The BEST episodes of I Survived... season 9
Every episode of I Survived... season 9, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of I Survived... season 9!
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 - Cynthia, Russ, & Carol / Ron & Christine
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/25/2012
A fourth-grader and two teachers are taken hostage in a classroom with 151 others; a couple honeymooning in Jamaica is attacked by an escaped mental patient with a wooden machete.
#2 - John / Kevin / Helena
Season 9 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/2/2013
A disgruntled contractor executes his city officials; a catamaran capsizes in the ferocious North Atlantic; a 17-year-old girl is abducted at knifepoint & repeatedly raped over 6 hours.
#3 - Amy / Trish & Darrell
Season 9 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/17/2012
A woman is brutally raped in her car by a co-worker who has asked for a ride home; a tornado lifts an entire house and smashes it 400 yards away-with the family inside it.
#4 - Natasha / Tim / Kellie
Season 9 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/10/2012
A college freshman is sexually assaulted on her rooftop; a chemical plant worker is trapped by raging flames after a massive explosion; a woman is beaten and sexually assaulted in her own apartment.
#5 - A.J., Carolyn & Stacy / Lynne
Season 9 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/3/2012
A heavily-armed teenager goes on a killing spree in a Salt Lake City shopping mall; passengers and crew are forced to abandon ship in a ferocious storm in the Indian Ocean.
#6 - Debbie / Ray /Jasmine
Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/13/2012
A woman is dragged to the woods behind her home & sexually assaulted; a pilot spends 10 hours floating in the Pacific Ocean after his plane crashed; woman survives being shot 6 times by playing dead.
#7 - Lynda / Kendra
Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/8/2012
A woman answers a plea for help from an ex-boyfriend and finds herself repeatedly raped before being strangled; a young mother is stabbed over 25 times after breaking up with a Hollywood actor.
#8 - Kirby / Suzanna / Raegan
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/1/2012
A woman sees her father shot dead right in front of her; a crazed gunman slaughters seven friends of a pastor; an ex-boyfriend viciously attacks a young mother and her new partner.
#9 - Lenore / Steven / Ellen & Jim
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/21/2012
A woman working alone in a store is attacked by a customer who drags her to the stock room and stabs her 31 times; a doctor is abducted by a meth addict demanding cash; pirates board a couple's yacht.
#10 - Brent/Hanna and Miranda/ Karen
Season 9 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/9/2013
A stockbroker is shot 5 times by a former client; two sisters are stranded for 4 hours in an icy Alaskan lake; a woman is abducted at gunpoint by a man with a grudge against her family.
#11 - Gilles / Angela & Richard / Jeffrey
Season 9 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/20/2012
A fake internet date brings a man face-to-face with a would-be serial killer; a black bear invades a couple's home; a man wakes up to his neighbor about to pound a sharpened crucifix into his chest.
#12 - Heather / Donna / Kim
Season 9 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/15/2012
A woman helps a motorist on an isolated road & is attacked with a screwdriver; a woman is raped by a masked man; a girl is attacked by a customer who saws through her wind pipe with a serrated knife.
#13 - Mijalina and Yvonne / Peter
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/7/2012
High on the drug PCP, a man goes on a rampage, stabbing his 11-year-old daughter and 2 neighbors; a man is beaten unconscious by his building contractor.
#14 - Terri / Walter / James
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/4/2012
A woman is taken hostage by her ex-husband; a man faces agonizing death by fire, covered in gasoline; a man's home is invaded by two masked men who threaten to blind him.
#15 - Midsi / Tammy / Leona
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/28/2012
An 8-year-old girl is abducted on her way home from school; a woman is viciously attacked with a knife and must scramble up a 100-foot hill to escape; a woman and her husband are shot while hiking.
#16 - Florida School Board Shooting/Wanda
Season 9 - Episode 23 - Aired 12/9/2012
A gunman enters a Florida school board meeting and begins shooting hostages at point blank range; a 23-year-old newlywed is abducted and gang raped by partygoers at a remote farmhouse.
#17 - Tricia and Linae / Jason / Mary
Season 9 - Episode 22 - Aired 12/8/2012
Two sisters witness their family shot dead before being abducted; an injured snowmobiler races to save his friends from an avalanche; a woman is held hostage by a crazed stalker in her workplace.
#18 - The Taliban: Jere
Season 9 - Episode 19 - Aired 12/1/2012
A journalist is kidnapped in the mountains of Pakistan by a Taliban faction and held prisoner for 45 days, constantly afraid that each day is to be the day of his execution.
#19 - Audrey / Todd / Kimberley
Season 9 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/24/2012
When a woman leaves her husband, he throws gasoline on her and set her alight; a native New Yorker is lost in a blizzard in Idaho; a home invasion leads to a leap of courage.
#20 - Kim, John, and Charlene
Season 9 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/27/2012
An aspiring young model is sexually assaulted; a man trekking in Ecuador is kidnapped for five weeks; a family's movie night turns tragic when four armed people attempt to rob them.
#21 - Shannon / Ken / Angela
Season 9 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/6/2012
Shannon's jealous ex-partner terrorizes her & their 2-year-old son; Ken has to abandon his fishing buddy after their boat sinks in the Gulf of Mexico; Angela is sexually attacked at a public payphone.
#22 - Laurie / Sandra / Melinda
Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/29/2012
An intruder smothers a woman & hits her over the head repeatedly before stripping her naked & taking photos; a young woman walking home by herself is brutally knifed in the street by a serial killer.
#23 - Crystal / Johanna
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/14/2012
Two crimes of obsessive passion: A teenage girl is stalked and shot in the face by her jealous ex-boyfriend; a woman's controlling husband resorts to violent rape.