297: What if you were a human jumper cable?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Finally emerging from her critical and violent home life, a teenager suffers a freak electrocution from a downed power line, sending unexpected shockwaves through her and her family.
Today’s episode featured Ann Kronlage. You can find out more about Ann on Instagram @annclairekronlage, or you can contact her over email at annclairekronlage@gmail.com. Ann also wrote a memoir about her experiences and shares more about her life after in her book: More Than Skin Deep, which you can find on Amazon www.amazon.com/More-Than-Skin-Deep-Memoir-ebook/dp/B09P22D5YL. Ann also ask that we include a psa video about what happened to her and how to prevent it from happening to anybody else. You can see it here: https://youtu.be/fLVzvMTgGDY
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits
Content/Trigger Warnings: domestic violence, gun violence, graphic bodily injury, medical trauma, electrocution, explicit language
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.1 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. A quick announcement before today's episode. |
| 0:17.0 | Our friends Ellington T over at the Trauma Bonded Podcast have released a follow-up interview with the storyteller from This is Actually Happening, episode 128, titled, What If Your Son stabbed your daughter? |
| 0:31.0 | It's been five years since she shared her family's tragic story |
| 0:34.0 | with us and now you can listen to an update from her about herself and her family |
| 0:38.1 | on the Trauma Bonded Podcast. |
| 0:42.1 | Fear of the unknown controls everything. Fear controls. And I just went home and prayed and said, well God, I want to give you my fear. Here, you take my fear away. |
| 0:55.0 | Here, you hold on to my fear. I'm Witt Misleine. You are listening to this is actually happening. |
| 1:22.0 | Episode two ninety-seven. Episode 297. |
| 1:23.0 | What if you were a human jumper cable? |
| 1:27.0 | Ghosts aren't real. Ghosts aren't real. At least as a journalist that's what I've always believed. |
| 1:37.6 | Sure odd things happen in my childhood bedroom, but ultimately I shrugged it all off. |
| 1:42.4 | That is until a couple of years ago when I discovered But ultimately I shrugged it all off. |
| 1:42.6 | That is, until a couple of years ago, |
| 1:44.4 | when I discovered that every subsequent occupant of that house |
| 1:47.6 | is convinced they've experienced something inexplicable too, |
| 1:50.8 | including the most recent inhabitant who says she was visited at night by the ghost of a faceless woman. |
| 1:56.0 | And it gets even stranger. |
| 1:58.0 | It just so happens that the alleged ghost haunted my childhood room might just be my wife's great-grandmother who was murdered in the |
| 2:04.9 | house next door by two gunshots to the face. |
| 2:08.7 | From Wandering and Pineapple Street Studios comes Ghost Story, a podcast about family secrets, overwhelming coincidence, and the things that come back to haunt us. |
| 2:17.5 | Follow Ghost Story on the Wandry app or wherever you get your podcast. |
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