Marooned

Marooned episodes:

• 05.01.2024

  Crater Lake

  Crater Lake, located amongst old growth forests in Southwestern Oregon, is the stuff of legend. In January of 1975, 19 year old Charles McCullar vanished while on a 60 day solo National Park touring adventure that came to an...

  
• 04.17.2024

  The Girl In The Well

  The Girl In The Well 1987. Midland, Texas. Jessica McClure was just 18 months old when she unexpectedly fell into a water well. At the time, Midland was experiencing an oil bust and times were tough. But despite the town...

  
• 04.03.2024

  Titan

  June 18, 2023 was supposed to be a great day for Stockton Rush. He was piloting his Titan submersible down to see the wreckage of the RMS Titanic with Paul-Henri Nargeolet and three paying crewmembers aboard; Hamish Harding as well...

  
• 03.20.2024

  KidNAPPED

  Georgia, 1968. A college student is kidnapped from the hotel room she and her mom were staying in. Her captors place her in a fiberglass box, bury it in the ground, and demand $500,000 from her wealthy parents for her...

  
• 03.06.2024

  Freebird

  The Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash.  >>Please subscribe to Marooned so you never miss an episode. Find us on tiktok and instagram by searching: @visitmarooned | Thank you, Jack & Aaron. Sources: My Version of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Crash ( I was there)...

  
• 02.21.2024

  The Walking Skeleton

  Australian Ricky Megee became stranded in the Australian Outback for 71 days in 2006. When he walked out, he walked out as a skeleton. Source:  Left for Dead: How I Survived 71 Days in the Outback by Ricky Megee &...

  
• 02.07.2024

  The Mt. Bradley Incident

  April 26, 1976. Artist Lauren Elder is entering her thirties and looking for inspiration. When the opportunity of a day trip into California’s Sierra Mountains via small aircraft becomes available, it seems like just the type of thing she needs....

  
• 01.24.2024

  Apollo 13

  The Apollo 13 mission was considered by many to be just another trip to the moon. What resulted brought our expectations back down to earth. The question was; would the astronauts aboard return with them? Read the book: Apollo 13...

  
• 01.10.2024

  Nutty Putty Cave

  Nutty Putty Cave, the nearly 1,400 foot cave, located 55 miles outside Salt Lake City, Utah, had been the site of a few rescue missions for unfortunate spelunkers, leading up to a visit by 26 year old John Edward Jones...

  
• 12.27.2023

  The Great One

  This episode's story takes place in the year of 1967. It's summertime in Alaska, but the mountain Denali, widely known as The Great One, is above such seasons. 100 mile per hour winds are common, as are avalanches. Visibility can...

  
• 12.13.2023

  The Accidental Aquanaut

  In the early morning hours of May 26th 2013, Harrison Okene woke up to a storm on the tugboat Jascon-4. Scared, Okene managed to send a prayer up, before his world turned upside down. **Please subscribe to Marooned so you...

  
• 11.29.2023

  Ghost House

  On the northwest corner of 128th street and 5th Avenue in New York City’s Harlem, you’ll find a small, gated park that seems odd and out of place. Collyer Park sits where a once proud brownstone stood. The so-called Collyer...

  
• 11.15.2023

  The Sea Waif

  True crime bleeds into everything. Name it. Name any given subject then attach the word “murder” before sending it off on an internet search. Chances are that it’ll come back like a cat with a broken bird in its mouth....

  
• 11.01.2023

  The Boy of Buczacz

  On this special offering of Marooned, Aaron and Jack travel far from the beaten path to visit the incredible WW2 story of the Boy of Buczacz; a boy whose mother told him to run as the Nazis were loading his...

  
• 10.25.2023

  Maze Of Secrets

  Special Halloween Podcast Episode! Title: Maze of Secrets ..1 eerie corn maze... ...9 haunting figures... ...9 spine-tingling tales... ...Will YOU find your way out? This holiday season, step into a labyrinth of shadows and suspense with Shane Waters as your guide....

  
• 10.18.2023

  La Chancha

  In late 2012, Jose Salvador Alvarenga became Marooned on the ocean. For his friends back on shore, they were surprised that La Chancha could find himself in such a predicament. They weren’t shocked however, by how he handled it. *Please...

  
• 10.11.2023

  The Long Man

  The Long Man, Sir Douglas Mawson, and his improbable survival story through a widely uncharted territory in the early 20th century; Antarctica. A mysterious, unruly, frozen goatee on the chin of the planet. An area we dared not comb through...

  
• 10.04.2023

  Crusoe Of The Sahara

  The Marathon of the Sands is deemed the most difficult footrace on earth. Some drop out, some, unfortunately, drop dead. And in 1994 one contestant, Mauro Prosperi, seemed to drop off the face of the earth. *Please subscribe to Marooned...

  
• 10.04.2023

  Inchworm

  July 22, 2013. The woods of Maine. 66 year old Geraldine Largay vanishes while hiking the Appalachian Trail. *Please subscribe to Marooned so you never miss an episode. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate and review it on whichever...

  
• 09.15.2023

  Marooned Trailer

  Marooned. Tales of the catstrophically lost. Hosted by Aaron Habel (Generation Why) and Jack Luna (Dark Topic). This trailer is a sneak peek into the stories that we'll be telling on this new podcast. Be sure to subscribe to Marooned...