Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Hear amazing true stories from Alaska told by the people who experienced them!
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
Hear amazing true stories from Alaska told by the people who experienced them!
Language:
English
Episodes
Car Trouble
4/27/2024
Kaiti Ott turns her car into a fishbowl and Ashley Carrick breaks the cardinal rule of Alaska: Don’t Drive Naked.
Duration:00:30:31
America's Farthest North Little Free Libraries
4/9/2024
Correspondent Ryan Peterson explores the little free libraries of Fairbanks and interviews their creators.
Duration:00:29:00
Ladder Dude!
2/17/2024
David Rockney witnesses how a ladder truck can make a bad situation much worse and Jenn Jenkins’ friends think a ladder is going to literally eat her leg.
Duration:00:29:00
Squirrel, Squirrel, Bigfoot
1/27/2024
Harper O’Brien’s grandfather gets scared by a squirrel in bear’s clothing, host Rob Prince discovers squirrels have an appetite for mushrooms and breaking and entering, and Glenner Anderson finds out why the Finding Bigfoot Reality TV show never finds Bigfoot.
Duration:00:29:00
Happy Mother’s Day 2023
5/28/2023
Putt Clark’s mom makes her family to the most disgusting archaeological dig in history and Ryan Peterson tells the story of the Mother’s Day gift that refuses to quit giving.
Duration:00:29:00
Lessons Learned
5/11/2023
Richard Dickman and his brother teach themselves how to fly WHILE FLYING, and Ryan learns how background checks work in Alaska.
Duration:00:29:00
Don’t Let Go
3/30/2023
Jessica Thomas barely survives when her pickup truck goes through the ice, but it turns out to be just the start of her problems.
Duration:00:29:00
Silver Linings
2/26/2023
Atileo Frizzera accidentally becomes the poster boy for chainsaw chaps and Karl Monetti takes advantage of a plane crash to recruit a rugby player.
Duration:00:29:00
Awkward Situations
2/17/2023
Lorien Nettleton gets auctioned off in the Talkeetna Bachelor Auction Matthew Sturm decides the best way to make it through a tricky kayaking situation is to get naked.
Duration:00:28:59
Close Encounters of the Fuzzy Kind
2/17/2023
Ray Smith runs with a pack of wolves and Jan Hanscomb finds it hard to rid her house of an uninvited bear.
Duration:00:29:00
The Power of Ice
2/16/2023
Sean McGee tells the story of a police bust gone awry thanks to ice and Dick Griffith literally freezes his butt off.
Duration:00:29:00
The Blowhole
1/9/2023
There’s a mysterious evil force that lives in Alaska and it’s called “The Blowhole.” Anyone who has ever seen it has learned why they always say, “Don’t stop in the blowhole.”
Duration:00:28:57
The Power of Nature
11/9/2022
Josh Weiser tells the story of the most incredible experience he ever had as a tour bus driver in Denali National Park.
Duration:00:19:13
Lost & Found
10/4/2022
Dawn Erbeck shares a story about the hazards of bringing jewelry into the wilderness and host Rob Prince shares his personal experience with a life threatening case of lost and found.
Duration:00:28:57
Moms Improv
10/4/2022
Sarah Sullivan discovers as a little girl that her mother’s threat assessment radar isn’t as tuned in as she thought it was and Taryn Hughes delivers her own baby in her truck on the way to the hospital on a frigid Fairbanks night.
Duration:00:29:00
Alaskan "Can Do!" Spirit
7/29/2022
Champion dogmusher Brent Sass shares the hilarious story of his first attempt at caribou hunting and Bill Schnabel tells the story of how not to raise pigs for bacon.
Duration:00:29:01
Kindness of Strangers
4/29/2022
Matt Irinaga is saved by a mysterious stranger emerging from the ice fog and Phoebe Rohrbacher meets the nicest man in Alaska in the un-nicest of ways.
Duration:00:29:00
Hitchhikers
3/30/2022
Deb Horner picks up a furry hitchhiker who refuses to leave her truck, Kat Betters picks up a dead hitchhiker who miraculously comes back to life, and host Rob Prince tells the bizarre story of the time he picked up a hitchhiker in his 1982 DeLorean sports car.
Duration:00:28:59
Don’t Look Back
2/2/2022
Jabin Collins experiences a life-altering car accident that threatens his dream of playing high school football, but not all things that are “life-altering” alter life in a bad way.
Duration:00:28:59
Up a Creek Without a Canoe
1/11/2022
A woman goes on a remote canoeing trip with a guy friend and gets stranded when they wrap their canoe around a huge rock.
Duration:00:06:19