 · Found Alive at Dawn: How Birch Bark and a Lighter Kept Her Warm
Fear of freezing to death and the desperate will to survive collide in the dark: a 52-year-old woman fell through three-centimeter ice at -29°C, lost her pack, and spent sixty-one hours alive with only a multitool, a lighter and a memory of an old survival tale - how did birch bark and a cigarette lighter keep her from freezing?
In this episode, we tell what happened from the moment she signed the trail register to the dawn when a paperboy found her; the episode covers the failed ice crossing, what she had with her, and the improvised shelter and actions that sustained her - could those three small items really be enough?
Person: April Bauer
Date: December 14-19, 2011
Location: Superior National Forest, Moose Hollow trailhead and the tributary known as "the finger"
Temperature: -29 degrees Celsius on December 14
Ice thickness at crossing: 3 centimeters (safe crossing requires 12 centimeters)
- April Bauer was 52 years old and signed the trail register at approximately 08:00 on Wednesday, December 14, 2011.
- A beaver dam partially failed upstream increasing water flow by roughly 40%, recorded by hydrologist Tom Wick.
- April stepped onto ice measuring 3 cm thick at approximately 14:17 and fell through a nine-meter tributary.
- Her pack with bivvy sack, emergency kit, dry base layer and headlamp remained about 200 meters away, propped against a white pine on the opposite bank.
- She survived approximately 61 hours exposed, found at 05:40 on December 19 by 14-year-old Linda Underwood on Forest Service Road 14. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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14 SET 2026 · Days on Broken Kettle: The Misheard Radio That Stranded Her
Fear cut a radio transmission down to three words and left a forty-four-year-old lookout alone for twenty-eight days at 6,400 feet during one of the worst early-winter stretches in the Umatilla National Forest-how did a misheard message become a months-long silence that nearly cost her life? What did Holly Erickson do with a spiral-bound logbook while no rescue came?
In this episode, we tell how a single fragmentary dispatch entry, a burned bridge, and a closed road combined to strand a seasoned fire lookout on a steel-and-glass cab for nearly a month, and how the green spiral-bound notebook she kept proved she had been alive the whole time. How did the notebook surface, and what did it reveal about the failure in the system that was supposed to keep her safe?
Person: Holly Erickson
Date: November 22-November 19, 2009
Location: Broken Kettle Lookout Tower, Umatilla National Forest
Height: 6,400 feet
Discovery date: November 19, 2009 at 6:12 AM
- Holly was 44 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall, and 138 pounds in the fall of 2009.
- She had worked 11 seasons as a Forest Service fire lookout, the last four at Broken Kettle.
- At 2:58 AM on November 23, Dennis Park logged "Erickson EV confirmed, departed tower" after receiving three words of a 12-word transmission.
- The road out crossed Eleven-Bravo, and the bridge at Antler Run burned, closing the only route down.
- On November 19 at 6:12 AM, Chad Stewart found Holly's open green spiral-bound notebook held by a chunk of basalt in the gravel. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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13 SET 2026 · She Walked Out - Then Her Paddle Hung Eleven Feet Up
Cold, precise danger: a kayak paddle was found knotted eleven feet up in a spruce tree with three half-hitches and a locking carabiner after a woman walked out of a basalt gorge into sub-freezing night - how did it get there? Which survival choices and river conditions turned a routine run into a four-month mystery no one could explain?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of what happened from launch to rescue and the evidence that baffled rescuers for months. We cover the river conditions, Erin Morgan’s equipment and decisions, the timeline of the capsize and escape, and the unresolved question about the paddle in the tree.
Person: Erin Morgan
Age: 28
Location: Rook Bar, Vantage River
Date: October 12
Equipment: drysuit, neoprene gloves, emergency bivy rated to 20°F, 50 feet parachute cord
- The paddle was found 11 feet up in a spruce tree, knotted with three half-hitches and secured with a locking carabiner.
- Erin launched at 7:45 AM and capsized at approximately 8:55 AM.
- River flow at the Elbow was roughly 6 feet per second, about double summer levels.
- Water temperature at the nearest monitoring station read 38°F; air at launch was 29°F, falling toward 24°F by nightfall.
- Erin had 50 feet of safety-orange parachute cord with locking carabiners clipped to her chest strap. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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12 SET 2026 · The Desert Shoe That Refused to Lie: Nine Days Alive
Fear tightens the chest when you imagine a single shoe standing upright on a cattle gate as the only message from someone lost in high desert heat - a left women's size eight caked in clay that didn't match any soil nearby. How did a 54-year-old teacher survive nine days with a swollen ankle, twenty ounces of water, and a torn shirt - and what did that shoe really mean?
In this episode, we follow the timeline of the Sackett Range Endurance Run that began on September 9, 2017, the choice made at mile 17, and the nine days that followed leading to the discovery on September 19. What decisions and improvised treatments kept Jennifer Holt alive long enough for her final signal to be found?
Person: Jennifer Holt
Date: September 9, 2017 (race start) and September 19, 2017 (shoe discovery)
Location: Dry Gulch access road and Sackett Range high desert terrain
Event: Sackett Range Endurance Run, 11th edition, 26.2 miles
Status: Survivor found with evidence after nine days
- Shoe: left trail shoe, women's size eight, standing upright with two overhand knots where a bow should be
- Water carried: twenty ounces total at race start
- Supplies carried: one energy gel, an emergency blanket, a compass, and a phone at 63% battery with no signal
- Race field: 114 registered runners; course marked with orange flags on wire stakes over 26.2 miles
- Injury timing: ankle rolled on descent around 12:30 PM at mile 17; ankle remained swollen for nine days To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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Are you ready to face the wild? Extreme Survival throws you headfirst into the most unforgiving environments on Earth. This is where raw human instinct meets the brutal force of...
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Are you ready to face the wild? Extreme Survival throws you headfirst into the most unforgiving environments on Earth.
This is where raw human instinct meets the brutal force of nature. Extreme Survival explores true stories of survival, from harrowing wilderness escapes to mastering essential bushcraft skills. We break down the strategies, mental fortitude, and gear that make the difference between life and death.
New episodes drop daily, Monday through Sunday, at 4:00 AM. Each installment delivers gripping narratives, expert insights into survival techniques, and practical tips for wilderness preparedness that will sharpen your own capabilities.
Perfect for adventurers, preppers, and anyone fascinated by the limits of human resilience against extreme conditions. If you're looking to understand what it truly takes to endure, this podcast is for you.
Subscribe now and prepare for the unexpected.
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This is where raw human instinct meets the brutal force of nature. Extreme Survival explores true stories of survival, from harrowing wilderness escapes to mastering essential bushcraft skills. We break down the strategies, mental fortitude, and gear that make the difference between life and death.
New episodes drop daily, Monday through Sunday, at 4:00 AM. Each installment delivers gripping narratives, expert insights into survival techniques, and practical tips for wilderness preparedness that will sharpen your own capabilities.
Perfect for adventurers, preppers, and anyone fascinated by the limits of human resilience against extreme conditions. If you're looking to understand what it truly takes to endure, this podcast is for you.
Subscribe now and prepare for the unexpected.
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