Before They Go Missing

Ann Reynolds

Before They Go Missing is a solo podcast by Ann Reynolds about the people who disappear — not dramatically, not suddenly — but quietly, in rooms no one checks on. Loneliness. Grief. Mental health. Housing insecurity. System failures. Every episode tells one story and asks one question. New episodes every week.

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  1. 1일 전

    Fifty-Eight Hours

    His upstairs neighbor noticed the silence somewhere around day nine. No television. No local news. No ballgame. Just quiet — the kind that fills a room when nothing else does. She noticed. She said nothing. James "Jim" Holbrook died on a Thursday. He was found eleven days later, when his son finally called the building manager. The obituary said he passed away peacefully at home. This episode is about everything that word leaves out — and it lands the same week as Father's Day, which is no accident. It's the slow, quiet kind of going missing nobody talks about. And the silence we all hear and tell ourselves is nothing. THE NUMBER THIS WEEK Eleven days — how long Jim lay in his apartment before anyone found him. Not the fifty-eight-hour average. Eleven days. That is what happens when the average fails. IN THIS EPISODE The story of Jim — and the neighbor who heard the silence and said nothingWhat an unclaimed death is — and why it is far more common than you thinkWhy 14.7 million Americans over 65 are living alone right nowWhy we hear the quiet and decide it's nothingWhat checking on the men in our lives this Father's Day could change THIS WEEK'S QUESTION Whose television have you stopped hearing? Who in your life is one phone call, one knock, one Father's Day visit away from being found? SHARE YOUR STORY Do you know someone who is disappearing? Have you been there yourself? Ann wants to hear it. btgmpodcast@gmail.com CONNECT WITH ANN@before.they.go.missing linktr.ee/btgmpodcast IF THIS EPISODE HITS HOME 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline — call or text 988Institute on Aging Friendship Line, for adults 60+, 24/7 — 800-971-0016 Before They Go Missing is a solo podcast by Ann Reynolds. New episodes every week. Prevention before disappearance. Follow the show. Share this episode. Leave a comment below.

    19분

  2. 6월 10일

    The Empty Room

    She had seventeen house plants. Each one named. Each one watered on a schedule she kept in a little notebook by her kitchen window. Margaret was 71. She hadn't left her apartment in six weeks. Not because she couldn't. Because there was nowhere to go and nobody who would notice if she did. This is the episode that started everything. THE EMPTY ROOM is about the kind of going missing nobody talks about — not dramatic, not sudden, but slow and quiet and completely invisible to everyone around you. It is about Margaret. It is about the 14.7 million Americans over 65 living alone right now. It is about the neighbor who almost didn't knock. And it is about what changes when somebody finally does. THE NUMBER THIS WEEK Fifty-eight hours. That is the average amount of time that passes between when an elderly person dies alone at home and when anyone realizes they are gone. Let that sit for a second. IN THIS EPISODE The story of Margaret and what seventeen house plants have to do with survivalWhy one in four people worldwide have no one they would call in a crisisThe friendship recession and how we got hereWhat it actually means that the Surgeon General declared loneliness a public health epidemicWhy we stopped knocking on each other's doors and what it is costing us every single dayWhat community living changes about all of it THIS WEEK'S QUESTION Who in your life has seventeen house plants and no one to notice when they stop watering them? Who is one knock away from being found? SHARE YOUR STORY Do you know someone who is disappearing? Have you been there yourself? Ann wants to hear it. btgmpodcast@gmail.com CONNECT WITH ANN @before.they.go.missinglinktr.ee/btgmpodcast IF THIS EPISODE HITS HOME988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline — call or text 988Institute on Aging Friendship Line, for adults 60+, 24/7 — 800-971-0016 Before They Go Missing is a solo podcast by Ann Reynolds. New episodes every week. Prevention before disappearance. Follow the show. Share this episode. Leave a comment below.

    19분
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Before They Go Missing is a solo podcast by Ann Reynolds about the people who disappear — not dramatically, not suddenly — but quietly, in rooms no one checks on. Loneliness. Grief. Mental health. Housing insecurity. System failures. Every episode tells one story and asks one question. New episodes every week.

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    Ann Reynolds
  • 방송 연도
    2026년
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