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History has given us some of the most incredible survival tales known to mankind. People who have survived against all odds and said Not Me, Not Today to death. Whether it's plane crashes, jungle survival, lost at sea, abduction or even medical anomalies, we explore it all. Each week we take a look at a survivor, we discuss the ordeal, what happened afterwards and where they are now. Join us on the Not Me, Not Today Podcast.
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We’re back with part two in this tale. Holly and Gerry find themselves in a dead end swamp. After finding a smaller raft; they decide to abandon The Pink Palace in favour of it, to paddle their way out. Only, storms and exhaustion forced them back to The Pink Palace. They fought off starvation and tried to survive. After further unsuccessful attemp…
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Holly and Gerry Fitzgerald married in 1970 and wanted to have the honeymoon of a lifetime. They worked all the hours they could to save money for year of travelling. In late 1972, they started their honeymoon, travelling South America. In the start of January 1973, they set off in a plane from Pucallpa. (Yes, that is the exact same town that Julian…
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Poon Lim holds the world record for longest survival at sea on a life-raft. Whilst working on a British freighter, it was hit by the Germans with torpedoes. In two minutes the ship sank. Poon leapt overboard and found himself floating 250 miles away from land. After two hours, he found a life-raft. Poon climbed aboard and started 133 days of surviv…
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Steven Stayner was just 7 years old when he was abducted on December 4th, 1972. He spent the next 7 years living with a vile paedophile named Kenneth Parnell. Parnell, kept Steven for these years, moving around California, enrolling Steven into various schools under the name of Dennis Parnell. Parnell struggled to hold down a stable job, kept on th…
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Ada Blackjack was an Inupiat born woman, originally named Ada Delutuk, but was actually raised by Methodist missionaries in Nome, Alaska. At 16, she married an abusive man named Jack Blackjack and had three children with him. Only one of those children survived past infancy. Her son Bennet, who had tuberculosis. After Jack left Ada and her son dest…
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Wojtek was a Syrian bear that was bought by Polish soldiers just at the start of World War 2. He was raised by them and lived with them for many years, enjoying many a beer, cigarettes and even learned to walk on his hind legs like his fellow comrades. Wojtek became an official soldier and was even promoted to Corporal at one point. Eventually he e…
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Vesna Vulovic holds the Guinness World Record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute. She was working as an airhostess in 1972, when an explosion in the luggage hold, tore apart the plane sending Vesna into a 33,333ft fall. She managed to survive the crash but was badly injured. After 15 months of rehabilitation and surgeries, including…
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Aron Ralston is a man many of you will be familiar with. In April 2003 he took a trip to Bluejohn Canyon alone. He told nobody where he was going. Aron shortly into his trip, finds himself stuck in the canyon, with his lower right arm crushed and pinned by a boulder. After 5 days, he came to the conclusion that he was going to have to amputate his …
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Travis Barker is a world famous drummer and music producer, known mainly from Blink-182. Travis had always been afraid of flying and had expressed it to his manager before, convinced he was going to die in a plane crash. Despite these fears he travelled on planes for world tours. In 2008 Travis was involved in a plane crash. A crash that claimed th…
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In 1848, Phineas Gage was blasting rocks to make way for the new railroad. He was packing a hole with blasting powder and a fuse, when momentarily distracted, scraped his iron tampering rod along a rock producing a spark and igniting the fuse. The Tampering rod was shot straight through his skull being found 30 feet away covered in his brains. Much…
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In part 2 we discuss Yossi Ghinsberg's journey alone through the jungle. He goes through some incredible challenges like almost falling off another waterfall, surviving a flash flood, a mud pit…twice, being almost eaten alive by ants and termites and finally gets rescued. We explore the 22 days he spent alone in the jungle including his rescue and …
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Yossi Ghinsberg was 22 in 1981 when he and 3 others took to the jungle looking for an adventure of a life-time. After stocking up for what was supposed to be a six week long trip they set off into the jungle. They met rarely contacted tribes, ate monkeys, travelled rivers and tried to enjoy their adventure. But despite the adventure the challenges …
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We are back with part 2! In part two we discuss Tere Jo's rescue. What happened to Julian Harvey when he found out Tere Jo was alive? What really happened aboard the Bluebelle that night? Where is Tere now? We cover all of it and more in the gripping second part of Tere Jo Duperrault story. Listen to find out. ⚠️Trigger Warning⚠️ This episode talks…
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Tere Jo Duperrault was just 11 years old when she was found floating alone, out at sea on a tiny life-raft. She was a survivor of a tragedy aboard The Bluebell. A tragedy that claimed the lives of her entire family. However all was not what it seemed as she was not the initial sole survivor. Julian Harvey the captain had also survived and had told …
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Anatoli Bugorski was working with the most powerful particle accelerator in all of Soviet Russia when it malfunctioned. He stepped up to fix it. At 36 he was shot through the skull with the proton beam and live to tell the tale. Listen to find out what happened to Anatoli in our first mini episode. Don't forget to leave us a review! You can also vi…
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Bethany Hamilton was born to be a surfer. She started from a very young age and would spend every waking minute possible in the water on her surfboard. She was determined from early on to become a professional surfer. Her dream was easily within reach until one day at aged just 13, Bethany was attacked by a shark. It had bitten off her left arm, bu…
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the luckiest unlucky survivor you’ll hear about. At age 27, in 1945 Mr. Yamaguchi and his colleagues were sent from Nagasaki to Hiroshima for an extended work trip. On the day, before they were due to return the “Little Boy” nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Mr. Yamaguchi was late for work when the bomb was dropped, and w…
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Violet Jessop was born in 1887 in Argentina to Irish parents. She had a rough start in life surviving; scarlet fever, typhoid, and tuberculosis, illnesses that claimed the life of some of her siblings. After her father died and her mother got sick Violet left school to get a job as a sea-stewardess. Here she began the career of a lifetime surviving…
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On December 18th 1994, Alison dropped her friend home after an evening of wine and balderdash. When she returned back and pulled up outside her apartment, a man with a knife pushed Alison onto the passenger seat of her car and drove off. Once he collected his ‘friend’; they raped her, disembowelled her, cut her throat and left her for dead. Miracul…
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Judy was a liver and white English Pointer born in 1936 in Shanghai. After a rough start in life Judy joined the HMS Gnat as a mascot. She proved to be more than just a mascot saving her fellow comrades lives many times over. This amazing dog survived two ship bombings, several days on a deserted island, a couple years in Prisoner of War camps and …
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On April 10th 1994, Mauro Prosperi took part in the Marathon Des Sables; which literally means Marathon of the Sands. It’s dubbed the hardest foot race on earth; and on the 4th day, Mauro separated from his friend, determined to win it. He subsequently found himself in middle of a sandstorm. A sandstorm that lasted 8 hours. After being lost in the …
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On Septemebr 11th 1966 Peter Warner and his crew were out laying traps for crayfish near ‘Ata Island; when they noticed smoke rising from the side of the cliff. Aware the island was supposed to be uninhabited and bush fires were rare, he went to investigate. It was here that 6 wild boys came screaming down the cliff leaping into the ocean. They wer…
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One Sunday morning Jeanna was attending church with her mother when she was bitten by a rabid bat. Not aware that it was rabid Jeanna did not seek further medical treatment. One month later she started to show symptoms of rabies. Until 2004 rabies was known to be 100% fatal to humans. Dr. Rodney Willoughby stepped up to the plate and saved Jeannas …
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One morning in mid-June 2007, Eduardo and Jayne Valseca were driving home from dropping their children to school in San Miguel de Allende; Central Mexico. They were ambushed by masked men. Eduardo was kidnapped and held for ransom. Jayne was left to handle this nightmare whilst trying to raise their 3 children. After 7 months Eduardo showed up on t…
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Juliane Koepcke was just 17 years old when she was involved in a plane crash in 1972; over the Amazon Rainforest. She walked out of the jungle 12 days later, emerging as the only survivor. How did Juliane survive? What happened after the crash? Where is she now? Listen and find out. Don't forget to leave us a review! You can also visit our website …
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