Worst Case Scenario with Abi Clarke and Julia Stenton
Worst Case Scenario is the podcast where comedians and good friends Abi Clarke and Julia Stenton tell the survival stories of those who found themselves in the worst case scenario and lived to tell the tale. It’s your grisly fix but with a happy ending. They’re underqualified, underprepared and would face certain doom in any emergency situation, but together they’re building their own Worst Case Scenario survival kit. This podcast is for recovering true crime addicts who want to hear extraordinary true stories of life-changing events from the perspective of the heroes instead of the villains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
Ashley Wallace wakes up in a hospital bed. As she wakes she sees police by her bedside and they soon accuse her of not one murder, but multiple murders. Ashely's sister Bree had found a note in which Ashley confesses to the killings of her father and stepfather, the problem is... Ashley did not write this letter.
What happened next? Listen as Abi takes Julia on a rollercoaster of a story proving Ashley's innocence.
School bus driver Ed Ray was taking 26 students home from a summer class trip to the Chowchilla Fairgrounds swimming pool when a van blocked the road ahead of them. Ed stopped the bus and was then confronted by three armed men with nylon stockings covering their faces.
Julia tells Abi all about what these who these men were, what they wanted and what they put Ed and the 26 students through in this episode of Worst Case Scenario.
...It has finally happened, on this episode Abi is telling Julia and you all about surviving... a shark attack!
Rodney Fox survived an attack by a great white in 1963 which to this day is still regarded as one of the worst attacks ever from which someone has lived to tell their story. The attack though didn't make Rodney afraid to go back into the water, it only encouraged him to learn more about the species and pioneer a way that ...
The leading light in the pop art movement, Andy Warhol was a true icon of the 20th century. On June 3rd 1968, writer Valerie Solanas shot Warhol at The Factory, his central studio. Valerie authored the s.c.u.m. manifesto and many plays as well which was seemingly the fuse for the assassination attempt.
From Warhol's early life, reshaping of the art world, to the impact of the attempt of his life, Julia takes Abi t...
** You may find this episode triggering, please listen with care and attention **
Kevin Hines jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco in an attempt to end his life. The moment he decided to do it though, he instantly knew he had made the wrong decision. Kevin now belongs to a very exclusive club of those who have survived jumping from the bridge, and in this episode Abi tells Julia about Kevin's early life, the day o...
Newlyweds Brandy and Brandon Wiley were looking for adventure when they quit their jobs, sold all their posesions and set out for Costa Rica with only their lives in their backpacks. Two days later they were lying injured deep in the South American jungle amongst the fuel soaked wreckage of a plane crash.
What happens next? Listen as Julia tells Abi all about Brandy and Brandon's worst case scenario!
When you're the only doctor at a remote an Antarctic research station the last thing you want is to become ill yourself but that is just happened in the story of Leonid Rogozov.
Leonid's illness would prove to be be fatal unless he had surgery and in this episode of Worst Case Scenario Abi takes Julia through how he performed surgery... on himself!
Send in your own worst case scenario to help@wcspod.com and please follow the...
A special episode this week as Abi and Julia scale the mountain of emails from you the listener!
This podcast wouldn't be what it is without you listening and contributing and as we only get to go through a few at the end of normal episodes this seemed like a good moment to fully shine the light on some brilliant tales you've shared.
We still want to hear your own worst case scenario and tales of survival so send them to help...
The first time you go hang gliding, you don't want the resulting video to go viral but that happened to Chris Gursky.
Abi relives Chris's near death experience to Julia and takes her through how his harness was never hooked to the glider and for over two minutes Chris had to quite literally hang on for his life!
Watch Chris' unreal viral video here!
Send in your own worst case scenario to help@wcspod.com and please foll...
In Danelle Ballengee's worst case scenario she took comfort in one fact... she has with her, her best friend. Her dog Taz.
Abi leads this week's episode as she fill Julia in on Danelle's exploits as a world leading extreme athlete and how one simple short solo run almost ended in disaster and how Taz the dog aided Danelle's survival and eventual rescue!
Send in your own worst case scenario to help@wcspod.com and please follow...
Lights, camera, murder?
The TV show COPS caught the moment Mike Dippolito's wife found out he had been murdered... only what they recorded and knew, was that Mike was alive and that police had foiled his planned murder which was arranged by his wife!
On this episode of Worst Case Scenario hear of Mike's chequered past, whirlwind romance, the planned murder and how it was all caught on camera for the show COPS.
Michelle Renee and daughter Breea aged 7, had dynamite tapped to their bodies and were held hostage after masked gunmen burst into their San Diego County home in November 2000. The men told Michelle they had been staking out a bank that she managed, warning her they would detonate the explosives if she refused to take hundreds of thousands of dollars from the bank’s vault.
Stop what you're doing and listen right now as Julia tak...
On April 11th 1970, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert took off from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida headed for space... it was intended to be the third Apollo mission to land on the moon...until an explosion caused oxygen levels in part of the spacecraft to plummet to zero. They were over 200,000 miles from earth.
Moved into a part of the rocket that would serve as their 'life boat' they shared oxygen and space ...
Hiking alone, Colin Dowler reachers the target of his route and overall it's a successful day out... until he gets back to his bike to ride home, to find in his path a huge Grizzly bear.
The Grizzly attacks, almost causing Colin to bleed out, suffer permanent nerve damage, and leaves psychological scars. The ordeal is enough to make most of us stay inside and avoid the outdoors ever again but Colin isn't like most of us, and thi...
A touch of glamour on this episode of Worst Case Scenario as Julia tells the tale of Hollywood cameraman Chris Duddy, who survived a helicopter crash into a live volcano whilst shooting the 1993 erotic thriller Sliver, starring Sharon Stone and Billy Baldwin.
Toxic fumes, climbing volcanic walls, a second helicopter... Chris' story is arguably better than that of the film he was shooting!
When bungee jumping the last thing you want to hear is the cord snapping and perhaps the last place you want to be falling towards is a crocodile infested river, but that is exactly what happened to Erin Langworthy!
Abi and Julia bring you the story of Erin's survival, a debate about what surface they would like to bungee over, and they wrap up on perhaps the best worst case scenario that has been emailed into the show yet.
Delia Balmer finds herself in a relationship with a serial killer.
A bag containing a body is fished out of a Dutch canal. In London the person responsible, Delia Balmer's boyfriend John Sweeney inflicts on her a relationship of mental and physical control very nearly costing Delia her life. Julia takes Abi's hand through the survival story of Delia Balmer in this dark, shocking and twisted episode of Worst Case Scenario.
We ...
Settle in as Abi tells Julia the story of Guiness World Record holder Roy Sullivan. A man who defied the odds by surviving not one, but seven lightning strikes. From the initial to final strike was mere luck or something extraordinary that allowed him to survive?
Send in tales of survival from your own worst case scenario to help@wcspod.com and follow the podcast on Instagram @wcspod
It's Abi's true crime origin story, the one that got her hooked!
An abuse of trust, a sixth sense on the end of the phone, and incredible strength & fighting spirit from the survivor... Abi presents to Julia the story of Jennifer Morey's on this episode of Worst Case Scenario.
Not one for the faint hearted we must flag it contains descriptions of sexual assault and violence.
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