264: What if you were carjacked at gunpoint?
This Is Actually Happening
Wondery
4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
A woman struggles to break free from the rules of her strict and sheltered upbringing, but after battling a derealization disorder and finding a new life for herself, she faces a danger she could never have imagined.
Producer: Whit Missildine, Sara Marinelli
Content/Trigger Warnings: mental illness, depression, derealization/depersonalization, kidnapping, sexual assault, sexual abuse, explicit language
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| 0:08.7 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
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| 0:16.6 | information about support services. |
| 0:20.1 | My stomach just felt like it turned over on itself. |
| 0:30.5 | That feeling of the brain just trying trying trying trying there's got to be a solution. |
| 0:35.6 | There's a solution and all the solutions are slowly being tried and shot down. |
| 0:41.4 | I don't think I've ever felt so alert and alive in my entire life. |
| 0:47.7 | From Wondery, I'm Whit Missildine. |
| 0:59.0 | You are listening to this is actually happening. |
| 1:08.6 | Episode 264. |
| 1:12.1 | What if you were Car Jacked at Gunpoint? |
| 1:20.2 | 13 years ago in one of the cramped dorm rooms of prestigious Sarallorance College, a nightmare |
| 1:25.8 | unfolded. |
| 1:26.8 | The students didn't know it yet, but when a bizarre new roommate moved in, he would change |
| 1:31.3 | their lives forever. |
| 1:32.7 | Devil in the dorm, an exclusive new podcast on Wondery Plus, dives into the horrifying |
| 1:37.9 | story of Larry Ray, who moved into the dorms with his daughter. |
| 1:41.7 | Shortly thereafter, he started to control, manipulate, and brainwash some of the students. |
| 1:46.7 | Before long, Ray had amassed what could be best described as a small cult following. |
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