373 episodes
This Is Actually Happening Wondery
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4.5 • 401 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 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.
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What if you danced for those who couldn’t?
An Indigenous woman from the Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation whose grandparents suffered the horrific abuses of the Canadian Indian residential schools finds her own path to healing amidst the ravages of generational trauma on her family and community.
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Listen Now: Felonious Florida Season 4
The award-winning Felonious Florida returns with a chilling new season available only on Wondery+. Imagine waking up in your own bed with a menacing figure standing over you? In 1980s Miami, this nightmare became a reality for dozens of women. The Pillowcase Rapist stalked and attacked his victims in their very own homes in a terror spree that spanned 4 decades. Who was the man beneath the pillowcase? And how did he stay in the darkness for so long?
Felonious Florida: In the Darkness is available exclusively on Wondery+. You can listen to the first full episode wherever you listen to podcasts. To hear the full season, subscribe to Wondery+ in the Wondery App or Apple Podcasts: https://wondery.app.link/FFS4_TAH
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Customer Reviews
One of my favourite podcasts
I absolutely love this podcast. The stories are so absorbing and interesting and some have made me cry. Brilliant content, please keep doing what you do!
so depressing
I used to love this podcast because it was a real variety of stories- grizzly bears, drug smuggling etc but now I just feel like it’s SO depressing. Mostly always about abuse and/or death, really have to gear myself up to listen so then it slips down the list of podcasts I actually want to listen to. I totally get that that’s kinda what it’s about but a little bit of variety to break up the sad stuff would be welcome.
Outstanding
The anonymous ex marine.
Wow. Compelling beyond belief, hung on his every word, the longer it went on, the better it got. Articulated in simple raw terms with, in this case, a litany of necessary profanities keeping it real. What a guy. What a podcast. Take 5 stars. If it were possible to award more, I would.