Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska

Lorien Nettleton gets auctioned off in the famous Talkeetna Bachelor Auction and Matthew Sturm decides the best way to get out of a tough Alaskan wilderness situation is to get naked.

Alexandra was hooked on alcohol from her first taste at age 12. By age 17 her addiction had led to tragedy. Now she wonders if she can ever forgive herself.

Jessica Eicher ponders moving to Mars after being one of 0.5% of applicants to the Mars One program to make the first cut and astrophysicist Dr. Peter Delamere thinks she’s nuts to want to go.

David Best heads out into the woods of Anderson, Alaska looking for property he bought only to accidentally become a legend in the community.

Dark Winter Nights creator/host Rob Prince conducts an exhaustive investigative report about kids getting their tongues stuck to stuff in winter–at great personal sacrifice.

Jan Hanscomb is home alone when a huge, fuzzy intruder tries to break in and Linda Brandenberg shares a legendary family story of a prank that majorly backfires.

James Mennaker survives a flash flood, Richard Coleman gets to see what river ice looks like from below, and Mike Daku survives a plane crash.

Ryan and Val come across a moose that can stand on its hind legs and Randy Brown’s day gets weird when he suddenly finds himself wrestling with a bear by the tail.

Tom Bachert receives an extremely odd request from a mysterious stranger in the fog and Andrew George skates by some serious river trouble way out in the Alaskan Bush.

One woman tries to teach her mother a lesson and gets taught one herself and another woman follows her mom to Alaska to find her living a wild life unlike anything she could have imagined.

Alaskans try to get themselves out of trouble with some no-so-mad MacGuyver skills.

One man recounts running for his life from a bear as a child and another man is rescued from a bear in a very matter-of-fact way.

A woman talks about her religious upbringing and how moving to Alaska led her to question everything she had been taught.

One scientist finds himself unexpectedly naked with a prominent foreign scientist and another narrowly avoids a flood with a well timed pee break.

A woman drives a busload of tourists through a massive blizzard on the Haul Road and none of them are sure they’re going to make it.

One scientist takes on a polar bear and another falls asleep on the job with hilarious repercussions.

Host Rob Prince goes over to inspect the home of his recluse neighbor and discovers something that makes headlines across Alaska.

A guy and his friend try an ambitious winter hike around Denali in the 1980’s and only survive multiple near death experiences thanks to help from above.

A pair of Alaskan women show off their courage and strength fending off a bear while helping to rescue a pair of men while dip netting and another Alaskan woman toughs her way through an unconventional birthing experience.

Hailey McCaig learns what a huge pain it is to have to babysit someone on a back country canoe trip when her and her friend wrap their canoe around a huge boulder.

A pair of Alaskans escape from a burning airplane only to have to walk miles in frigid temperatures to get rescued and a teenager nearly dies from hypothermia when he decides to take a very dangerous nap under a tree.

Alaskans try to prank each other and sometimes it backfires…literally.

Alaskan have epic bad days at work, from a theatrical disaster to a hilarious bear encounter.

One man learns what it’s like to run with the pack and a woman has to deal with an uninvited house guest.

Alaskans run from polar bears…and their own pasts.

Alaskans rescuing Alaskans, sometimes with great skill and ingenuity, and sometimes not…

An Army veteran gets hopelessly lost in the woods.

Guy Schroder survives the sinking of the Katmai fishing vessel.

Alaskans go out of their way to try to make a difference for kids.

One Alaskan man gets auctioned off to a crowd of blood thirsty women and another man decides the best way out of a tough wilderness situation is to get naked.

An unspoken epidemic is affecting countless curious children on the icy school playgrounds of Fairbanks.

Alaskans get stuck in places they really don’t want to be.

Alaskans try to make things better and only make them much, much worse.

Kids and adults share crazy stories about growing up in Alaska.

Alaskans find out things aren’t what they thought they were.

A man survives a killer avalanche and is forced to return to the site months later to recover the bodies of his friend and faithful dog.

Three guys are nearly killed white water rafting and a flood leaves a indelible mark on more than one man’s memory.

One man goes through the ice, and that’s only the start of his problems…

A brave Alaskan woman decides to enter the notorious Arctic Man competition.

A new Alaskan deals with a tragedy in her adopted family.

Alaskans deal with bears.

Champion dog musher Brent Sass nearly dies caribou hunting and Bill Schnabel finds its harder to harvest a pig than his expected.

An Alaskan woman debates leaving Earth…forever.

Alaskans have a bad habit of getting stuck in the middle of the wilderness.

The Great Alaskan Earthquake: Part 2

The Great Alaskan Earthquake: Part 1

A couple of young guys discover something mysterious and can’t help investigating.

A legally blind woman finally gets to see a whale, a family battles a flash flood, and a Jewish woman from Jersey tries walrus.