My Survival Story brings you one ordinary person’s account of a single day that went wrong, told years later in the first person. Each episode is a plain survival story: a canyon flood, a fall on a mountain, a fire on a forest road, a boat rolling at sea, an animal encounter on a trail. The promise is simple and steady Real people, one sudden disaster, and how they came out of it.
An episode feels immediate and tactile: the cold that seeps in, the roar of water, the scrape of rock, the dark hours when choices are made with almost nothing left. The voice is unadorned and honest, tension built only from what happens and what was risked to survive. You hear the warning no one heeded, the second everything changed, the long hold and the way out, and the quiet cost that remains.
I’m Charlotte, I introduce each listener-submitted story and let the survivor tell it in their own words. New episodes are released every monday and friday at 5 PM. Follow My Survival Story to hear how ordinary days turned into tests of endurance and what people carried back with them.
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In August two thousand and six, Kai Brenner, a thirty-year-old electrician from Bergen, Norway, sets out alone to traverse a high ridge in Jotunheimen after his hiking partner turns back. When fog closes in faster than forecast and loose shale gives way underfoot, Kai breaks his right ankle on the exposed ridge with no phone signal, no trekking poles, and six hundred meters of broken terrain between him and the valley below. Wet, cold, and unable to bear weight on one leg, he faces a descent that will take far longer than the daylight he has left. Can one man's stubborn self-reliance carry him off a mountain that is already turning against him?This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.
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27 Oct 2026
Buried in the Valley: Three Days Inside the Wreck
In September twenty thirteen, structural engineer Diane Mercer, forty four, travels to Nantou County, Taiwan, for a professional conference at a six story valley hotel. She is asleep in her room when a major earthquake strikes at two seventeen in the morning, collapsing the stairwell around her and pinning her alone in a concrete slot no wider than her shoulders. Water runs out, the heat inside the debris climbs, and her right wrist is fractured and useless. Whether anyone outside knows she is there is a question the rubble does not answer.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.
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27 Oct 2026
The Desert Survey: Twelve Miles on a Dying Arm
In June nineteen seventy eight, field archaeologist Martin Collier sets out alone to survey a remote stretch of Sonoran desert twelve miles east of Ajo, Arizona, while his partner makes a supply run to town. But when he reaches under a rock ledge that afternoon, a western diamondback rattlesnake strikes his right forearm and he is suddenly alone, bitten, and miles from anyone. With half a canteen of water and the temperature above one hundred and five degrees Fahrenheit, he faces a walk no doctor would recommend and a venom that won't wait. The question isn't whether the desert will stop him. The question is how much of him will be left when he gets there.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.
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27 Oct 2026
The Crane Bay: Pinned Under the Gulf
In August two thousand three, offshore rigger Tom Baxter is working ninety miles south of Morgan City, Louisiana, when a corroded crane crossbeam shears loose and drops onto the deck of a fixed production platform, pinning him from the waist down on the open steel grating. His partner Dale Fontenot is unhurt but the sea state rises fast and no vessel can reach them. With a tropical storm moving in and the platform shaking around him, Tom faces a long night on the deck with the nearest help hours away and the weather getting worse before anyone can fly.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.
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27 Oct 2026
The Long Fall: A Driver on the Edge of Everything
In October two thousand four, cargo truck driver Ramiro Castellanos, thirty nine, steers a seven ton load of green pine lumber down a steep Sierra Madre Occidental dirt road toward the town of Urique in Chihuahua, Mexico. His plan is a routine descent, a delivery, and the long drive home to Culiacan. But four kilometers above the canyon floor the brake pedal goes to the floor and stays there, and the truck begins to climb past sixty kilometers an hour on a road built for twenty five. With the handbrake gone and the edge crumbling beside him, Ramiro has seconds to decide whether to stay in the cab or go through the door into open air above a canyon nearly a kilometer deep. His helper is twenty two years old and it is his first long haul.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.
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27 Oct 2026
Alone on the Ridge: Trapped in the Mist
In April two thousand eight, Miriam Solano, a fifty year old retired schoolteacher from San Jose, enters the Monteverde cloud forest alone to search for a resplendent quetzal during breeding season. She leaves the marked trail to follow a bird call, but when her handhold breaks above a hidden ravine she cannot see, she drops into a dark slot in the hillside with a broken forearm and walls too slick to climb. Soaked and unable to get out, she has one yellow whistle, a compass and the cold settling in around her. Whether anyone above will stop and listen before the cloud forest takes what warmth she has left is a question only the sound can answer.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.
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27 Oct 2026
Smoke in the Cut: Trapped Beneath a Desert Fire
In late April of nineteen eighty three, a section hand named Earl Pruitt drives out to a stretch of high desert rail line thirty miles east of Tucson to burn off trackside brush, a job he has done dozens of times before. But when the wind shifts in the early afternoon, his own controlled burn overtakes him, cutting off any retreat along the narrow rock walled rail cut. Earl has one culvert, four feet wide and eighteen feet long, between him and the open fire. With most of his water gone and the smoke still thick, he presses a wet burlap rag to his face and crawls inside. His coworker is more than a mile away and the pipe is already beginning to hold heat.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.
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27 Oct 2026
Into the Rock: Trapped by the Tide
In late August two thousand twenty, Elena Marsh, a twenty seven year old graphic designer from Bristol, explores a sea cave on the northwest coast of Mallorca alone, drawn by the pale light and the smell of old stone. She rigs a makeshift cord anchor at the entrance and goes deeper, but when the tide rises faster than she expects, the anchor shears free and the cave mouth floods completely, sealing her inside. With no phone, no dry clothes and one small waterproof torch, she must find a narrow rock shelf above the rising water and hold on through the night as the cold works into her. The shelf is barely wide enough to sit, the water keeps climbing, and no one on shore yet knows where she is.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.
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27 Oct 2026
Five Strangers on the Ice: A Leader Made by Necessity
In late July two thousand ten, Nino Beridze, a twenty eight year old freelance translator from Tbilisi, joins a small trekking group on the Chalaati glacier in Svaneti, Georgia, hired to bridge the language gap between clients and their experienced guide. But when the guide collapses on the ice and does not get up, Nino finds herself the only person who can read the route map and make the decisions that matter. With cloud closing in, a client badly injured on the descent, and no confirmation that their distress messages have reached anyone, she must navigate four strangers off a crevassed glacier through the night. What keeps a person moving when the one who was supposed to lead them is gone?This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.
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27 Oct 2026
Into the White: Buried Alive on a Wasatch Slope
In January two thousand fourteen, twenty two year old warehouse worker Cody Farrell and his partner Reese Dunbar skin up into the out of bounds zone east of the ridgeline above Mill Creek Canyon in Utah's Wasatch Range, chasing untracked powder after a recent storm. When Cody cuts toward a convex roll the slope releases above him, and within seconds he is one point four meters underground, his left arm locked, his ribs cracked, and his air pocket shrinking with every breath. His partner has a probe, a shovel, and a beacon signal. Whether that is enough is not yet answered.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.
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27 Oct 2026
Upturned: One Day on the Southern Ocean
In March two thousand and one, forty one year old physiotherapist Delia Voss is alone in the Southern Ocean sixty miles south of Cape Point, rowing solo across the South Atlantic, when a storm system tightens faster than any forecast predicted. In the early hours of the fifteenth, a breaking wave inverts her seven meter boat and Delia is thrown into twelve degree water in the dark. She pulls herself onto the upturned hull with a dislocated shoulder and no working signal device, and the night and the day that follow will test how long a body can hold on when rescue has no clear way to find her.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.
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