Episodes

In 2001, Jill Heinerth, Paul Heinerth, and Wes Skiles were the first to attempt cave diving inside of an iceberg. The antarctic adventure didn't go to plan and left all three fighting for their lives - more than once. Agnes M...

Daryl Jane was on his way to a quick spiritual gathering before returning back home. A simple choice turned his mundane trip through Washington's wilderness into a fight for his life. Kim Family Episode: Listen Here Winter Ca...

The Garcia family set out to celebrate Maria's 27th birthday and faced an unimaginable tragedy due to a flash flood. With three generations and 14 family members on the trip, only a few survived. To view the list of sources, ...

When Sky's calls to her mother, Donna, go unanswered after she leaves the hospital, it reveals a series of events in Death Valley that no one could have anticipated. Donna, along with her daughter Gina and visitor Jenny, beco...

In 2016, Czech tourists Pavlina Pizova and Ondrej Petr went on a hike through New Zealand’s Fiordland National Park on the Routeburn Track during the off-season. Ignoring warnings and severe winter conditions, they continued ...

Chris Lemons embarked on a routine diving job, only to be left stranded 328 feet underwater in the North Sea without oxygen for over 30 minutes. Trapped and disconnected from his lifeline with a five-minute survival limit, Ch...

A well orchestrated media plan, family connections, a southern politics all have one thing in common in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.... This is part 3.5 of the untold stories of Hurricane Katrina. To view the list...

As investigators look into what happened in the walls of healthcare facilities around New Orleans, people start to realize its not just the hospitals possibly covering up what contributed to the death count. This is part 3 in...

In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, the conditions in the city take an unprecedented turn for the worst. Overwhelmed staff inside of hospitals take two very different approaches to patient care. Suffering and chaos continue at ...

New Orleans residents during Hurricane Katrina never could have imagined the scope of disaster they would suffer through. No one could, because it wasn’t Hurricane Katrina that was the worst part of their ordeal, it was every...

When Chicago officials were warned about a nationwide heat wave, they didn't take it seriously. What happened as a result of that, and what is uncovered leading up to and after the deadly heat wave reveals a pattern prevalent...

When passengers boarded flight Pan Am flight 1736, they never imagined they would find themselves in the middle of the largest aviation disaster the world has ever seen. What led up to the disaster, was almost as unimaginable...

In 2010, the Love Parade was hosted in Duisburg, Germany. A horrific disaster at the festival killed and injured hundreds of attendees, tarnishing the memory of a once-wonderful music festival forever. The controversies that ...

What initially seemed like a trivial issue in a London, England brewery, quickly escalated into a catastrophe when an impoverished neighborhood was flooded with over 320,000 gallons of beer. Great Molasses Flood Episode: When...

A Cleveland, Ohio nonprofit chapter attempted to break the world record for largest balloon release. Things leading up to the release didn't go according to plan, but everything after was believed to be worse. To view the lis...

Daring cave diver Agnes Milowka was known for going beyond the end of the line and pushing the boundaries of diving. During a routine dive trip at Tank Cave in Australia, something went wrong. To view the list of sources, vis...

When patrons attended the 8th anniversary party of the Lame Horse nightclub, they had no idea what would happen before the party was over. They never could have imagined the scope of negligence exposed after hundreds were kil...

Venturing into caves when it rains is ill-advised, but what happens when cavers do just that? In caves all over America, cavers went into caves that didn't stay dry while they were inside, and not every story turned out alrig...

In February 2013, Chelyabinsk, Russia was hit with an unforeseen meteor that wasn't even the meteor predicted to be near Earth that day. Thousands were injured by a meteor scientist didn't see coming. To view the list of sour...

The Kim family were on their way home after a Thanksgiving trip and things went terribly wrong after they made a common mistake. To view the list of sources, visit: www.occurrencepod.com Keep up with Occurrence! Instagram: @o...

In March of 1982, a boy scout troop visited Crooked Camp Cave in New Jersey. Two of the boys in the group were brothers who would leave that day without their father, Sergeant Donald Weltner. To view the list of sources, visi...

The Bolton Strid is part of the river wharfe in England, and is as picturesque as it is deadly. When William de Romilly became the first recorded victim of this river, he had no way of knowing that his passing would change ev...

Two divers entered one of the largest sinkholes in the world 10 years apart, and their trip went completely off script. The details surrounding both incidents are so entwined that the stories of Dave Shaw and Deon Dreyer are ...

On Halloween night 1963, Janie White went to the Holiday on Ice show in Indianapolis. What followed would be the worst disaster in Indiana's history and a night she and many others would never forget. To view the list of sour...