Hoarding: Buried Alive

In Percy, Illinois, Phyllis and Patty aren't just identical twins, they're identical twin hoarders. They've transformed every home in which they've ever lived into a complete disaster area. Now, after losing one house can they save their current home from being condemned?

What's it like to live downstairs from a hoarder? In Chicago, Illinois, Lalie and her children suffer the effects of mold, mice and flea infestations because their upstairs neighbor and landlord, Denise, has secretly acquired one of the show's most massive hoards to date.

Beverly's clutter has filled every last square inch of her home in Edmonton, Alberta. Upstairs, her three beloved dogs have made the space absolutely unlivable. With the threat of the city condemning her home, Beverly must clear the hoard or risk losing everything.

In Trenton, New Jersey, Terry and Bill seem to be the perfect couple, but their hoarding has put their relationship in jeopardy. The tragic murder of her daughter drove Nancy to hoarding. Now, if she can't clear her sprawling Brighton, Michigan home, she may just lose her husband as well.

The giant, toppling piles of clutter are more dangerous to Jessica, a little person, who in tandem with her mother Dale, has filled her entire Villa Park, Illinois home with stuff.

Property investors in Tacoma, Washington get more than they bargained for when the house they purchased is occupied by hoarder Michelle and a rat infestation so bad, it has compromised the building's foundation.

 A former high school principal in Thunder Bay, Canada was threatened as a target of a school shooting and developed PTSD as a result, although the shooting never actually happened. He now seeks help for his hoarding.

Lynn is very hard to understand- that is, because she has no teeth. Plagued with dental problems since her early twenties, Lynn used to wear a pair of dentures, but has since lost them among the mounds of clutter in her Butler, Pennsylvania home. Now, her hoarding has not only affected her health, but also the relationship with her boyfriend, Kyle, and prevents the couple's newborn granddaughter from staying over at their house.

When a woman begins to fill her boyfriend's York Springs, Pennsylvania home, he does some digging, and finds that she owns another home in the same county, packed to the brim with garbage.