A woman working alone in a store is attacked by a customer who drags her to the stock room and stabs her 31 times; a doctor is abducted by a meth addict demanding cash; pirates board a couple's yacht.

Lenore/Steven/Ellen & Jim

Midsi/Tammy/Leona

Crystal/Johanna

A young nurse is abducted and tortured by a serial killer who has already murdered four other women; a mother and her four year old daughter are trapped in the attic of their house by a flash flood.

Jennifer/Neely Ann

After being abducted at knifepoint and gang raped, a seven months pregnant woman has her throat cut and is left to die; a man survives the terrifying crash of a Boeing 737; and an armed man starts executing people inside a warehouse.

Sharetha/Joe/John

A 15-year-old girl is abducted and raped by a serial killer. A photographer is trapped under the rubble of a collapsed hotel in the Haitian earthquake. A woman is beaten and slashed with scissors by a neighbor.

Kara/Dan/Tamecka

A canyoneering trip becomes a terrifying fight for survival when a flash flood launches three men over two massive waterfalls, and a 13-year-old boy is abducted and raped by a serial pedophile before being chained up in a buried box and left to die.

Jason, Dave and Joe/Martin

A mother and her two young children are abducted and taken into the Florida Everglades by a crazed attacker; a man is mauled by a hungry bear and fights for his life in the driveway of his holiday cabin.

Julie/John

A store manager and his staff are held up and shot by two killers; an 18-year-old has both his arms torn off in an accident on the family farm; a 17-year-old girl is kidnapped and assaulted by a serial killer.

Harold/John/Lisa

On their first date, a young woman and her friend are shot execution style; two strangers' lives collide in a deadly train collision; and during one terror filled evening a 13-year-old escapes from the men who have abducted and assaulted her.

Yvette/Jeremy & Jenny/Arkesha

A young woman is abducted and put through a horrifying eight day ordeal by a man who forces her to live inside a metal box. Two brothers are struck by lightning. A propane truck driver is attacked while making a delivery but she decides to fight back.

Anita/Jim & Glen/Sabret

A young mother is attacked and strangled by a man she meets at a party. A snowmobiler survives a series of avalanches but loses eight of his friends. A 14-year-old boy and his best friend are attacked by a 17-year-old who cuts their throats.

Amy/Jeff/Tyler

Abducted in the trunk of her own car, a woman suffers unimaginable horror. Trapped in the ruins of a tornado ravaged building a young woman prepares to die. And an eight-year-old girl is kidnapped by a man who leaves her to die in a field.

Michelle/Terri-Lynn/Jennifer

A machete-wielding intruder terrorizes a woman in her apartment; a savage attack by a grizzly bear leaves a man partially scalped and miles from help; and a blindfolded 16-year-old girl fights for her life after being abducted at knifepoint.

Jessica/Jeff & Mark/Kerri

A gun-wielding man carjacks and sexually assaults two young women before one of them flees. A tornado sweeps through a man's home, dragging a sixteen wheel truck through his living room. And a 9-year-old girl is assaulted, kidnapped and held captive.

Lisa/Chris/Jeannette

A woman is brutally attacked in her home by a man with a knife; a man spends sixteen days trapped in his car after crashing into a ravine; and two college freshmen are abducted by a gunman in their car.

Kaye/Johnny/Scott

Eduardo and Jayne face a living nightmare when Eduardo is kidnapped, confined in a small box, brutally tortured, injected with tainted blood and shot twice. Over seven and a half desperate months, Eduardo must fight for life as Jayne fights to save him.

Eduardo and Jayne

Two women fight for their lives when a knife-wielding attacker ambushes them on a mountain trail and two men on vacation survive 14 hours adrift at sea after their ship sinks in 15 to 20 foot waves.

Kim & Nina/Michael & Charles

A teenage girl is seduced by a man and brainwashed into spending ten years as his slave; a hiker is nearly killed by a mountain lion and a woman is stalked and attacked.

Tanya/Andy/Denise

A savage home invasion leaves a man fighting for his life in a burning house. An overnight fishing trip turns into an eight-day nightmare after a boat capsizes, and a woman locked in the trunk of her car faces a terrifying death by drowning.

Paul/Tressel/Melissa

A young woman is abducted at knifepoint and sexually assaulted. A farmer rips his own hand off to escape from a combine harvester. And a 14-year-old girl is left for dead at her home after having her throat slit.

Angela/Pat/Tricia

A woman is attacked by her psychotic boyfriend with a meat cleaver. A man and his elderly father are stranded in the bleak Alaskan wilderness when their raft flips in a freezing river. And a young woman is attacked in her home.

Jenn/Neil & Blake/Tiffany

A terrified mother is abducted in broad daylight and assaulted by a man who threatens to shoot her baby. A plane crash leaves a man swimming for his life 17 miles from shore. And a young woman must play dead in order to survive.

Donna/Michael/Sheila

High on the drug PCP, a man goes on a rampage, stabbing his 11-year-old daughter and 2 neighbors; a man is beaten unconscious by his building contractor.

Mijalina & Yvonne/Peter

Two crimes of obsessive passion: A teenage girl is stalked and shot in the face by her jealous ex-boyfriend; a woman's controlling husband resorts to violent rape.

An 8-year-old girl is abducted on her way home from school; a woman is viciously attacked with a knife and must scramble up a 100-foot hill to escape; a woman and her husband are shot while hiking.

A woman is taken hostage by her ex-husband; a man faces agonizing death by fire, covered in gasoline; a man's home is invaded by two masked men who threaten to blind him.

Terri/Walter/James

A fourth-grader and two teachers are taken hostage in a classroom with 151 others; a couple honeymooning in Jamaica is attacked by an escaped mental patient with a wooden machete.

Cynthia, Russ & Carol/Ron & Christine

A woman sees her father shot dead right in front of her; a crazed gunman slaughters seven friends of a pastor; an ex-boyfriend viciously attacks a young mother and her new partner.

Kirby/Suzanna/Raegan

A woman answers a desperate plea for help from an ex-boyfriend and finds herself trapped and repeatedly raped during a hellish four hours before she is strangled; a young mother is stabbed over 25 times after breaking up with a Hollywood actor.

Lynda/Kendra

A woman helps a motorist on an isolated road and is viciously attacked with a screwdriver; a woman is raped by a masked man; a young girl working at a convenience store is attacked by a customer who saws through her vocal cords with a serrated fish knife.

Heather/Donna/Kim

An intruder smothers a woman & hits her over the head repeatedly before stripping her naked & taking photos; a young woman walking home by herself is brutally knifed in the street by a serial killer.

Laurie/Sandra/Melinda

What would you do if you were confronted with death? What gives someone the strength to survive? Is it luck, chance, instinct? In a stripped-down, simple-yet-cinematic interview style, “I Survived…” allows survivors to explain, in their own words, how they overcame unbelievable circumstances — offering insight into what got them through the experience that changed their lives forever.

Lenore/Steven/Ellen & Jim

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