Norman Ollestad Jr. — The Boy Who Climbed Down From a Plane Crash

Jan Baalsrud | The Soldier Who Crawled Through Arctic Norway

Ada Blackjack | Alone on Wrangel Island

Yossi Ghinsberg — Lost Alone in the Amazon

Cecelia Cichan — The Little Girl Who Survived Northwest Flight 255

Deborah Scaling Kiley — Five Days in Shark-Circled Water

Lincoln Hall — Left for Dead on Everest, Found Alive the Next Morning

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh — The Sole Survivor of AI171

Robert Bogucki — Lost 43 Days in the Great Sandy Desert

The Girl Rodney Alcala Left for Dead: Tali Shapiro’s Survival Story

Phineas Gage Survived the Impossible | The Railroad Blast That Should Have Killed Him

Tracy Parks Escaped Into the Jungle | A Child Survivor of Jonestown

Barbara Jane Mackle — Buried Alive in a Box for 83 Hours

Alicia Kozakiewicz — Lured Online and Rescued Before He Killed Her

Barbara Mabee Abel — Abducted by a Serial Killer and Lived

Shasta Groene — Kidnapped After the Murder of Her Family

Rupert Pratt — Fell From a Breaking Plane Over Alaska and Lived

Brendan McDonough — The Lone Survivor of the Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster

Sailor Gutzler — The 7-Year-Old Who Walked Out of the Woods After the Plane Crash Killed Her Family

Matt McKnight — Thrown 118 Feet and Lived | The Crash That Should Have Killed Him

Joe DiMeo — Survived a Fiery Car Crash With Burns Over 80% of His Body

Luis Freddy Lala Pomavilla | The Only Known Survivor of the San Fernando Massacre

The Missouri Dungeon Survivor — Escaped Timothy Haslett’s Basement Captivity

Josefina Rivera Escaped Gary Heidnik’s Basement | The Survivor Who Saved the Others

Cindy Paulson — She Escaped Robert Hansen Before He Could Hunt Her

Laura Murphy — She Escaped John Crutchley Alive

The Survivors of the 2024 Mass Kidnapping in Tamaulipas — Abducted Off a Bus and Left to Survive

The Surviving Children of the LeBarón Massacre — They Were Not Supposed to Live

Latavia McGee — Survived a Cartel Kidnapping in Matamoros

He Beat Her, Sealed Her in a Container, and Left Her to Freeze — Teri Jendusa-Nicolai

Corazon Amurao — The Only Survivor of Richard Speck’s Night of Murder

The Canadian Avalanche Man Buried for 25½ Hours

Brett Archibald — Lost Overboard in Shark Waters for 28 Hours

Survived a Fishing Boat Fire, Then a Shark Attack at Sea

Survived a Sinking Warship — Then Swam 20 Hours With Sharks | Lois Pond

Survived a 75-Story Elevator Fall — The Impossible Survival of Betty Lou Oliver

Survived Being Shot in the Head and Buried Alive — The Survival of Abraham Biggs

Fell Off a Cruise Ship and Survived 10 Hours Treading Water — The Kay Longstaff Survival Story

Thirty-One Days in the Arctic — The Impossible Survival of Marten Hartwell

Held in an Underground Pit for 24 Years — The Survival of Elisabeth Fritzl

Frozen at 38,000 Feet — And Lived

Survived a Cartel Massacre by Playing Dead — Erika Gandara

Zhu Ling — Poisoned and Left to Die

The Man Who Survived the Golden Gate Jump

The Youngest Survivor: Gideon Lev’s Fight Through WWII

Thirty Minutes Dead: The Impossible Survival of Chris Lemons

Skeleton on the Dam Wall — The 71-Day Survival of Ricky Megee

41 Days Adrift — The Survival of Tami Oldham Ashcraft

Immaculée Ilibagiza — 91 Days Hiding in a Bathroom (Rwanda)

The Eight-Year Prisoner: The Escape of Natascha Kampusch

The Man Who Saved Thousands on 9/11 — The Final Hours of Rick Rescorla

The Survival of Ron Miller (Alaska)

The Survival of Moses Sithole Victim C (South Africa)

The Survival of Lance Cpl. Jeffrey Nashton (Lebanon, 1983)

The Survival of Jennifer Asbenson — She Escaped the Trunk

The Survival of Eric LeMarque (California) — Eight Days Lost in the Sierra

The Survival of Latima Carter (Georgia) — Thrown Into a Lake and Left for Dead

She Was Set on Fire — The Survival of the “Burned Alive Bride” (India)

The Survival of John McCain (Vietnam) | Five Years as a POW

The Survival of Terri Jentz — Oregon’s Campground Attack