Crisis & Consequences

Kids say the darnedest things? So do people coming out of crisis mode! Back by popular demand, podcast guest and OneHeart Transformation Director Chad Ratigan returns to the Escape Pod to share severa...

26 Jul 202454min

In 2023, 92% of people responding to a survey on road rage said they had witnessed at least one act of road rage during the previous year. Some of these incidents end without consequence; others have ...

19 Jul 202444min

A child plays dead to escape his mother’s abusive grip; a woman plays dead and likely escapes a serial killer; a student plays dead to escape a gunman in her classroom. Conscious decision or simply th...

12 Jul 202445min

A teenager confesses to shooting a man outside a nightclub. A woman confesses to stabbing her elderly landlord to death. A man confesses to killing his father, even though he can’t remember doing it. ...

5 Jul 202444min

Roughly 30 years ago, escape artist Teri and her husband were thrilled to become the new owners of a “really cute” house in central California when they successfully bid on a foreclosed property. Litt...

28 Jun 20241h 7min

A 12-year-old escape artist knocks on a neighbor’s door and politely requests that the man take him to a police station. Soon, the boy’s mom and her friend/therapist/business partner are arrested and ...

21 Jun 20241h 10min

After many misdiagnoses, a teenage girl in Australia learns she has a rare type of cancerous tumor. She begins her search for anything that might help her escape it, including a regimented diet promot...

14 Jun 20241min

Girl in the Picture. Suzanne Sevakis. The mystery of a missing person spans 40 years, taking more twists and turns than even the Escape Pod cohosts can count!  As a teenage girl in the mid-1980s, thi...

7 Jun 20241h 14min