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Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska

True stories from Alaska told by the Alaskans who experienced them.

Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska

The Anderson Legend

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

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Tongue Terror!

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.

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Home Alone

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.

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Thankful to Be Alive!

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.

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Hey Bear!

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.

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Ice Ice Baby

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.

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My Alaskan Mother

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.

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Alaskan MacGuyvers

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

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Bear Cub!

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.

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Abdicating the Throne

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

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Soaked Science!

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

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The Little Tour Bus That Could

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.

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Scientists On Ice!

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

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Won’t You Be My Neighbor

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

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Starving Around Denali Expedition

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.

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Tough Alaskan Women

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.

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Up a Creek Without a Canoe

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.

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Walk for your Life!

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.

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Alaskan Pranks

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

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Bad Day at Work

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

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Close Encounters of the Fuzzy Kind

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

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Run For Your Life!

Alaskans run from polar bears…and their own pasts.

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Alaskan Rescues

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

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Lost in the Woods

An Army veteran gets hopelessly lost in the woods.

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Shipwreck!

Guy Schroder survives the sinking of the Katmai fishing vessel.

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Making a Difference

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

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Awkward Situations

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.

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Tongue Terror

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

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Get Me Out of Here!

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

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Best Intentions

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

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When I was Younger than I am Now

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

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Mistaken Identity

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

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Avalanche

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.

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The Power of Water

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

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Short: Through the Ice

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

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Short: Arctic wo-Man

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

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Short: Family

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

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Bears

Alaskans deal with bears.

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Alaskan Spirit

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

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The Alaskan Martian

An Alaskan woman debates leaving Earth…forever.

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Stranded!

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

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Earthquake! Part 2

The Great Alaskan Earthquake: Part 2

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Earthquake! Part 1

The Great Alaskan Earthquake: Part 1

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A Short Visit to Hell

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

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Pilot Episode

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

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