Scary Stories Podcast

About Scary Stories Podcast

How To Survive The Apocalypse explores real-world collapse scenarios, survival strategies, and the breakdown of modern systems. Hosted by Ben Carter, each episode investigates nuclear war, grid failures, pandemics, artificial intelligence threats, and civil unrest through a structured, documentary-style approach. Focusing on practical survival, decision-making, and real conditions, the series examines what it would take to survive the fall of modern civilization. Unlock bonus content and full video episodes: https://www.patreon.com/theforbiddenknowledgenetwork (https://www.patreon.com/theforbiddenknowledgenetwork)

Publisher

Forbidden Knowledge Network

Category

education · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Mar 2025

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

73 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   The Final 72 Hours Before a Planet-Killer Asteroid Hits Earth

   A fictional household has 72 hours after independent observations confirm a catastrophic asteroid impact in the Gulf of Mexico region. Mara, Luis, their daughter June, Luis’s father Arthur, and Arthur’s service dog must decide whether travel truly lowers their risk or simply trades known support for an unverified destination. Their choices center on accessible transportation, prescription treatment, service-animal needs, water, shelter conditions, communications, and the limits of what a household can carry. The episode also separates this fictional countdown from three real events: DART’s 2022 asteroid-deflection test, the 2013 Chelyabinsk airburst, and the Chicxulub impact approximately 66 million years ago. No ordinary home, basement, city, or supply list can be promised safe in an impact of this scale. Useful decisions depend on current local instructions, actual hazard information, accessible support, and preserving the essentials people need to continue living. This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication. #HowToSurviveTheApocalypse #HypotheticalGlobalCatastropheAsteroidImpactImmed #AsteroidImpactSurvival #PlanetaryDefense #Final72Hours YES OR NO: Do you have a relocation plan that includes service or medical support needs?????? Explore more original podcasts from the Forbidden Knowledge Network at www.FKNpods.com (http://www.FKNpods.com).

2. 

   19 Sept 2026

   The First 30 Days of a Pandemic Medicine Cannot Stop

   A novel respiratory illness is spreading, yet no proven vaccine or pathogen-specific treatment is available to stop it. In this evidence-based composite scenario, a multigenerational household faces the first thirty days as incomplete alerts become community transmission, a prescription refill becomes uncertain, school and work routines fracture, and one adult develops respiratory symptoms. The household must act before a diagnosis is certain: protect an older relative, maintain legitimate medical care, reduce respiratory exposure, plan for school and work disruption, and distinguish verified information from dangerous claims. The choices are practical and consequential—whether to delay a necessary appointment, how to handle a pharmacy supply delay, when to seek urgent care, and whether one negative early test is enough to resume normal contact. The episode follows changing case definitions, testing limits, hospital strain, cleaner indoor air, medication continuity, misleading cure claims, shortages, and the difficult tradeoffs between focused protection and broader exposure reduction. It also shows why supportive medical care remains vital even when medicine cannot yet stop the pathogen. Current instructions from a clinician, pharmacist, local or state health department, national public-health agency, and emergency authorities take priority over generalized preparedness guidance. This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication. #HowToSurviveTheApocalypse #EvidenceBasedPandemicSurvivalScenarioAndPublicHe #PandemicSurvival #NovelRespiratoryPathogen #FirstThirtyDays YES OR NO: Would your household change routines before a test confirms a new respiratory illness?????? Explore more original podcasts from the Forbidden Knowledge Network at www.FKNpods.com (http://www.FKNpods.com).

3. 

   12 Sept 2026

   The First 24 Hours After AI Takes Control of Critical Infrastructure

   A major infrastructure crisis may begin with a household decision: stay put, leave, conserve power, protect medicine, or seek help before a vulnerable person loses a critical option. This episode follows an illustrative, evidence-based twenty-four-hour metropolitan emergency. Failed logins, disrupted payments, conflicting utility readings, and unstable communications spread into a broader crisis affecting electricity, water, healthcare, fuel, transportation, and public information. The central question is not whether a machine has become conscious. It is how households and infrastructure workers respond when they cannot yet tell whether the disruption comes from hostile automation, human attackers using advanced tools, a defective shared service, or overlapping technical failures. Learn how to protect medically dependent people, older neighbors, children, pets, and service animals; preserve water and phone power; handle refrigerated medicine safely; avoid unsafe travel; and make decisions based on immediate hazards and verified local instructions. This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication. #HowToSurviveTheApocalypse #AiCatastropheSurvivalAndInfrastructureCollapse #ArtificialIntelligence #CriticalInfrastructure #CascadingFailure YES OR NO: Would your household know when to leave during this kind of outage?????? Explore more original podcasts from the Forbidden Knowledge Network at www.FKNpods.com (http://www.FKNpods.com).

Who has been a guest on Scary Stories Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dr Jane Smith
• John Smith
• Jane Doe

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

439,257

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 50 / 100

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Quality

64

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

0

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