A Croatian man named Frane Selak has got to be either the luckiest man alive or the unluckiest. Whether you’re someone who sees the glass as being half full or half empty, Frane’s glass has definitely been filled with deadly misadventures.Writi

Little Boy Wonder

May 13th, 2020 35m 28s

As 11-year-old Norm Ollestad was dangling upside down in his plane seat, he couldn't help but wonder how his Father would manage to get them out of this one. Although they'd never experienced crashing into the side of a mountain in the middle o

A Watery Grave

1 May 6th, 2020 29m 39s

Stranded at the bottom of the ocean, Harrison Okene had nothing but a mattress a bottle of cokeand a flashlight to keep him alive. Trapped in a tiny pocket of air in an upturned ship, Harrison was atthe mercy of the Atlantic’s waters.Writing an

Sole Survivor

Apr 29th, 2020 42m 53s

As Juliane Koepcke collapsed against a tree somewhere in the middle of the rainforest she began to pray she’d live to see her mother again. Up until now, she hadn’t found any other survivors, or any wreckage of the plane crash that had brought

Alone In The Amazon

Apr 22nd, 2020 38m 4s

Lying on the forest floor on his hands and knees, Yossi Ghinsberg heard the sounds of an airplane passing overhead. Lost in the Amazon depths for three weeks, Yossi no longer had the strength to lift himself to his feet. To binge ad-free on Wo

Stranded In The Sea Of Cortez

Apr 22nd, 2020 28m 54s

Joseph Rangel found himself stranded on a deserted island with his lifelong childhood friend Lorenzo Madrid and a young untrained fishing guide half their age. Rangel and his best friend were on their last day of a 5 day sports fishing trip in

A Chilling Expedition

Jan 14th, 2020 34m 23s

For many explorers, it was a race to see which expedition would be the first to chart and reach the Earth’s Magnetic South Pole. A conquest finally accomplished by the Nimrod Expedition in 1909. A member of that team, 26-year-old Sir Douglas Ma

The Trashman

Jan 14th, 2020 35m 54s

Deborah Scaling Kiley sat in a rubber dingy in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, reciting the Lord’sPrayer in a desperate attempt to convince herself she hadn’t gone mad. The water surroundingthe boat had turned a sickly shade of red, as the bl

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Introducing Deadly Misadventures

Jan 13th, 2020 1m 4s

Hosted by Justin from Generation Why and Tyler from The Minds of Madness.Wondery’s newest podcast explores some of the most-terrifying, real-life stories of people who came face to face with death.The podcast series raises the question on wheth

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