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.

370: What if a bullet took your sight but not your vision?

A young father who rose up from the streets to achieve his musical dream is gunned down by a stranger...

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368: What if you were the only one left to grieve?

A young girl's world shatters when one night, her mother’s stalker, who has threatened to annihilate...

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Listen Now: Liberty Lost

In Evangelical homes across the United States, sex outside of marriage is a sin against God. So, when...

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367: What if you were imprisoned in the Federal Supermax?

Witnessing widespread disenfranchisement ignites a young man's radicalization, ultimately landing him...

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366: What if you infiltrated a doomsday hate militia?

A young man channels his early struggles with anger into a dangerous undercover law enforcement career,...

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365: What if they believed you staged your own kidnapping? Part 2: Denise

A young woman is kidnapped, assaulted and released by perpetrators, but a far greater trauma lurks as...

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Wondery Presents: How to Survive Against the Odds

Inspired by Wondery’s hit podcast Against the Odds—learn how to survive whatever nature can throw...

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364: What if they believed you staged your own kidnapping? Part 1: Aaron

A privileged young man, on the cusp of reconciling with his true love, is tied up in a home invasion...

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363: What if you dedicated your life to ending human trafficking?

Dedicated to eradicating human trafficking, a purpose-driven young man's world is shattered by a politician's...

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362: What if you wrote your way out of prison?

Cultivating rage as a solution to inherited trauma, a young man commits murder over a five-dollar dispute,...

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361: What if your sister’s death was an unsolved mystery?

Driven by her sister's mysterious death, a woman's life transforms into a struggle for understanding...

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360: What if you were lost in an Arctic blizzard?

A man’s elective amputation sets him free to be the adventurer he’s always wanted to be, but the...

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Listen Now: Death County, PA

Lamont Jones leaves Dauphin County Prison for the last time, a free man ready to move on with his life....

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359: What if you nearly froze to death?

A police cadet takes a risky shortcut home one evening, only to find herself trapped and helpless as...

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358: What if you were recruited to fight an invisible war?

A young actor, who seeks a greater purpose, is recruited into a clandestine war for humanity's soul,...

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357: What if you were the girl locked upstairs?

A vulnerable girl, having already endured abuse from her schizophrenic mother, loses her freedom and...

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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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