Hoarders

Augustine

Her son, Jason, has already been removed from her home. Augustine was never able to actually have him return to the hous

Judi and Gail

Time is running out for Judi, whose cluttered home has been condemned; Gail was once a disciplined ballerina, but now he

Chris and Dale

After her newborn son dies, Chris tries to fill the void with possessions that jeopardize custody of her daughters; Dale

Bob and Richard

The parents of four children must clean out their entire house or risk losing everything; a retired veterinarian's dozen

Julie and Shannon

A series of tragedies triggers hoarding that leads to a woman losing custody of her son to her ex-husband; Child Protect

Deborah and Jim

Deborah is a 49 year old mother of two who fears that her hoarding may cause her two children to be taken away. Her husb

Linda and Todd

Linda's family has been torn apart by her hoarding. She wants a relationship with her grown children but they refuse to

Janet and Christina

Janet's life took a tragic turn for the worse when her husband of 32 years died while waiting for a heart transplant and

Gail and Warren

Gail's house is literally falling apart. She is living without heat, the walls in her house are cracking, the ceiling is

Tra and Jill

A firefighter's co-workers worry his hoarding is affecting his job performance; a woman's two sons suffer due to her unk

June and Doug

A woman faces the loss of her mobile home and her daughter if she doesn't get help for her hoarding; a single father mus

Dennis & Nadene and Erin & Malinda

A married couple blame each other for their hoarding compulsion. Two sisters whose parents were hoarders try and combat

Claudie

A woman's hoarding threatens to tear apart a very large family unless she changes her ways.

Michelle and Kim

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

Season 1 Update

In this special follow-up episode we check in on the progress of Jill, Jake, Betty, Bill and Paul from our first season.

Adella / Teri

Daughters help their mom in an effort to clean her home to keep it from being condemned; and a mother of two is threaten

Gordon & Gaye and Sir Patrick

A hoarding couple is given 72 hours to vacate their house if it isn't cleaned; and a man collects goblets, dolls, founta

Robin / Ken

Robin's home is so full of garbage that people in the street can smell the stench. With the city condemning the property

Carolyn and Jo

Carolyn's daughter is so unhappy about the cluttered condition of the home that she has been leaving notes for her mothe

Laura and Penny

Laura has terminal cancer and is in fragile health, but sleeping or resting is nearly impossible. The only open spot she

Vula and Lisa

Vula is hoarding more than 30 sickly cats that have completely destroyed her home. Lisa, a 30-year-old fifth grade teach

Kathleen / Margree

A hoarding woman may lose her daughter; a groom never moved in to his wife's cluttered house.

Dawn and Linda

After losing a cousin on 9/11, a woman's hoard grows; a hoarder puts her husband at risk.

Tami / George

A cancer patient must make her home habitable; a man has hundreds of unfinished projects.

Mary Lynn and Ingrid

A hoarder's son wants to leave home; a home-shopping addict has a mysterious illness in her home.

Theresa / Karen

Theresa eats food that has gone past its expiry date for safe consumption. Karen is a former lawyer who is struggling to

Al and Julie

Al used to take his three-year-old son dumpster diving, but Child Protective Services recently removed the child from hi

Lloyd / Carol

Lloyd's home is so filled that he is forced to sleep in one of the many storage trailers he has on his property. He now

Arline and Carolyn

A husband sleeps in his car because his wife's hoarding is so bad that he has no room in the house; and a woman's family

Jim / Susan

On August 6th, the Police, the Fire Department, C.P.S. and Code Enforcement all descended upon Jim's house and told his

Andrew / Shania

Andrew's home is an eyesore in a neighborhood of million dollar homes. The exterior and interior are completely hoarded,

Andrew / Lydia

Andrew finds himself a hoarder like his mother and wants to break free from the habit and lead a normal life. Lydia look

Mary & Mary Ann

Mary has blown through over $200,000 of an inheritance buying items for the consignment shop she owns. But many of the i

Hannah / Kathy & Gary

Hanna has hoarded herself and her 200 chickens out of her house and is now living with the chickens in a windowless, unh

Glen / Lisa

A collection of 2500 free-roaming rats have hoarded Glen out of his home and into a shed on his property. Originally bre

Phyllis and Janet

Every room in Phyllis' house is packed with dolls. Her obsession has manifested itself into a floor to ceiling collectio

Billy Bob and Jean

Billy Bob's house is so filled with toys and games, puzzles, cars, dolls and stuffed animals that he can no longer maneu

Season #2 Update

In this one-hour special, Hoarders follow-up episode we check in on the progress of Augustine, Deborah, Dennis and Naden

Roy and Loretta

Roy is facing $20 million in fines from the county for hoarding hundreds of vehicles on his property. A successful inven

Randy and Vicki

Randy's boardwalk memorabilia collection fills a 20,000 square foot building and numerous tractor trailers. Room after r

Ron and Carol

Ron's home is filled from top to bottom with paper -- books, thousands of pages of sheet music, old newspapers, magazine

Beverly and Megan

Beverly has been obsessively recording thousands and thousands of hours of audio and video for decades. Her home is fill

Becky and Clare

Becky's hoard fills 16 separate storage units and the monthly fees have driven her into debt. Currently living with her

Stacey and Roi

Stacey has two days to get rid of the 47 dogs and cats that have taken over her house. They have ripped everything to sh

Lisa and Bertha

Lisa is an active chef, a member of various cooking groups, an expert on historical cooking gadgets and a compulsive foo

Season #3 Update

This one-hour special updates viewers on what has happened to five of our hoarders one year after they received crisis a

Kevin and Mary

Kevin is the youngest son of renowned political strategist and a silver screen star--both of whom have stars on the Holl

John and Vivian

A man risks multiple fines after it is revealed he is living in a house covered with cat feces and urine, and the rooms

Judy and Jerry

Judy hoarded herself out of her house and used cancer surgery as an excuse to stay with her friend Linda. A few weeks tu

Eileen and Judy

Ronald is a fire-fighter who is legally mandated to report hoarded homes. But in this case the hoarder is his wife, Eile

Wilma and Nora

Wilma's hoard has done so much damage to her home that the city has deemed the structure uninhabitable. Regardless, she

Mike and Bonnie

Mike's house is so toxic that a virus she contracted in the home caused her kidneys to fail and almost killed her. Her d

Norman and Linda

Paramedics rushing to save a woman's life lose precious time when they're forced to climb over the hoard they find in No

Barbara and Richard

A mother with a family history of hoarding continues to hoard following the deaths of both of her sons. A former restaur

Mary and Annie

A woman who hoards cats; a cleaning woman whose own home is cluttered, resulting in problems for her husband, who has Pa

Carrie and James

Carrie lives in a house with no running water. Her floors are covered in feces and stacks of discarded urine bottles. Ja

Joanne and Kristy

A daughter develops post-traumatic stress disorder because of her mom’s hoarding; a shopping addict loses custody of h

Barbara, Fred and Mary

A woman who lives in a million-dollar neighborhood sifts through trash bins; authorities warn a couple that they must cl

Kathleen and Scott

A woman's hoarding carries over into her daughter's home; a hoarder buys back some items he sells.

Dee and Jan

A hoarder who spent money from a large legal settlement faces an ultimatum from her daughter; a woman living in filth de

Verna and JoAnne

Verna is a hot-headed ex-cop, ex-drug trafficker, and ex-prison inmate who has cleverly evaded laws against hoarding by

Anna/Claire and Vance

A woman learns of her mother's secret life as a hoarder; a couple's home contains 500,000 books.

Constance and Jeri Jo

Constance/Jeri Jo - A food hoarder runs a fresh-egg business, and unrefrigerated eggs and loose chickens cause problems;

Debra and Patty

Debra has filled her house with an avalanche of clothes and run up a $50,000 credit card debt. Fed up, her husband and

Doug and Ruth

A man who suffered brain trauma and amnesia in an accident keeps items that might trigger his memories; a woman refuses

Charles & Alvin

An artist is surrounded by thousands of his paintings of naked women; a man's hoarding is so out of control that he's ha

Shanna & Lynda

A woman who collects bottles of human waste; another woman who hoards items in preparation for the end of the world.

Joni & Millie

Joni's hoarding drove her two sons to turn to drugs to cope, and it forced Child Protective Services to take her grandda

Manuel & Carla

Manual was living in his hoarded house with his four children, ages 5, 6, 7, and 9. They are the love of his life, but t

Susan & Michael

Susan `s addicted to buying and selling cars and electronics, but she never manages to sell much. Recently, when Susan w

Terry & Adelle

Terry's fridge is packed with dead cats, and she has another 50 live ones. Her son thinks her problems stem from the tim

BG and Lee & Chris

BG and Lee have filled their million-dollar Victorian home with hoards of stuff--and now are even competing to see who c

Jan & Bebe

Jan is in denial about her hoarding--one of her daughters compares her to a venomous viper ready to strike if you dare t

Merlene & Jeff

Merlene had it all--an international supermodel married to the son of the inventor of the Lear Jet. But her storybook li

Diana & Dolores

A victim of abuse as a child, Diana's hoarding became so extreme that her daughter was forced to sleep in a recliner bec

Fuzzie and Fred & Nancy

A pair of former punk rockers, Fuzzie and Fred are living like teenagers well into middle age, work at a porn shop, and

Live Special

The season kicks-off with a one-hour special focusing on a Massachusetts family and features live segments culminating i

Joyce & Kimberly

A woman's husband threatens to end their 38-year marriage if she does not clean up their home; a woman faces eviction if

Michelle & Yama

22-year-old Yama keeps shopping and hoarding to preserve the memory of her deceased mother. Michelle's obsession with sh

Ruthann

Ruthann promised her cousin that she would turn their historic house into a bed and breakfast when it was sold to her bu

Cynthia & Ricky

Two hoarders are living in life threatening conditions. Cynthia has a debilitating auto immune disease and lives in a ho

David & Nora

A man needs to clean up his three-acre hoard whilst a woman hoards to try and get over the death of her son.

Brian & Coral

A man serves as president of his condo HOA, but he lives in a hoard that would cause any other tenant to be evicted; a w

Mary & Michelle

A woman's huge doll hoard has put her husband's sobriety at risk. A hoard attracts rats.

Doris & T'resa

A woman is forced to sleep on the patio because her hoard occupies every room in the house.

Laura

A woman's hoarding takes over so much of her home that her partner resorts to sleeping in the garage and her teenage dau

Judy

A Vancouver, Washington woman lives a dangerous life of strange contradictions. Judy is an extreme germaphobe who spends

Roxann and Barbara

A vibrant, beautiful 32-year old mother and former model living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has successfully hidden he

Jackie and Richard

Jackie has filled her 4,000 square foot San Leandro, California with $1 million of teddy bears. Will she clean up the oc

Ruby and Mary

Ruby's Long Beach, California home is so hoarded she spends her entire day living in the car, and her grandson has start

Ben and Robin / Kevin

Ailing couple, Ben and Robin's hoarding is so severe that EMTs can no longer access their West Virginia home for emergen

Dorothy and David / Doris

Dorothy and David fell in love with each other over their mutual love of hoarding. Their Prineville, Oregon home is so p

Dick & Karen

Dick has hoarded out his girlfriend's Pomona, California home, to the point that the two of them can no longer live in i

Peggy / Ed and Connie

Peggy's hoard of filth and dead animal carcasses in Illinois has led the city to deem her house uninhabitable.[7] If she

Ellen & Gloria

The tragic loss of Ellen's husband in the line of duty triggered hoarding through kleptomania. Her house in Queens, New

Kathy & Elmira

In Great Falls, Montana, Kathy has hoarded out her triplex and a dance studio and is facing financial ruin if she can't

Where Are They Now?

In this episode of Hoarders we check in with five hoarders from past seasons: Al, of Hammond, Indiana, lost custody of h

Sybill & Ron

Sybil's hoard is so intense that mice have started to live in her tub and her refrigerator. Her Gresham, Oregon home is

Sandy & Len

Sandy's sister, Nona, owns the family home in Lisbon, Maine, where Sandy has lived her entire life. Nona hasn't been ins

Celia & Nathan

Celia is in danger of losing her hoarded California home of shoplifted items and her illegal hoard of dogs if she doesn'

Maggie & Ann

Maggie's Phoenix, Arizona home is so packed with her shopping addiction that her granddaughter was forced to sleep on to

Sandi & Vivian

In Port Angeles, Washington, Sandi is known as the town's Mrs. Claus over the holidays. However, she has taken her alter

Lonnie & Linda

Lonnie is a famed neurosurgeon and former Lt. Governor of the State of Nevada. He is also a notorious hoarder spending a

Stanks & Anne

The Stanks have hoarded themselves out of their home and are facing the loss of their property if they cannot get it up

Leza & Linda

A woman's home is red tagged as uninhabitable and she has to clean it up before an imposed deadline or risk losing her p

Linda & Kerry

A woman's farm is at risk due to a substantial hoard sparked by preparation for an economic crash. Also: a hoard of plan

Shannon & Ray

A woman blames her hoarding on demons possessing her home; a man faces charges when the hoard in his historic San Franci

Sandra

Former famed interior designer, Sandra, has hoarded out every square inch of the historic mansion she lost to foreclosur

Andy & Becky

Andy and Becky feel it is their constitutional right to live however they choose, even if that's among 250 tons of hoard

Dale

Over the past three decades, Dale fills his Alaskan property with everything from decking from the Yukon River Bridge to

Linda

Linda does not allow her family into her home for years until a medical emergency exposes the secret she has been hiding

Patricia

A retired nurse makes extra money selling things that other people have discarded but is fined thousands of dollars a we

Three Amigos

Donald and brothers, Peter and Raymond, are close friends who do everything together, including hoarding. Each of them n

Carol

Over the past two decades, Carol has hoarded her husband's home. Now, she's left her husband Dave to deal with the hoard

Sherry

For two years Sherry has not paid the mortgage payments on her house. Her justification for her massive hoard is that it

Althia

Becky

Dennis

As a retired Architect Dennis sees the value in repurposing and using materials for all types of projects. This has led

Flora

Flora's daughter and grandchildren recently moved in with her, but due to the massive hoard, the entire family must eat,

Cindy

Code enforcement has been dealing with Cindy in court for years now; Cindy must deal with her hoarding tendencies to sav

John

John’s extreme hoard, rat infestation and mounting citations from the city is too much to handle. John must now cleanu

Eric

Eric is forced to deal with his emotional grief as the cleanup process uncovers the beautiful interior design left by hi

Forrest

Forrest grew up in the projects and would tell his son stories about a pair of shoes he couldn't afford when he was youn

Dolores

Dolores is a cancer survivor and was a caregiver for her late mother; as an escape, Dolores turned to excessive shopping

Cobra

To be part of his unborn granddaughter's life, Cobra must clean up his hoarded house and turn his 37-acre property into

Meryl

Meryl chased a shopping high, and ended up with a massive debt and a falling out with her brother's family. With the Cit

Tim

Margie

Margie and Bethel's house is an extreme fire hazard, filled with 500 tons of clutter and contaminated with rodent waste.

Debbie

Traffic Jam

A retrospective special featuring some of the series' most intense collections of vehicles. Hosted by resident clinical

Hunger Pains

A retrospective special featuring some of the series' most extreme food hoards. Hosted by resident clinical psychologist

Retail Therapy

Show and Tell

Terrie

Terri has never really been able to live in the home she bought as the house was filled with clutter from her hoarding.

Tiffany

Collecting thousands of discounted books over the years has damaged the family property to the point that it may collaps

Paul

To deal with the loss of his partner, Paul turns to collecting items to use in his interior design business; Paul's mass

Carl

As a child, Carl and his mother looked in trash cans to see what useful things they could find; now that he lives alone,

Carmen

Carmen suffered the loss of her husband, Mike. After a neck injury, Carmen lost her job as a data management specialist.

Kate

Kate collected items from her clients when she worked as a realtor that she would often use to stage homes that she was

Peggy

Peggy's divorce in 1981 left her alone when her daughter decided to live with her father. Finding a job as a live-in car

Martha

Martha deals with deception from a married man, frail health, and caring for her parent's last moments in life; not want

Lia

When Lia was ten, she became intrigued by her mother's many collectibles and started going to antique stores and estate

Andy

Andy has worked odd jobs his entire adult life, and he considers himself an entrepreneur specializing in the reselling o

Darlene

Darlene is a dynamic, outspoken, eclectic woman from Vancouver, BC. She believes in New Age energy healing, the fifth di

Jim

Jim has been a collector from a very young age but some of the tragedies in his life have compounded Jim's hoarding beha

Rosela

Roz grew up on the east coast of Canada with 13 siblings; nothing went to waste; when her first marriage fell apart and

Marjorie

Marjorie has collected items from thrift stores and estate sales over the years for various project which has led to a m

Terri

Being on call 24 hours a day enables practiced midwife Terri to hide her personal life and the depths of her hoarded hom

Bob

After discovering that his partner was stealing from him, undergoing a necessary heart surgery and facing many other adv

John

Between dumpster diving, weekly swap meet purchases and occasional yard sale finds, John collects a massive amount of cl

Destiny

Destiny refuses to leave her home after a 2004 family tragedy causes her to "basically check out of life"; the extremely

David & Elizabeth

David and Elizabeth have been co-dependent co-hoarders for as long as their adult children can remember. The couple had

Lori

As a child, Lori felt the high of buying 100 sticks of gum at a time or the same sweater in every color - but when she g

David & Odette

The only way David and Odette can enter or exit their 3,000 square foot home is by climbing a six-foot ladder into the k

Coral

Coral is an educator above all, but she is also a fiber artist, musician, and a very talented herbalist. Her farmhouse i

Where are they Now? Meryl / Janet

In this special episode, we revisit Meryl in Massachusetts and Janet in California. Features Hoarders' experts Corey Cha

Where are They Now? John / Andy

In this special episode, we revisit John and Andy, both in San Diego, California. Features Hoarders' experts Carolina Ha

Where Are They Now? Destiny / Terri

In this special episode we revisit Destiny in North Carolina and Terri in Missouri featuring Hoarders' experts Dr. Robin

Where Are They Now? Carl / Eric

In this special, renowned experts, psychologists Dr. David Tolin and Dr. Robin Zasio, offer their expertise in assisting

Tim

Hoarding cars and car parts is Tim's way to cope; Tim intends to fix and sell the stuff, but he never does; his wife, De

Montie and Sherry

Montie and Sherry find themselves in a dire situation as their daughter, Audora, contemplates involving adult protection

Terri

Regular visits to local estate sales, yard sales and thrift stores distract Terri from her problems, as she cannot resis

Bruce and Cathy

Good intentions lead Bruce to collect a massive amount of tools and clutter; with the help of the "Hoarders" team, Bruce

Mary Lynn

Mary has been hoarding for over 30 years; as she faces two impending knee surgeries, her home is no longer safe; with th

Angel

Angel's life has spiraled as unchecked shopping habits have taken over her finances and her home. With reduced work hour

Linda

Linda is a woman who grew up in luxury, her parents' Miami mansion meticulously maintained by staff; now, at 70, her onc

Christine

Christine can't let go of anything; she is drowning in items from her past and constantly collecting things; with the he

Susan

Susan is a single mother with six children. She's been a mom since she was 16, and it's what she likes to do best. But i