Tania Head: 9/11 Trauma Fraud | #416

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Wondery | RedHanded

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4.5 • 18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Being in the World Trade Centre when the second plane hit the South Tower; watching her assistant be decapitated; crawling over the bodies of her dead and injured co-workers; and becoming one of only nineteen people to survive being at or above the point of impact: these are all things Tania Head did not experience.

Yet for six years, Tania (real name Alicia) was the 9/11 survivor. She inspired others, worked tirelessly for their cause, and even became a beacon of hope as the president of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network.

This is how the greatest 9/11 story ever told turned out to be a hoax.

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1:23.7	I'm Surruti.
1:25.1	I'm Hannah.
1:26.1	And welcome to.
1:27.4	I'm right-handed. How How you feeling? Ready to go?
1:30.8	Me personally? Yeah. Or listener, viewer. You? Me? Fine. I feel fine.
1:36.3	I feel fine. Excited. This is a case I've had on my list for a very, very long time. And it's quite unsatisfying because it's like the 24th anniversary this year.
1:45.9	Should have held out for next year.
1:48.1	But, hey, man, we can't do Harambe and Tanja Head in the same year.
1:52.2	The world will explode.
1:53.4	It's true.
1:54.1	And look, we had to do it this year because if you're listening to this on the day of release, general release,
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