Mt. Asahidake

(MIXA courtesy of Alamy)

The SOS sign on Mt. Asahidake in 1989

Kenji Iwamura

18-year-old Steven Ray Morris hiking Mt. Fuji in Japan

Georgia:

The mysterious story of the 1989 Mount Asahidake SOS incident

Episode sources:

1. Reddit, Unresolved Mysteries Post by Super_King_U_Rule, “The Mount Asahidake S.O.S. Incident”

2. Reddit, Unresolved Mysteries Post by apis_cerana post, “The Mystery of the SOS Sign On The Mountain and a Corpse, Found By Complete Coincidence”

3. Reddit, MorbidReality Post by Responsible_Yam_689, “Recording Of Kenji Iwamura Yelling For Help From 1985 Who Was Stuck At A Hike At Daisetsuzan”

4. AP News article, “Driver’s License Found Near SOS on Mountain Slope”

5. Strange Outdoors “The Mysterious Mount Asahidake SOS incident”

6. Yamahack.com

7. Read.cash blog article by Pantera, “The Mysterious SOS Sign in Japan”

8. Tezukaosamu.net page

9. Mysterious Universe article by Brent Swancer, “The Strange Case of the Bizarre Vanishings and Mysterious SOS Signal of Japan”  

10. Listverse.com article by Shaun Hennessy, “Top 10 Chilling Unexplained SOS Calls”

11. Wikipedia, “SOS Incident”

12. Wikipedia, “SOS Distress Incident”

Karen:

The 1964 Alaska earthquake

Episode sources:

1. “Chronology of Physical Events of the Alaskan Earthquake” by Genie Chance. 1966.

2. “This Is Chance! The Great Alaska Earthquake, Genie Chance, and the Shattered City She Held Together” by Jon Mooallem

3. “On Shaky Ground: America's Earthquake Alert” by John Nance. 1988.

4. USGS, “The 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake and Tsunamis—A Modern Perspective and Enduring Legacies”

5. USGS, “M9.2 Alaska Earthquake  and Tsunami of March 27, 1964”

6. Twitter thread by Alaska Earthquake Center. 2019.

7. Anchorage Daily News article by David Hulen “In harm's way: Valdez and Chenega Bay years fail to erase memories of quake” 

8. New York Times article by Jon Mooallem “This Is How You Live When the World Falls Apart”

9. Anchorage Daily News, “Condemned no more; 50 years after huge earthquake, building moratorium expiring in Valdez.”

10. New York Times/The Daily, “Genie Chance and the Great Alaska Earthquake”

11. Geophysical Institute, “When Valdez Moved: The Good Friday Earthquake” by Ned Rozell

12. The Atlantic, “1964: Alaska's Good Friday Earthquake” by Alan Taylor

13. “1964 Earthquake at Valdez” (Alaska Film Archives)

14. History.com, “1964 Alaska Earthquake” 

15. USGS, “The Alaska Earthquake: Effects on Communities”

16. Alaska Division of Public Health, “Health Analytics and Vital Records, Alaska Facts and Figures: 1964 Earthquake Mortality in Alaska”

17. United States Department of the Interior, “ALASKA'S GOOD FRIDAY EARTHQUAKE MARCH 27,1964”

18. Earth Magazine article by Sara E. Pratt, “Benchmarks: March 27, 1964: The Good Friday Alaska Earthquake and Tsunamis”

19. “Tsunami!” by Walter Dudley and Min Lee

20. USA Today article by Thomas Frohlich “The Deadliest Earthquakes Of All Time”

21. San Francisco Chronicle article by Bill Van Niekerkan “California’s Most Destructive Earthquakes”

22. Washington Post article by Julia Mio Inuma and Andrew Jeong

23. Alaska Earthquake Center at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, “1964 M9.2 GREAT ALASKAN EARTHQUAKE”

24. Alaska Historical Society article by Anjuli Grantham “Remembering Kaguyak”

25. United States Coast Guard article by Beth Crumley

26. SF Gate article by Amy Graff “The Day In 1964 When A Tsunami Ravaged Crescent City”

27. USGS, “The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake”

28. Anchorage Daily News article by Doug O’Hara “Port Valdez recovers from 1964 Good Friday Earthquake”

Pier in Valdez, Alaska in the 1930s or 1940s

(H. Armstrong Roberts courtesy of Alamy)

Downtown Anchorage after the earthquake

(Wikipedia Commons)

Valdez, Alaska after the earthquake and tsunami

(NOAA)

Genie Chance

(Public Domain)