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How I Survived - a gripping podcast from your favourite mag!

Shocking true stories that will terrify and inspire you - by that's life!
  • 04 Jul 2018
How I Survived - a gripping podcast from your favourite mag!
Each fortnight, How I Survived brings you the shocking true story of a person who’s survived against the odds, told in their own words. Hosted by that's life! writer Beth Young, these stories are terrifying, inspiring and ultimately prove the power of the human will to live. 

Episode 6: A freak wind ripped off my hand!

Harriet Davis, 12, was enjoying a nice day out on the river when her life changed forever.

A freak wind ripped off my hand!
'The rope wrapped around my ankles and was pulling me under'

'The rope wrapped around my ankles and was pulling me under'

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Episode 5: Stabbed 14 times, but I survived!

Victorian neurosurgeon and dad-of-two Dr Michael Wong was at work when his shift quickly turned to terror.

Stabbed 14 times, but I survived!
'The fact that I survived is a miracle'

'The fact that I survived is a miracle'

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Episode 4: My husband tried to gas me to death

When Pepita Nicholls asked her husband of 18 years, Robert Ridgeway, for a divorce, he hatched a dark plan to get revenge. 

My husband tried to gas me to death
'My husband's trying to kill me...'

'My husband's trying to kill me!'

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Episode 3: I sliced off my face with a chainsaw!

Victorian grandpa Bill Singleton was working in the bush when horror struck. 

I sliced off my face with a chainsaw!
'I heard this crack. And I realised then that I was in big trouble'

'I heard this crack. And I realised then that I was in big trouble'

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Episode 2: Lost in the bush for 17 hours - saved by her dog!

When Leisa Bennett couldn't be there for her three-year-old granddaughter Aurora, Max the 17-year-old deaf and partially blind dog stepped in. 

Lost in the bush for 17 hours - saved by her dog!
'I'm thinking it can't be my granddaughter. I can't lose my granddaughter' - Leisa Bennett

'I'm thinking it can't be my granddaughter. I can't lose my granddaughter'

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SEASON 2 Episode 1: KIDNAPPED - How I escaped my hostage hell 

When Nigel Brennan and his colleague Amanda Lindhout were kidnapped by Somalian rebels, it was the beginning of a living nightmare. 

KIDNAPPED - How I escaped my hostage hell
'I wasn't just gonna take a bullet to the back of the head.’

'I wasn't just gonna take a bullet to the back of the head’

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Episode 6: Cliff terror - 'She's gone over the edge!'

For Shannon Bennett and her 13-year-old daughter Trinity a day out ended in disaster. 

CLIFF HORROR: 'She's gone over the edge!'
'the only person that I fully trusted at that moment had fallen off a cliff'

'The only person that I fully trusted at that moment had fallen off a cliff....'

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Episode 5: Hostage horror - I was used as a human shield

On an everyday Monday morning, Louisa Hope found herself at the centre of a terror attack. 

Hostage terror - I was used as a human shield
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My instant thought was 'Terrorist, we are dead'

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Episode 4: Scalped by my ponytail

Michelle Dowsett was working on her farm when she felt a tug on her ponytail. Reaching up to feel her head, Michelle's scalp was gone! 

I was scalped by my ponytail
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'It felt like when a button pops off a shirt'

Episode 3: Abducted, drugged and left for dead. He slashed my throat

When Rachele Godsall broke up with her abusive partner, he began the worst attack of all.

Abducted, drugged and left for dead. He slashed my throat.
'He just looked at me and he didn't say anything, and he just cut my throat'

'He just looked at me and he didn't say anything, and he just cut my throat'

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Episode 2: I escaped Ted Bundy - the world's worst serial killer 

When Rhonda Stapley accepted a lift from a good-looking stranger, she had no idea of the horror that would unfold.

I Survived Ted Bundy - the world's worst serial killer
‘I’m thinking he’s going to try to kiss me, and instead, he said, really quietly, ‘You know what, I’m going to kill you’

‘I’m thinking he’s going to try to kiss me, and instead, he said, really quietly, ‘You know what, I’m going to kill you’

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SEASON 1 Episode 1: Bedtime horror - Shot in the face FIVE times by a stranger

James Myers went to bed – and his worst nightmare began. 

Bedtime horror - Shot in the face FIVE times by a stranger
‘Literally, as I was dying I took a couple of selfies'

‘Literally, as I was dying I took a couple of selfies'

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