Mother Nature Will Kill You

Haley and Jillian close out the podcast with a trip down memory lane and episode superlatives.

Haley and Jillian talk about the recent fires in LA and what this means for our collective future. Then Jillian talks about the nail biting story of Alex Honnold and his historic free solo climb of El Capitan, and Haley talks about the Sierra Nevada Yellow-Legged Frog for conservation corner. Sources: Free Solo, 2018, National Geographic Exclusive: Alex Honnold Completes the Most Dangerous Free-Solo Ascent Ever, Mark Synnott, National Geographic Alex Honnold, Wikipedia Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged Frog, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Jillian and Haley spend the beginning of the new year talking about how the first person to stand on the North Pole may have actually been an African-American man, Matthew Henson, and hope to give credit where credit is due. Haley talks about the polar bear for conservation corner. Sources: The Legacy of Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson, James Edward Mills, National Geographic Matthew A. Henson: The first African American to reach the North Pole, Erika Cosme, The Mariners' Museum Robert Peary, Wikipedia North Pole, Wikipedia Polar Bear, World Wildlife Fund

Haley and Jillian get ready for the holidays with a three story episode focusing on shipwrecks that occurred around or on Christmas. Haley talks about the swamp darter for conservation corner. Sources: The Christmas Tree Ship, Glenn Longacre, National Archives The Grim Fate of the Privateer "General Arnold, Patrick Browne, Historical Digression The Wreck of the Annie C Maguire at Portland Lighthouse on Christmas Eve, Allan Wood, New England Lighthouse Stories Swamp Darter (Etheostoma fusiforme), Maine.gov

Haley and Jillian get into another mountaineering disaster - this time we head to K2 instead for the 2008 K2 disaster. Then Haley talks about the bellybutton eyed Indus River Dolphin for conservation corner. Sources: The 2008 K2 Disaster, C.J. Leger, Basecamp Magazine The Summit Documentary K2: How to Climb the Abruzzi Spur Route, Stewart Green, tripsavvy K2, Wikipedia Death zone, Wikipedia Karakoram, Wikipedia Indus River Dolphin, NOAA Fisheries

Jillian and Haley wallow in newfound hell for a moment before diving into the story of the 1999 Oklahoma City F5 Tornado. Haley then talks about the Red Cockaded Woodpecker for conservation corner. Sources: May 3, 1999 Oklahoma/Kansas Tornado Outbreak, NOAA The Great Plains Tornado Outbreak of May 3-4 1999, NOAA The Story behind a famous photo during a historic Oklahoma tornado outbreak, Jason Collington, Tulsa World May 1999 Tornado Survivor Reflects On Shelter Under Overpass, News 9 Mother Sacrifices Life for Son Mom Said, “I Love You,” as Storm Sucked Her From Bridge, Mark Hutchison, Ron Jackson, The Oklahoman Why You Should Always Avoid Underpasses During Tornadoes, Ground Zero Storm Shelters Tornado Definition, NOAA Why Does the United States Have More Tornadoes than Any Other Country, John Rafferty, Britannica Maps show how “Tornado Alley” has shifted in the U.S., Kerry BReen, CBS News Red Cockaded Woodpecker, WWF

Jillian and Haley deal with the horrors of real life by dealing with the horrors of past life with the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. Haley rounds out conservation corner with the Sumatran Rhino. Sources: ⁠Woman wedged upside down between rocks for 7 hours after trying to retrieve her phone⁠, Hilary Whiteman, CNN ⁠Family tells of 'relief after 1924 climbers foot found on Everest,⁠ Tessa Wong and Flora Drury, BBC⁠Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004⁠, Encyclopedia Britannica ⁠Tsunami warning systems⁠, Encyclopedia Britannica ⁠JetStream Max: 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami⁠, NOAA ⁠The 2004 Tsunami Wiped Away Towns With ‘Mind-Boggling' Destruction⁠, Dave Roos, History⁠Indian Ocean tsunami: survivor's stories from Aceh,⁠ Kate Lamb, The Guardian ⁠‘The Impossible' is Based on This Family's Horrific True Story⁠, Reid Goldberg, Collider ⁠Interview with tsunami survivor Tomas Alvarez Belon, ⁠United Nations ⁠The family that survived the apocalypse⁠, Charlotte Eagar, The New York Times ⁠Sumatran Rhino, ⁠WWF

Haley, Jillian, and Corey reunite for Appalachian Trail Tales Part III for stories of survival, murder, and spooky stuff. Please Donate for Hurricane Helene Relief: ⁠North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund⁠ ⁠Food Bank of Eastern and Central Nort Carolina⁠ ⁠Hurricane Helene Response Red Cross⁠ Sources: ⁠6 days in the wild: Kenneth Knight's ordeal in the Virginia mountains⁠, C.R. Burns, Appalachian Trail Noir ⁠Missing backpacker from Ann Arbor recounts his rescue after becoming lost on the Appalachian Trail,⁠ Tom Gantert, Michigan Live ⁠Lost and Blind in the Woods⁠, Carolyn Webber, Backpacker.com ⁠List of Appalachian Trail Murders Since 1974⁠, Katie Licavoli, Greenbelly ⁠True Crime in the Great Outdoors: Murder on the Appalachian Trail, ⁠Strange Outdoors

Haley and Jillian welcome a guest on the podcast to talk about his visit to Everest base camp, and talk about all of the bodies still left on the mountain. Hurricane Helene Donations: Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund North Carolina Community Foundation Sources: The Bodies on Mount Everest: Dead, Frozen & Left at the Top, Ultimate Kilimanjaro Mapped: The deadly geography of Mount Everest, Frank Jacobs, Big Think More Than 200 Dead Bodies Have Been Left Behind on Mount Everest, and Many Mark the Path to the Summit, Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine Yeti, Cryptid Wiki

Haley and Jillian delve into the other Dyatlov Pass incident - the Khamar-Daban incident. Siberia is full of terrors. Then Haley talks about the Russian version of Bigfoot, the Mecheny. Sources: The Khamar-Daban Incident: Mountain Madness, Bipin Dimri, Historic Mysteries Infrasound, Wikipedia Khamar-Daban Incident, Wikipedia  "Mysterious death of climbers at the Khamar-Daban pass. Death of Buryat tourists: hypothermia or mysticism? Expedition by Lyudmila Korovina". parki-himki.ru. Pollution of Lake Baikal, Eco Hub Map Lake Baikal, Wikipedia Mecheny, Cryptid Wiki

Haley and Jillian visit Haley's ancestral home of Croatia for the mysterious death that occurred in a cave in Pogancia Bay, and then Haley delves into some Croatian folklore monsters and spirits. Sources: Petri, Nadan and Marija Definis-Gojanovic.2003. Scuba diver with a knife in his chest: homicide or suicide? Croatian Medical Journal. 44(3):355–359. Underwater Suicide? Mysterious Case of Diver Who Stabbed Himself, Cameron English, American Council of Science and Health Pogancia Bay: A Cave Diving Disaster, Fascinating Horror Bukavac, Cryptid Wiki Šumske dekle ("forest girls"), Cryptid Wiki Domovoy, Wikipedia

Jillian and Haley talk all things Iowa State Fair and Jillian jumps into the spooky phenomenon that many explorers experience, the mysterious third man syndrome. Haley then rounds out our first spooky season episode with cryptid corner featuring the Antarctic ningen. Sources: The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, John Geiger Ningen, Cryptid Wiki

Haley and Jillian cover another story related to current world events, the terrifying Fort McMurray Fire of 2016. Haley then gives us a conservation corner twofer with the limber pine and the Clark's Nutcracker. Sources: ⁠Fire Weather: A True Story From A Hotter World⁠, John Vaillant ⁠Bitumen⁠, Wikipedia ⁠Clark's Nutcracker⁠, Cornell Lab, All About Birds ⁠Species at Risk: A Guide to Endangered and Threatened Species, and Species of Special Concern in Alberta⁠

Haley and Jillian reflect on all of the topic related news stories going on recently before diving into another National Park topic: the accidents and deaths surrounding Yellowstone National Park's hot springs. Haley talks about the reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone for conservation corner. Sources: Has Anyone Died from Falling in a Geyser? Tom Arrandale, Yellowstone National Park Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the National Park, Chicago Tribune Man Burns to Death Rescuing Dog from Hot Springs, David Mikkelson, Snopes Lost in Yellowstone, The Misadventures of Truman Everts, Yellowstone National Park Thirty-Seven Days Lost in the Yellowstone: The Story of Truman Everts, Kenton Krueger, Backcountry Journeys Woman dead, two burned in park hot spring, Scott McMillion, Bozeman Daily Chronicle One dead, two others critically burned in Yellowstone hot spring, Nevada Appeal Hydrothermal Features, Yellowstone National Park, National Park Service Yellowstone National Park, Wikipedia Wolf Restoration, Yellowstone National Park

Haley and Jillian dive right into a national park summer vacation with Yosemite and the horrors of the half dome hike. Then Jillian talks about Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep for conservation corner. Sources: Yosemite National Park, The National Park Foundation Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Mariposa County John Muir, National Park Service Ansel Adams, National Park Service Half Dome Day Hike, National Park Service Deaths in Yosemite National Park, Roberts & Spiegel Injury Lawyers Half Dome hiker tried to grab Arizona woman as she tumbled to her death, Mike Moffitt, SF Gate How I Almost Died Climbing Yosemite's Half Dome, Swati Vijaykumar, India Currents A perilous summit in Yosemite has caused at least 300 accident in the past 15 years. Here's why people keep sleeping and falling, Aria Bendix, Business Insider Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Facts, California Department of Fish and Wildlife Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Foundation Episode 172 - Bighorn Sheep: Nature's Hard Hats, Life, Death, and Taxonomy

Haley and Jillian talk exploration in the news with Hurricane Beryl, OceanGate's upcoming trip to a blue hole, the recent shark attacks in Florida, and the two men stuck in space. Then Jillian gets into the worst shark attack in recorded history with the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Haley rounds it out with conservation corner with the strange ugly-cute binturong. Sources: The Worst Shark Attack in History, Natasha Geiling, Smithsonian Magazine Surviving the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis, Seth Paridon, The National WWII Museum USS Indianapolis sinking: “You could see sharks circling”, Alex Last, BBC USS Indianapolis (CA-35), Wikipedia Oceanic Whitetip Shark, Carcharhinus longimanus, Cathleen Bester, Florida Museum The Truth About Oceanic Whitetip Sharks, Katie Hogge, The Ocean Conservancy Binturong, Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute

Jillian and Haley explore the misleading theories on Polynesian navigation and migration to the South Pacific with the Kon-Tiki Expedition, and talk about how it really happened with the story of the Hōkūle'a. Haley brings it all home with a Moana themed conservation corner with the Giant Manta Ray. Sources: How the Voyage of the Kon-Tiki Misled the World About Navigating the Pacific, Doug Herman, Smithsonian Magazine Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Famous Kon-Tiki Expedition, Preet Dhillon, Medium.com 1976 Hawai'i to Tahiti and Back, Hokulea.com Hokule'a: The First Voyage (Part 1-4), KHON2 News The Building of the Hokule'a - 1973-75, Polynesian Voyaging Society Giant Manta Ray, NOAA Fisheries

Haley and Jillian "land" on the two incredible space-gone-wrong stories of John Glenn's Friendship 7 mission and the landing survival story of the Soyuz 23. Haley then spends a lot of time talking about flamingos, and the one time she flamingled with them. Sources: 60 years Ago: John Glenn, the First American to Orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7, John Uri, NASA Astronaut John Glenn and the Friendship 7 Mission, National Archives A Closer Look at the Friendship 7 Spacecraft, Thomas Paone, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Soyuz 23: How two cosmonauts almost died after landing back on Earth, Doug Adler, Astronomy A Watery Yarn: The Unlucky Voyage of Soyuz 23 Part 1 and 2, Ben Evans, America Space Greater Flamingo, Wikipedia

Haley and Jillian reunite back on east coast time with the story of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island. Haley delves into the ecology of the Catalina Island Fox. Sources: Natural History Museum Unveils Portrait of Juana Maria, the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History “Island of the Blue Dolphins” women's cave believed found, Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times The Lone Woman of San Nicolas, National Park Service Researchers uncover new twist in 165-year-old story of Lone Woman's life on island, Cheri Carlson, Ventura County Star Stranded on the Island of Blue Dolphins: The True Story of Juana Maria, Erin Blakemore, JSTOR The Unbelievable True Story of Juana Maria, The Woman Who Inspired “Island of the Blue Dolphins”, Natasha Ishak, All That Is Interesting Channel Islands (California), Wikipedia Unearthing our history: Local scientists reveal fate of “Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island”, Lisa Andre, Santa Maria Times Friends of the Island Fox

This weeks episode is a little shorter than normal, because Haley is solo for the first time! Haley covers the 1982 Lake Tahoe Alpine Meadows avalanche, covering for Jillian until she returns for the next episode (Jillian is moving!). Sources: Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche, Jared Drake and Steven Siig, Netflix The Legacy of Alpine Meadows: The 1982 Avalanche, Unofficial Alpine.com Sierra Nevada, Wikipedia

Jillian and Haley dive into the Timothy Treadwell documentary "Grizzly Man" before Jillian tells the story of chronobiologist Michel Siffre and the time isolation experiments. Haley talks monarch butterflies during conservation corner. Sources: Caveman: An interview with Micchel Siffre, Joshua Foer and Michel Siffre, Cabinet Magazine Siffre Cave Study Psychology, Study Smarter Chronobiology, McGill Six Months Alone in Midnight Cave, James M. Deem Deep Time Study: French volunteers leave cave after 40 days in isolation, BBC A test subject who spent 40 days in a cave for science breaks down what it was like, from weird sleep patterns to generating power with a bike. Marianne Guenot, Business Insider Michael Siffre, Wikipedia Amistad National Recreation Area IUCN Changes Migratory Monarch Status from Endangered to Vulnerable, Monarch Joint Venture Conservation in North America, USDA Monarch Butterfly, National Wildlife Federation

Corey decides he wants to come on the podcast again and Jillian, Corey, and Haley talk about all kinds of personal news, including a move and a wedding. Jillian then dives into the highly controversial life and death of Timothy Treadwell, and Haley talks grizzly bears during conservation corner. Sources: We Watched "Grizzly Man" With a Bear Biologist. It Got Weird. Emma Veidt, Backpacker Timothy Treadwell Devoted His Life To Grizzly Bears - Until They Ate Him, Katie Serena, All That's Interesting. The Man Who Loved Grizzlies, Ned Zeman, Vanity Fair Alaskan Peninsula brown bear, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Wikipedia Grizzly Bear, National Wildlife Federation

Haley and Jillian talk about the troubling "spinning fish disease" in the Florida Keys before diving into the tragic tale of the Yarnell Hill Wildfire and the Granite Mountain Hotshots. Haley brings it back up during conservation corner with the Apache trout. Sources: 19: The True Story of the Yarnell Hill Fire, Kyle Dickman, Outside Magazine Granite Mountain Hotshots: The firefighting team that died battling the Yarnell Hill Fire, Janelle Foskett, Fire Rescue 1 19 Firefighters Die Battling Arizona's Yarnell Fire, David Greene, Ted Robins, NPR Two Years After Deadly Wildfire, Are There Lessons in the Ashes, NPR Staff, NPR On This Day: Remembering the Yarnell Hill Wildfire, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information 10 years later: Remembering the Yarnell Hill Fire and the Granite Mountain Hotshots - 12 News Arizona What It's Like to Fight Fires With Hands and Tools, Insider News How Fighting Wildfires Works, Wendover Productions Apache Trout, Western Native Trout Iniative.org

Jillian and Haley talk about how history always repeats itself with a recent news story about Donner pass. Jillian dives into more prehistoric stories with the lost land of Doggerland and the hominids of Rising Star Cave. Haley rounds it out with some seal talk. Sources: Doggerland- The Europe That Was, Benjamin Kessler, National Geographic Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis” of the North Sea gives up it's ancient secrets, Daniel Boffey, The Guardian Letter from Doggerland, Jason Urbanus, Archology Study finds indications of life on Doggerland after devastating tsunamis, Esther Addley, The Guardian Tiny island survived tsunami that helped separate Britain and Europe, Michael Marshall, New Scientist Bondevik, S., F. Lovholt, C. Harbitz, J. Mangerud, A. Dawson, J.I. Svendsen. 2005. The Storegga Slide tsunami–comparing field observations with numerical simulations. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 22(1–2): 195–208. Doggerland: How did the North Sea's Atlantis Sink? Alexander Freund, DW News Ancient Human Relatives May Have Buried Their Dead, Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine Unknown: Cave of Bones, Netflix Ancient Human Relatives Buried Their Dead in Caves, New Theory Claims, Carl Zimmer, New York Times The Latest on Homo naledi, John Hawks, American Scientist Were small-brained early humans intelligent? Row erupts over scientist's claim, The Guardian A research team's finding of pre-human burial sites was publicly lauded. Then came the peer reviews. Maya Fazel-Zarandi and Julian Hartman-Sigall, The Daily Princetonian The truth about animal grief, Zoe Cormier, BBC Earth Gray Seal, NOAA Fisheries

Haley and Jillian are back with a super uncomfy story about what happens when a dive boat leaves you behind, the true story of the disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan. Haley takes us to the Great Barrier Reef during conservation corner with the dugong. Sources: Tom and Eileen Lonergan: The American Couple Who Disappeared in the Great Barrier Reef, Kara Goldfarb, All That's Interesting Mystery of couple left behind in shark-infested waters still missing 23 years on, Nilufer Atik and Adam Solomons, Mirror From the Archives, 1998: Two scuba divers lost, left behind in open water, Paul McGeough, Brisbane Times The Dive to Nowhere: An Account of the Missing Lonergans, Brown Lotus, Medium The True Story Behind ‘Open Water' Is A Dark Mystery That Goes Way Beyond The Horror of The Film, Erin McCann, Ranker Great Barrier Reef, Wikipedia Central Great Barrier Reef, Great Barrier Reef.org The Dugong & Seagrass Conservation Project

It's the last MNWKY Rewind before the break is over and we are back! This time we bring in Corey for a space focused episode talking about the experiment that is HI-SEAS Mars. Sources: HI-SEAS, Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation When A Mars Simulation Goes Wrong, Marina Koren, The Atlantic The Habitat Podcast, Gimlet Media

On this episode of MNWKY Rewind we go back to one our favorite topics...caves! This week we revisit the absolutely terrifying story of the Plura Cave Tragedy. Sources: The cavers who went back for their friends, William Kremer, BBC News Diving Into the Unknown, Amazon Prime

On this episode of MNWKY Rewind, we go back to our famous deadly mountain, Everest, with the mysterious disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irving. Sources: George Mallory, British Explorer and Mountaineer, Encyclopedia Britannica What Really Happened to George Mallory and Andrew Irvine?, Killer Climbs Mount Everest – Archaeology in the Death Zone, Lars Pilo, Secrets of the Ice Ghosts of Everest, Eric Simonson, Jochen Hemmleb, Larry Johnson, Outside Magazine Lost on Everest, National Geographic, Renan Ozturk

Time to switch gears on this next episode of Mother Nature Will Kill You Rewind. This time we go back to the Great Storm of 1900, otherwise known as the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Return for new content and regular episodes on March 4th, 2024. See you then:) Sources: Isaac's Storm, Eric Larson Tropical cyclone, Storm Surge , Wikipedia Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, National Hurricane Center The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, NOAA, Ron Trumbla

Time to finish our first trip down memory lane with the second chapter of the story of Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance. Mother Nature Will Kill You Rewind is our way to say thank you while we are on break. Visit some episodes from the podcast's past, and some stories you may have forgotten about. Come back for regular and new episodes on March 4th :) Sources: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Wikipedia Chasing Ernest: A Journey to South Georgia to Find the Ghost of Shackleton, Kraig Becker, Popular Mechanics

Time to take a trip down memory lane with Mother Nature Will Kill You Rewind as Haley and Jillian go on a long needed break. In this episode we revisit the story of Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance expedition and their incredible story of survival. A story that Jillian brings up constantly.

It's our last episode before the break! Today, Jillian lightens the mood (a little bit, not a lot, this is Jillian we are talking about) and talks about legendary Hawaiian Surfers Eddie Aikau and Duke Kahanamoku. Haley brings conservation corner back to birds with the Hawaiian honey creeper. Sources The surfing life story of Eddie Aikau, Surfing Today Examining The Death of Eddie Aikau (Eddie Would Go), Michael Woodsmall, The Inertia  Eddie Aikau: The Rad Life of a Hawaiian Surfing Legend, Lorraine Boissoneualt,  JSTOR 1978 Voyage to Tahiti Canceled After Hokule'a Capsizes, Hawaiian Voyaging Traditions Duke Kahanamoku and The Superhuman Rescue, Gordy Grundy, The Inertia Heroic efforts of “Duke” of Corona del Mar Remembered, David Henley, Daily Pilot Duke Kahanamoku Part 2: The Day He Saved Eight Souls, Roy Tomizawa, The Olympians  The Duke Kahanamoku Story, Duke Kahanamoku.com

Haley and Jillian talk about holiday traditions before jumping into the heavy story of the 1936 Eiger Disaster. Haley brings the vibe back with a conservation corner about Alpine Ibex. Happy New Years! Sources: Toni Kurz and the Insanity of Climbing Mountains, Gene Smith, The Less Wrong Podcast Tragedies on the Mountain: The Eiger 1936, Rob Slade, Wired for Adventure The Eiger - Wall of Death, BBC Alpine Ibex, Animalia.bio

Haley and Jillian go to the north pole...or almost, with the complete disaster and how-not-to of the Polaris Expedition. Haley talks about Santa's favorite animal for conservation corner, the Reindeer, or Caribou. Sources: Polaris Expedition, Wikipedia What happened to the Polaris Expedition and did it lead to Murder? Discovery.com Wait. Did That Really Happen? Potential Poison on the Polaris, Emily Niekrasz, Smithsonian Institution Archives ENVS 15: The Earth's Cold Regions, The Polaris Expedition, Dartmouth College The Polaris expedition and the problem of bias in Arctic exploration history, Nanna Katrine Luders Kaalund, Arctic Relations

Jillian and Haley round out their Titanic special with the survival stories of Margaret "Molly" Brown and Charles Joughin, and talk about the Titanic/Olympic switch conspiracy theory. Sources: Houston woman missing at Big Bend National Park found after a week, park rangers say, ABC news Meet Margaret "Molly" Brown, Historic Denver.com 11 Unsinkable Facts About 'Titanic' Survivor Molly Brown, Cailey Lindberg, Mental Floss The Incredible Story of Charles Joughin and How He Survived The Titanic, Gina Dimuro, All That's Interesting The Amazing Story of Titanic Survivor Charles Joughin, Andre Nolan, Titanic Universe The head baker of the Titanic spent two hours in frigid water and emerged with only swollen feet, Ada McVean, McGill University Charles Joughin, Wikipedia Revived Titanic-Olympic 'switch' conspiracy sunk by ships' differences, Reuters Fact Check, Reuters

Jillian finally watches the 1997 James Cameron classic, Titanic, and talks about the real disaster. Haley talks about the only animal today that could have seen the wreck and lived long enough to tell us about it, the Greenland Shark. Sources: How Did The Titanic Sink, BBC Timeline of the Titanic's Final Hours, Amy Tikkanen, Encyclopedia Britannica Titanic Facts.net Irish Man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic, Senan Moloy Irish Central 10 Titanic Survivors Describe What The Sinking Was Actually Like, Elise Hennigan, Ranker Sunken Dreams: The Finns on Board the Titanic, Jarno Linnolahti, Elizabeth Uchanov  Titanic: The True Story Behind the Movie's Controversial Shootings, Christy Box, Screen Rant Greenland Shark, Wikipedia A Mysterious Greenland shark showed up in Belize, thousands of miles from its arctic home, Zoe Zottile, CNN Old and cold: extreme longevity in Greenland Sharks, David Malmquist, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Haley and Jillian enter the terrifying world of Mammoth Cave with the story of Floyd Collins before Haley talks about a local Kentucky cryptid, the Pope Lick Monster. Happy Halloween! Sources: Tragedy at Sand Cave, Mammoth Cave National Park The Kentucky Cave Wars, Mammoth Cave National Park Mammoth Cave National Park, Wikipedia The Agonizing Death of Floyd Collins, The Cave Explorer Who Was Trapped Underground for 17 Days Before He Finally Perished, Austin Harvey, All That Is Interesting Pope Lick Monster, Cryptid Wiki

Jillian, Corey, and Haley reuinite for another round of Appalachian Trail Tales with the spooky Not Deer, more Appalachian folk magic advice, and the arm-hair raising story of Pam Bales' rescue on Mount Washington in New Hampshire. 988 Suicide & Crisis Prevention Lifeline Sources Danger Zones Mt. Washington, Douglas MacDonald, Mt. Washington Avalanche Center Why is Mount Washington so dangerous? Julia Clark, Adventure.com The Mystery on Mount Washington, Pam Bales, Backpacker Emotional Rescue, AMC Staff, Appalachian Mountain Club Story of Mount Washington rescue makes it to the big screen, but the mountain does not, David Brooks, Concord Monitor Footprints in the snow lead to an emotional rescue, Ty Gagne, The Union Leader Not Deer, Cryptid Wiki Appalachian Witchcraft for Beginners, Auburn Lily

Haley and Jillian talk recent news about the astronauts and cosmonauts that were stuck at the International Space Station for a year. Then Jillian delves into the lore-ridden story of Marguerite de la Rocque and the Isle of Demons. Sources Three astronauts return to Earth after year in space. NASA's Rubio sets US record, Marcia Dunn, ABC News The Marooning of Marguerite de la Rocque, History Courses Marguerite de La Rocque, Wikipedia The Elusive Isle of Demons, Cynthia Smith, Library of Congress Blogs A Woman to Know: Marguerite de la Rocque de Roberval, Julia Carpenter, A Woman to Know.com This phantom island was once believed to lie in the Strait of Belle Isle, Ainsley Hawthorn, CBC Canada Lac Wood Screecher, Cryptid Wiki Wendigo, Wikipedia

Haley and Jillian catch up on the latest disaster/survival news, including the story of the American caver who was trapped in a cave in Turkey. Then Jillian gets spooky season started with the terrifying story of the Night of the Grizzlies. Sources: An American researcher is trapped deep inside a Turkish cave. Here's what to know, Juliana Kim, NPR American Researcher stuck deep in a Turkish cave is rescued after falling ill, NPR The 50-Year Legacy of Glacier's Night of the Grizzlies, Ben Goldfarb, Outside Magazine The Deadly Grizzly Bear Attacks That Changed the National Park Service Forever, Emily E. Smith, Smithsonian Magazine Night of the Grizzlies: Lessons learned in 50 years since attacks, Sarah Dettmer, Great Falls Tribune Glacier National Park (U.S.), Grizzly bear, Wikipedia Meet Montana's Monsters! Treasure State Lifestyles

Haley and Jillian wrap up the astounding conclusion of the Air Guard rescue during "The Perfect Storm", and then for conservation corner, the girls talk about the rich history of Atlantic Cod, and why they almost disappeared. Sources: The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger 30 October 1991, Bryan Swopes, This Day in Aviation History Atlantic Cod, NOAA Fisheries Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Mark Kurlansky

It's the summer of climate change! Haley and Jillian talk about the California hurricane and the wildfires in Maui before Jillian dives into the many stories behind the "Perfect Storm" of 1991 If you are able to donate to any of these Maui based organizations to help the victims of the Lahaina wildfires, we thank you for your support: Maui United Way Hawaii Community Foundation Hawaiian Council Maui Rapid Response Maui Food Bank Sources: The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger How do Hurricanes form? NOAA 1991 Perfect Storm, Wikipedia 30 October 1991, Bryan Swopes, This Day in Aviation History

Jillian regales Haley on her trip to the far away land of Finland. Then Jillian and Haley talk Amelia Earhart, and a very strange crabby theory surrounding her disappearance. Haley brings the Sumatran orangutan to conservation corner. Sources: Amelia Earhart Was Declared Dead 80 Years Ago. Here's What to Know About What Actually Happened To Her, Olivia Waxman, Times Magazine. The Legend of Amelia Earhart's Disappearance, Dominick Pisano, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum An Amelia Earhart conspiracy, a missing rifle and powerful pincers: the coconut crab is an icon, Angela Heathcote, Australian Geographic Was Amelia Earhart Eaten By Crabs, Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics Recent Discoveries End in Disappointment and More Mysteries in Earhart Disappearance, Larry Holzwarth, History Collection USF Forensic Anthropologist Testing Human Remains Believed to Potentially Belong to Amelia Earhart, University of South Florida Sumatran Orangutan, The Denver Zoo

Haley takes us on a cool trip to Alaska with the true story of the 1925 Nome Serum Run and Togo, the REAL Balto. Trust us, Togo is much better. Jillian talks Sockeye Salmon for Conservation Corner. Sources Togo, U.S. National Park Service Togo (dog), 1925 Serum Run to Nome, Wikipedia Wild Salmon Center, Sockeye Salmon Sockeye Salmon, Alaska Department of Fish and Game Pacific Wild, Salmon: A Keystone Species, Hannah Bugas, PacificWild.org Stat of Alaska's Salmon and People, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Salmon Systems Working Group Sockeye Salmon, NOAA

Haley and Jillian discuss their impending meet-up, then Haley talks about the four kids that survived a plane crash and four months in the Colombian jungle. Then Jillian dives into the main story - a family vacation gone horribly wrong in Death Valley. Sources How Indigenous kids survived 40 days in Colombia's jungle after a plane crash, John Otis, NPR The disturbing disappearance and death of the German Tourists in Death Valley, Strange Outdoors The Missing German Family Death Valley, Vanished U.S Death Valley, Highest Temperature Recorded on Earth, Wikipedia

This episode is a two-fer! Not only is Jillian sharing the tale of Dave Crocket and the eruption of Mount St. Helens, but Haley and Jillian dive into the recent Titanic submarine catastrophe. #OceanGate Sources: Titanic sub search turns desperate as experts estimate Titan's oxygen is depleted, Emily Olsen, NPR Missing Titanic submersible: what is the Titan tourist sub and what might have happened to it? Graham Russell, The Guardian What it's like inside the Titanic-touring Submersible that went missing with 5 people on board, Emma Tucker, CNN Live Missing Titanic Sub Search, CNN See How Crushing Pressure Increase in the Ocean's Depths, Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American Marine group says 10 subs in the world can dive to Titanic depths. Titan is the only one not certified, Ryan Cooke, Royal Canadian News Mount St. Helens Erupts, History.com He Miraculously Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, David Crockett, Guideposts Dave Crockett's Narrow Escape, Dana Hunter, Scientific American “I can see it like it was yesterday” : St. Helen's Eruption Seared Into Witness Memories, Nick Popham & KOMO Staff, KOMO News Harry R. Truman Still Believed In Love As Mount St. Helens Eruption Loomed, Refused to Leave the Mountain That Gave Him Everything, Douglas Perry, The Oregonian/Oregon Live The Floating Logs of Spirit Lake, Kathryn Hansen, Earth Observatory/NASA

Haley and Jillian talk bug infestations and then Haley takes us on a deep dive into the Amazon with the story of Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z. Or Zed. Depending on how you pronounce it. Sources: The True Story Behind The Lost City of Z, Eliza Berman, Time Magazine The Lost City, Alexander Lee, History Today 10 Facts About Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z, Sarah Roller, History Hit Percy Fawcett, James Murray (biologist), Wikipedia Maned Wolf, Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute Maned Wolf, Canids.org

Strap in for a freezing conclusion as Jillian and Haley wrap up the South Pole Race extravaganza of Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott. Sources: The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard Amundsen Expedition Timeline,  American Museum of National History Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Terra Nova Expedition, Amundsen's South Pole Expedition, Wikipedia

Jillian talks about her latest home disaster before telling Haley about the original exploration race - the race to the south pole between Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen. Haley talks about the biggest animal yet on conservation corner; the sei whale. Sources: The Worst Journey in the World , Apsley Cherry-Garrard Amundsen Expedition Timeline, American Museum of Natural History Robert Scott Expedition Timeline, American Museum of Natural History Robert Falcon Scott, South-Pole.com Roald Amundsen⁠, South-Pole.com Sei Whale, NOAA Fisheries Sei Whale, Cool Antarctica

Haley and Jillian talk all things space, from moon landing conspiracy theories to extra terrestrial life. Jillian delves into the story of the Soviet cosmonauts and the doomed Soyuz 11 which launched to the world's first space station. Haley gets into the stories of the first animals in space, including the indominable mummichog. Sources: 50 Years Ago: Remembering the Crew of the Soyuz 11, John Uri, NASA.gov The tragic story of 3 cosmonauts who died in space, Lloyd Lee, Business Insider Remembering the crew of Soyuz 11, the only astronauts to die in space, Ben Evans, Astronomy.com Animals in Space, Mummichog, Wikipedia The First Fish in Orbit, David Samuel Johnson, Scientific American

Haley shares with us her big exciting news and then Jillian dives on in to the worst buddy trip ever - filled with mayhem, missing people, improvised flame throwers, and forehead worms. This story follows Yossi Ghinsberg and his friends as they go on a treasure quest into the Bolivian Amazon. Sources: Jungle, Yossi Ghinsberg The real story behind the movie “Jungle” - heroic survival and mysterious disappearances, Strange Outdoors Israeli adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg harrowing life-and-death story of survival in the Amazon Jungle, David Meddows, Daily Telegraph I was lost in the Amazon Jungle, Simon Round, The Jewish Chronical Madidi National Park, National Parks.org