Top 10 reasons why the History Channel’s ‘Alone' may give you nightmares, but you have to keep watching anyway

1 . What if you were left alone to survive?

Some of the most common fears are of the dark, failure, death, spiders, abandonment and, of course, being alone—all of those come about in this program.  The people on this show have some serious survival skills and can fend for themselves.  They should teach lessons.  In fact, many do, but when you see this show, an unavoidable dark thought comes to mind. What if there was some sort of disaster that left you isolated and having to fend for yourself on every possible level?  Would you survive?  If so, how?  Now that is the source of many nightmares.