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.

356: What if they stole a year of your life?

Abandoned after his parents’ devastating divorce, a neglected teenage son is committed to a psychiatric...

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Listen Now: Don’t Cross Kat

Kat Torres has the insta-perfect life. She is rich, gorgeous and not ashamed to share it. Her posts...

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355: A World Beyond Revenge: What if you identified the wrong man?

After a brutal assault in the 1980s, a young woman identifies the wrong man as her attacker, but once...

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354: A World Beyond Revenge: What if your son was killed by a distracted driver?

A turbulent father-son relationship shatters completely when the son is killed by a distracted driver,...

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Introducing: Law & Crime’s LUIGI

When Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, the media called it a senseless...

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353: A World Beyond Revenge: What if you were the common denominator?

After committing acts of extreme violence as a teenager, a man is unable to shed his rage and find healing,...

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Restorative Justice in the UK vs the US: A Conversation with Keeva Baxter

As part of our series, “A World Beyond Revenge” on Restorative Justice, today’s episode features...

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353: A World Beyond Revenge: What if they got the wrong guy?

After an unsuspecting man is brutally beaten in a surprise attack, he faces crippling anxiety, rage...

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352: The Framework of Restorative Justice: A Conversation with Yoana Tchoukleva

As part of our series, “A World Beyond Revenge” on Restorative Justice, today’s episode features...

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351: A World Beyond Revenge: What if your brother was murdered in a hate crime?

A woman’s brother, David, is murdered in a hate crime, and she spirals into a cycle of revenge,...

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Listen Now: Scam Factory

You know those messages that you get all the time, the ones that pop up out of nowhere? They could be...

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350: What if nothing could tear us apart? Part 2: Daniel

A young man searching for acceptance and purpose falls into a life of crippling addiction and loses...

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Introducing: Blood Vines

Get ready for a whole new vintage of true crime podcast with Blood Vines, available exclusively on Wondery+.Hosted...

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349: What if nothing could tear us apart? Part 1: Donna

A young woman swept up in a whirlwind romance spirals into drug addiction, which takes everything from...

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348: What if you survived the Burundian genocide?

During the 1993 mass killing of Tutsis in Burundi, a young man raised in a tight-knit community becomes...

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350: What if you were held captive in plain sight?

A mental health professional in a turbulent marriage makes a fresh start in Hawaii, but after befriending...

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Listen Now: We Came to the Forest

Vienna is working a delivery job when she hears about Cop City, a massive police training facility planned...

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349: What if you risked your freedom to liberate the animals?

A bullied boy finds companionship in his animal friends, but as he grows up and finds himself trapped...

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348: What if you were a political hostage in Iran?

After accidentally crossing the border into Iran on a hike with her friend and her partner, a woman...

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Introducing: Encounters

Encounters dives into one of the most famous and unsolved UFO encounters to ever take place in the UK....

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347: What if you survived a serial killer? [Rebroadcast #259]

While pregnant and navigating a rocky relationship, a woman coming home from a local fair stops for...

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346: What if you ran the ER five blocks away? [Rebroadcast #202]

On September 11th, 2001 an ER Doctor finds himself in charge of the closest emergency room to the Twin...

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345: What if nine bullets shattered your dreams? [Rebroadcast #240]

Growing up with a single mother and a father in jail, a dancer’s life is forever changed when one...

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344: What if you spent 7 years in a Thai prison?

After developing a severe heroin addiction as a teenager, a woman winds up incarcerated in Thailand,...

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