Survive the Story: Choose Your Path Through History

New here? Start with Episode 1.

Titanic: The Longest Night, Episode 14, an ending. You chose to run forward to the last boat in Episode 7. Want to see what else could happen? Go back to Episode 7 and choose again, or start over at Episode 1.

You grab Annie's hand and run the whole length of the tilting boat deck, past the funnels and the empty lifeboat arms, toward the last boat. Then Professor Hoot sorts truth from story, and shares a safety tip.

Heads-up: this story is set during a real disaster in which real people died.

How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release.

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Titanic: The Longest Night, Episode 15, an ending. You chose to go back down for Mrs. Kelly and her children in Episode 7. Want to see what else could happen? Go back to Episode 7 and choose again, or start over at Episode 1.

You turn your back on the last boat and head down into the tilting ship, through the hallways and the gate and down the iron stairs, to find the Kellys. Then Professor Hoot sorts truth from story, and shares a safety tip.

Heads-up: this story is set during a real disaster in which real people died.

How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release.

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Start here: Titanic: The Longest Night, Episode 1. At the end, you choose: Episode 2 or Episode 3.

April 1912. You're a kid travelling third class on the Titanic with your big sister Annie, on your way to your father in New York. Late on a freezing Sunday night, a long scraping shudder runs through the ship, and then the engines stop. A steward says go back to bed. Do you go up on deck and see for yourself, or stay in your cabin and wait for the crew?

Heads-up: this story is set during a real disaster in which real people died.

Sources: the 1912 US Senate and British Wreck Commissioner's inquiries into the loss of the Titanic; Lawrence Beesley, The Loss of the SS Titanic (1912); Jack Thayer's memoir; Encyclopedia Titanica; Britannica.

How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release.

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Titanic: The Longest Night, Episode 2. You chose to go up on deck and see for yourself in Episode 1. At the end, you choose: Episode 4 or Episode 5.

Out on the open deck, under more stars than you've ever seen, there's ice lying on the boards and a band playing somewhere above. You climb all the way to the boat deck, where an officer is begging people into a half-empty lifeboat. Do you get in, or stay on the big, bright, warm ship?

Heads-up: this story is set during a real disaster in which real people died.

How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release.

© 2026 720 Connections LLC

New here? Start with Episode 1.

Titanic: The Longest Night, Episode 3. You chose to stay in your cabin and wait for instructions in Episode 1. At the end, you choose: Episode 6 or Episode 7.

The steward comes back, and this time he isn't cheerful. Life belts on, you wait with Annie, Mrs. Kelly and her children in the crowded third-class general room, while stewards take a few people up at a time. Then you see people climbing up from the back deck on their own. Do you keep waiting, or find your own way up?

Heads-up: this story is set during a real disaster in which real people died.

How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release.

© 2026 720 Connections LLC

Start here: Pompeii, Episode 1. At the end, you choose: Episode 2 or Episode 3.

You're a kid working in your family's bakery in the Roman town of Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupts and stones start falling from the sky. Your father wants to run for the harbor, but across the street your neighbor's dog, Bruno, is chained in a doorway. What do you do?

Heads-up: this story is set during a real disaster in which real people died.

Fun fact: we never say the date of the eruption, because historians are still arguing about it. Old copies of Pliny's letter say August. A charcoal scribble found in Pompeii in 2018, plus autumn fruit and warm clothing in the ruins, point to October. In 2024 the director of the Pompeii archaeological park reopened the case for August. The jury is still out.

Sources: Pliny the Younger, Letters 6.16 and 6.20; Michigan Tech's AD 79 eruption timeline; Herculaneum Archaeological Park; Live Science (Steven Tuck) on where Pompeii's refugees fled; Archaeology Magazine (2023) on the Pompeii bakery mill; USGS volcano safety guidance.

How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release.

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Pompeii, Episode 2. You chose to run for the harbor in Episode 1. At the end, you choose: Episode 4 or Episode 5.

You race down to Pompeii's harbor, but the boats are overloaded and the wind keeps pushing them back to shore. Then someone spots warships from Misenum out on the bay. Do you wait for them, or start walking south in the dark?

How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release.

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Pompeii, Episode 3. You chose to go back for Bruno in Episode 1. At the end, you choose: Episode 6 or Episode 7.

You unchain Bruno and lose your father in the crowd. Out through the Nocera Gate, under the heaviest stonefall, you find a sturdy farmhouse taking people in, and a traveler from Stabiae who says never stop walking.

How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release.

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Pompeii, Episode 4, an ending. You chose to wait at the shore for the ships in Episode 2. Want to see what else could happen? Go back to Episode 2 and choose again, or start over at Episode 1.

You and your father settle into a boat shed on the shore and wait through the night for the ships from Misenum. Then Professor Hoot sorts truth from story about the real people of Herculaneum's shoreline. Safety tip: evacuate early.

How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release.

© 2026 720 Connections LLC

Pompeii, Episode 5, an ending. You chose to walk south along the coast in Episode 2. Want to see what else could happen? Go back to Episode 2 and choose again, or start over at Episode 1.

You walk south through falling stones and total darkness toward Stabiae, where people are tying pillows to their heads. Then Professor Hoot sorts truth from story, including what seventeen-year-old Pliny the Younger saw from across the bay. Safety tip: protecting yourself from volcanic ash.

How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release.

© 2026 720 Connections LLC