381: What if you opened a portal to the world next door?

This Is Actually Happening

Wondery

True Crime, Tiah, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When a woman begins waking up to a supernatural entity crawling behind her, she realizes the door she opened as a child was never closed.

Today’s episode featured Emilie Lemire. If you’d like to reach out to Emilie, you can find her on Instagram @fitnurse_em

Producers: Whit Missildine, PRX and Echoverse, a next-generation studio that creates premium sci-fi, supernatural and fantasy audio content. If you’d like to find out more about Echoverse and check out their slate of amazing scripted and non-scripted podcasts, please go to echoverse.com. A special thanks to Mark Stern and the PRX team.

Content/Trigger Warnings: Supernatural / paranormal experiences, Sleep paralysis, Night terrors, Fear and panic attacks, Psychological distress, Childhood trauma, Spiritual / occult themes (Ouija board), Emotional isolation, Anxiety and insomnia, explicit language

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Transcript

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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.
0:10.0	This Is Actually Happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events.
0:14.2	Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode
0:17.4	and for more information about support services.
0:27.0	Hi listeners.
0:29.7	We're thrilled to bring you a special episode today that was produced in collaboration with PRX and Echoverse,
0:33.2	a next-generation studio that creates premium sci-fi,
0:36.5	supernatural, and fantasy audio content.
0:38.8	If you'd like to find out more about Echoverse and check out their slate of amazing scripted and non-scripted podcasts,
0:44.5	please go to Echoverse.com.
0:47.0	A special thanks to Mark Stern and the PRX team for helping bring us today's story.
0:51.3	And now, on to our episode.
0:54.0	What if you opened a portal to the
0:55.8	world next door? The thought of speaking to this being, to whatever it was, absolutely terrified
1:06.7	me. And on top of that, this thought of speaking to a quiet room in the middle of the night,
1:13.7	I could not muster up the courage to do that because I was so afraid of what if it speaks back.
1:31.0	From Wondery, I'm Whit Misselledyne. You're listening to This Is Actually Happening.
1:38.5	Episode 381.
1:42.6	What if you opened a portal to the world next door?
1:55.5	It's your man, Nick Cannon, I'm here to bring you my new podcast, Nick Cannon at night.
2:00.2	Every week, I'm bringing out some of my celebrity friends and the best experts in the business
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