Denise M. is a 62-year-old resident of Alexandria, Virginia. On May 12, 2021, she drove a friend into Washington, D.C. for a simple errand. But five days earlier, a criminal hacking group had shut down the Colonial Pipeline. That pipeline delivers nearly half of the fuel to the entire East Coast. By the time Denise […]

Michael C. was 45-year-old man who lived in Salem, Indiana. Micheal had a troubled past with multiple run-ins with the law. He also had recently been through a breakup with an ex-girlfriend. For some reason, Michael decided to go to his ex-girlfriend’s parents’ house one day. She no longer lived at the house, but police […]

Emilie R. is a property owner from Pennsylvania. On the afternoon of June 16, 2023, severe thunderstorms rolled through Montgomery County. Emilie was in bed comforting her dog Finn, who was shaking from the thunder. Her husband was working from the house in another room. Then lightning hit their roof. At first, they didn’t think […]

James G. is a 28-year-old man from Alabama. On November 23, 2022, he boarded a Carnival cruise ship with 18 family members for Thanksgiving. By midnight, he was alone in the Gulf of Mexico. He does not know how he went overboard. One moment he was walking to the restroom, the next moment he opened […]

Tami L. is a 49-year-old mother from Roseville, California. On July 11, 2025, she packed up her car and headed into the Sierra Nevada mountains to drop her 9-year-old son on a Cub Scout camping trip. The Cub Scouts were gathering at Camp Wolfeboro in Calaveras County. It was a simple trip. A few hours […]

Aaron O. is a father of six from Bells Flats, Alaska. On September 27, 2022, around 11 p.m., a massive Kodiak brown bear walked through his unlocked front door. Five of the children were asleep in bedrooms down the hall. Aaron’s dog Harley started barking with a special sound Aaron had learned to recognize. It […]

Jordan J. is a 36-year-old outdoorsman from Athol, Idaho. In August 2019, he was dropped alone in the Canadian Arctic with just 10 items he’d picked himself. No camera crews, no support team, no resupply. Just Jordan, the wilderness, and whatever he could build or catch. He was competing on History Channel’s “Alone” Season 6 […]

Susanne A. is a writer who moved to Asheville, North Carolina from coastal Washington state. She relocated to the mountains specifically to escape extreme weather, and Asheville was supposed to be safe. It was in the mountains, protected by elevation, a place people called a climate haven. Susanne and her husband had been there six […]

Annelise C. is a 30-year-old marine educator from Bethesda, Maryland. In August 2023, she was working at a whale foundation on Maui, Hawaii. On August 8 around 3 p.m., she smelled something burning, walked outside and saw billowing black smoke. Within minutes, the situation turned deadly. The Lahaina wildfire was consuming everything in its path. […]

We were trying to sprint up the mountainside. But with a 35 lbs. of pack on our backs and our gear, we were actually just inching along. As tired, hungry, and thirsty as we were, combined with both of us having minor ankle injuries, we were covering about 30 feet a minute up the rugged […]