The apocalypse is fashion-forward. If you find yourself in a big box store during the early hours at the end of the world, you might reach for zip-off cargo pants and Crocs — if you’re an Inverse ...

Big Al will not drink his own urine. He's very clear about that. But he does spend three months of every year in his underground bunker because he fears that the Russians might send a nuclear missile ...

A few years ago, Valenti (who asked that his real name not be used, for reasons that will be clear soon enough) and his wife traded their Chicago townhouse for a gorgeous $800,000 residence in Downers ...

Inside a church on 189th Street, the New York City Preppers Network gathers for its monthly meeting. About two dozen men and women sit on plastic chairs facing a whiteboard. Jason Charles, a ...

This story is part of a Globe Magazine special report, appearing in print on Sunday, March 29. It was reported between March 11 and 13. From an undisclosed location somewhere in rural Maine, a man ...

National interest has surged recently in so-called “preppers,” a subset of people who take pains to prepare meticulously for unhappy events such as natural disasters, nuclear blasts and attacks by ...

I'm not sure exactly when the Prepper movement started, but I do know that it's gaining. This is a group of people that are very devoted to being hyper prepared. They are being prepared for doomsday ...