
Hoarding: Buried Alive
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.
Hoarding: Buried Alive
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.
Hoarding: Buried Alive
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.

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Episode 1: Where are they now?
Updates on three previously profiled hoarders to see if their lives have changed for the better.
Episode 1: Hoarders: Buried Alive
Compulsive hoarding is a mental illness that causes people to accumulate an excessive amount of clut...
Episode 2: Welcome to My Nightmare
Extreme hoarders' lives spiral out of control as their possessions jeopardize their chances for a ha...
Episode 3: Beyond Embarrassment
A man, 55, plans to abandon his hoard and move in with his mother, who is also a hoarder; a woman ri...
Episode 4: Paralyzed by Clutter
An extreme hoarder is in denial; a woman who has trouble discarding belongings fears that she's pass...
Episode 5: Life On Fire
Extreme hoarders face losing their homes and living in isolation.
Episode 6: Family Secrets
Two women seek help for their compulsive hoarding problems.
Episode 7: Filling the Void
Hoarding is both a comfort and a curse for two lonely women trying to find the strength to change.
Episode 8: No One Would Choose This
Two women must get their compulsive hoarding under control or face eviction from their homes and ali...
Episode 9: Everything Is at Stake
Two women's compulsive hoarding is crowding out their loved ones.
Episode 10: A Million Excuses
Hoarding by parents threatens to rip a family apart unless they can stop their excessive collecting....
Episode 1: Homeless Man with a House
Season 2 opens as two hoarders get help after decades of compulsive behavior that has driven their l...
Episode 2: Robbing the Kids…
Two moms who are hoarders get help after realizing their obsessions are tearing their families apart...
Episode 3: Prison of Garbage
Two women who started hoarding in the wake of personal tragedies try to put an end to their compulsi...
Episode 4: Everything's Junk
A woman who started hoarding after surviving Sept. 11 seeks help.
Episode 5: Battle with Chaos
If two hoarders don't change soon, they could lose everything they love.
Episode 6: How Do I Get Out of This
A woman's excessive hoarding has caused her family to fall apart.
Episode 7: The Scariest Place on Earth
If a compulsive hoarder can't clean his house, he will go to jail.
Episode 8: The Mess I've Created
A woman's compulsive hoarding almost cost her husband his life.
Episode 9: This Is Where You Sleep
A woman turned to hoarding after a shocking confession ended her marriage.
Episode 10: Nowhere Near Normal
Extreme Hoarder Jahn struggles to clear her belongings from not one, but two houses before both are...
Episode 11: I Want to Cuss
Compulsive hoarder Sharon gets caught stealing from her neighbor's home while Len must choose betwee...
Episode 12: Oh My Gosh
Conditions inside Tammy's home have become so bad, that she's forced to eat her meals in the car and...
Episode 13: Better Get a Dumpster
A woman's out of control obsession with bikinis, sweaters and dresses threatens to destroy her relat...
Episode 14: Overwhelming Pile of Junk
After decades of hoarding, Debbie has not only lost the comforts of home but the company of her four...
Episode 15: My Biggest Embarrassment
While Patti's extreme hoarding has made it virtually impossible for her daughter to live with her, J...
Episode 16: It's Out of Control
Decades of extreme hoarding have put Kay's marriage in serious jeopardy while Toni's compulsive shop...
Episode 17: Like a Dog in a Cage
A mother desperately tries to protect her children from their father's hoard, while an artist choose...
Episode 18: It's a Freaking War Zone
The tumbling piles of Maggie's collections are putting her own son's life at risk while Bob's all co...
Episode 1: Surviving on Trash
Pregnant with her first child, Traci is desperate to move back into her childhood home. But it's fil...
Episode 2: There Are Mice Everywhere
Compulsive hoarder Kathleen discovers a hoard of mice living in her kitchen numbering in the thousan...
Episode 3: Not a Safe Place
A woman with OCD is unable to throw away anything. A mother and daughter's house is so trashed they...
Episode 4: A Horrible Sight
Hoarders whose homes have been condemned must clean up or risk losing them.
Episode 5: I Was Gonna Gag
A hoarder faces losing his children if he does not clean his home.
Episode 6: Is That a Goat?
Episode 7: Stop Touching My Stuff
Parents of a teenage hoarder hope a visit by an extreme hoarder will change their daughter's ways.
Episode 8: Overtaken By Puppets
A former ventriloquist has let her past career become an obsession. A man is having problems being a...
Episode 9: I Can't Breathe
A woman is in danger of losing custody of her ten year old daughter unless she can change her hoardi...
Episode 10: Tiny Monsters
Sherry's hoard has broken up her marriage. Now, authorities are threatening to take away her childre...
Episode 11: My House Can Kill Me
Miranda's hoarding has escalated to the point that her toddlers have no place to play safely. Hsi-Mi...
Episode 12: Owned By The Roaches
A psychologist who is accustomed to diagnosing other people's problems can not solve her own hoardin...
Episode 13: I'm Dumbfounded
A marriage is in trouble after years of hoarding and secrets kept by a woman from her husband.
Episode 14: It's Just Sex
Secret hoarding by a couple is complicated by revelations about their relationship and sex lives, wh...
Episode 15: Worst I've Ever Seen
A municipality is ready to tear down a home unless a hoarding issue is addressed; a woman's attachme...
Episode 16: A Bomb Went Off
A woman with a lung disease fears her hoarding is making her condition worse; a woman's clutter limi...
Episode 17: Unbelievable
Brad's hoarding has taken over his mobile home; Mary has been evicted and has just weeks to clean ou...
Episode 18: Are You Serious?
A woman's hoarding may have done irreparable damage to her relationship with her daughter; a woman r...
Episode 1: This is Garbage Land
Cary's paralyzing obsession with Elvis memorabilia has left his New York City apartment virtually un...
Episode 2: As Bad as It Gets
After over twenty years in the same apartment, compulsive hoarder Randy is being forced to leave by...
Episode 3: Sleeping in a Dumpster
Laura’s collecting has spiraled into a compulsion that has left the relationships with her two sons...
Episode 4: This is Unreal
A man's love for shopping became a compulsion after his mother's death and his home is starting to s...
Episode 5: Just Tear It Down
A couple's home is packed due to their hoarding and they face the real threat of eviction unless the...
Episode 6: Twenty Of Everything
Thirty years of hoarding have filled a man's home to the point that he sleeps outside in a bed he pu...
Episode 7: Hoo, That Reeks!
Kathy’s extreme hoarding forced her 12-year-old son to move out of their home. Five years later, the...
Episode 8: A Humongous Secret
A man quit drinking in the past and switched to collecting that escalated to hoarding and now faces...
Episode 9: It's My Junk
When Eileen admits a dark secret to her family, the situation quickly escalates beyond hoarding to a...
Episode 10: You're Not Taking My Kids
A woman's custody of her children is at stake unless she can clean up her home in two days.
Episode 11: Holding Mom Hostage
An ill-tempered man fills his 93-year-old mother's house with clutter after moving back in with her.
Episode 12: This House Killer Her
Three siblings sift through the clutter in their deceased mother's house with spiritual guidance fro...
Episode 13: She Wants It, She Takes It
A woman must live in a camper in her backyard because her house is so cluttered with things she's fo...
Episode 14: What A Pig
Compulsive hoarder Valerie risks eviction when her next-door neighbor reports her to the health depa...
Episode 15: They're Crawling
A woman has a problem admitting she has a hoarding problem.
Episode 16: One Is Good Two Is Better
A former top model is hiding a dark secret -- she is a compulsive hoarder.
Episode 17: She's Going to Jail
A woman's past hoarding has resulted in her going to jail and she faces the same possibility again u...
Episode 18: I'm a Rockstar, Baby!
A Canadian rock singer faces the possibility of losing his family unless he can declutter the large...
Episode 19: Losing Half Myself
Two identical twins are hoarders of the same type of items and face the reality of changing their wa...
Episode 20: Leading a Double Life
The lives of a woman and her children are being affected detrimentally by the hoarding of their land...
Episode 21: Somewhere in My Pile
A woman's hoarding tendencies has filled her house with clutter and her three dogs may be a barrier...
Episode 23: Waste Not, Want Not
The murder of a daughter has led a mother to hoard since that trauma to the point it is a danger to...
Episode 1: Current Season (as of 2013-03-13) is Season 4
TLC sometimes has split seasons, so numbering can get messed up. According to TVRage, Amazon, Wikipe...
Episode 2: Holding Mom Hostage
A landlord's secret hoard is a threat to a woman and her children, who lives downstairs. The hoardin...
Episode 3: This House Killed Her
After their mother's death, siblings Aimee, Cheryl and Jimmy are left to deal with a house filled wi...
Episode 4: She Wants It, She Takes It
Rhonda's home is filled with items she's found in the dumpster; neighbors are threatening lawsuits.
Episode 5: What a Pig
Compulsive hoarder Valerie risks eviction when her next-door neighbor reports her to the health depa...
Episode 6: They're Crawling
Kay denies she is a hoarder but her cluttered home with deadly vermin tells another story.
Episode 7: One Is Good. Two Is Better
Louise and her lavish hoarding could end up on the street.
Episode 8: She's Going to Jail
A woman has been sent to jail four times for her hoarding; people purchase a house only to discover...
Episode 9: I'm a Rockstar, Baby!
Kelly Jay's massive hoarding issues.
Episode 10: Losing Half Myself
Phyllis and Patty aren't just identical twins, they are identical hoarders as well.
Episode 11: Leading a Double Life
Lalie and her children suffer from mold, mice and flea infestations due to their upstairs neighbor a...
Episode 12: Somewhere in My Pile
Beverly's clutter has filled up her entire home and her three beloved dogs have helped make the spac...
Episode 13: Waste Not, Want Not
Terry and Bill seem to be the perfect couple; the murder of her daughter has led Nancy to hoard.
Episode 14: The Last Clear Spot
Jessica is a little person with dangerous toppling piles of clutter; along with her mother she has f...
Episode 15: Full of Rats
Property investors purchase a house that is occupied by a hoarder; rat infestation compromises the b...
Episode 16: You're Gonna Die in Here
After being the target of a school shooting a former principal's life has changed; paralyzed by PTSD...
Episode 17: My Teeth Are Lost in the Pile
A wife has transformed one couple's home into a heap of trash; on the verge of foreclosure.
Episode 18: It's A Horror Story
Frank didn't expect Susan to fill his house with clutter when she moved in; though her home of forty...
Episode 19: Running Out of Time
Geoffrey lost his home and has 30 days to clear the clutter or he will lose everything left inside.
Episode 20: A VCR for Every Day of the Week
A father and son who both hoard; one faces jail time while the other could lose his newborn son.
Episode 21: Three Apartments, Three Hoarders
An apartment complex with three extreme hoarders; the building is now under strict management.
Episode 22: The Donald Trump of Hoarding
Mike is about to undergo surgery to save his life; the biohazards in his home threaten his recovery.
Episode 23: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
Ken's girlfriend is giving him one last chance to clear out; Lea could lose her children if she cann...
Episode 24: Worse Than a Haunted House
A mother's battling with hoarding discovers her own daughters compulsion; a family's unity at risk.
Episode 25: A Graveyard of Junk
If Seymour cannot clear his roach-infested home, he will be left homeless when the city condemns it.
Episode 26: The Stench is Amazing
Tim's inheritance is dwindling and he risks losing his home; twin brothers Lorrin and Orin face a si...
Episode 27: It's a Rat's Nest
Doug stands to lose two houses filled with clutter if he doesn't control his compulsion to collect.
Episode 28: Diagnosis Bipolar
16-year-old Haley struggles with hoarding and bipolar disorder.
Episode 29: Diagnosis PTSD
Wayne is paralyzed by PTSD and compulsive hoarding.
Episode 2: Updates: Benny
Decades of hoarding isolates Benny from his family.
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