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Real Survival Stories

Crushed by Corn: Trapped in a Grain Bin

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Documentary, Society & Culture, Wilderness, Sports, History

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A young Iowa farmer ends up in a bizarre and terrifying scenario. When Arick Baker climbs inside a giant storage container full of hundreds of tons of corn, it seems all in a day’s work. But a rapid-fire series of events will see him sink into the mountain of grain, swallowed whole like he’s falling through quicksand. Subsumed and crushed, he is buried alive, barely able to breathe… and heading towards the rotating blades of the container’s machinery… A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins. Written by Heléna Lewis | Produced by Ed Baranski | Assistant Producer: Luke Lonergan | Exec produced by Joel Duddell | Sound Supervisor: Tom Pink | Sound design by Matt Peaty | Assembly edit by Rob Plummer, Carla Flores | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: Ralph Tittley. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at support@noiser.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.1

It's late morning on June the 26th, 2013.

0:37.2

A scorchingly hot day in Hardin County, North Central Iowa.

0:41.3

The atmosphere is heavy and humid.

0:44.3

The gathering heat trapped beneath a wide, unbroken blue sky.

0:49.3

The fierce sun bakes the empty asphalt roads,

0:53.3

and the air shimmers over the patchwork of fields

0:55.6

that make up this pocket of America's Midwest.

1:00.0

Dotted across the landscape are indications of the area's thriving agricultural output.

1:05.5

Family farms own for generations stretch out over the fields. Here and there you'll find cattle barns, heavy duty machinery and crop storage facilities.

1:16.6

Among the largest of these are grain bins.

1:21.6

Enormous silo-like containers.

1:24.6

Inside these vast steel structures, thousands of bushels worth of harvested grain are kept,

1:31.5

lying undisturbed for months at a time. But within one such container, a few pieces of corn

1:40.7

slide down a slight U-shaped dip in the middle of a mountain of grain.

1:47.3

At first glance, there appears to be no reason for the disturbance.

1:50.7

The silo is dark and deathly quiet, seemingly devoid of human life.

1:56.7

But a closer look into the gloom reveals something else.

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