NOTE: My blog about Doomsday Preppers touched a lot of nerves in the prepper community. When I apologized, I offered space for preppers to describe who they are, what they do and how they do it. This ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBS11) – Hollywood and television have portrayed doomsday preppers many times before. Usually they're depicted as survivors of post-apocalyptic events where little life is left, but ...

Last weekend's RK Prepper Show brought hundreds to the Von Braun Center to learn more about surviving a technological collapse - whether for a week because of a weather event or longer because of some ...

A few weeks ago, I became convinced I ought to buy a compass. Also a tent, a LifeStraw, and solar chargers. Was I embarrassed about this 48-hour panic? Yes. But reading an op-ed at two in the morning ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. SALUDA, North Carolina — I'm starting to feel paranoid on day two of Prepper Camp. Night has fallen ...

When Ben Hansen was organizing 2018’s edition of PrepperCon, the country’s premiere expo for preparedness and survival, he knew that he had to do something big and amazing. The previous year, for ...

As cases of the coronavirus rise in the United States, preppers have watched with a mix of concern, weariness and even some hope that Americans will learn from their example. By Alan Yuhas For weeks, ...

A few years ago, Valenti (who asked that his real name not be used, for reasons that will be clear soon enough) and his wife traded their Chicago townhouse for a gorgeous $800,000 residence in west ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. SALUDA, North Carolina — Tucked into the the rolling Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina, ...

One lives in the bush for $50 a week. Another grows vegetables in South Australia. Meet Australia's doomsday preppers.