350: What if you were held captive in plain sight?
This Is Actually Happening
Wondery
4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
A mental health professional in a turbulent marriage makes a fresh start in Hawaii, but after befriending a charming older man she finds herself trapped in an unthinkable nightmare that leads her to question everything.
Today’s episode featured Naazh. You can reach out to her at [email protected], and you can find out more about her at naazh.org.
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Forrest Chiras
Content/Trigger Warnings: racism, Native American trauma, alcoholism/pill abuse, suicide/suicidal ideation, house fire, animal death from house fire, animal injury from house fire, teen bullying/”slut shaming”, partner abuse/domestic violence, trapped/held captive, animal hunting, divorce, female surgery, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to exclusive episodes of This Is Actually Happening |
| 0:05.0 | by joining Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | This Is Actually Happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:14.0 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode |
| 0:17.0 | and for more information about support services. |
| 0:30.2 | Hi, listeners. Just a reminder that if you haven't already, please check out our listener survey. We've come up with a short survey for the audience, which you can find linked in our |
| 0:34.6 | show notes and in the bio of our Instagram page, at Actually Happening. |
| 0:38.7 | For those of you who've already completed it, thank you so much. |
| 0:41.8 | We've loved seeing all your responses. |
| 0:43.9 | And for those who haven't seen it yet, we'd love to hear your opinions and feedback, |
| 0:48.1 | and we'd really appreciate your point of view. |
| 0:50.4 | So check out the show notes to this episode, or the link in the bio of our Instagram page for our listener's survey at Actually Happening. |
| 0:58.0 | And now we bring you today's episode. What if you were held captive in plain sight? |
| 1:05.0 | When your leg is broken, if you have a bone sticking out of your leg, are you really going to just sit home and think that you |
| 1:11.1 | can just deal with it on your own? And when we are broken mentally, I wish, I wish that there was |
| 1:18.7 | something visual so that people could see that we have broken bones sticking out all over. |
| 1:36.6 | From Wondery, I'm Witt Misseldine. |
| 1:40.2 | You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. Episode 347. |
| 1:49.0 | What if you were held captive in plain sight? Now streaming on Apple TV Plus. |
| 2:01.5 | You're looking for sequences in prime numbers. |
| 2:04.2 | What if numbers didn't behave the way we assume? |
| 2:06.3 | The world's greatest mind. |
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