This Is Actually Happening
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This Is Actually Happening
What if you were trafficked into a cult...or were mauled by a grizzly bear...or were stabbed 27 times by a serial killer - what would you do? This is Actually Happening brings you extraordinary true stories of life-changing events told by the people who lived them. From a man who woke up i...
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396: What if your unresolved grief led to a fatal decision?
After killing a cyclist while driving drunk, a woman confronts the consequences of her actions and begins the long, painful work of rebuilding a life...
395: What if you were pushed into the path of an oncoming train?
After surviving a stranger’s shove into the path of a subway train, a man confronts his mortality and viral fame, and finds himself transformed by com...
394: What if a devastating truth only deepened the mystery? [Rebroadcast Ep250]
Growing up Black and queer in the South, a man finds an identity for himself through the arts and establishes a wonderful marriage with children, unti...
393: What if you survived the Bosnian genocide? [Rebroadcast Ep277]
From an idyllic childhood in communist Yugoslavia, as a teenager, Mirsad’s world becomes a living nightmare as the Bosnian War brings shelling, tortur...
392: What if your daughter committed a seemingly unforgivable act? [Rebroadcast Ep182]
A mother struggles to raise her child through a series of chaotic relationships, when one day, as her daughter’s mental illness spirals out of control...
391: What if you committed a seemingly unforgivable act?
After a traumatic childhood, a young woman spirals into mental illness and in her darkest moment makes an unthinkable decision that will change her fa...
390: What if you found the antidote in the venom? [Rebroadcast Ep284]
Growing up Muslim in the Middle East, a woman juggles the chaotic expectations of a severely abusive mother with her desire for self-expression; but w...
389: What if you were crushed by 10000 pounds of stone? [Rebroadcast Ep274]
Struggling to prove himself and find his identity growing up, a man eventually builds a career and begins occasionally helping out a friend with his g...
388: What if you woke up in a tsunami?
After narrowly surviving the devastating tsunami of 2004, a woman begins an unexpected journey through trauma, illness, and profound spiritual transfo...
387: What if your partner accused you of attempted murder?
When a man is falsely accused of attempted murder by the woman he’s spent years trying to save, he’s forced to confront the lifelong patterns of self-...
386: What if you woke up with someone's hands around your neck?
The life of a promising actor takes a devastating turn when she is attacked in her home, sending her into an 18-year fight to reclaim her sense of saf...
385: What if you found healing through saving abandoned dogs?
When a woman is brought to her knees by unimaginable grief, she finds her way forward by transforming her pain into a sanctuary for forgotten dogs.
384: What if you were run over three times?
After being run over three times and left pinned beneath a car, a woman emerges into a world she no longer recognizes and must piece together a new id...
383: What if you survived Jeffrey Epstein?
When a young model finally escapes Jeffrey Epstein’s world of coercion, gaslighting and abuse, her battle to reclaim her self-worth becomes a testamen...
Listen Now: Against The Odds | Tsunami In Thailand
Humans are resilient. In our toughest moments, we will fight, we will struggle, and we will triumph...often against the odds.
In this immersive...
382: What if you spent four months as a doctor in Gaza?
A humanitarian aid doctor enters Gaza at the height of the conflict, and emerges with a sobering reality that shatters everything he believed about me...
381: What if you opened a portal to the world next door?
When a woman begins waking up to a supernatural entity crawling behind her, she realizes the door she opened as a child was never closed.
Today’...
380: What if you had a spontaneous awakening?
Growing up in the notorious commune of Rajneeshpuram, and haunted by abandonment and addiction, a woman’s spontaneous awakening reveals that every wou...
379: What if you witnessed your client’s execution?
A man shaped by cruelty devotes his life to defending the condemned, discovering that real courage lies not in victory, but in standing beside the mos...
378: What if your private nightmare was also theirs?
A woman, who ignores her instincts, enters a marriage that soon spirals into betrayal and control. When the truth finally comes to light, she must cho...
377: What if you were a gay, Mormon, drug-dealing, federal informant?
After losing himself to meth and a double life as a federal informant, a man’s world collapses after one of his buyer’s overdoses, and recovery begins...
376: What if a car crash shattered your world?
When a sudden car crash shatters her world, a woman’s grief and struggle to keep living leads her to an unexpected rebirth of love.
Today’s epis...
375: What if you had to fight your way out of the jungle?
After a prominent life filled with passion and adventure ends with the death of her brilliant but volatile husband, a woman journeys to Guatemala to h...
What if you were mauled by a grizzly bear? [Rebroadcast #262]
While hunting in the Canadian wilderness, a man accidentally comes between a grizzly bear cub and its mother, and a terrifying fight for his life ensu...
What if you didn’t sleep for 120 hours? [Rebroadcast #170]
A young woman hungry to explore the world goes on a trip to Tanzania and unexpectedly finds herself caught in an endless cycle of impending doom.
What if you could never be what they wanted? [Rebroadcast #246]
Always feeling she had failed the ideals of her strict Muslim, South Asian family and community, a woman struggles to navigate trauma, shame and self-...
What if you signed a billion-year contract? [Rebroadcast #243]
After a woman’s Mormon family falls apart following the death of her father, her mother brings her to a Scientology Center where she leaves everything...
What if you woke up and couldn’t move? [Rebroadcast #242]
After growing up queer with a complicated father in the 1960s, a man forges his own path, identity and career in the arts, but suddenly, after a routi...
Introducing: American Criminal
Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole are two of history’s most prolific serial killers. Or they’re liars who aren’t to be trusted. Either way, they’ve both...
What if you went missing? [Rebroadcast #196]
A woman who seeks awakening through myriad healing practices finds her ultimate challenge when she goes missing in a Maui forest.
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What if you never stopped searching? [Rebroadcast #195]
Decades after her brother disappeared in the early 1980s, a woman becomes deeply involved in the search for a missing friend.
To...
What if you ran through the pain? [Rebroadcast #208]
A man searches for healing after his father, a disgruntled post office worker, falls into a violent downward spiral.
Today we brin...
What if you entered the belly of the NARCO beast? [Rebroadcast #281]
Escaping the tumult and abuses of his childhood through music, a young man lands a dream gig at a premiere nightclub in Mexico, but when the party’s o...
374: What if a brutal assault saved your life?
After being violently attacked outside a bar, a man who spent his life motivated by loneliness and rage, begins forging a new path to peace and healin...
373: What if your boyfriend ghosted you for his wedding?
Still reeling from an abusive relationship and the loss of her mother, a single woman travels to Mexico, plunging into a whirlwind situationship where...
372: What if you were lost on the Pacific Crest Trail?
A young woman grows up in chaos and instability but finds strength through education and a deep connection to the outdoors—until a harrowing solo trek...
371: What if you survived a catastrophic hurricane?
Born and raised on a remote Bahamian island, a woman who has weathered countless storms must fight to keep herself and her family alive as the unprece...
370: What if a bullet took your sight but not your vision?
A young father who rose up from the streets to achieve his musical dream is gunned down by a stranger during a trivial altercation, but as he rebuilds...
369: What if you lit yourself on fire?
Suffering a life of struggle and addiction in the wake of early childhood abuse, a woman desperate for a dramatic change dowses herself in gasoline an...
368: What if you were the only one left to grieve?
A young girl's world shatters when one night, her mother’s stalker, who has threatened to annihilate her family, walks into her home with a loaded gun...