Crashed in the Canadian Wilderness | The Bond...

It’s the winter of 1925 and in the remote town of Nome, Alaska, children are dying from a diphtheria outbreak that’s spreading fast. But in the dead of winter, the town is nearly impossible to reach and its supply of medicine is dwindling. The only option is to send the medicine ...  Show more

The diphtheria outbreak in Nome is spreading fast as a relay of dogsled teams races across Alaska, carrying the only available medicine. Leonard Seppala knows that if he and his lead dog Togo take a shortcut across the frozen Norton Sound, they can shave off precious time and mak ...  Show more

Original Air Date: February 2, 2006 Oprah talks to Susan Saint James, Dick Ebersol, and their two sons Charlie and Willie, about the plane crash that Dick and Charlie survived but that claimed the lives of three people, including Susan and Dick's youngest son, Teddy. Want more po ...  Show more

Cash shares the time him and his friends got lost at sea in Hawaii, & Harper tells us about when she almost died after getting hit by a car! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

When Molly Shannon was four, her mother, baby sister and cousin were killed in a car crash. Her father was at the wheel. Growing up, few people ever spoke with her about her grief. She and Anderson explore how early loss shaped both their lives, and propelled them forward in unex ...  Show more

On this episode of Our American Stories, The History Guy remembers a truly extraordinary Civil War heroine, Mary Edwards Walker. Our regular contributor Richard Muniz tells the story of an unforgettable accident at Ft. Irwin, California. For Chad and Jess Schumacher, life seemed ...  Show more