This Is Actually Happening
What if your mother left to follow a cult… or you woke up in a morgue… or if your boat got caught in a storm and began to sink -- 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 finds out a celebrity crush isn’t who she seems to a woman stranded in a Mexican desert fighting to survive, these stories will have you on the edge of your seat waiting to hear what happens next.
412: What if you were an international drug smuggler?
After being sent out of Cuba alone as a child, a man survives exile, smuggling, prison, and devastating...
Listen411: What if you foresaw your own abduction?
After surviving a near-death experience as a young child, a woman has a vision of her own brutal kidnapping,...
Listen410: What if your mother tried to kill you?
After surviving a childhood where love meant saving his mother from the ravages of schizophrenia, a...
Listen409: What if your child’s death opened up your life’s purpose?
After building the loving family she always wanted, a woman loses her youngest son to an unsecured gun,...
Listen408: What if your friend was lost in an underwater cave?
After a scuba diving trip in Croatia turns deadly, a successful Czech executive is falsely accused of...
Listen407: What if you found humanity in the depths of the criminal underworld?
After leaving Portugal to become a journalist, a woman is drawn into the world’s black markets, where...
Listen406: What if a terminal diagnosis set you free?
After a childhood shaped by violence and addiction leads him into years of self-destruction, a man begins...
Listen405: What if you were accused of murdering your mother?
After years of caring for her mother through a devastating decline, a woman helps ease her final suffering,...
Listen404: What if you were stricken with the flesh-eating disease?
After suffering from necrotizing fasciitis, a soccer coach sets out to rebuild his body, his identity,...
Listen403: What if your childhood bully actually apologized?
After growing up in a home shaped by violence, racism, and fear, a woman is stunned to receive an apology...
Listen402: What if a deadly tornado helped to heal old wounds?
After narrowly surviving one of the deadliest tornados in US history, a woman is driven to confront...
Listen401: What if you were ambushed on a dark desert highway?
After spending much of his life trying to outrun the feeling of being trapped, a man’s violent kidnapping...
Listen400: What if you suspected your father was the infamous Tylenol Murderer?
A man grows up in a home defined by violence, secrecy, and fear, and decades later a deathbed confession...
Listen399: What if a hormonal disorder rewrote your identity?
After decades of stability, a woman’s experience of menopause brings back a lifetime of buried symptoms...
Listen398: What if you witnessed the best and the worst of humanity?
After years working as a humanitarian aid worker in war zones and disaster areas around the world, a...
Listen397: What if you survived a terrorist attack in Paris?
After surviving the 2015 ISIS terrorist attacks at a Paris café, a woman begins the painful work of...
Listen396: What if you were held captive by child soldiers?
When a family sailing journey ends in capture by child soldiers during Mozambique’s civil war, a man...
Listen395: What if your son murdered your daughter?
After overcoming addiction and rebuilding her life around motherhood, a woman's world is shattered when...
Listen394: What if you found yourself naked, starving and surrounded by cops?
After the sudden death of his father leaves him drowning in guilt, a man unknowingly spirals into a...
Listen393: What if your doctors weren’t allowed to help you?
After a lifetime of striving for control, a woman is thrust into unimaginable loss when a potentially...
Listen392: What if you were a whistleblower against your own father?
When a son discovers that the man who raised him is capable of unimaginable harm, he is forced to become...
Listen391: What if you forgave the neo-Nazi who killed your father?
After a white supremecist killed his father at a Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee, Pardeep Singh Kaleka...
Listen390: 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...
Listen389: 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...
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