Not Today

On Halloween night in 2004, three roommates spent the evening handing out candy to trick-or-treaters before going to bed. A few hours later, Lauren Meanza was awoken to the sounds of the screams of her roommates, Adriane Insogna and Leslie Mazzara, above her. As she opened her bedroom door, she heard whoever had been attacking her friends coming down the staircase toward her, so she bolted out the...

In April of 2009 four Somali pirates boarded the Maersk Alabama, a US/Danish cargo ship off the coast of Africa, a notorious piracy hotspot. The crew aboard the Alabama did everything they could to keep the pirates from gaining control of the ship, however the pirates still held multiple crew members hostage, including Captain Richard Phillips. After chief engineer, Mike Perry, managed to capture...

Let's talk about some terrifying Reddit Let's Not Meet stories!

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....

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 laste...

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 trapp...

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!

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.

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 ho...

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. 

In 2010, Cynthia Guy-Thomas, an addiction therapist, blackmailed her patient into helping her find a hitman to kill her ex-husband.

This week we'll be diving into some of the stories of our listeners!

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....

In Part 2 we'll be diving into the many crimes of the Barrow Gang and the inevitable demise of Bonnie and Clyde.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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. This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. To get 10% off your first month go to betterhelp.com/nottoday 

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!

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...

In July 2014, Gregg Hein survived six days on Mt. Goddard in Kings Canyon National Park after a boulder came loose and hit his leg causing a compound fracture.

On December 9th 2019, Whakaari Volcano on White Island in New Zealand explosively erupted. The volcano was a popular tourist destination, and at the time of the eruption 47 people were on the island taking a tour.

Stacey Castor wanted people to believe that her life had been crippled by tragedy, but when authorites investigated her second husband’s “suicide” things werent adding up. After looking into her past, investigators uncovered the terrifying reality of the situation. Stacey Castor wanted to keep her secrets concealed and would do anything to keep it that way, including attempting to take her own dau...