About this season
Hoarding: Buried Alive is an American documentary television series that premiered on TLC on March 14, 2010. The show follows hoarders through their life experiences and helps them learn to manage their illness.
Episodes (18)
1. Surviving on Trash
Aired 10 July 2011 • 60 min
Pregnant with her first child, Traci is desperate to move back into her childhood home. But it's filled floor to ceiling with her mother's stuff. Now the two must work together to clear a decades worth of clutter before it's too late.
2. There Are Mice Everywhere
Aired 17 July 2011 • 60 min
Compulsive hoarder Kathleen discovers a hoard of mice living in her kitchen numbering in the thousands. And for extreme hoarder Jaime's future son-in-law, spending the night in a hoard might very well end a marriage before it even begins.
3. Not a Safe Place
Aired 24 July 2011 • 60 min
A woman with OCD is unable to throw away anything. A mother and daughter's house is so trashed they must eat dinner in their car every night.
4. A Horrible Sight
Aired 31 July 2011 • 60 min
Hoarders whose homes have been condemned must clean up or risk losing them.
5. I Was Gonna Gag
Aired 14 August 2011 • 60 min
A hoarder faces losing his children if he does not clean his home.
6. Is That a Goat?
Aired 21 August 2011 • 60 min
7. Stop Touching My Stuff
Aired 28 August 2011 • 60 min
Parents of a teenage hoarder hope a visit by an extreme hoarder will change their daughter's ways.
8. Overtaken By Puppets
Aired 11 September 2011 • 60 min
A former ventriloquist has let her past career become an obsession. A man is having problems being a good father for his daughter as she isn't allowed in his home due to his excessive hoarding.
9. I Can't Breathe
Aired 18 September 2011 • 60 min
A woman is in danger of losing custody of her ten year old daughter unless she can change her hoarding ways.
10. Tiny Monsters
Aired 1 January 2012 • 60 min
Sherry's hoard has broken up her marriage. Now, authorities are threatening to take away her children and condemn her home. With only weeks to clean it up, Sherry could lose everything she loves.
11. My House Can Kill Me
Aired 8 January 2012 • 60 min
Miranda's hoarding has escalated to the point that her toddlers have no place to play safely. Hsi-Ming's daughter is concerned that her mother's hoarding is threatening her safety and health.
12. Owned By The Roaches
Aired 15 January 2012 • 60 min
A psychologist who is accustomed to diagnosing other people's problems can not solve her own hoarding problems and it has escalated to the point where millions of roaches infest her home.
13. I'm Dumbfounded
Aired 22 January 2012 • 60 min
A marriage is in trouble after years of hoarding and secrets kept by a woman from her husband.
14. It's Just Sex
Aired 29 January 2012 • 60 min
Secret hoarding by a couple is complicated by revelations about their relationship and sex lives, which could threaten their marriage and cost them their home.
15. Worst I've Ever Seen
Aired 12 February 2012 • 60 min
A municipality is ready to tear down a home unless a hoarding issue is addressed; a woman's attachment to her things could break up her family.
16. A Bomb Went Off
Aired 19 February 2012 • 60 min
A woman with a lung disease fears her hoarding is making her condition worse; a woman's clutter limits her mobility in her house, while her neighbors complain about her garbage bags piling up outside.
17. Unbelievable
Aired 4 March 2012 • 60 min
Brad's hoarding has taken over his mobile home; Mary has been evicted and has just weeks to clean out her stuff.
18. Are You Serious?
Aired 11 March 2012 • 60 min
A woman's hoarding may have done irreparable damage to her relationship with her daughter; a woman realizes she needs help after years of collecting have rendered her home uninhabitable.