He Left Her 50 Meters From the Summit. Was It a Crime? | Disaster Strikes
In January 2025, Thomas Plamberger and his girlfriend Kerstin Gurtner set out to climb the Grossglockner — Austria's highest peak — on a technical winter route they had planned together. What happened...
4 Jun 32min
Lost Behind Enemy Lines for 2 Weeks: After Taking 30 Meth Pills
Hosts Kaycee McIntosh and Julie Henningsen recount Finnish corporal Aimo Koivunen’s March 18, 1944 ordeal during the Continuation War: leading a seven-man long-range ski reconnaissance patrol in Sovie...
1 Jun 44min
Frozen Solid at 3 Years Old: The Christmas Eve Miracle That Stumped Medicine
When three-year-old Brittany Eichelberger slipped out of her family's trailer in Elkins, West Virginia on Christmas Eve 1990, no one knew she was gone. She was found hours later, clinically dead in th...
25 Mai 27min
O Circuit Tragedy: 120 MPH | Disaster Strikes
In this Disaster Strikes segment of the Crux podcast, host Kaycee McIntosh recounts the November 17, 2025 tragedy on Torres del Paine’s O Circuit at John Garner Pass, where a forecasted cyclone hit hu...
21 Mai 41min
30 Seconds to Escape: The Sinking of the Cynthia Woods
Kaycee McIntosh and Julie Henningsen recount the June 2008 Regatta de Amigos disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, when the 38-foot racing sailboat Cynthia Woods lost its keel, punched a hole in the hull, a...
18 Mai 32min
42 Years in Siberia: The Family That Vanished From the World
In 1936, a Russian man named Karp Lykov watched a Soviet patrol shoot his brother dead in a field — and in that moment, he made a decision. He gathered his wife and two young children, packed seeds an...
11 Mai 41min
Frozen in Time: Solving the Dyatlov Pass Mystery with Science | Disaster Strikes
In February 1959, nine skilled winter hikers vanished in Russia's Ural Mountains during what should have been a routine expedition. When rescuers found their tent weeks later, it had been slashed open...
7 Mai 42min
3 Days Missing in a Ravine: The Boy No One Could Find
In July 2025, 13-year-old Cody Trenkel Jr. set out on a routine skateboard ride through his grandmother's quiet Missouri neighborhood—and never made it to his destination. What began as a normal summe...
4 Mai 33min
