Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska

By Robert W. Prince

Arts Performing Arts

What's Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska about?

Hear amazing true stories from Alaska told by the people who experienced them!

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Silver Linings

02.27.2023

Atileo Frizzera accidentally becomes the poster boy for chainsaw chaps and Karl Monetti takes advantage of a plane crash to recruit a rugby player.

Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska episodes:

02.27.2023 Silver Linings Atileo Frizzera accidentally becomes the poster boy for chainsaw chaps and Karl Monetti takes advantage of a plane crash to recruit a rugby player.
02.18.2023 Awkward Situations Lorien Nettleton gets auctioned off in the Talkeetna Bachelor Auction Matthew Sturm decides the best way to make it through a tricky kayaking situation is to get naked.
02.17.2023 Close Encounters of the Fuzzy Kind Ray Smith runs with a pack of wolves and Jan Hanscomb finds it hard to rid her house of an uninvited bear.
02.16.2023 The Power of Ice Sean McGee tells the story of a police bust gone awry thanks to ice and Dick Griffith literally freezes his butt off.
01.10.2023 The Blowhole There’s a mysterious evil force that lives in Alaska and it’s called “The Blowhole.” Anyone who has ever seen it has learned why they always say, “Don’t stop in the blowhole.”
11.10.2022 The Power of Nature Josh Weiser tells the story of the most incredible experience he ever had as a tour bus driver in Denali National Park.
10.05.2022 Lost & Found Dawn Erbeck shares a story about the hazards of bringing jewelry into the wilderness and host Rob Prince shares his personal experience with a life threatening case of lost and found.
10.04.2022 Moms Improv Sarah Sullivan discovers as a little girl that her mother’s threat assessment radar isn’t as tuned in as she thought it was and Taryn Hughes delivers her own baby in her truck on the way to the hospital on a ...
07.29.2022 Alaskan "Can Do!" Spirit Champion dogmusher Brent Sass shares the hilarious story of his first attempt at caribou hunting and Bill Schnabel tells the story of how not to raise pigs for bacon.
04.29.2022 Kindness of Strangers Matt Irinaga is saved by a mysterious stranger emerging from the ice fog and Phoebe Rohrbacher meets the nicest man in Alaska in the un-nicest of ways.
03.30.2022 Hitchhikers Deb Horner picks up a furry hitchhiker who refuses to leave her truck, Kat Betters picks up a dead hitchhiker who miraculously comes back to life, and host Rob Prince tells the bizarre story of the time he picked up ...
02.03.2022 Don't Look Back Jabin Collins experiences a life-altering car accident that threatens his dream of playing high school football, but not all things that are “life-altering” alter life in a bad way.
01.12.2022 My Alaskan Mother LaVerne Haakenson tries to call her mom's bluff and gets served a huge slice of humble pie and Hadara Ben-Israel follows her mom to Alaska as a girl only to find that her mom has had a serious change of ...
01.12.2022 Alaskan MacGuyvers Ian Wright and Alyssa Quentin try to solve their problems in MacGuyver-like ways but don’t get MacGuyver-like results.
01.12.2022 Bear Cub Travis Cole and Hayden Nevil discover that the most dangerous animal in Alaska is also one of the cutest.
01.12.2022 Up a Creek Without a Canoe Hailee McCaig goes on a remote canoeing trip with a beligerent friend and gets stranded when they wrap their canoe around a huge rock.
01.12.2022 Walk for your Life Scott Waterman and his friend survive a fiery plane crash only to have to walk miles through snowy woods and a kid nearly surrenders to hypothermia.
01.12.2022 Alaskan Practical Jokes Guy brings joy to a little girl with a magical flower garden and Lynda Brandenberg tells a classic prank-gone-wrong story from her family's early days in Alaska.
01.12.2022 Bad Day at Work Dawson Moore and the cast of an Alaskan play decide the show doesn’t necessarily have to go on, and Skip Lipscomb’s hat saves his life while on the job.
01.12.2022 Run for Your Life! In two separate stories, Ron Boynton and Dr. Jesse Robertson escape their problems in the most fundamental way you can–running like hell.
01.12.2022 Alaskan Rescues Mike Spindler participates in a daring night rescue on Arctic sea ice and Amanda Byrd decides the best thing she can do to try and save a drowning man is to point at him.
01.12.2022 Abdicating the Throne A woman moves to Alaska and finds the freedom to explore her understanding of the world, leading to huge and terrifying ideological shifts.
01.12.2022 Soaked Science Knute Keilland takes a prominent visiting scientist for an impromptu swim and Cody Dean steps out of his tent for a pee and makes a horrifying discovery.
01.11.2022 Scientists On Ice! Geoff Carrol fights off a polar bear with the wrong end of a shotgun and Mike Ruckhaus falls asleep behind the wheel of a Nodwell tracked vehicle while traversing frozen arctic tundra.
01.11.2022 Won't You Be My Neighbor? Host Rob Prince meets his neighbor for the first time–three years after he passed away…
01.11.2022 Starving Around Denali Expedition Mike Speaks receives life-saving beers from the heavens on a poorly-executed winter hike around Denali.
01.11.2022 Home Alone Jan Hanscomb accidentally traps a bear in her house and Linda Brandenberg recounts an old family story of when a prank “backfired.”
01.11.2022 Hey Bear! Ryan and Val move to Alaska from D.C. only to learn that bears up here consider hibernation to be optional and Randy Brown’s day gets weird when he finds himself in a canoe in the middle of a river holding ...
01.06.2022 Christmas in Seward Sam Cosnotti arrives alone in Seward shortly before Christmas and is welcomed by a co-worker to a rather unconventional Christmas Day dinner.
01.06.2022 Halloween Special One woman starts having paranormal experiences after moving in to an apartment next to a graveyard in Juneau and another family makes a disturbing discovery on a road trip through Delta Junction.
11.30.2021 Dog Sense Betsey Jacobs nearly loses her new service-puppy-in-training in a frozen river and Seth Robinson and his wife are worried about getting caught in an avalanche, so they consult with their dog. NO DOGS DIE IN THIS EPISODE so don’t worry.
10.30.2021 Halloween Special 2021! Our first Halloween Special! Host Rob Prince investigates creepy screams coming from a classroom nearby, an anonymous storyteller talks about the time she heard mysterious voices talking upstairs in the middle of the night, and the legend of the Delta ...
09.29.2021 Origin Story Dark Winter Nights Executive Producer Ryan Peterson takes an ancestry test and tells himself he doesn’t care if it helps him find his birth parents. Turns out he cared.
06.10.2021 Awkward Situations Lorien Nettleton gets auctioned off in the famous Talkeetna Bachelor Auction and Matthew Sturm decides the best way to get out of a tough Alaskan wilderness situation is to get naked.
03.27.2021 It’s Not About Me Alexandra was hooked on alcohol from her first taste at age 12. By age 17 her addiction had led to tragedy. Now she wonders if she can ever forgive herself.
03.26.2021 It's Not About Me An Alaska woman’s battle with alcoholism starts extremely young and ends in tragedy.
03.24.2021 The Alaskan Martian Jessica Eicher ponders moving to Mars after being one of 0.5% of applicants to the Mars One program to make the first cut and astrophysicist Dr. Peter Delamere thinks she’s nuts to want to go.
02.22.2021 The Anderson Legend David Best heads out into the woods of Anderson, Alaska looking for property he bought only to accidentally become a legend in the community.
01.17.2021 Tongue Terror! Dark Winter Nights creator/host Rob Prince conducts an exhaustive investigative report about kids getting their tongues stuck to stuff in winter–at great personal sacrifice.
12.31.2020 Home Alone Jan Hanscomb is home alone when a huge, fuzzy intruder tries to break in and Linda Brandenberg shares a legendary family story of a prank that majorly backfires.
12.31.2020 Thankful to Be Alive! James Mennaker survives a flash flood, Richard Coleman gets to see what river ice looks like from below, and Mike Daku survives a plane crash.
11.16.2020 Thankful to Be Alive James Mennaker’s family gets caught in a flash flood, Richard Coleman goes through the ice, and Michael Daku survives a plane crash.
10.21.2020 Hey Bear! Ryan and Val come across a moose that can stand on its hind legs and Randy Brown’s day gets weird when he suddenly finds himself wrestling with a bear by the tail.
09.22.2020 Ice, Ice Baby Tom Bachert receives an absolutely bizarre request from a stranger in the fog on a frigid night and Andrew George decides to take a few hundred salmon ice skating.
01.07.2020 The Little Tour Bus that Could Sarah Manriquez battles an epic blizzard on Alaska’s barren North Slope in a tiny tour bus full of wide-eyed visitors to Alaska.
12.12.2019 Scientists On Ice! One scientist takes on a polar bear and another falls asleep on the job with hilarious repercussions.
12.12.2019 Won’t You Be My Neighbor Host Rob Prince goes over to inspect the home of his recluse neighbor and discovers something that makes headlines across Alaska.
10.01.2019 Starving Around Denali Expedition A guy and his friend try an ambitious winter hike around Denali in the 1980’s and only survive multiple near death experiences thanks to help from above.
05.29.2019 Tough Alaskan Women A pair of Alaskan women show off their courage and strength fending off a bear while helping to rescue a pair of men while dip netting and another Alaskan woman toughs her way through an unconventional birthing experience.
04.24.2019 Up a Creek Without a Canoe Hailey McCaig learns what a huge pain it is to have to babysit someone on a back country canoe trip when her and her friend wrap their canoe around a huge boulder.

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Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska

What's Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska about?

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Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska episodes:

Silver Linings

Awkward Situations

Close Encounters of the Fuzzy Kind

The Power of Ice

The Blowhole

The Power of Nature

Lost & Found

Moms Improv

Alaskan "Can Do!" Spirit

Kindness of Strangers

Hitchhikers

Don't Look Back

My Alaskan Mother

Alaskan MacGuyvers

Bear Cub

Up a Creek Without a Canoe

Walk for your Life

Alaskan Practical Jokes

Bad Day at Work

Run for Your Life!

Alaskan Rescues

Abdicating the Throne

Soaked Science

Scientists On Ice!

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Starving Around Denali Expedition

Home Alone

Hey Bear!

Christmas in Seward

Halloween Special

Dog Sense

Halloween Special 2021!

Origin Story

Awkward Situations

It’s Not About Me

It's Not About Me

The Alaskan Martian

The Anderson Legend

Tongue Terror!

Home Alone

Thankful to Be Alive!

Thankful to Be Alive

Hey Bear!

Ice, Ice Baby

The Little Tour Bus that Could

Scientists On Ice!

Won’t You Be My Neighbor

Starving Around Denali Expedition

Tough Alaskan Women

Up a Creek Without a Canoe