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Watch Hoarders Season 4
Episode 17
Season 4, Episode 17
aired: Mon, Nov 28, 2011
Mike's house is so toxic that a virus she contracted in the home caused her kidneys to fail and almost killed her. Her doctor advised her not to return to the home until it was thoroughly cleaned. Bonnie is a 46-year-old single mother of two teenage daughters, neither of whom can remember ever having a clean house.
Episode 16
16. Wilma / Nora
aired: Mon, Nov 21, 2011
Wilma's hoard has done so much damage to her home that the city has deemed the structure uninhabitable. Regardless, she is illegally squatting there and if she doesn't clean up, her property will be condemned. She takes no responsibility for her hoarding and the impact it has had on her three grown children
Episode 15
Season 4, Episode 15
aired: Mon, Nov 14, 2011
Ronald is a fire-fighter who is legally mandated to report hoarded homes. In this case the hoarder is his wife, Eileen, and the house is his own. Eileen has destroyed not only her 3,200 sq. ft. home, but her relationships with her husband and six sons. Her son Steven has threatened to turn Eileen in to the health department if the living conditions are not improved for his four younger brothers.
Episode 14
Season 4, Episode 14
aired: Mon, Nov 7, 2011
Judy hoarded herself out of her house and used cancer surgery as an excuse to stay with her friend Linda. A few weeks turned into a ten months nightmare of Judy hoarding and squatting in Linda's home. Now Linda and her family are ready to kick Judy out--cancer or no cancer. Judy needs to clean up before she ends up homeless.
Episode 13
Season 4, Episode 13
aired: Mon, Oct 31, 2011
John is a retired corrections officer living in a house with more than 30 cats hiding in the walls and ceilings. They run wild through most of the home and all surfaces are covered with cat feces and urine.
Episode 12
Season 4, Episode 12
aired: Mon, Oct 24, 2011
Kevin is the youngest son of renowned political strategist and a silver screen star--both of whom have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He grew up in a huge mansion living a charmed life. But now Kevin has hoarded himself out of this Upper East Side Manhattan apartment and sleeps on a bench in front of the building.
Episode 11
Season 4, Episode 11
aired: Mon, Aug 29, 2011
This one-hour special updates viewers on what has happened to five of our hoarders one year after they received crisis assistance from the HOARDERS Team.
Episode 10
10. Lisa / Bertha
aired: Mon, Aug 22, 2011
Lisa is an active chef, a member of various cooking groups, an expert on historical cooking gadgets--and a compulsive food hoarder. Even though she lives in an affluent DC neighborhood in a million-dollar home, her kitchen mirrors a slum. Bertha delivers newspapers for a living, stopping along the way to pick through her client's trash looking for "treasures" to bring home.
Episode 9
9. Stacey / Roi
aired: Mon, Aug 15, 2011
Stacey has two days to get rid of the 47 dogs and cats that have taken over her house. They have ripped everything to shreds and forced her 14-year-old daughter to move into her brother's home. Roi has already been in jail twice due to his hoard. And now the fire department has kicked him out of his house because of a gas leak buried deep in piles and piles of belongings.
Episode 8
8. Becky / Clare
aired: Mon, Aug 8, 2011
Becky's hoard fills 16 separate storage units and the monthly fees have driven her into debt. Because of her hoarding Clare was forced by the Sheriff's Department to undergo involuntary mental examination and then banned from her own property until it is cleaned.
Episode 7
7. Beverly / Megan
aired: Mon, Aug 1, 2011
Beverly has been obsessively recording thousands and thousands of hours of audio and video for decades. Her home is filled with TV's and recorders, her yard piled high with boxes of tapes and her walls hidden behind floor to ceiling stacks of video cassettes. Megan is living in her hoarded, mouse-infested home with a one-week-old baby and her two older children.
Episode 6
Season 4, Episode 6
aired: Mon, Jul 25, 2011
Ron's home is filled from top to bottom with paper--books, thousands of pages of sheet music, old newspapers, magazines and assorted trash.Ron must clean his home now or quite possibly die in it. Vivian's husband used to commute between his business in Detroit, Michigan and their home in California. But eventually his wife's hoard pushed him out of the home and into a hotel.
Episode 5
5. Randy / Vicki
aired: Mon, Jul 18, 2011
Randy's boardwalk memorabilia collection fills a 20,000 sqare foot building and numerous tractor trailers. He's spent millions on his fantasy world known as Randyland--but it's never been open to the public. Vicki's hoarding is breaking up her family. Not only is her husband ready to walk away from their marriage, but their 15-year-old son wants to move out as well.
Episode 4
4. Roy / Loretta
aired: Mon, Jul 11, 2011
Roy is facing $20 million in fines from the county for hoarding hundreds of vehicles on his property. Loretta and her husband were robbed at gunpoint and later had their home looted by thieves. They started over in a different neighborhood but the trauma and loss triggered Loretta's compulsion to hoard everything in their new home.
Episode 3
3. Season #2 Follow Up: Augustine, Judi, Dennis & Nadene, Bob, Deborah
aired: Mon, Jul 4, 2011
In this special Hoarders follow-up episode we check in on the progress of Augustine, Deborah, Dennis and Nadene, Bob and Judi from Season Two.
Episode 2
Season 4 Episode 2
aired: Mon, Jun 27, 2011
Billy Bob's house is so filled with toys and games, puzzles, cars, dolls and stuffed animals that he can no longer maneuver through the paths. The hoard has strained relationships with his children and his wife. In declining health, Billy Bob must now part with his collections or become a prisoner in his own home.
Episode 1
1. Phyllis / Janet
aired: Mon, Jun 20, 2011
Every room in Phyllis' house is packed with dolls. Her obsession has manifested itself into a floor to ceiling collection of bags stuffed with dolls, and a doll hospital in a spare bedroom where she "amputates" the limbs of one doll to make another complete. Now, her son is threatening to call Adult Protective Services if she doesn't get a handle on her compulsion.
Watch Hoarders Season 2
Episode 15
Season 2 Episode 15
aired: Mon, May 31, 2010
In this special follow-up episode we check in on the progress of Jill, Jake, Betty, Bill and Paul from our first season.
Episode 14
Season 2 Episode 14
aired: Mon, May 31, 2010
The small paths in Michelle's house are the only way she can get to her collection of more than 60 birds. Her husband of 30 years has been chased from the home by the animals and the hoarded piles that in some places reach five feet high. Michelle must now put her family's needs ahead of her birds and clean the house so that her husband can come home.
Episode 13
Season 2 Episode 13
aired: Mon, Mar 1, 2010
This family of 14 was the Brady Bunch of the block--until mother Claudie's hoarding tore the family apart and turned them all into the pariahs of the neighborhood. The house is so bad that Claudie is now sleeping in a homeless shelter. Her husband moved away and sent her divorce papers with an ultimatum: clean up or sign.
Episode 12
Dennis & Nadene/Erin & Malinda
aired: Mon, Feb 15, 2010
Dennis and his wife Nadene are compulsive hoarders who blame one another for the clutter and mess that has completely consumed their home. Dennis, a retired cop with an arsenal of guns and knives, has retreated to his bedroom in declining health.
Episode 11
June; Doug
aired: Mon, Feb 8, 2010
28-year-old June lives in a mobile home filled with keepsakes like Care Bears and Cabbage Patch dolls. She's not only facing violations of the city's fire codes, but a strained relationship with her 13-year-old daughter, Tori. There is constant tension between mother and daughter and Tori has threatened to abandon her mom as soon as she turns 18.
Episode 10
10. Tra / Jill
aired: Mon, Feb 1, 2010
Tra is a 40 year-old firefighter living two separate lives. At his firehouse, he is expected to live in a clean and structured world. But in his home, he lives in chaos, surrounded wall-to-wall by hoarded possessions. Now, these two worlds have collided and fellow firefighters are worried that Tra's hoarding is affecting his performance on the job.
Episode 9
Season 2 Episode 9
aired: Mon, Jan 25, 2010
Gail's house is literally falling in around her. With no heat, cracking walls, a leaking ceiling and bowing floor boards, Gail desperately needs to make repairs but can't because the house is packed full. Gail has to go in for major surgery in two weeks and without a clean up and repairs, she will have no place to recuperate.
Episode 8
8. Janet and Christina
aired: Mon, Jan 18, 2010
Janet's picture perfect life crumbled when her husband of 32 years died while waiting for a heart transplant. Devastated, her hoarding spun out of control and she has now hit rock bottom. She turned to shopping and began filling her home with decorating supplies, in the vain hope of completing a home remodel her husband had wanted to do.
Episode 7
Linda; Todd
aired: Mon, Jan 11, 2010
Linda's family has been ripped apart by hoarding. She wants nothing more than to have a relationship with her grown children, but they refuse to come near her house which is packed waist and neck high with piles of belongings. Despite Linda's threat to commit suicide her family has made an ultimatum: clean up or her husband Shelton will divorce her and the kids will completely cut her off.
Episode 6
Season 2 Episode 6
aired: Mon, Jan 4, 2010
Deborah, a 49-year-old mother of two is living in fear that her hoarding will lead authorities to take her children away again. Her husband Ron is at his wit's end. He says her hoarding fueled his depression and alcoholism. She says his alcoholism fueled her hoarding. It all came crashing down around them when Ron attempted suicide in 2003. Now, Deborah's anxiety has reached an all time high.
Episode 5
5. Julie and Shannon
aired: Mon, Dec 28, 2009
Julie is living a nightmare. A series of tragedies triggered massive hoarding which in turn led to Julie losing custody of her son to her ex-husband. Now she must clean up or risk losing the two daughters that still live with her. Shannon, her husband Tim, and their four young children live in a house that is filled with garbage and infested with mice.
Episode 4
4. Bob and Richard
aired: Mon, Dec 21, 2009
Bob and Betsey's home is filled with broken furniture, appliances, food, piles of clothes, mounds of books and toys. An invasion of fleas and bed bugs has forced them and their four children into a tent in the backyard where they have been living for the last two months.
Episode 3
3. Chris and Dale
aired: Mon, Dec 14, 2009
After the death of her newborn son, Chris filled the void by surrounding herself with possessions. Attention Deficit Disorder makes it impossible for her to focus long enough to clean up. She's now at risk of losing custody of her daughters who are still living in the house.
Episode 2
Judi and Gail
aired: Mon, Dec 7, 2009
When rescue workers were called to Judi's home they found her stuck in massive amounts of clutter and were forced to remove her through the kitchen window. The city condemned her home and she was placed in a rehabilitation facility. But time is running out. Medicare will stop paying in two weeks and Judi has nowhere to go.
Episode 1
1. Augustine
aired: Mon, Nov 30, 2009
14 years ago Jason was removed from his mother Augustine's home by Child Protective Services because of her hoarding. She was never able to clean up enough to have him return. Now, as an adult living on the other side of the country, he is filled with shame and resentment, but unable to turn his back on her.
Watch Hoarders Season 1
Episode 7
Hoarders: 7. Paul/Missy & Alex
aired: Mon, Sep 28, 2009
Paul was charged with criminal littering in 2008 and has failed to meet three court ordered deadlines to clean his yard. His 2 acre property is strewn with over twenty junk cars, thousands of pounds of scrap metal, and hundreds of old appliances. In January, a judge sentenced him to 5 days in jail and gave him until April 26th to clean his property, or face a fine and additional jail time.
Episode 6
Season 1 Episode 6
aired: Mon, Sep 21, 2009
Patty and David appear to be living the American dream. But their secret hides behind the manicured yard of their new home. Patty's hoarding has taken over the entire house and their children were removed by authorities. Now, if the family is to have any hope of ever getting their children back, Patty must overcome her compulsive shopping and hoarding and clean out her entire home.
Episode 5
Season 1 Episode 5
aired: Mon, Sep 14, 2009
Kerrylea and her husband Geoffrey are facing imminent foreclosure on two houses. After her hoarding filled the first home she convinced her husband that the only way to solve her lifelong problem was to buy an additional home, move just what they needed, and sell the original home. But with neither home sold,
Episode 4
Jake - Shirley
aired: Mon, Sep 7, 2009
While most 21 olds see a world of possibility in front of them, Jake wakes up every morning despondent at the state of his life--a prisoner to his hoarding and OCD. Jake compulsively hoards garbage. Snack wrappers, empty bottles, and rotting food are strewn in every room of the two bedroom town home he shares with his alcoholic father.
Episode 3
Tara - Betty
aired: Mon, Aug 31, 2009
Tara has been reported to her landlord and needs to clean out now or she'll be homeless. She's an obsessive collector, favoring things like McDonald's Happy Meal toys, nativity scenes, snow globes and hundreds of teddy bears. Now Tara must finally get control of her hoarding and part with most of the clutter in her home or face eviction.
Episode 2
Season 1 Episode 2
aired: Mon, Aug 24, 2009
Linda's compulsive shopping not only depleted her family's finances but filled every room in their home with piles of bags and boxes. Her husband left her three years ago when he could no longer cope with her hoarding. They are now in the final stages of divorce and Linda must clean out and sell the family home as part of the settlement. Tensions run high as she struggles to let go of her things.
Episode 1
Season 1 Episode 1
aired: Mon, Aug 17, 2009
Jennifer is a young stay at home mom. Both she and her husband Ron, suffer from hoarding and their three kids are growing up with piles of junk, food, and clothing everywhere. They have been cited by the city on numerous occasions. Jennifer lives every day in fear of child protective services coming and taking her kids away and must now try to get the house in order before it's too late.
