Ep. - 1652 - DIRECTOR OF ABANDONED ON HULU
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.7 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Carlos Alonso Ojea, director of Abandoned on Hulu, the real-life mystery of three siblings—aged 2, 4, and 6—who were discovered at a Barcelona train station in 1984 with no identification and no memory of who they were or where they came from.
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| 0:00.0 | The amazing Kate Casey. |
| 0:04.2 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with Kate Casey. |
| 0:07.7 | Today's episode is about Abandoned on Hulu. |
| 0:11.8 | On April 22nd, 1984, three children appeared alone at a train station in Barcelona, Spain. |
| 0:18.6 | They were six, four, and two years old. Their names were Ramon, |
| 0:23.5 | Ricard, and Ervida. They didn't know their last name. They didn't know their parents' names. |
| 0:29.3 | They did not know why they were sitting on a bench at the Estacio de Franca without an adult. |
| 0:34.5 | But what they did know was that a man named Denny, a friend of their fathers, |
| 0:39.0 | had sat them down, told them he was going to get them candy, and he never came back. |
| 0:44.8 | The children spoke only French, and they said they were from Paris. Station workers found |
| 0:49.9 | them. Child services took them in, and then something happened that would define the next 40 years |
| 0:55.6 | of their lives. Nobody came to claim them. Not that day, not that week, not ever. They were eventually |
| 1:04.3 | adopted by two educators in Barcelona, a couple who had suffered three miscarriages before that. |
| 1:13.5 | Three losses, three children who needed somewhere to land. And there is a version of this story where timing reads as coincidence, |
| 1:18.7 | but I don't think that it does. Now, even with all that love, it did not erase the question underneath |
| 1:25.7 | it. They grew up, they became adults, and they carried |
| 1:29.7 | with them for decades the most fundamental unanswered question that a person can have. |
| 1:34.6 | Who are we? But also, why were we left? Now, I want you to think about what it means to not know |
| 1:42.4 | your own last name at the age of six, |
| 1:44.9 | to have a two-year-old sister who has no memory of a life before a bench at a train station, |
| 1:50.3 | to grow up in a city that is not the city you came from, in a family that is not the family |
| 1:54.9 | you were born into, with a past that exists somewhere, in France, in Belgium, but that you cannot access because the |
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