Jillian and Haley dive into the Timothy Treadwell documentary "Grizzly Man" before Jillian tells the story of chronobiologist Michel Siffre and the time isolation experiments. Haley talks monarch butterflies during conservation corner. Sources: Caveman: An interview with Micchel Siffre, Joshua Foer and Michel Siffre, Cabinet Magazine Siffre Cave Study Psychology, Study Smarter Chronobiology, McGill Six Months Alone in Midnight Cave, James M. Deem Deep Time Study: French volunteers leave cave after 40 days in isolation, BBC A test subject who spent 40 days in a cave for science breaks down wh ..read more

Corey decides he wants to come on the podcast again and Jillian, Corey, and Haley talk about all kinds of personal news, including a move and a wedding. Jillian then dives into the highly controversial life and death of Timothy Treadwell, and Haley talks grizzly bears during conservation corner. Sources: We Watched "Grizzly Man" With a Bear Biologist. It Got Weird. Emma Veidt, Backpacker Timothy Treadwell Devoted His Life To Grizzly Bears - Until They Ate Him, Katie Serena, All That's Interesting. The Man Who Loved Grizzlies, Ned Zeman, Vanity Fair Alaskan Peninsula brown bear, Katmai Nationa ..read more

Haley and Jillian talk about the troubling "spinning fish disease" in the Florida Keys before diving into the tragic tale of the Yarnell Hill Wildfire and the Granite Mountain Hotshots. Haley brings it back up during conservation corner with the Apache trout. Sources: 19: The True Story of the Yarnell Hill Fire, Kyle Dickman, Outside Magazine Granite Mountain Hotshots: The firefighting team that died battling the Yarnell Hill Fire, Janelle Foskett, Fire Rescue 1 19 Firefighters Die Battling Arizona’s Yarnell Fire, David Greene, Ted Robins, NPR Two Years After Deadly Wildfire, Are There Lesson ..read more

Jillian and Haley talk about how history always repeats itself with a recent news story about Donner pass. Jillian dives into more prehistoric stories with the lost land of Doggerland and the hominids of Rising Star Cave. Haley rounds it out with some seal talk. Sources: Doggerland- The Europe That Was, Benjamin Kessler, National Geographic Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis” of the North Sea gives up it’s ancient secrets, Daniel Boffey, The Guardian Letter from Doggerland, Jason Urbanus, Archology Study finds indications of life on Doggerland after devastating tsunamis, Esther Addley, The Guardian T ..read more

Haley and Jillian are back with a super uncomfy story about what happens when a dive boat leaves you behind, the true story of the disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan. Haley takes us to the Great Barrier Reef during conservation corner with the dugong. Sources: Tom and Eileen Lonergan: The American Couple Who Disappeared in the Great Barrier Reef, Kara Goldfarb, All That’s Interesting Mystery of couple left behind in shark-infested waters still missing 23 years on, Nilufer Atik and Adam Solomons, Mirror From the Archives, 1998: Two scuba divers lost, left behind in open water, Paul McGeo ..read more

It's the last MNWKY Rewind before the break is over and we are back! This time we bring in Corey for a space focused episode talking about the experiment that is HI-SEAS Mars. Sources: HI-SEAS, Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation When A Mars Simulation Goes Wrong, Marina Koren, The Atlantic The Habitat Podcast, Gimlet Media ..read more

On this episode of MNWKY Rewind we go back to one our favorite topics...caves! This week we revisit the absolutely terrifying story of the Plura Cave Tragedy. Sources: The cavers who went back for their friends, William Kremer, BBC News Diving Into the Unknown, Amazon Prime ..read more

On this episode of MNWKY Rewind, we go back to our famous deadly mountain, Everest, with the mysterious disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irving. Sources: George Mallory, British Explorer and Mountaineer, Encyclopedia Britannica What Really Happened to George Mallory and Andrew Irvine?, Killer Climbs Mount Everest – Archaeology in the Death Zone, Lars Pilo, Secrets of the Ice Ghosts of Everest, Eric Simonson, Jochen Hemmleb, Larry Johnson, Outside Magazine Lost on Everest, National Geographic, Renan Ozturk ..read more

Time to switch gears on this next episode of Mother Nature Will Kill You Rewind. This time we go back to the Great Storm of 1900, otherwise known as the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Return for new content and regular episodes on March 4th, 2024. See you then:) Sources: Isaac’s Storm, Eric Larson Tropical cyclone, Storm Surge , Wikipedia Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, National Hurricane Center The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, NOAA, Ron Trumbla ..read more

Time to finish our first trip down memory lane with the second chapter of the story of Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance. Mother Nature Will Kill You Rewind is our way to say thank you while we are on break. Visit some episodes from the podcast's past, and some stories you may have forgotten about. Come back for regular and new episodes on March 4th :) Sources: Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Wikipedia Chasing Ernest: A Journey to South Georgia to Find the Ghost of Shackleton, Kraig Becker, Popular Mechanics ..read more