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**Title:** Top 10 Secret Messages Sent by Hostages
**Summary:**
Host and narrator Danny Burke shares 10 remarkable true stories of hostages who cleverly sent secret messages to communicate with the outside world, leading to their rescue or exposing their captors' mistreatment. These stories include:
1. A woman using a Pizza Hut app to alert authorities to her abusive boyfriend
2. A POW in the Vietnam War blinking in Morse code on TV to convey "torture"
3. Various other creative methods: mirror signals, coded letters, hidden messages in music, a suspicious 911 call, and even stitching with Morse code
**Stories Ranked:** From #10 (Pizza App) to #1 (Stitching during WWII), each highlighting the resourcefulness and bravery of hostages in extraordinary circumstances.
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**1.** In 2015, a woman named Cheryl Treadway used the Pizza Hut app to escape from her abusive boyfriend.
**2.** Cheryl Treadway ordered a pizza with a message "please help get 9-1-1 to me" which was relayed to the police through Pizza Hut employees.
**3.** In 1965, Jeremiah Denton was taken as a prisoner of war by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War.
**4.** Jeremiah Denton used Morse code through blinking to convey the message "torture" during a TV interview.
**5.** Jeremiah Denton was a prisoner of war for 8 years and was awarded for his bravery after his release in 1973.
**6.** In 1940, Sub Lieutenant John Pryor sent coded letters to his family while being held captive by the Germans during World War II.
**7.** John Pryor's codes took a team of mathematicians 40 years to crack, long after the war.
**8.** A police dispatcher, Keith Weisinger, received a 9-1-1 call from a woman ordering a pizza, which was actually a distress call from a domestic violence situation.
**9.** In 1975, during the Dutch train hostage crisis, a hostage used a mirror to flash a Morse code message to the police, leading to a rescue attempt.
**10.** In 2014, a hostage in a Sydney cafe, held by terrorists claiming to be in ISIS, sent a text message to his mother, which was the only communication with the outside.
**11.** In 2009, Paul and Rachel Chandler were captured by Somali pirates, and a secret message was sent through a blog to raise an alarm.
**12.** Paul and Rachel Chandler were released after 13 months of captivity.
**13.** In 2010, the Colombian Army sent a secret Morse code message through a popular song on the radio to hostages held by FARC guerillas.
**14.** The message, "19 people rescued, you're next, don't lose hope," was successfully received by the hostages, who were eventually rescued.
**15.** In 2017, an Arizona woman found a note in a Walmart purse allegedly from a Chinese prisoner, describing poor working conditions.
**16.** The note claimed prisoners worked 14 hours a day with no breaks and were beaten if they didn't finish their work.
**17.** During World War II, Major Alexis Casagrande stitched secret Morse code messages into his sewing, which, if decoded, would have put him in danger.
**18.** The stitched messages included "God save the King" and "Hitler", hidden in patterns, and were never decoded by the Nazis.