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 to avoid capture. For over 2 months, the people of Norway risked their lives to help Jan make his way through the unforgiving snowy mountains to gain safety and freedom in neutral Sweden.

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 following, promised members they would start their very own socialist utopia in South America. What should have been a paradise turned into a living hell when Jim Jones descended quickly into a drug fueled paranoia. Members soon realized leaving Jonestown wasn't an option and what Jim Jones described as a revolutionary suicide, was actually a mass murder.

In 2007, 17-year-old Ross Capicchioni hesitantly agreed to drive his friend of 10 years to the east side of Detroit. Little did he know that the person he trusted, would force him into becoming the target of a brutal gang initiation!

Happy New Year, friends! This week we're talking about the walking scab Mark Twitchell. Mark was an aspiring film maker turned killer after getting inspiration from the popular TV show, Dexter. Twitchell would lure unsuspecting single men to his garage by posing as women on the dating site, Plenty of Fish. Although this man is a monster, he's also an actual dumbass so thankfully his reign of terror didnt last long.

This week we're talking about a man so slimy, he might as well be a slug. John Meehan, or rather "Dirty John" makes a living manipulating and terrorizing unsuspecting women. In the fall of 2014, John slithered his way into the life of the beautiful, and overly generous Debra Newell. Blinded by her love, Debra failed to recognize all of John's blaring red flags and allowed him to wreak havoc on her life and her family. Deb seriously couldn't see how toxic and straight up dangerous this man was until it was almost too late! C'MON DEB.

A healing vacation coupled with a series of unadvisable decisions leaves Dewey Gaedcke lost on the most active volcano on the planet. Cuts from falling on the razor sharp rock paired with dehydration and hunger, bring Dewey close to death and certainly into a personal hell. The only things that keep him going are the camcorder he brought along to document his trip and the thought of reuniting with his two daughters. Check out how Dewey manages to get just what he survived for in this astonishing journey!

One afternoon in the small farming town of Chowchilla, California, an entire school bus with 26 children still on board, went missing. After Ed, the town's trusted school bus driver, missed his final stop of the day, the community went into panic mode. Not one person knew what could have happened to vanish an entire bus load of children. Join us this week to find out what happened to Ed and the 26 children and how they made it out of this one!

Hope you’re not as scared of the ocean as Steph is, because we're diving into the grueling survival of Steven Callahan. Steve designed and built his own boat to set sail across the Atlantic. All was well until a GODDAMN WHALE put a gaping hole in the hull of his boat. Guess his design didn't account for that one.... Steve goes onto survive the longest ordeal of this podcast yet, stuck out at sea all on his own.

I hope you guys have something to hold onto because this episode is not for the faint of heart. This week we're talking about the incredibly strong, Teka Adams . Teka was 9 months pregnant, a recovering drug addict, and homeless at the time of her abduction. She endured days of torture to save herself and more importantly, the life of her baby.

This week Juliane Koepcke survives falling from a plane that was 2 miles in the air! Who needs a parachute? Well, she's quite literally not out of the woods yet and has to make her way out of the dense Peruvian jungle. All this after surviving heights that would make a recreational skydiver shit their pants. Find out how Juliane's unbreakable will to keep going leads her out of an environment that seems extremely well designed to kill human beings.