320: What if your mom believed she was the good witch?

This Is Actually Happening

Wondery

True Crime, Tiah, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Growing up with a mother who used practiced an abusive form of spiritual voodoo, a man seeks to numb his pain, but after tragedy and a descent into crack addiction, he finally finds the cure he’d been looking for.

Today’s episode featured Will Taylor.

Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Sara Marinelli

Content/Trigger Warnings: abuse of a minor, drug abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence, murder, death, graphic bodily injury, explicit language

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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. Being bullied by her so long, being bullied by her so long, being scared of
0:20.5	disappointing her or saying no. Maybe if I fight back, maybe I would die, maybe I would lose an eye, maybe I lose a tooth. I couldn't run for my mom because I got to go back home. This is where I live, but if I go back
0:37.5	home, it's going to be imaginable what she's going to do to me. From Wundry, I'm Witt Misleine.
0:50.0	You are listening to this is actually. From Wundery, I'm Witt Misildine.
0:53.2	You are listening to this is actually happening.
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2:23.0	Follow a British scandal wherever you listen to your podcasts. My father was a very hardworking man. He worked for a vending company. He worked there 22 years in Flint, Michigan. That was where I born and raised in Flint, Michigan.
2:55.0	When we get ready to start to go to school, my mother would buy us school clothes,
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