Episode 200: The Alcatraz Escape

On a cold November afternoon in 1990, nine-year-old Fusako Sano vanished while walking home from a school baseball game in Sanj ō. Despite massive search efforts that stretched for weeks and even speculation about North Korean involvement, no trace of her was found.Her abductor, Nobuyuki Satō—a 28-year-old unemployed man with a history of mental disturbance—forced her into his car and confined her to the upstairs of his mother's house in Kashiwazaki, just 200 meters from a police substation. For over nine years, she remained there, isolated and invisible.

Hello This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsPerched above the town of Estes Park, the Stanley Hotel is a 140-room Georgian Revival structure that gazes out toward the entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park. It has earned a reputation as one of America’s most actively haunted locations. The property offers a restaurant, spa, and bed-and-breakfast accommodations, all framed by sweeping views of Lake Estes, the Rocky Mountains, and Longs Peak.

Hello This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics

Hello This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsWitches. Séances. A haunted stone tower. Cemeteries where the dead are said to walk. A book whose pages bring misfortune. Something unseen moving through the dark waters of Whitewater Lake. For generations, these tales have clung to this Wisconsin town, earning it the eerie title of the “Second Salem.”

Hello This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsSleepy Hollow is a village in the town of Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, within the New York metropolitan area. It sits on the east bank of the Hudson River about 28 miles north of Midtown Manhattan and is served by the Philipse Manor stop on the Metro-North Hudson Line. Directly south lies the village of Tarrytown; to the north and east are unincorporated parts of Mount Pleasant. At the 2020 census, Sleepy Hollow’s population was 9,986.

Hello This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsTrue Crime News:It's spooky Fest! Ahhh this is so exciting. It's our third spooky fest For many people, October 31 means Halloween— a time for costumes and trick-or-treating. But Halloween actually springs from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced SAH-win), where people carved turnips (later pumpkins), donned disguises, and attempted to commune with spirits.

Hello This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsIt's spooky Fest! Ahhh this is so exciting. It's our third spooky fest Halloween is observed annually on October 31; in 2026, that date falls on a Saturday.History of HalloweenAmerican Halloween as Cultural ExchangeHalloween’s Early Traditions AbroadHalloween in North AmericaRegional BeginningsThe Rise of Trick-or-TreatingDias de los Muertos and Other CelebrationsHalloween on ScreenForgotten Halloween Rituals

Hello This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsIT'S OUR 200th EPISODE!!!!!!!So for some fun were going to talk about Alcatraz On the night of June 11, 1962, three prisoners— Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin—vanished from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the high-security island prison in San Francisco Bay. After roughly six months of covert preparations, they sculpted papier-mâché heads to fool the guards during morning counts, tunneled out of their cells through the ventilation ducts into an unguarded service corridor, climbed to the roof, and descended to the shore. There they inflated a homemade raft fashioned from raincoat rubber and launched into the cold bay waters. A fourth man, Allen West, meant to join them but became trapped when the concrete around his duct opening hardened; he was left behind.

Hello This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsAmanda Michelle Todd (November 27, 1996 – October 10, 2012) was a 15-year-old Canadian student from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, who died by suicide after enduring prolonged cyberbullying and blackmail. A month before her death she uploaded a nine-minute YouTube video titled “My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self-harm,” in which she held up a series of hand-written flashcards to recount how an anonymous stranger had coerced her into exposing her breasts on a BlogTV webcam, then threatened to distribute the images to her classmates. In the video she also described ongoing harassment, physical assaults and self-harm. After her suicide the clip went viral—amassing over 15.5 million views on the original upload and tens of millions more on mirrored copies by July 2025— as global media outlets and reaction videos drew attention to her case. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the British Columbia Coroners Service opened formal inquiries into her death.

Hello This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topicsStuart Lubbock (1 October 1969 – 31 March 2001) was an English meat-factory worker whose unexplained death at television host Michael Barrymore’s home in Roydon, Essex, ended Barrymore’s TV career. On the morning of 31 March 2001, Barrymore and guests James Futers and Simon Shaw found Lubbock unconscious in Barrymore’s swimming pool. A post-mortem revealed serious anal injuries and the presence of ecstasy, cocaine and alcohol in his blood.