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Survivor stories start where ordinary stories end: after the crash, after the avalanche, after the door locked or the boat went under. What follows is the part few people ever see, the hours and days where a human being decides not to die. This show tells true survivor stories, from the ones who came back.

Each episode reconstructs one survival in full, cinematic detail: the moment everything went wrong, the choices made with freezing hands and failing light, the improvised tools and impossible math of rationing, and the rescue or self-rescue that ended it. No host chatting between clips, no panel debating what they would have done. Just one complete story, narrated start to finish, built from rescue records, expedition logs, and the survivor's own words.

You will climb down mountains with broken legs, drift on rafts counting sharks and days, and wait in collapsed mines while the world above decides whether digging is worth it. Some survivor stories run over weeks of slow endurance; others turn on ninety seconds of pure decision. All of them treat survivors as what they are: proof that the human body quits long after the mind refuses to.

If you are drawn to survivor stories that read like thrillers and land like testimony, this is built for you. New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe now so the next of these survivor stories lands the moment it goes live.Copyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT Mondiale
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  • You watch the men take Paul from your apartment-do you warn the others?

    You watch the men take Paul from your apartment-do you warn the others?
    Oct 20 2026
    You watch men in uniform take Paul from your apartment-do you warn the others, or keep the secret that keeps them faithful?

    You watch the men take Paul from your apartment-do you warn the others?

    In this episode, we follow Roberta Gropper’s life from a cigarette factory in Ulm to the halls of the Reichstag, then into arrest and a Soviet camp. We trace the choices, loyalties, and the single sentence she speaks in custody that will haunt her comrades and the movement-what would you do in her place?

    Person: Roberta Gropper
    Person: Paul Langner
    Date: Arrest November 1937
    Location: Moscow / Soviet camp
    Event: Workers' movement membership, Reichstag deputy 1930-1932

    - At thirteen Roberta left school for factory work and joined the workers' youth organization, forming her politics on the shop floor.
    - By twenty-one she sat on Ulm’s workers’ council and co-founded the local Communist Party in 1919.
    - She rose through party ranks: treasurer in Stuttgart, leader of women's sections, and Reichstag member at thirty-three.
    - Association with the Neumann-Remmele group cost her Berlin positions in 1932 and became the later basis for her 1937 arrest.
    - On a January morning men in uniform took Paul from their apartment; inside the camp she told another prisoner a sentence that protected the workers’ illusions.

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    13 min
  • You hear a two-year-old call your name - do you leave the laundry room?

    You hear a two-year-old call your name - do you leave the laundry room?
    Oct 19 2026
    A two-year-old calls Sandra from a besieged Mumbai building - she’s in a laundry room with men with guns inside; do you leave the laundry room?

    You hear a two-year-old call your name - do you leave the laundry room?

    In this episode, we follow the moments inside Nariman House on Wednesday, November 26, 2008, focusing on the choices made by Sandra Samuel when a toddler called for her amid an ongoing attack. We trace who she was, why she was there that night, and the decisions that led her toward the stairwell.

    Person: Sandra Samuel
    Person: Moshe Holtzberg
    Date: November 26, 2008
    Location: Nariman House, Colaba, Mumbai
    Event: Coordinated attacks across ten locations in Mumbai

    - Sandra was the long-term household employee and primary caretaker for the Holtzberg family, present since 2003.
    - On Wednesdays she usually visited her own sons, but on this Wednesday she stayed inside Nariman House.
    - The building was a five-story Chabad House with narrow stairwells and a rooftop, selected by attackers for prolonged occupation.
    - During the siege a two-year-old boy, Moshe, stood over his parents with his trousers soaked in blood and called Sandra’s name repeatedly.
    - Sandra was hidden in the laundry room when she heard Moshe call her and then climbed the stairs toward the sound.

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    14 min
  • The Book Bomb That Built Hezbollah: How an Assassin Failed to Erase Him

    The Book Bomb That Built Hezbollah: How an Assassin Failed to Erase Him
    Oct 18 2026
    A cleric opens a book-bomb at the Iranian embassy in Damascus and survives-how did that failed assassination shape Hezbollah and the region?

    The Book Bomb That Built Hezbollah: How an Assassin Failed to Erase Him

    In this episode, we follow the life and decisions of Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour from Najaf exile to diplomatic envoy in Damascus. The episode traces how his choices, networks and methods contributed to a new militant architecture and asks where belief ends and political construction begins.

    Person: Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour
    Date: October 23, 1983
    Location: Iranian embassy, Damascus; Beirut (airport bombings)
    Event: Assassination attempt by a package bomb; embassy detonation
    Topic: Formation of Hezbollah through fusion of six Lebanese groups

    - Mohtashamipour studied in Najaf alongside Khomeini and chose to follow him to Paris in 1978.
    - He received military training at a Fatah camp and lived in Yammoune in the Bekaa Valley before cofounding a militant group.
    - In 1982 he was appointed Iranian ambassador to Syria, overseeing a vital overland corridor into Lebanon.
    - He supervised the fusion of six Lebanese organizations into one structure linked to the IRGC via the Department for Islamic Liberation Movements.
    - Investigators attribute a series of escalating Beirut attacks in 1983 to the network he supervised, culminating in massive bombings that shifted international calculations.

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    15 min
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