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Not Today

Not Today covers unbelievable but true stories of survival. Join Steph and Alex as they discuss real incredible people who made it out of unimaginable circumstances against all odds.

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Episode #250: Halloween Let's Not Meet

September 30, 2025 • 68 mins
Let's talk about some terrifying Reddit Let's Not Meet stories!
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Episode 249: Phrogging 2: Nightmare Fuel

September 23, 2025 • 64 mins
In this episode we're talking about two terrifying instances of intruders living in their victim's home. In our first story, Tina Bowen, her sister Karen, and thier friend Kathy, believed the ghost of their mother haunted the Bowen home, but after months of terrifying signs they would learn that a highly disturbed 16-year-old boy named Daniel Laplante had been living in the cellar for six months. In the second, an intruder bro...
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Episode #248: Stalked For Over A Decade

September 16, 2025 • 62 mins
Christopher Thomas’ obsession with Samantha Stites began in 2011 after meeting her through a Christian student group. What began as seemingly innocent contact quickly devolved into constant unwanted attention. His behavior grew more sinister over the years as he relentlessly harassed and tracked her through her college years and beyond. Stites was granted a personal order of protection which lasted six years, however as soon a...
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Episode #247: Trapped in the Beaconsfield Mine

September 9, 2025 • 54 mins
On April 25th 2006, a small earthquake triggered an underground rockfall at the Beaconsfield gold mine in northern Tasmania. Of the seventeen people who were in the mine at the time, fourteen escaped immediately following the collapse, however three men were unaccounted for. Larry Knight, Brant Webb and Todd Russell were missing and only two of them would come out alive after two weeks being trapped nearly 1 kilometer below th...
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Episode #246: Let's Not Meet

September 2, 2025 • 65 mins
Let's talk about some terrifying Reddit Let's Not Meet stories, including two men in purge masks on the side of the road, an attempted kidnapping, a dog named parmesan that saved her family from a man with a very large knife, and more!
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Episode 245: Armed and Dangerous

August 26, 2025 • 47 mins
Benjamin Obadiah Foster was the subject of a statewide multi-day manhunt after he  attacked his ex-girlfriend, Justine Siemens, beat her unconscious, then fled the scene. Local police would soon discover that Foster had a history of violence against women years before he attacked Siemens. This man was extremely dangerous and needed to be caught fast.
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Episode 244: Frozen Solid

August 19, 2025 • 60 mins
On December 20, 1980 in Lengby, Minnesota, 19-year-old Jean Hilliard was involved in a car crash in sub-zero temperatures. Instead of staying in her car and potentially freezing to death, Jean decided to walk to a friend’s house about 2 miles away. Because it was -22 degrees outside, Jean’s body gave out only 15 feet from her friend’s front door. She was found the next morning and rushed to the hospital. Her body was so frozen...
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Episode 243: Erin Patterson's Death Cap Mushroom Poisoning

August 12, 2025 • 76 mins
On July 29th 2023, five people sat down for what was supposed to be a special lunch at the home of Erin Patterson, a 48-year-old woman from Victoria Australia. Within 24 hours, 4 of those guests had fallen violently ill with what appeared to be food poisoning, and within a week, three of them were dead. 
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Episode 242: Sorry Not Sorry

August 5, 2025 • 53 mins
In 2010, Cynthia Guy-Thomas, an addiction therapist, blackmailed her patient into helping her find a hitman to kill her ex-husband.
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Episode 241: Listener Stories!

July 29, 2025 • 62 mins
This week we'll be diving into some of the stories of our listeners!
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Episode 240: Anthony Templet

July 22, 2025 • 60 mins
17-year-old Anthony Templet was charged with second degree murder after he shot and killed his father, Burt Templet, in June of 2019. On the surface, the case seemed simple: a young man shot his father in the midst of an argument. Anthony had even called 911 and confessed to the crime directly after committing it, being described as calm and emotionless. But Anthony's case was anything but simple. Anthony was the victim in the...
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Episode 239: Bonnie and Clyde Part 2

July 15, 2025 • 95 mins
In Part 2 we'll be diving into the many crimes of the Barrow Gang and the inevitable demise of Bonnie and Clyde.
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Episode 238: Bonnie and Clyde Part 1

July 8, 2025 • 68 mins
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were a pair of infamous American outlaws who, along with their gang, engaged in a spree of bank robberies and murders across the United States during the Great Depression. 
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Episode 237: Caught in a Blizzard

July 1, 2025 • 56 mins
Best friends, Jamie Andrew and Jamie Fisher, decided to leave their group vacation to take on one of the most difficult climbs in the French Alps. While climbing the pair found themselves trapped on a tiny ledge in a sudden and viscous storm.
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Episode 236: Phrogging and Stalking

June 24, 2025 • 59 mins
Phrogging is the act of secretly living in someone else's home without their knowledge or permission. It's a form of hidden intrusion, where the perpetrator lives alongside the homeowners, often in unused spaces like attics, basements, or crawl spaces, while avoiding detection. 
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Episode 235: Abducted At Random

June 17, 2025 • 44 mins
In 2014, Carlesha Freeland-Gaither was abducted at random off the street in Philadelphia. Thanks to Carlesha's quick thinking and a witness to the crime calling 911, investigators were able to find Carlesha before it was too late.
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Episode 234: Heatwave

June 10, 2025 • 50 mins
Five teenage boy scouts and their guides had a plan to hike one of the most difficult trails into the Grand Canyon. They only had enough water to make it down to the Colorado River, but once they made it there, they would refill and have plenty of water to hike back out. They didn't expect to hike into a heatwave and run out of water well before they could get down to the river.
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Episode 233: Framed

June 3, 2025 • 46 mins
Seemona Sumasar spent seven months in jail after her ex-boyfriend orchestrated an elaborate scheme to frame her in a spree of faked armed robberies.


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Episode 232: Freak Falls

May 27, 2025 • 51 mins
In this episode we'll be discussing people who almost lost their lives after a freak fall off a cruise ship, over Niagara Falls, and even from an airplane mid flight!
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Episode 231: The Pan Family Attack

May 20, 2025 • 52 mins
On November 8th, 2010, Jennifer Pan called 911 to report a home invasion. Three men had entered her home, tied her to a banister and shot both of her parents, Hann and Bich Pan, before fleeing the scene. Markham Ontario police had to figure out why this brutal attack happened to a seemingly normal and innocent family. Was the Pan family chosen at random, or were they targeted for a specific reason?
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