Doomsday Preppers

"Calamity Janet" welcomes you to her Armageddon Inn. Prepper Janet Spencer prepared her home for a nuclear war, and is inviting people to bunker down with her. She has enough pasta to feed 1000 people. Sometimes referred to as the "Doctor of Doom", Bradford Frank, is a psychiatrist living in the suburbs of San Diego, California. Bradford believes that a deadly avian bird flu pandemic is fast approaching, and is preparing his family to bug out to a nearby cave.

Retired photojournalist Jack Jobe started prepping in 2010, after watching the news surrounding Haiti's devastating earthquake. Now Jack is working on inventing a tool that he believes will help a person hack their way out of the rubble of what he fears most... a solar flare-induced earthquake. Bruce Beach has constructed a 10,000-square-foot underground bunker out of 43 full-size school buses, which he calls the "Ark Two."

A loving father is preparing his family for dirty bombs. A retired policeman believes that China will eventually bring economic destruction to the U.S. And a single dad is ready to bug into a secret underground hatch in his garage.

Meet three Americans who show us how they prepare for the end of the world, as they know it. Mr. Wayne (he wishes to keep his identity a secret due to OPSEC) is preparing because he believes China will undermine the US economy. John and Christine Sellers anticipate an economic collapse, and they are purchasing a shipping container to bury in their backyard. Jason Day is determined to take his family underground if things turn as bad as he believes.

Highlights of the best stories from season one of NGC's hit series Doomsday Preppers are brought together in one exciting hour of television. Doomsday Preppers goes inside America's prepping subculture, uncovering a wide assortment of prepping styles and approaches, meeting preppers on their own turf, examining their methods and tracking their progress as they think through every logistic and contingency plan. Preppers come in all shapes and sizes - men and women, young and old, they live and work like most Americans. But their ultimate goal in life is preparing for the end.

Johnny O. is a husband and father of two who lives with his wife and her twin sister in rural Pennsylvania. They fear terrorist attacks on nuclear power plants and are prepping with the rule of 3--always having backups for their backups. Wilma and Gary Bryant live with their children and granddaughter on a farm in Missouri and are anticipating a series of F5 tornados. They are building an underground Noah's Ark for their animals and stockpiling insulin for Wilma and her daughter, who both suffer from diabetes. Robert Earl and his wife are a retired couple who fear the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. They have relocated from Florida to a remote desert area of Texas and are building a self-sustainable property for themselves and their twenty-one dogs.

Jason Beacham is a fifteen-year-old boy from a small town in Missouri who has been prepping since age eleven. Big Al is a musician based in Nashville, Tennessee, who has a secret bug-out location in the mountains of the west. Braxton Southwick is a former professional racer who lives with his wife and their six children in a suburb outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. He is prepping for a biological terrorist attack.

At some point, we've all wondered what will happen to our economy. Jay Blevins has probably thought about it more than most. Jay Blevins is a former law enforcement officer who is preparing for a global economic crisis. He fears that social unrest will erupt and has found creative ways to protect his family, including his own recipe for homemade pepper spray.

Tom Perez is prepping for a terrorist attack and suspects it's only a matter of time before one gets through our defenses. He has not worked in 12 years because he spends most of his day prepping and spends much of his family's yearly income on preps.

Meet Jeff Bushaw, a full-time prepper who fears the eruption of the Yellowstone super volcano and is ready to fly his family to safety. Allen and Franco are neighbors who are preparing for a breakdown of the world food system. They have each built their own aquaponic systems, gardens, and greenhouses to create a self-sustainable lifestyle. John Adrain is an inventor who fears a wide range of disasters. He focuses on security and has turned his estate into a technological fortress.

Bob Kay, a nutritional scientist living in Southern California, fears a massive earthquake will cause unprecedented destruction to the environment. He has planted hundreds of edible plants on his property and has begun training his twelve-year-old daughter in self-defense tactics. Ryan Croft is a former U.S. Air Force man in Asheville, North Carolina, who fears a global financial crisis. Among his preps, he is cultivating alternative food sources like algae and earthworms to ensure his family's survival. Josh Wander is an Orthodox Jewish father and local politician in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who is preparing for a terrorist attack. He is stockpiling kosher foods and educating the community about prepping.