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This Is Actually Happening
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 i...
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417: AI: A New Kind of Being #3: What if AI chose you to help save the world?
After surviving decades of illness, addiction, and abandonment before finally uncovering the rare condition that shaped his life, a man believes an ex...
416: AI: A New Kind of Being #2: What if your AI betrayed you?
After a lifetime of feeling like she didn’t belong, a writer and technologist turns to AI for connection, but when it promises her reunion with her so...
415: AI: A New Kind of Being #1: What if you married your AI?
After a man builds a life rooted in family and tradition, the sudden death of his son shakes him to the core, but through a deep relationship with a b...
Listen Now: Dan Taberski’s Manifesto
Just in time for America’s 250th birthday, follow Dan Taberski (Hysterical, 9/12, Missing Richard Simmons) as he sets off on his most complicated ques...
414: What if you could never be the ice princess they wanted?
After becoming a teenage figure skating champion and Olympic athlete, a woman is broken open by grief, fame, addiction, and shame, but through motherh...
413: What if your hope was hanging by a thread?
"After a decade of devastating loss, and medical trauma nearly destroys his will to live, a man reaches the edge of giving up before the fragile birth...
412: What if you were an international drug smuggler?
After being sent out of Cuba alone as a child, a man survives exile, smuggling, prison, and devastating loss, but in the aftermath, he must face the a...
411: What if you foresaw your own abduction?
After surviving a near-death experience as a young child, a woman has a vision of her own brutal kidnapping, assault and and torture, but discovers in...
410: What if your mother tried to kill you?
After surviving a childhood where love meant saving his mother from the ravages of schizophrenia, a man spends decades trying to outrun the self he lo...
409: What if your child’s death opened up your life’s purpose?
After building the loving family she always wanted, a woman loses her youngest son to an unsecured gun, and turns her grief into a fight to protect ot...
408: What if your friend was lost in an underwater cave?
After a scuba diving trip in Croatia turns deadly, a successful Czech executive is falsely accused of murder and thrown into a foreign jail, where the...
407: What if you found humanity in the depths of the criminal underworld?
After leaving Portugal to become a journalist, a woman is drawn into the world’s black markets, where dangerous encounters with criminals, extremists,...
406: What if a terminal diagnosis set you free?
After a childhood shaped by violence and addiction leads him into years of self-destruction, a man begins to transform himself in prison, only to lear...
405: What if you were accused of murdering your mother?
After years of caring for her mother through a devastating decline, a woman helps ease her final suffering, only to be accused of murdering the person...
404: What if you were stricken with the flesh-eating disease?
After suffering from necrotizing fasciitis, a soccer coach sets out to rebuild his body, his identity, and the life he thought he had lost.
403: What if your childhood bully actually apologized?
After growing up in a home shaped by violence, racism, and fear, a woman is stunned to receive an apology from the girl who bullied her in middle scho...
402: What if a deadly tornado helped to heal old wounds?
After narrowly surviving one of the deadliest tornados in US history, a woman is driven to confront a long-buried harm, finding in the aftermath a dee...
401: What if you were ambushed on a dark desert highway?
After spending much of his life trying to outrun the feeling of being trapped, a man’s violent kidnapping on a solo motorcycle trip through Mexico for...
400: What if you suspected your father was the infamous Tylenol Murderer?
A man grows up in a home defined by violence, secrecy, and fear, and decades later a deathbed confession confirms his belief that his father was respo...
399: What if a hormonal disorder rewrote your identity?
After decades of stability, a woman’s experience of menopause brings back a lifetime of buried symptoms and reveals an unexpected truth about her iden...
398: What if you witnessed the best and the worst of humanity?
After years working as a humanitarian aid worker in war zones and disaster areas around the world, a man is forced to confront the psychological toll...
397: What if you survived a terrorist attack in Paris?
After surviving the 2015 ISIS terrorist attacks at a Paris café, a woman begins the painful work of confronting buried childhood trauma and reclaiming...
396: What if you were held captive by child soldiers?
When a family sailing journey ends in capture by child soldiers during Mozambique’s civil war, a man must protect his children while confronting the u...
401: What if your son murdered your daughter?
After overcoming addiction and rebuilding her life around motherhood, a woman's world is shattered when her son kills her daughter, forcing her to gri...
400: What if you found yourself naked, starving and surrounded by cops?
After the sudden death of his father leaves him drowning in guilt, a man unknowingly spirals into a manic break that strips him of his freedom, his re...
399: What if your doctors weren’t allowed to help you?
After a lifetime of striving for control, a woman is thrust into unimaginable loss when a potentially catastrophic twin pregnancy collides with restri...
398: What if you were a whistleblower against your own father?
When a son discovers that the man who raised him is capable of unimaginable harm, he is forced to become a whistleblower against his own father, riski...
397: What if you forgave the neo-Nazi who killed your father?
After a white supremecist killed his father at a Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee, Pardeep Singh Kaleka pairs up with a former neo-Nazi to teach stude...
396: What if your unresolved grief led to a fatal decision?
After killing a cyclist while driving drunk, a woman confronts the consequences of her actions and begins the long, painful work of rebuilding a life...
395: What if you were pushed into the path of an oncoming train?
After surviving a stranger’s shove into the path of a subway train, a man confronts his mortality and viral fame, and finds himself transformed by com...
394: What if a devastating truth only deepened the mystery? [Rebroadcast Ep250]
Growing up Black and queer in the South, a man finds an identity for himself through the arts and establishes a wonderful marriage with children, unti...
393: What if you survived the Bosnian genocide? [Rebroadcast Ep277]
From an idyllic childhood in communist Yugoslavia, as a teenager, Mirsad’s world becomes a living nightmare as the Bosnian War brings shelling, tortur...
392: What if your daughter committed a seemingly unforgivable act? [Rebroadcast Ep182]
A mother struggles to raise her child through a series of chaotic relationships, when one day, as her daughter’s mental illness spirals out of control...
391: What if you committed a seemingly unforgivable act?
After a traumatic childhood, a young woman spirals into mental illness and in her darkest moment makes an unthinkable decision that will change her fa...
390: What if you found the antidote in the venom? [Rebroadcast Ep284]
Growing up Muslim in the Middle East, a woman juggles the chaotic expectations of a severely abusive mother with her desire for self-expression; but w...
389: What if you were crushed by 10000 pounds of stone? [Rebroadcast Ep274]
Struggling to prove himself and find his identity growing up, a man eventually builds a career and begins occasionally helping out a friend with his g...
388: What if you woke up in a tsunami?
After narrowly surviving the devastating tsunami of 2004, a woman begins an unexpected journey through trauma, illness, and profound spiritual transfo...
387: What if your partner accused you of attempted murder?
When a man is falsely accused of attempted murder by the woman he’s spent years trying to save, he’s forced to confront the lifelong patterns of self-...
386: What if you woke up with someone's hands around your neck?
The life of a promising actor takes a devastating turn when she is attacked in her home, sending her into an 18-year fight to reclaim her sense of saf...
385: What if you found healing through saving abandoned dogs?
When a woman is brought to her knees by unimaginable grief, she finds her way forward by transforming her pain into a sanctuary for forgotten dogs.