374 episodes
This Is Actually Happening Wondery
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4.8 • 44 Ratings
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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 in the morgue 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.
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What if a masked man appeared at the foot of your bed?
Growing up with a narcissistic father, a woman learns to play small, but one night when an unknown masked man enters her room, she faces the worst night of her life, and emerges on the other side with a new found ferocity.
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Listen Now: The Price of Paradise
When ex-Bunny girl Jayne Gaskin spots the desert island of her dreams for sale online, she decides to risk it all. Trading in their English village home, Jayne and her family relocate to their own private paradise, just off the coast of Nicaragua. And a reality TV crew follows them to film a new show, No Going Back. But soon they all discover that paradise has its secrets. The locals claim the island belongs to them, and it’s been sold illegally. Jayne’s not leaving without a fight. A fight that will soon turn deadly.
Hosted by Alice Levine.
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What if your life became a movie?
After his mother falls in love with Frank, the member of a one-hit-wonder 80s band, a man’s life becomes a roller coaster of neglect, scams, and chaos, but when he turns the camera on the inside of his family, a new world opens he never thought possible.
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What if you harbored an unrelenting fury?
After losing her entire family at ten years old, a woman’s grief evolves into a self-destructive rage, and as systems of care, punishment and rehabilitation keep failing her, she’s forced to create her own path to healing.
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What if you had to find your own salvation?
Growing up queer, bullied and abused in a heavily religious community, a man tries and to change his sexual orientation through prayer, but as he pieces his life together and heals past harms, tragedy and misfortune raise more questions than answers.
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What if you believed your love could cure him?
Finally finding love and marriage after feeling unworthy of romance, a woman develops symptoms of a mysterious and debilitating illness, but in the roller coaster of recovery, her husband’s mental illness creates a new level of chaos.
Customer Reviews
Unique, excellent storytelling, moving stories
Only listened to maybe ten episodes but loved all of them and look forward to dive into more. Every story I listend to so far is in its own way moving and eye-opening on so many diverse and important topics. Excellent story-telling so that you can listen to every story even though initially maybe the topic seems not be one you‘re especially interested in. The only critique I have is that the stories always follow the same structure. Protagonists start with their childhood and tell their story in chronological order which makes it a bit similiar. It could use some of that creative variation that many Wondery Podcasts provide so masterfully. Also the sound quality and editing sometimes varies from episode to episode.
The very best thing I am listening to
Thank you for each and every single episode.
For the time you give every person, for the strong, insightful, impressing, vulnarable and honest people that share their always meaningful stories and make me re-evaluate so many aspects of life.
Thank you for this podcast.
Must try!
I moved to this podcast in an attempt to get away from the very dark side of true crime podcasts into something with a different style and pace, to give my brain a break. I stumbled across this and I love it, I can’t stop listening! Told first hand from the person who had the experience, this podcast is a simple and consistent format which makes it so damn engaging. Thanks so much!
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