The WORST episodes of I Survived...
Every episode of I Survived... ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Glen/Barbara
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/25/2010
A man is taken hostage by Marxist rebels. Two girls walking home from school are abducted, sexually assaulted, and left for dead.
#2 - Dr. Roger & Dena/Sydney/Jennifer
Season 2 - Episode 18 - 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.
#3 - Roger/Julie
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/26/2015
A man is held hostage on a shuttle bus with several others by a man with a gun for over 8 hours in Atlantic City, New Jersey; a Bullhead City, Arizona, woman is sexually assaulted and shot after a botched home invasion leaves her friends and her husband dead.
#4 - Mijalina and Yvonne/Peter
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/8/2012
A Sacramento, California man stabs his young daughter, before unleashing his anger on their next door neighbors. After a man decides to move to Washington state, he purchases a fixer-upped in Freeland, Washington. But his life becomes a nightmare when his contractor shows up at the house, beats him with a wooden board and kidnaps him.
#5 - Bridget/Daryl/Ryan & John
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/24/2008
Bridget Kelly is raped, shot three times, and left for dead by an intruder in her home. Daryl is caught in a freak blizzard that threatens to bury him alive in his jeep. Two boys, Ryan and John, survive a plane crash and maintain cell phone contact with a 911 operator as rescuers desperately try to find them.
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#6 - Franklin/Jeff & Frank/Connie
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/21/2010
A man and his wife survive a plane crash that killed 125 passengers and crew after 3 men hijack it. A heroic rescue bid goes horribly wrong when 2 men are stranded on an iceberg with several other people on frigidly cold Lake Saint Clair. A woman is beaten, raped and left for dead after 2 men break into her remote Tyler, Texas farmhouse and kill her husband.
#8 - Alga/Blaine/Lincoya
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/8/2010
Attacked and abducted by a church handyman, an elderly woman is left in the trunk of her car to die. A miner and eight co-workers survive 77 hours trapped in a rapidly flooding coal mine. A student and his roommate are held captive by two masked gunman who make no secret of their intention to kill them.
#9 - Stephanie/Rick & Laura/Craig & Crystal
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/1/2010
A woman survives three shotgun wounds to the head. A family is attacked by bees. Two teenagers narrowly survive the infamous Columbine massacre.
#10 - Kim/John/Charlene
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/2012
A model in Memphis, Tennessee is stabbed and raped by a close friend of hers. A man is kidnapped and held for ransom in Colombia. A Vancouver, Washington woman's family movie night turns into a bloodbath when her home is broken into by 3 armed men.
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#11 - Teka/Robert/Debbie
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 1/30/2011
A pregnant woman is abducted by another woman who wants to remove her unborn baby from her body. A geologist is attacked by a grizzly bear. A woman is held hostage and wounded by a drunken ex-marine.
#12 - Terri/Walter/James
Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 8/5/2012
A Colorado Springs, Colorado woman is Taken hostage with her daughter and raped by her ex-husband. An Ashdown, Arkansas man becomes trapped when an airplane crashes into him. A Bethlehem, Pennsylvania man is attacked in his basement by a man with a golf club, who then burns him with chemicals.
#13 - Anita/Jim and Glen/Sabret
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/2011
A woman in Kokomo, Indiana is kidnapped, raped, and forced to live, chained up, in a metal box, for 13 days. 2 brothers are struck by lightning in a cabin at Yosemite National Park. A propane truck driver in Miami, Florida displays extraordinary courage when she is viciously beaten by a stranger.
#14 - Wayne & Mary/Holly/Linda
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/12/2008
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.
#15 - Lenore/Steven/Ellen and Jim
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/22/2012
Second segment: Steven Berk, a physician in Amarillo, Texas, is kidnapped for four hours in 2005 and released unharmed. In 2011, he wrote Anatomy of a Kidnapping: A Doctor's Story to show how the ordeal changed his perspective on life.[10
#16 - Lori and Pat/David/Kevin
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 1/9/2011
A California couple faces life-threatening danger during a robbery in Mexico. A pastor is disemboweled during a home invasion. A walk in the woods turns into a tornado survival story.
#17 - Brandy/Steve/James
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/21/2010
A 16-year-old girl is abducted and assaulted by two gunmen. A deer hunter drags himself up a dry creek bed after falling out of a tree and breaking both legs. A college student is used as a human shield by a gunman on a rampage.
#18 - Rhonda/Jason/Patrick
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 7/14/2013
A Pensacola, Florida woman is kidnapped, stabbed and raped, but fakes amnesia to escape her attacker. A Henryville, Indiana man clings to his mobile home when a tornado threatens to rip it from the ground. A man is brutally shot by his brother-in-law at his family Thanksgiving dinner in Jupiter, Florida.
#19 - Michelle/Terri-Lynn/Jennifer
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/2011
A Fort Wayne, Indiana woman is carjacked and raped. When a tornado sweeps through Huntsville, Alabama, a woman and her husband become trapped in their collapsed apartment complex, not knowing they're the only survivors in the entire building. An 8-year-old is abducted from her Dickinson, Texas condo and raped, before her attacker slits her throat and leaves her to die in a sawgrass prairie.
#20 - Frederic/Henry & Becky/Missy & Mandy
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/15/2010
A boy witnesses a stabbing attack. A family's pilot collapses in midair. Two sisters are caught in the middle when a shooter goes on a rampage.
#21 - Gracia/Michelle/Richard
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 12/20/2010
A couple is kidnapped in the Philippines by Islamic militants. A woman is impaled in the neck by a branch that smashes through her car window, A man is attacked by a home intruder.
#22 - Lisa/Chris/Jeannette
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/22/2012
A courageous story unfolds when a college student and her friend go out clubbing in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, but are abducted by a man who drives them out of town and sexually assaults them. He shoots Lisa after she escapes, leaving her to die in the desert winds. A man survives a tornado in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A 9-year-old girl has to assume the patience of an adult when she is abducted, raped and stabbed by a friend's father.
#23 - Kaye/Johnny/Scott
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/29/2012
A Laurel, Delaware insurance agent is sexually assaulted and stabbed over 150 times in the chest, face and neck, but miraculously survives. A Mount Hood, Oregon man crashes his car into a deep ravine. In Rockland County, New York, A man and his best friend are abducted at gunpoint and driven to a snowy construction sight where the two are shot at point blank range in the head.
#24 - Angela/Pat/Tricia
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/15/2012
A Young woman from Chicago, Illinois is kidnapped and raped. A farmer in Auburn, New York loses his arm in a crop harvester. A woman is stabbed in Spring, Texas home by a man she thought was her friend.
#25 - Heather/Donna/Kim
Season 4 - Episode 29 - Aired 9/16/2012
While driving on the highway in Gaston, Oregon, a woman is stabbed with a screwdriver by a man she offered to give directions to. A New Haven, Connecticut woman is sexually assaulted at gunpoint by a man she and her husband knew well. And a girl working at a gas station in Winthrop, Minnesota is viciously attacked by a robber, who takes her to the beer fridge and saws through her jugular vein (usually a fatal injury).