The BEST episodes of I Survived...
Every episode of I Survived... ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of I Survived...!
What would you do if you were confronted with death? What gives someone the strength to survive? Is it luck, chance, instinct? In a stripped-down, simple-yet-cinematic interview style, I Survived... allows survivors to explain, in their own words, how they overcame unbelievable circumstances -- offering insight into what got them through the experience that changed their lives forever.
#1 - Virginia Tech Massacre/Minneapolis School Bus Crash
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/9/2008
This episode tells the harrowing story of how two students and a professor at Virginia Tech University managed to survive the April 16, 2007, massacre at the school. One of the students, Colin, had to lay motionless and play dead as the gunman shot him four times. We also chronicle the amazing story of the Minneapolis school bus with 52 children that plummeted 45 feet when a Minneapolis bridge collapsed in August 2007. Trapped in her seat, driver Kim held the brake, keeping the bus from rolling backwards, as counselor Jimmy and his co-workers rush to evacuate the children, including Kim's own daughter.
#2 - Maria/Jerry/Melissa
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/2/2008
Maria feared for her safety as one of her fellow employees at the hospital where she worked became increasingly volatile. Jerry swerved his car to avoid a deer and crashed over an embankment where a tree branch became lodged in his throat. Melissa and her two-year-old daughter were sleeping at home when she was woken by an armed intruder who slashed and sexually assaulted her before stuffing her in the trunk of her car.
#3 - Danielle/Deborah/Gordy & Betty
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/12/2010
Attacked in her home by her mother's boyfriend, a 17-year-old girl fights to stay alive after having her throat cut. An experienced sailor escapes from a sinking yacht only to watch three of her fellow crew members die in horrific circumstances. And an elderly couple are terrorized by an escaped convict who holds them hostage in their own home.
#4 - Brandi/Joseph/Sam & Suzanne
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/31/2008
Brandi and her friend, Liz, offer a ride to man who turns on them, stabbing Liz repeatedly and beating Brandi and then throwing her into a river. Joseph and two other men are stranded on a rocky, barren island for 13 days. And Sam and Suzanne are kidnapped by a hitchhiker who forces them to drive several hundred miles at gunpoint.
#5 - Rudrani/Tracey/Teresa
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/17/2010
A woman is left for dead when two terrorists storm the hotel she is staying in. A 14-year-old saves her brother when their home is destroyed in a tragic house fire. A woman is left permanently scarred in a deadly domestic abuse incident.
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#6 - Mary/Brooke/Sharene
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/6/2009
A young runaway has her arms cut off in a horrific assault. A pregnant woman and her father flee a deadly firestorm. A woman survives multiple stab wounds in a drug fuelled attack by her enraged boyfriend.
#7 - Dan & Danielle/James & David/Karli
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/1/2008
A romantic walk turns into a nightmare for two young friends when a man forces them into his truck at gunpoint and shoots them both. A snowmobile outing ends in a near-death experience for two brothers when they plunge through the ice of a frozen river. A woman is brutally attacked twice by the same gang of hoodlums.
#8 - Christine & Heidi/Debbie/Jim
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/7/2008
Christine's and Heidi's trip on a Greek ferry becomes a nightmare when the boat begins to sink and the crew abandons the ship, leaving the panicked passengers to fend for themselves. Debbie suffers a five-day ordeal at the hands of an attacker, who keeps her blindfolded and gagged, rapes her, and forces her to sleep next to him. And a simple act of kindness results in a vicious assault for Jim when he is brutally attacked in his apartment by his neighbor after inviting the young man into his home to chat.
#9 - Sarah/Sherman & Dee/Ellen
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/16/2009
A heavily pregnant woman is viciously attacked by a woman obsessed with making the unborn child her own. A couple cling to the rafters of their home as Hurricane Ike unleashes its fury on them. A woman fends off a man who has hidden in her family home for days before brutally attacking her.
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#10 - Christi/Fred/Maria
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/22/2008
A single mother is kidnapped, stabbed and left for dead by three hardened criminals and her heroic survival is unforgettable. A long-haul truck driver must drive his 40-ton rig through the biggest fire in Utah History. A woman is stalked and brutally abducted by an ex-boyfriend.
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#11 - Jessyca/Derek/LaToya
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/3/2010
A 14-year-old girl from Eau Claire, Wisconsin is kidnapped and held captive by her neighbor who has sexually assaulted her numerous times before. A man crawls down Mount Adams in Washington State after breaking his ankle. A pregnant woman is attacked in Memphis, Tennessee by her meth-addicted neighbor.
#12 - Maggie/Gary/Barbara
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/20/2009
A 15-year-old is snatched off the street on an early morning run. A man goes head-to-head with a killer chimpanzee, and a woman is shot and left for dead in a freezer with two slain co-workers.
#13 - Reverend Albert/Lois
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/8/2008
A heart-wrenching drama unfolds when a man struggles to save himself and his family from drowning in frigid waters and a female prison officer uses her strength and quick thinking skills to stay alive during the longest prison siege in U.S. history.
#14 - Verna/Theo/Debra
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/24/2010
A single mom is attacked by an old classmate after spurning his affections. A gold prospector survives five days in the Australian Outback. A woman is left for dead after being carjacked and then shot several times at close range.
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#15 - Jens & Jim/Dawn/Agnes
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/2/2009
Two friends, Jim and Jens, and their fathers fly to Mexico for a fishing trip, but turbulence forces their plane to crash land and the foursome must fight for their lives in the ocean. Dawn is plunged into a nightmare when four armed men invade their beach home and threaten to shoot her right in front of her two young daughters. And while working at a convenience store, Agnes is abducted by an armed robber, who takes her to an open field and forces her to open the car trunk, where she finds another terrified woman bleeding from a gunshot wound.
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#16 - Dr. Roger & Dena/Sydney/Jennifer
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/30/2009
Roger and Dena's home overlooking the San Pasqual Valley is everything they've ever dreamed of until Roger awakes one day to find a 40-foot wall of fire racing up the valley towards their house. Sydney, only 15 years old, bravely leaps 12 feet out of her house in a desperate attempt to escape two attackers. And after Jennifer ends her relationship with her overly possessive boyfriend, he breaks into her home with a gun and terrifies Jennifer and her son for hours while a SWAT team descends on the house.
#20 - Jewish Federation/Alberto/Tamara
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/15/2008
An ordinary Friday at the Seattle headquarters of the Jewish Federation turns nightmarish when a crazed gunman demands an end to the war in Iraq and shoots four workers. A criminal justice teacher is shot multiple times and poisoned twice by an unknown assailant. A young woman swims through shark-infested waters in a desperate bid for survival.
#22 - Kelly/Rose/Lt. Prescott & Gwen
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/9/2009
A mother of three survives a prolonged attack from her estranged husband. A newly pregnant woman is horrifically injured when she is caught in a fish processing machine on a boat 160 miles from land. Ten people are held hostage in a library by a man armed with a bomb and a gun.
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#23 - Timothy/Scott & Sean/Stacey
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/23/2009
While out walking his dog in the woods, Timothy is attacked by a 400-pound grizzly bear as his faithful dog valiantly tries to distract the bear. Scott and Sean enjoy a fishing trip on the Appalachian Trail when a drifter arrives at their campsite, pulls a gun, and shoots them both. And Stacey and her best friend must call upon all their inner strength and remain calm when an attacker invades their apartment and seems ready to kill them both.
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#24 - Patrick/Renee/Sharon
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/16/2009
While on a spear-fishing outing, Patrick's friend is pulled out to sea and struggles to survive as four-foot waves batter him in the darkness. Anne and her son, Ian, fight for their lives when they're attacked by Anne's gun-wielding ex-boyfriend. Driving home from a friend's house late one evening, Sharon is shot by another driver, who then takes her to an apartment where he continues his vicious assault on her.
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#25 - Wayne & Mary/Holly/Linda
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/28/2008
Wayne and Mary woke up to find their farmhouse surrounded by a cloud of lethal chlorine gas following a rail derailment. Thus began a harrowing six-hour ordeal where they struggled to take a breath, coughed up blood, and watched their metal appliances literally melt before their eyes. While Holly and her boyfriend Chris were taking a quiet stroll near the railroad tracks, they were accosted by a man demanding money. Linda was driving to her lakeside cabin when she was run off the road in the middle of the night by four strangers. High on drugs, they viciously attacked her, demanded money, set her car ablaze, and left her for dead in a deserted field.