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This Is Actually Happening

Wondery

Through first person, short format storytelling with no commentary, This Is Actually Happening probes the chaotic interiors of the human experience as we find out what happens when everythin...

Episodes

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Season 8 Announcements

Announcements for the upcoming 8th Season of This Is Actually Happening, starting Tuesday August 7th, 2018.

03:26Jul 31, 2018

#112: What if a murderer appeared at your bedroom door?

"What happened to me is one of those things where people say, like, 'that could never happen to you.' So now once that happened, it's like w...

56:36May 1, 2018

#111: What if you had to relearn who you are?

"It put everything that I thought about myself into question...I didn't know what I believed. I didn't know what was real, what was fake." P...

37:57Apr 18, 2018

#110: What if everything turned into mayhem?

"It was absolutely like a nightmare. At the same time you're realizing you're never going to wake up from this nightmare because this is rea...

49:52Apr 3, 2018

#109: What if you were sideswiped into a whole new world?

"I didn't know what the real world was. I wasn't quite oriented...I can't describe it." Producer: Whit Missildine thisisactuallyhappening.or...

36:46Mar 20, 2018

#108: What if you didn't know what they would do to you?

"When the people that are doing this to you look as scared as you are it kind of adds to the fear and to the chaos and to the 'you don't kno...

38:47Mar 7, 2018

#107: What if the pain wouldn't go away?

"If I had thought that life was good and good things happened and things were happy, I would have been crushed into the ground. It would hav...

30:53Feb 20, 2018

#106: What if you had to fight to be yourself?

"We don't have growth unless there's pain, and I needed that time to hit rockbottom, so that I could look for a solution." Producer: Whit Mi...

49:13Feb 6, 2018

#105: What if your deepest fear was your greatest pleasure?

"Those weird moments of tension...that moment of uncertainty but impending doom...I don't think anything really ever matched that." Producer...

50:06Jan 23, 2018

Best of TIAH #1 - Rebroadcast - #79: What if the happiest place on earth was your worst nightmare?

This fall I conducted a poll on our Instagram page (actuallyhappening) asking fans of the show to vote on their favorite episodes. As promis...

35:58Jan 16, 2018

Best of TIAH #2 - Rebroadcast - #67: What if you woke up in the morgue?

This fall I conducted a poll on our Instagram page (actuallyhappening) asking fans of the show to vote on their favorite episodes. As promis...

19:55Jan 10, 2018

Best of TIAH #3 - Rebroadcast - #63: What if another realm moved through you?

This fall I conducted a poll on our Instagram page (actuallyhappening) asking fans of the show to vote on their favorite episodes. As promis...

28:48Jan 4, 2018

Best of TIAH #4 - Rebroadcast - #68: What if your sister had five personalities?

This fall I conducted a poll on our Instagram page (@actuallyhappening) asking fans of the show to vote on their favorite episodes. As promi...

31:21Dec 28, 2017

Best of TIAH #5 - Rebroadcast - #89: What if you spent 15 hours on the edge of sanity?

This fall I conducted a poll on our Instagram page asking fans of the show to vote on their favorite episodes. As promised I will be releasi...

43:35Dec 21, 2017

#104: What if you woke up to a loud bang?

"There is no answer, I'll never get my apology…I'll never get my closure." Producers: Whit Missildine and Lisa Zaid - thisisactuallyhappenin...

49:17Dec 12, 2017

#103: What if you had a ten year nightmare?

"The hardest part is that I still don't have any answers...what came into my house that night?" Producers: Whit Missildine - thisisactuallyh...

44:55Nov 28, 2017

#102: What if your origins were a mystery?

"I walk around and there's still kind of like an emptiness. For all I know I could be a government experiment....but part of it is kind of e...

38:54Nov 14, 2017

#101: What if you sacrificed yourself for your country?

"When you're on deployment, your body's in a different place. So when I got back home my body knew I was safe, so that's when my body shut d...

46:52Oct 31, 2017

#100: What if he wouldn't let you leave?

"I just didn't feel like a person, I didn't feel like I was a being walking on this planet a lot of the time." Producers: Whit Missildine -...

54:39Oct 17, 2017

#99: What if you kept getting back up again?

"Life will try to take you out itself...When I look back at this situation, people don't even know that I go through the s**t that I go thro...

41:57Sep 29, 2017