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Not Today
Not Today covers unbelievable but true stories of survival. Join Steph and Alex as they discuss real incredible people who made it out of unimaginable circumstances against all odds.
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74: Episode 74: Sheri Papini
In 2016 Sheri Papini disappeared one afternoon after going on a run, leaving behind only her cell phone in the grass. When her husband Keith Papini returned…
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73: Episode 73: Pet Heroes!
I said I'd do it so here it is! This week we're diving into 4 stories where pets save their humans! Ad free early episodes, and an extra episode a month -->…
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72: Episode 72: A Dry Heat
Shelli Hubbard decided to take her two daughters Michaela and Tiffany along with her boyfriend, Roger, out to the Arizona desert for lunch one afternoon…
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71: Episode 71: Brittani Marcell
17-year-old Brittani Marcell was attacked in her home by a man wielding a shovel. The man was able to escape through a window as Brittani's mother came home…
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70: Episode 70: Cheri Tate
Cheri Tate met Edward Allen Covington while working at her bar in 1993 and the two hit it off, but the timing wasn't right. So, 7 years later, when Eddie…
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69: Episode 69: The Crocodile Flap
Alistair Gelatley and Arthur Taylor were both experienced hunters in the African Bush and would regularly take trips onto the beautiful but dangerous Zambezi…
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68: Episode 68: The Tulsa Race Massacre
On the morning of May 31st 1921, 19-year-old Dick Rowland, a Black shoeshiner, was accused of assaulting Sarah Page, the 17-year-old white elevator operator of…
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Listener Stories 3
Comin' at you this week with stories that you guys wrote in! We discuss attempted kidnappings, creepy stalkers, car accidents and more! If you have a story of…
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67: Episode 67: Stockholm Syndrome
On August 23rd 1973, Jan Erik Olsson broke into a Kreditbanken branch in Stockholm Sweden. A complete media frenzy broke out once shots were fired and Jan took…
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66: Episode 66: A Series of Unfortunate Events
On the way to a weekend trip with her two young daughters, Kelli Groves was hit by a semi truck that veered into her lane on the highway. The truck ended up…
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Episode 65: Baby Fever
Nine months into her pregnancy, Sarah Brady received a phone call out of the blue from another expectant mother named Sarah Brody. Due to their similar names…
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64: Episode 64: Five Thousand Percent
In the early morning of August 5th 2009, Dalia Dippolito returned home from the gym to find the streets in front of her condo covered in yellow caution tape…
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63: Episode 63: Escape From Everest
Lincoln Hall was a mountaineer from a very young age, and had an intense passion for getting to summit Mount Everest. After a first failed attempt, Lincoln was…
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62: Episode 62: Fight or Flight
In 2018, hip hop artist Jet McKee broke into the home of Blake Davis and Hannah Quinn, heavily armed, high on crystal meth, and hellbent on robbing the couple…
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62: Listener Stories 2
More listener ghost stories this week! One story came with diagrams, while a couple others taught us to stay away from ouija boards and battery powered…
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61: Episode 61: Bomb On Board
On December 11th 1994, highly skilled bomb maker and terrorist, Ramzi Yousef boarded Philippine Airlines flight 434 with service to Tokyo with intent to kill…
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60: Episode 60: The Match.com Murder
Mary Kay Beckman met Wade Ridley on Match.com in 2010. It took only 10 days of dating for Mary Kay to see some very obvious red flags and call off their short…
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59: Episode 59: Charla Nash
Sandra and Jerome Herold purchased Travis the chimpanzee at only three weeks old to have him as a pet, however he quickly became more like a son, as well as a…
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58: Episode 58: When Life Gives You Lemons
When the computer systems on a ship tasked with fixing an oil rig give out in the middle of rough seas, it leaves the divers below seriously f***ed. Especially…
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57: Episode 57: The Girl In The Box Part 2
In the second and final part of this unbelievable story we're going to talk about the escape of Colleen Stan! Not only that, but we're going get into the…
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56: Episode 56: The Girl In The Box Part 1
For Colleen Stan the decision to hitchhike to southern California to surprise a friend for her birthday proved to be a fateful one. In May of 1977, Colleen…
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Listener's Stories 1: Ghosts!
Happy spooky season folks! This week we're reading your true ghost stories! We'd like to give a huge thank you to everyone that sent in a story! Send in your…
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55: Episode 55: Madman And A Machete
February 2nd 2001 started out as any other day for the principal of Hopewell-Winterstown Elementary School. As Norina Bentzel got prepared to leave her office…
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54: Episode 54: Don't Go Chasin' Waterfalls
After only a couple weeks of dating, Brandon Day and Gina Allen decided to take a day trip up to Mount San Jacinto to take a nice walk and snap a few pictures…
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53: Episode 53: Fight Like Hell
Brie and Kaylli Lasley were having a normal evening when Robert Burger forced his way through Brie's bedroom window. Brie tried everything she could to get…
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52: Episode 52: Jaycee Lee Dugard
Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped at the age of eleven as she walked to her school bus stop. Phillip and Nancy Garrido pulled up beside her, shot her with a stun gun…
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51: Episode 51: Vallejo CA Gone Girl
Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn's lives were turned upside down when they were woken in the middle of the night to a home invasion. The details of their…
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50: Episode 50: Christy Martin
This week we're talking about the incredible woman who put women's boxing on the map. Christy Martin worked her way to the top quickly while training under Jim…
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49: Episode 49: The Élan School
In 1970 Elan School opened its doors promising to be a rehabilitation center and school for troubled teens, but in reality it was a living hell. Teenagers aged…
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48: Episode 48: Operation Entebbe
After a group of Palestinian and German hijackers take control of a flight destined for Paris, over 200 passengers are plunged into a nightmare. Their…
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47: Episode 47: Monsters, Miracles, And Hope
Alison Botha’s life completely changed in an instant when a man kidnapped her after he forced his way into her car. She survived one of the most brutal attacks…
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46: Episode 46: A Very Corny Story
In 2013, Arick Baker was working as a grain farmer alongside his father. That afternoon there was a problem with some of their machinery, causing Arick to need…
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45: Episode 45: Apollo 13
Apollo 13 was NASA's third manned mission to the moon. All was well pretty much up until the mission started. A forced engine shutoff was a precursor to the…
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44: Episode 44: Elizabeth Smart Part Two
This week we're wrapping up the incredible story of Elizabeth Smart! Check out the Elizabeth Smart Foundation linked below!…
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43: Episode 43: Elizabeth Smart Part One
Today we're diving into part one of the survival story of Elizabeth Smart! In 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth was kidnapped out of her bed at knifepoint and led…
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42: Episode 42: Pour One Out
We hope you like bad news, because this one's chock full of it! Dieter Dengler was a German-born United States Navy aviator during the Vietnam War and after…
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41: Episode 41: Emergency at Thirty Five Thousand Feet
After walking away from a motorcycle accident on the way to the airport, Paula Dixson decided her injuries weren't that serious and she still wanted to fly…
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40: Episode 40: You Know This Is A Kidnapping, Right?
23-year-old Ashley Ware was getting ready for her shift as an emergency room nurse, when a man knocked on her door and asked for a ride. When she politely…
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39: Episode 39: Luckiest Of The Unlucky
Brock Miester has had his fair share of near death experiences, starting from the day he was born. But on January 12th 2018, Brock was on his way to his…
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38: Episode 38: The Girl In The Bunker
Elizabeth Shoaf was only 14-years-old when she was led through the woods by Vinson Filyaw, who she believed was a police officer. After being led deeper into…
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37: Episode 37: Almost Sleeping With The Fishes
In 2013, Harrison Odjegba Okene became an accidental aquanaut when he survived in a sunken ship on the ocean floor for 60 hours, with only an air pocket! UHH…
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36: Episode 36: Everybody's Baby
On the morning of October 14th 1987, 18-month-old Jessica McClure got stuck 22 feet underground when she fell down a pipe in her aunt's backyard. This story…
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35: Episode 35: The Turpin Thirteen
From the outside the Turpin family had a picture perfect life and David and Louise Turpin seemed like loving parents to their thirteen children. But that…
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34: Episode 34: Caught Between A Rock And A Hard Place
On April 25th, 2003, Aron Ralston planned a day trip to hike Bluejohn Canyon in Canyonland National Park. What started out as a routine expedition for Aron…
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33: Episode 33: An Act of Kindness
This episode delves into the harrowing survival of Brandi Hicks after she and her best friend Liz were guilted into giving Matthew Vaca a ride home from their…
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Episode 32: Honey Where's My Scuba Suit?!
In 2018, an entire youth soccer team was stranded in the belly of an immense cave system with their assistant coach after a storm hit weeks before the monsoon…
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31: Episode 31: The Belón Family And The Boxing Day Tsunami
On December 26th 2004, Maria Belón and her family were on vacation in Khao Lak, Thailand. Their picture perfect trip would soon turn into a nightmare when they…
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30: Episode 30: A False Sense Of Security
As a young woman living by herself, Jennifer Morey's main concern was safety. So when she chose to live in an apartment complex that had a 24/7 on premises…
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29: Episode 29: The Girl In The Basement
You may have heard of the movies The Girl In The Basement, or Room, but you may not be familiar with the actual story that these movies were based off of…
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28: Episode 28: Mary Vincent
This week we delve into the story of Mary Vincent, which pushes the limits of how low a rock bottom can be. While trying to hitchhike to Southern California at…
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27: Episode 27: Woman's Best Friend
As one of the world’s best endurance runners, Danelle Ballengee was always up for a challenge. But when she got severely injured and stranded in the desert for…
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26: Episode 26: Manipulation, Abduction, Destruction
This week a living personification of all that is evil, Robert Berchtold, meticulously destroys an entire family. He infiltrated by gaining the trust of both…
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25: Episode 25: The Oslo Bombing and Utoya Island Massacre
In this episode we discuss the unbelievably tragic events that occurred in Norway in 2011, the incredibly brave people who survived, and those who risked their…
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24: Episode 24: Kill Or Be Killed
In 2006, Susan Walters was a 51-year-old emergency room nurse in Portland, Oregon. One evening Susan came home from her shift to find a man in her home wearing…
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23: Episode 23: The Trashman Yacht Disaster
A crew of 4 experienced sailors, and one girl friend along for the ride, is haphazardly assembled to deliver a yacht from Maine, down to Fort Lauderdale…
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22: Episode 22: Lisa McVey
Lisa McVey is the epitome of a survivor. She endured abuse starting from the age of two, bouncing from bad situation to bad situation; and at the age of 17 she…
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21: Episode 21: The Barefoot Bandit Part 2
Woohoo part 2! The incredible story of Colton Harris Moore comes to a close this episode as we talk about his inevitable downfall. Colton flew a little too…
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Episode 20: The Barefoot Bandit Part 1
Alex embarks on his first two part story as we dive into the mind-boggling tale of Colton Harris Moore! Colton escaped from a halfway house at the age of 17…
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19: Episode 19: The Epic Tale of Jan Baalsrud
After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his 11 comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud found himself on an epic journey though Norway…
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18: Episode 18: Don't Drink The Kool Aid
In this episode we're breaking down the enormous tragedy that was Jonestown. Jim Jones founded the People's Temple in 1954 and after quickly gaining a large…