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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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    • True Crime
    • 4.5 • 404 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.
New episodes come out every Tuesday for free. Listen 1-week early and to exclusive past episodes - all ad-free - with Wondery+ or Amazon Music with a Prime membership or Amazon Music Unlimited subscription.

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    What if you kept hitting rock bottom?

    What if you kept hitting rock bottom?

    After a childhood feeling unworthy of love and belonging, a man finds his path to the Coast Guard and a solid marriage, but after a minor back injury, he’s prescribed painkillers that send him on a tragic spiral of addiction.

    • 50 min
    Listen Now: Happily Never After: Dan & Nancy

    Listen Now: Happily Never After: Dan & Nancy

    Nancy Brophy fills her novels with romantic betrayals and murder. It’s a far cry from her quiet life in the suburbs, where she and her chef husband, Dan, are living out their golden years. But when Dan is shot dead, Nancy finds herself at the center of a murder case that could be ripped from the pages of her novels.




    From Wondery, this is a story about what happens when the line blurs between fiction and reality. 




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    • 5 min
    What if they tried to erase you?

    What if they tried to erase you?

    Growing up in the remote Ozark mountains with a mother who believed she was God and a father with deeper abuses, a man paves his own rocky healing path to become a healer for others.

    • 47 min
    What if your mom believed she was the good witch?

    What if your mom believed she was the good witch?

    Growing up with a mother who used practiced an abusive form of spiritual voodoo, a man seeks to numb his pain, but after tragedy and a descent into crack addiction, he finally finds the cure he’d been looking for.

    • 50 min
    Listen Now: Blame it on the Fame: Milli Vanilli

    Listen Now: Blame it on the Fame: Milli Vanilli

    When Frank Farian first laid eyes on Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, he saw everything he wasn’t. They were handsome, young, and Black. But Frank had something they didn’t. He had power.




    So, Frank offered them a devil’s bargain. Almost overnight, Milli Vanilli’s debut album went five times platinum and scored a Grammy nomination. But when the lie at the center of their success started to unravel, Rob and Fab would discover the hard way the difference between star power and real power.




    From Wondery, Blame It on the Fame is a story about the lie that shot to #1 and what it cost to tell the truth. Hosted by Amanda Seales.




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    • 4 min
    What if you couldn’t find your way home?

    What if you couldn’t find your way home?

    Escaping her troubled past, a suburban mother finds stability in marriage and family, but when her reality suddenly begins to fall apart, she descends into an underworld of chaos.

    • 57 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
404 Ratings

404 Ratings

Green dragon8 ,

Fabulous Podcast

The stories are sometimes gritty and fascinating but real life. It is a viewer into other peoples’ lives. And with that, comes a realisation that you are not the only one that have struggles in life.

Witchy1980 ,

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!

AR7991 ,

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.

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