Oct 19, 202621 min
In June 1972, the schooner Lucette sank roughly 200 miles west of the Galápagos Islands after three impacts reported by the six people aboard. Dougal and Lyn Robertson, their sons Douglas, Neil, and Sandy, and Welsh...
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Left for Dead explores real survival stories where ordinary people faced impossible situations and lived. Each episode reconstructs events such as plane crashes, wilderness survival, maritime disasters, and mountaineering accidents through a structured, documentary-style approach. Focusing on decisions, conditions, and human endurance, the series examines how individuals survived when rescue seemed impossible.
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What is Left for Dead about?
Left for Dead explores real survival stories where ordinary people faced impossible situations and lived. Each episode reconstructs events such as plane crashes, wilderness survival, maritime disasters, and mountaineering accidents through a structured, documentary-style approach. Focusing on decisions, conditions, and human endurance, the series examines how individuals survived when rescue seemed impossible.
What has Left for Dead covered recently?
Recent episodes include "The Robertson Family: Thirty-Eight Days Adrift After Killer Whales Sank Their Boat" (19 October 2026, 21 minutes), "Ada Blackjack: The Woman Left Alone on a Frozen Arctic Island" (12 October 2026, 22 minutes), and "Douglas Mawson: The Antarctic Explorer Who Watched His Team Disappear and Walked On Alone" (5 October 2026, 23 minutes).
How often does Left for Dead publish?
Left for Dead publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 23 minutes across 38 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Left for Dead?
Booking probability for Left for Dead is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Left for Dead requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Left for Dead's contact route on record: public web form.
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Left for Dead is a society podcast with 38 episodes published.
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- Oct 12, 202622 min
In April 1923, Ada Blackjack wrote a note for her son Bennett in case she did not survive. She was on Wrangel Island, north of Siberia, with only one other member of a stranded expedition: Lorne Knight, who was...
Episode #39
Douglas Mawson: The Antarctic Explorer Who Watched His Team Disappear and Walked On Alone
Oct 5, 202623 minIn November 1912, Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson left Cape Denison with Xavier Mertz, Belgrave Ninnis, dog teams, sledges, and a surveying mission that was supposed to bring all three men home before the summer ship...
- Sep 28, 202622 min
On January 26, 1972, JAT Flight 367 crashed near Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia after breaking apart in flight. Twenty-seven people died. Flight attendant Vesna Vulović survived. Guinness World Records continues to...
Episode #37
Terry Jo Duperrault: The 11-Year-Old Girl Found Alone at Sea After Her Family Was Murdered
Sep 20, 202623 minOn November 16, 1961, the crew of the Greek freighter Captain Theo spotted a pale object in the waters between the Bahamas and Florida. It was eleven-year-old Terry Jo Duperrault, alive but severely weakened after...
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- Sep 13, 202627 min
On the night of 24 March 1944, RAF rear gunner Nicholas Alkemade was trapped in the burning rear turret of Lancaster DS664 during a return flight from Berlin. His parachute pack was stored outside the turret. When the...
- Sep 7, 202621 min
In June 1985, British climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates completed the first ascent of the previously unclimbed West Face of Siula Grande in Peru’s Cordillera Huayhuash. The summit marked a major achievement, but the...
- Aug 31, 202623 min
In 1983, sailor Tami Oldham and her fiancé Richard Sharp were delivering the yacht Hazana from Tahiti to San Diego when Hurricane Raymond crossed their route. After the yacht capsized, Oldham woke injured, alone, and...
- Aug 10, 202623 min
In April 2003, experienced outdoorsman Aron Ralston entered Bluejohn Canyon in southeastern Utah alone for a day of biking, hiking, and canyoneering. A suspended boulder shifted in a narrow slot canyon and pinned his...
- Jul 28, 202624 min
In May two thousand thirteen, the offshore tugboat Jascon-4 capsized while assisting an oil tanker off Nigeria’s coast and came to rest upside down on the seabed, about thirty meters underwater. Twelve men were aboard...
- Jul 20, 202624 min
In nineteen fifteen, Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance was trapped and crushed by Weddell Sea pack ice before his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition could even reach the Antarctic coast. Twenty-eight men were forced...
- Jul 14, 202622 min
In February nineteen eighty-two, twenty-nine-year-old sailor Steven Callahan was alone in the Atlantic when his twenty-one-foot sailboat, Napoleon Solo, was badly damaged during a rough night at sea. He escaped into a...
- Jul 13, 202624 min
On December 24, 1971, seventeen-year-old Juliane Koepcke boarded LANSA Flight 508 with her mother, Maria, for a Christmas Eve flight from Lima to Pucallpa, Peru. The aircraft entered violent weather over the Amazon...
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Poon Lim: One Hundred Thirty-Three Days Alone at Sea
Jul 13, 202623 minIn November 1942, Chinese merchant sailor Poon Lim was serving as second mess steward aboard the British cargo ship Benlomond when German submarine U-172 sank it in the South Atlantic. Lim escaped into the water with a...
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Seventy-Two Days in the Argentine Andes
Jul 12, 202624 minIn October 1972, a chartered Uruguayan Air Force Fairchild carrying members of the Old Christians Club rugby team, relatives, friends, supporters, and crew set out from Montevideo for Santiago, Chile. Bad weather forced...
Episode #23
The Boy Lost in the Sahara Desert
Jul 12, 202623 minhttps://www.FKNpods.com Lost in the vast, unforgiving Sahara Desert, a young boy faces one of the most harrowing survival ordeals imaginable. With only the clothes on his back, a dwindling supply of water, and the...
- Jul 6, 202624 min
https://www.FKNpods.com A woman emerges from the desolate desert, barely clinging to life, after a grueling ordeal that tests the boundaries of human endurance. Her harrowing survival story unfolds amidst the harsh...
- Jun 29, 202626 min
https://www.FKNpods.com Explore the hidden archives and forbidden chronology of Operation Mockingbird, the alleged covert CIA program that aimed to manipulate media narratives during the Cold War. Dive deep into this...
Episode #20
Trapped on a Glacier in a Whiteout
Jun 22, 202624 minhttps://www.FKNpods.com Step into a relentless battle against nature's fiercest elements as a group of climbers find themselves trapped on a glacier, engulfed in an unforgiving whiteout. With visibility reduced to mere...
Episode #19
The Hiker Who Survived a Canyon Fall
Jun 15, 202625 minhttps://www.FKNpods.com On a seemingly ordinary day, a hiker's world transformed into a relentless battle for survival. Plunged into a remote canyon by a severe fall, they faced the unforgiving reality of isolation...
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