Former Survivor contestant Eva Erickson shared her terrifying near-miss experience with the tragic mass shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, which occurred on Saturday.

In a video posted to her Instagram Stories, Erickson revealed that she had initially been sitting in an area of the campus that was later shut down during the attack.

By Sunday, the Minnesota native recounted the chaos and relief of reaching safety amidst the violence, which resulted in two fatalities and nine injuries.

Erickson described the chilling proximity to danger, recounting how she had been in the very building the shooter entered just moments before the violence unfolded.

Erickson, known from the 48th season of the CBS show Survivor, is pursuing a Ph.D. in engineering and thermal science at the prestigious Ivy League institution.

She said an unusual twist of fate led her to leave the building minutes before shots rang out.

Survivor alum Eva Erickson detailed her harrowing experience as she was almost on hand during the deadly mass shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday 

‘I am so so extremely lucky that I was very unproductive at work today,’ Erickson said.

Erickson said she felt she was ‘just not getting anything done’ and headed for a separate part of the campus to recalibrate – in a move that potentially saved her life.

I ‘randomly decided I would go to the gym – I never go to the gym in the afternoon,’ Erickson said. ‘I was leaving the building within five minutes of the shooter coming in.’

Erickson said that being on the campus the day after the deadly incident felt ‘so eerie.’

She said that many students were heading home for the holidays for a place of comfort after the tragedy.

‘Everybody is leaving,’ Erickson said. ‘Everyone is trying to get the hell away from Brown to get home to their families where they can feel safe.’

Erickson said she had assisted some of her hockey teammates retrieve their ‘gear out of the rink’ as they prepared to leave campus. 

Erickson captioned the emotional post Sunday: ‘I, just like everyone else at Brown, am processing a lot of emotions relating to the situation. I hope this gives you a window into what we are experiencing. This can’t keep happening to our students.’

Erickson said that being on the campus the day after the deadly incident felt ‘so eerie’

Erickson appeared on the 48th season of the CBS reality competition Survivor earlier this year 

Erickson initially sat in a part of the campus that was locked down during the attack in a clip she posted to Instagram Stories Saturday 

The reality show alum – who was the first openly autistic contestant on the series – marked herself safe in an earlier post Saturday.

Erickson said, ‘I am safe!!. Yes, my office at Brown is in the building of the shooting but I was very lucky I left my lab 15 minutes prior to the active shooter alert to go to the gym.’

Erickson joined her hockey teammates at the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center after the campus locked down.  

Erickson said, ‘I’m currently locked in the school gym sheltering in place until the shooter is (apprehended). The only other member of my lab working in the lab today has safely been evacuated.’

As of Sunday, shooting victim remained in critical condition, said Kelly Brennan, a spokesperson for the hospital the victims were transported to. Six other victims were in the Intensive Care unit, and two more were stable.

Erickson, who was a runner-up for Survivor’s $1 million grand prize, opened up to the university earlier this year about her experience on the series.

‘It was actually so brutal,’ Erickson told the college this past March. ‘You don’t have any of your support system. You don’t even know what time it is. 

‘You’re just out there sleeping in the dirt and eating nothing but coconuts. The amount of coconuts I consumed will make me never, ever, ever want to eat a coconut again.’

Two people died and nine more were injured in Saturday’s massacre on the campus 

Speaking with Minnesota’s Pioneer Press in May, Erickson went into detail about being the first openly autistic contestant on the CBS staple.

‘I didn’t go onto Survivor to try to create this platform to speak about autism,’ Erickson said. ‘It’s just part of my life.’

She said, ‘The world has a lot of misconceptions about autism right now, and it is so important for people like me to share my story so that we can clear those up and help open this conversation and recognize that autism is not something wrong with you, but it is something that is special and unique, and it makes you who you are.

‘It might give you challenges that are different than other people, but it also gives you strength.’