Survive the Story: Choose Your Path Through History

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Can you survive Pompeii? The Titanic? This choose-your-path podcast puts you inside real disasters. Each season is set in one real disaster from history. You pick a path, jump to that episode, and find out if you survive. Real facts at the end. No gore. Start with Episode 1 of any season. For ages 13 and up. How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release. © 2026 720 Connections LLC

  1. Oct 19

    Titanic Ep 4 | The Half-Empty Boat

    New here? Start with Episode 1. Titanic: The Longest Night, Episode 4. You chose to get into the half-empty lifeboat in Episode 2. At the end, you choose: Episode 8 or Episode 9. You step over the gap and drop down the side of the ship into the dark. Out on the water, wrapped in a stranger's fur coat, you watch the great ship go. Then come the voices. There are empty seats in your boat, and the sailor in charge is afraid. Do you speak up and help row back, or stay where you are? Heads-up: this story is set during a real disaster in which real people died. How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release. © 2026 720 Connections LLC

  2. Oct 19

    Titanic Ep 5 | The Unsinkable Ship

    New here? Start with Episode 1. Titanic: The Longest Night, Episode 5. You chose to stay on board the big, warm ship in Episode 2. At the end, you choose: Episode 10 or Episode 11. You watch the lifeboat drop away and slip inside to the grand staircase under its glass dome, a world away from third class. But the ship is tilting, the boats are going, and the sea is climbing the deck. Do you stay by the folding boats near the water, or climb to the stern with the crowd? Heads-up: this story is set during a real disaster in which real people died. How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release. © 2026 720 Connections LLC

  3. Oct 19

    Titanic Ep 6 | Wait Your Turn

    New here? Start with Episode 1. Titanic: The Longest Night, Episode 6. You chose to wait in the general room for your turn in Episode 3. At the end, you choose: Episode 12 or Episode 13. The steward comes back for your group and leads you through a maze of corridors and stairs, with Mrs. Kelly and her three children close behind. Then the way is barred by a gate, and he says to wait right here. Do you wait with the group, or slip away with Annie to look for another way up? Heads-up: this story is set during a real disaster in which real people died. How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release. © 2026 720 Connections LLC

  4. Oct 19

    Titanic Ep 7 | The Climb

    New here? Start with Episode 1. Titanic: The Longest Night, Episode 7. You chose to climb up and find your own way to the boats in Episode 3. At the end, you choose: Episode 14 or Episode 15. Up the iron stairs, so cold they burn your hands, past men climbing a cargo crane hand over hand to reach the boats. A slip, a hand on your wrist, and you're on the boat deck. One last boat is still there. But Mrs. Kelly and her children are still down below. Do you run for the boat, or go back for them? Heads-up: this story is set during a real disaster in which real people died. How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release. © 2026 720 Connections LLC

  5. Oct 19

    Titanic Ep 8 | Going Back

    New here? Start with Episode 1. Titanic: The Longest Night, Episode 8, an ending. You chose to speak up and help row back in Episode 4. Want to see what else could happen? Go back to Episode 4 and choose again, or start over at Episode 1. You stand up in the lifeboat and say it out loud: we have room. Then Professor Hoot sorts truth from story, and shares a safety tip. Heads-up: this story is set during a real disaster in which real people died. Lines spoken by real historical people in this episode (Fifth Officer Harold Lowe) are dramatized for storytelling. They are not real quotes. How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release. © 2026 720 Connections LLC

  6. Oct 19

    Titanic Ep 9 | Waiting for Dawn

    New here? Start with Episode 1. Titanic: The Longest Night, Episode 9, an ending. You chose to stay where you were, as most boats did, in Episode 4. Want to see what else could happen? Go back to Episode 4 and choose again, or start over at Episode 1. You sit back down under the fur coat and hold on to Annie as the night grows colder. Then Professor Hoot sorts truth from story, and shares a safety tip. Heads-up: this story is set during a real disaster in which real people died. How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release. © 2026 720 Connections LLC

  7. Oct 19

    Titanic Ep 10 | The Folding Boat

    New here? Start with Episode 1. Titanic: The Longest Night, Episode 10, an ending. You chose to stay by the folding boats near the water in Episode 5. Want to see what else could happen? Go back to Episode 5 and choose again, or start over at Episode 1. You don't climb. You stay by the folding boats with Annie, as the sailors heave one down onto the deck, upside down, and the sea comes up to meet you. Then Professor Hoot sorts truth from story, and shares a safety tip. Heads-up: this story is set during a real disaster in which real people died. Lines spoken by real historical people in this episode (Jack Thayer and Second Officer Charles Lightoller) are dramatized for storytelling. They are not real quotes. How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release. © 2026 720 Connections LLC

  8. Oct 19

    Titanic Ep 11 | The Stern

    New here? Start with Episode 1. Titanic: The Longest Night, Episode 11, an ending. You chose to climb to the stern with the crowd in Episode 5. Want to see what else could happen? Go back to Episode 5 and choose again, or start over at Episode 1. You climb with hundreds of others to the very back of the ship, holding on to the rail and to Annie as the deck tilts like a hill. Then Professor Hoot sorts truth from story, and shares a safety tip. Heads-up: this story is set during a real disaster in which real people died. How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release. © 2026 720 Connections LLC

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Can you survive Pompeii? The Titanic? This choose-your-path podcast puts you inside real disasters. Each season is set in one real disaster from history. You pick a path, jump to that episode, and find out if you survive. Real facts at the end. No gore. Start with Episode 1 of any season. For ages 13 and up. How this show is made: Survive the Story is made by a family with four kids. The voices of Hazel, Professor Hoot and every other character are generated with AI voice tools, and the scripts are written with help from AI and fact-checked before release. © 2026 720 Connections LLC

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