Primal Encounters

Episode Ten: The Most Dangerous Game PT 2

This is Part Two in our Season One finale special! (If you haven’t listened to Part One, go listen to that first!) We pick up where we left off with Jim Corbett returning

Episode Nine: The Most Dangerous Game PT 1

Welcome to the season finale! This story and following discussion is a bit of a long one, so these episodes are being split up into two. In part one we travel back in tim

Episode Eight: An Apple A Day Keeps the Cassowary Away

The cassowary is an odd yet ancient looking animal found within the rainforests of Queensland, Australia. Dubbed “the World’s Most Dangerous Bird”, it has a reputation fo

Episode Seven: Suckerpunched

Daniel and Laura Core were on a photo safari trip in Zambia to commemorate 40 years of marriage when a nearly 15ft bull giraffe made a swing at the couple. Join us as the

Episode Six: Double Jeopardy

The A Team takes a deep dive (pun intended) into the story of Shannon Ainsley who in the summer of 2000 came face to face with not one but TWO of the ocean’s top predator

Episode Five: Too Close to Home

On August 6th, 2009 the phone call everyone in the small community outside of Ouray, Colorado feared, had finally come. In this episode the A Team discuss the unfortunate

Episode Four: Feast for the Beast

Being attacked by a wild animal is the last thing on anyone’s mind while they enjoy a trip to the zoo. In August of 2000, however, Jan Gold would find herself in that exa

Episode Three: Dragged Down Under

Seeking a restart to their vacation after tragedy strikes, the Von Jordan sisters join up on a backpacking expedition with several other tourists into Australia's Kakadu

Episode Two: Kangaroo Court

It was a sunny afternoon in October 1996 when Stephen Shorten and his buddy Jason decided to hit the local golf course for a round. Their day of fun was violently interru

Episode One: There Once Was A Boat From Nantucket

In 1819 the famed ship the Essex set sail for its final voyage from Nantucket to the whaling grounds in the Pacific with first time captain George Pollard, Jr at the helm

Episode Zero

Hello! Welcome to Primal Encounters, a podcast about the stories of life and death in the outdoors. We mostly focus on animal attacks, but expect the occasional episode a