The Siege of New Hampshire

DoomCast: War & Prepping on the Home Front

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The War in Iran has already had an effect on life here in the US home front. Higher gas prices is the first to be felt. What other effects might be l...

4 Novelettes: Refuge Mountain, Chapter 4

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Matt has his new (and not particularly wanted) guest, Nicole, help with his harvesting chores. While digging potatoes, his garden fork breaks. He take...

DoomCast: Subscription Doom

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As if part of the World Economic Forum's agenda, the business world is embracing the Subscription Model for just about everything. You will own nothin...

4 Novelettes: Refuge Mountain, Chapter 3

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Chores resume as Matt feels less beat up. He encounters some needy but fussy folks in an SUV. Matt visits Abi's house to trade eggs for salt. She lame...

DoomCast: Homesteading 2.0

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A developing trend, particularly among younger preppers goes by the name Homesteading 2.0. This hybrid of self-sufficiency and yet continued engagemen...

4 Novelettes: Refuge, Chapter 2

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Matt goes about his daily chores, still suffering from the injuries he sustained in the fight the day before. Abi persuades him to attend a town meeti...

DoomCast: Greenland 2 Movie Review

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The group discussed the two Greenland movies, focusing on their prepper relevance. Jeff provided a synopsis of the first movie, which follows Gerard B...

4 Novelettes, Refuge Mountain, Chapter 1

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The start of the 4th novelette. Matt Stakel lives alone on "his" mountain in the White Mountains of NH. His quiet, hermit-like lifestyle consists most...

DoomCast: 2026 Predictions (Doom)

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Doomcast team discussed some online predictions for 2026, focusing on economic challenges, political unrest, and technological advancements. Brian...

4 Novelettes: Utopians, Chapter 9

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The final chapter in the Utopians story. Andy is rescued from his snowy hut by Martin and his people. They take him back the Simmons house to warm him...

DoomCast: The Lost Preppers?

09 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Mic, Brian, and Jeff discuss the apparent decline in prepper content and community engagement, exploring various reasons such as burnout, shifting dem...

4 Novelettes, Utopians, Chapter 8

02 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As November grows colder and the food more scarce, the mood of the Utopians is dark. Discontent rises to the surface and tempers flare. Both Mara and ...

DoomCast: Ice Age Doom

26 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For your entertainment, and with a nod to the onset of winter, Mic, Brian, and Jeff have each watched a movie about winter survival (or not) or a post...

4 Novelettes: Utopians, Chapter 7

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mara returns to the Utopians' camp with Andy. She advises them, in an impassioned speech, about the lingering danger of capitalist survivors. Andy dis...

DoomCast: Socialist Doom

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Recent events and indicators suggest that America might be drifting into socialism. Never mind that it's been a crushing failure every time it's been ...

4 Novelettes: Utopians, Chapter 6

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The six Utopians have settled into their new home, creating rustic blankets, making pottery and gathering food. The vegans among them are not keen on ...

DoomCast: Thanksgiving Special

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mic, Brian, and Jeff echo the tradition of old TV variety shows with a Thanksgiving Special. They list off some of the Dooms they are they are thankfu...

4 Novelettes: Utopians, chapter 5

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Utopians arrive at their third alternative Bug Out Location, only to find it angrily guarded by locals. Unfazed, Brandon leads them on to his Site...

DoomCast:Digital ID Doom

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mic, Brian, and Jeff discuss the likely coming digital national ID, whether (and how) it might be a problem for even the law-abiding citizen. Brian sh...

4 Novelettes: Utopians, Chapter 4

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The group of Utopians play uneasy hosts to two armed "neighbors" who dropped in for supper. Brandon decides that the group needs to sneak away the nex...

DoomCast: Trucker Doom

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With almost every consumer product, from food to medicines to fuel, transported by truck, the trucking industry is a must-not-fail part of modern soci...

4 Novelettes: Utopians, Chapter 3

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our group of six survivalists load up Brandon's beat-up van with their survival gear and set out for their Bug Out location. Along the way, there is s...

DoomCast: AgriDoom?

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How fragile is the American food-growing industry? Are empty shelves and hungry citizens just one bad harvest away? Mic, Brian, and Jeff each embraced...

4 Novelettes: Utopians, Chapter 2

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

That fateful Monday morning, the power goes out all over the UNH campus. Classes are canceled. Andy and his group meet up at the usual food court tabl...

DoomCast: Where's My Civil War?

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Even though Brian already told us that there would be no Civil War 2.0, many people were expecting one. Now, weeks later, they should be asking "Hey. ...

4 Novelettes: Utopians, Chapter 1

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this first installment of The Rise and Fall of the Utopians, we find the six college friends meeting on the Saturday before the power goes out. The...

DoomCast: Ideological Doom

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, worries flared up that America could be heading for a sort of civil war. Those words got mentioned over three...

DoomCast: Bug Out Vehicles

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is there an "ideal" Bug Out Vehicle? Is it necessarily a jacked up monster truck with knobby mud tires?  Would a humble Toyota Camry do? Mic, Jeff, a...

4 Novelettes: Susan's Raid, Chapter 16

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The final chapter of Susan's Raid. After a low-speed chase in horse-drawn wagons and yet more running, Susan, Paul and Charon catch up with the bomber...

DoomCast: Dollar Doom

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pundits are frequently warning of an impending financial doom, two in particular -- the loss of the US Dollar as world reserve currency, and/or the hy...

4 Novelettes, Susan's Raid, Chapter 15

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Susan, Charon, and Paul camp out in the woods east of Bristol in hopes of catching the bombers at dawn. Overzealous townsfolk flush out the bombers wh...

DoomCast: Clickbait Doom

15 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Some sort of doom is always out there, just a couple months away. Just one more data point to tick this way or that. As Brian says, They (the prophets...

4 Novelettes, Susan's Raid, Chapter 14

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Susan, Paul, and Charon travel north on their borrowed bicycles. They make decent time until Paul and Charon's bike suffers a blowout at high speed. T...

Siege DoomCast: Deep State Doom

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mic, Brian, and Jeff take a look at the Deep State which has been trying to rule the world a lot longer than AI has been. Historically, the Deep State...

4 Novelettes, Susan's Raid, Chapter 13

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Susan convinces Charon to get the injured bomber some help in exchange for information. The bomber tells where the group planned to go and that their ...

Extra: The Singularity Doom

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Following up on the earlier episode about AI and Prepping, Mic, Brian, and Jeff look at the potential doom of having AI given control over crucial fac...

4 Novelettes, Susan's Raid, Chapter 12

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Susan comes face to face with evil in the three men who stumbled across them in the woods. After she faces down evil, they resume pursuing the bombers...

Extra: RoboDoom

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Drones are becoming the weapon of choice on today's battlefield. As police departments become increasingly militarized, it seems like only a matter of...

4 Novelettes, Susan's Raid, Chapter 11

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Charon continues to track the three bombers as they travel north. He named them Boots, Stripes, and Dots based on their footprints. When the bombers v...

Extra: Avoiding Budget Doom: It takes discipline

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How does an average Joe (or Josephine) prep on a limited budget? Mic, Jeff, and Brian look into ways to find the funds to prep if you're not a movie m...

4 Novelettes, Susan's Raid, Chapter 10

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Susan, Paul, and Charon spend the night following the three bombers along a power line cut that runs north to the city of Claremont, NH. Charon has ke...

Extra: Sustainable Water Plans

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Having some water stored is one of those prepper basics. What options do you have for getting more water when your stored supply runs low? Mic, Brian,...

4 Novelettes: Susan's Raid, Chapter 9

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Susan, Charon, and Paul arrive at Basin Farms, near Bellows Falls. The fill in the farmer who is a Coalition operative of their plans to ambush the bo...

Extra: Surviving Gray Doom

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Even if you didn't die in any of the other "dooms", (comet impact, zombies, nukes, etc.) you will still not escape Gray Doom. Everyone gets older. Can...

4 Novelettes: Susan's Raid, Chapter 8

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Charon figures to dispatch the three would-be thieves but Susan talks him out of it. She thinks they're not hardened criminals but desperately starvin...

Extra: WW3 & CyberDoom

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If international tensions break out into a wider war, it is likely to fought differently than previous wars. What will be the same is that the home fr...

4 Novelettes, Susan's Raid, Chapter 7

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Susan, Paul and Charon embark on a road trip up to Bellows Falls to meet a Coalition operative. They have one of Paul's cows in the wagon as cover sto...

Extra: Is There a Cure for Lonely Prepper Syndrome?

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Many preppers confess that they feel like they are the only ones in their family, or social group who prep. Making matters worse, some preppers are af...

4 Novelettes: Susan's Raid, Chapter 6

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In an effort to stop the men who plan to hike into New Hampshire and blow up a railroad bridge, Susan, Paul, and Charon visit Doug. This, so Charon ca...

Extra: Preppers and AI

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian, Mic, and Jeff take another look at AI. This time, not in the fictional (and tyrannical) form of Skynet or Colossus, but as a here-and-now influ...

4 Novelettes: Susan's Raid, Chapter 5

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Susan sneaks out of Boyd's Farm in the dark of night. She meets Charon in the woods outside of the little Deerfield airport. They make their way to th...

Extra: Preppers on a Plane

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mic, Brian, and Jeff discuss the challenges of staying prepared when traveling long distances. They share a few of their travel "horror" stories too. ...

4 Novelettes: Susan's Raid, Chapter 4

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Susan, Paul, and Charon set out to a farm near West Dover, VT with a load of manure. That, as cover for them checking out the small plane that the Coa...

Prepper Fiction: Volcanic Doom

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano is one of those mega-disasters that some preppers worry about. Mic, Brian, and Jeff discuss two movies, o...

4 Novelettes: Susan's Raid, Chapter 3

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Charon's presence is almost discovered by a surprise inspection of area homes following reports of strange sounds over the village of Marlboro. Charon...

Extra: Grid-Down Fire Dangers, with Brian Duff

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a grid-down situation, people will turn to alternate means to cook, for lighting, and to heat their homes. These alternates often involve fire — ...

4 Novelettes: Susan's Raid, Chapter 2

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Susan and Paul prepare a night landing spot for the Coalition operative. He arrives in a not-quite-dignified landing. It's Charon. They gather up his ...

Prepper Fiction: Arctic (2019 movie)

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As a nod to winter, Mic, Jeff, and Brian, all watched the 2018 movie, Arctic, starring Mads Mikkelsen. He is the pilot of an airplane that crash-lande...

4 Novelettes: Susan's Raid, Chapter 1

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The story opens with Susan and Paul carrying food and water to some livestock hidden in a high woods. They are circumventing a new law that limits how...

Prepper Fiction: Movie, Aftermath

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mic, Brian, and Jeff discuss the 2014 movie Aftermath: an independent production about a group of average folks who gather in a north Texas farmhouse ...

4 Novelettes: Harold's Escape, Chapter 6

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The final installment in the backstory of Harold Perkins -- the man who had the steel casting expertise to fix that broken locomotive. In this chapter...

Extra: Trump Doom, Terror Doom, Storm Doom

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So much Doom! With inauguration just a short while away, the boys review some of the doom we've been told will befall us all. In a more realistic vein...

4 Novelettes: Harold's Escape, Chapter 5

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The moment has come. Harold and his family must sneak out of their guarded townhouse and into the secret compartment in James Reddimer's truck. Red ma...

Prepper Fiction: Homestead, the movie

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mic, Jeff, and Brian all watched the movie Homestead over Christmas week. This is independent Angel Studios' screenplay based on the book series Black...

4 Novelettes: Harold's Escape Chapter 4

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Casting Dorn's part cannot be put off any longer. Red has a one-shot plan to rescue Harold and his family. While it means escaping to "lawless" New Ha...

Extra: Nuclear Reality

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With renewed concerns of possible nuclear exchanges (Ukraine/Russia, Iran/Israel) Mic, Brian, and Jeff explore some of the reality behind nuclear blas...

4 Novelettes: Harold's Escape, Chapter 3

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While assessing their dismal prospects, (their work is doomed to fail) Harold discovers that a secret resistance organization has a couple of operativ...

Extra: Prepping & The Holidays

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mic, Brian, and Jeff discuss how the holidays can be significant for preppers. Part of it is having to maintain one's situational awareness when out i...

4 Novelettes: Harold's Escape, Chapter 2

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Harold and Mario share a lunch of Canton rations (cold mush). They want to discuss their predicament, but are aware that the foundry's office is bugge...

Extra: Post-Election: Time to stop prepping?

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mic, Brian and Jeff have a roundtable discussion keying off of Todd Sepulveda's November 10th podcast. Todd talked about some people who were prepping...

4 Novelettes: Harold's Escape, Chapter 1

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Harold Perkins arrives at a small abandoned foundry well outside of the protective bounds of Canton Boston. He, and another man, have been ordered to ...

Extra: Should you count on FEMA, or prep?

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mic, Brian, and Jeff look at the Federal Emergency Management Agency in light of the recent hurricanes and aftermath. Did FEMA deserve the bad press i...

Book 6: Chapter 21: Returning Home

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Martin and his crew assemble the Ferals for the hike into Manchester. They are blocked by the stocky man and his men who insist on taking some of the ...

Extra: Post-Apocalyptic Rebuild...in 15 Minutes

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Jeff, Brian and Mic will be discussing a 15-minute intro video by a scientist named Lewis Dartnell, who tries to sort out what humanity wou...

Book 6: Chapter 20: An Opening

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Martin and Margaret try to manage the sudden horde of Ferals that have settled around the Simmons house. While a solution is found, they put many of t...

Prepper Fiction: No Blade of Grass -- Bug Out ca. 1970

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Mic, Brian, and Jeff discuss the post-apocalyptic film of 1970, No Blade Of Grass. It is called by some as the British version of the...

Book 6: Chapter 19: Cast Iron

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Harold and his family arrive in Manchester. The casting process process begins for making a new cylinder head for the ailing locomotive. While they wo...

Prepper Fiction: Rebuilding After SHTF

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A counterpoint to the dark Mad Max vision, are stories of people rebuilding after an SHTF event. Mic dips into his old-movies archives to discuss Swis...

Book 6: Chapter 18: Urgent Call

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Martin was busy tending to his unexpected guests when an urgent radio call came in. The railroad project needed the welding repair done immediately. M...

Prepper Fiction: Mad Max -- Is That Our Future?

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mic, Brian and Jeff discuss one of the iconic tropes in prepperdom -- the world gone "Mad Max". Formed mostly on the basis of the first two Mad Max mo...

Book 6: Chapter 17: Confrontation

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Early one morning, the motion alarm that Martin installed in his bean field, goes off. He rushes out to find a mysterious silhouette at the edge. He c...

Extra: Grid-Down Doom - How to be in the 10% who survive

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The US Government's EMP Commission's report stated that at E.M.P. attack could take out the nation's power grid for over a year. After a year without ...

Book 6: Chapter 16: Rumors of Monsters

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Martin resumes his chores around the house and checks out Dustin's rabbit snares at the back bean field. He takes a break to help Andy move out to Mar...

Extra: Homestead WalkAround, Mid-summer

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mic gives an audio tour around the homestead as things stand at mid-summer.-- the quiet, elderberries that were only mostly-dead, what seems like slow...

Book 6: Chapter 15: Manchester and Home

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The train leaves Laconia, making its way down through Tilton and Concord, on its way to Manchester. When they arrive, everyone aboard is surprised to ...

Extra: The Prepping Spectrum

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is it better to prep by trying to be an off-grid homesteader, or a basement stasher of a year's worth of all your consumables? Mic, Jeff, and Brian di...

Book 6: Chapter 14: The Unexpected

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Martin is tasked with riding on the front of Engine #6 to inspect the rails as the train leaves Plymouth. He sees two people running on the tracks tow...

Prepper Fiction: Panic in Year Zero

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mic, Brian, and Jeff all watched what might be the first realistic SHTF-Bug-Out movie: Panic In Year Zero (1962). While it is, of course, Hollywood f...

Book 6: Chapter 13: Hornets' Nest

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the Train rolls into Plymouth, the gunfire begins. Matt and his men are carrying out their plan, but those plans meet their first wrinkle. The Gree...

Extra: Five Real life Bug-Out-to-the-Woods Experiences

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What would bugging out to the woods really be like? Mic lays out five historical examples of people surviving in the woods for years. > Nicholas Cr...

Book 6: Chapter 12: Rolling Down to Plymouth

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The train is finally on its way south. En route, Matt explains his group's plan to neutralize the Greens' northern outpost, then sneak in to free to s...

Prepper Fiction: AI Doom

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Will AI be the cause of human extinction? That's what some experts are warning of. Mic, Brian and Jeff discuss some of the many movies and news storie...

Book 6: Chapter 11: Making Money

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Martin convinces the three railroad partners to carry on the project, even if none of them fully knew what needed to be done. A key to getting the wor...

Prepper Fiction: Zombie Doom

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the preppersphere, zombies are a metaphor for the masses of the unpreppared, weakened after a prolonged collapse, who slowly fan out into the count...

Book 6: Chapter 10: Storm Damage

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Martin, Charles and Tyler begin their second day of work for Farnum. The mood of all the workers starts out upbeat. The old and new tracks are connect...

Prepper Fiction: Bunker Doom

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mic, Jeff and Brian discuss a few movies in which people expect to survive some SHTF event in an underground bunker. Bomb shelters (bunkers) were very...

Book 6: Chapter 9: Contract Work

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The three men from Cheshire finally arrive in Lincoln. They confront Mr. Farnum about the danger they had to face. Rather than make their ordeal a was...

Extra: Power Outage Preps Practice

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

NH had a storm in early April that took out power for tens of thousands of people. It was a chance to practice using the homestead's grid-down preps. ...

Book 6: Chapter 8: Contested Passage

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Martin, Tyler, and Charles are met with an unforeseen difficulty on their way north. The ongoing argument between the Hendrick brothers causes them to...

Prepper Fiction: Movie: "Civil War"

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mic, Jeff and Brian review and discuss the newly-released movie "Civil War" by Alex Garland. The possibilities of civil unrest is an increasing concer...