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 - 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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#11 - 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.
#12 - Alfred, Jan & Jerry/Ebony
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/19/2009
Three survivors from the ill-fated UA Flight 232 relive the terrifying moments leading up to and after one of America's worst ever aviation disasters. A young woman violently assaulted by two men displays extraordinary courage to flee her attackers.
Watch Now:Apple TV
#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 - Cari/Kevin/Joe & Katherine
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/12/2008
Cari, a young mother living in Chico, California, is brutally stabbed, beaten, and sexually assaulted by an intruder in her home, but knows she must survive the attack to save her son. A four-inch steel tow hook accidentally lodges into Kevin's throat, and any movement could sever his jugular vein and end his life. When a gunman shoots and injures several people at a mall in Tacoma, Washington during Christmas time, Katherine, a store manager must obey his demands or risk having her co-worker Joe shot point-blank in the head with a machine gun.
#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 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - Nate/Denna
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/26/2015
A 15-year-old boy from Bothell, Washington, is shot through the jaw and plays dead for three hours during a horrific school shooting; and an elderly woman, whose daughter deals drugs, winds up stabbed four times in her yard in Barnardsville, North Carolina, in a case of apparent mistaken identity.
Watch Now:Amazon#21 - Rosalie/Jane
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/26/2015
A Gilmer, Texas, woman is abducted from the prison where she works by a convicted murderer, and held captive at gunpoint for 26 hours on the run with him, sparking the largest search in Texas history; a heavily pregnant woman is stabbed 27 times at a gas station in West Swanzey, New Hampshire, by a man who accuses her of beating up his sister.
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - 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).
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - Kirby/Suzanna/Reagan
Season 4 - Episode 27 - Aired 9/2/2012
While eating lunch in Killeen, Texas, two strangers are caught up in the infamous Luby's shooting when a man crashes his car into the restaurant and open fires. A mother of two is stalked by her ex-husband and beaten in the face with a crowbar in Rochester, New York.
Watch Now:Amazon