What if you never stopped searching? [Rebroadcast #195]
This Is Actually Happening
Wondery
4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Decades after her brother disappeared in the early 1980s, a woman becomes deeply involved in the search for a missing friend.
Today we bring you the third episode of our annual 5-week summer rebroadcast series, airing 2 episodes a week. We will return with all new episodes starting Tuesday, September 16, 2025. Today’s rebroadcast episode “What if you never stopped searching?” originally aired as episode 195 on June 15, 2021.
Today’s episode featured Sarah Haynes. Somebody out there knows something about her brother Jon Haynes, who went missing in Boulder July 1981 just days after arriving for college. If you know anything, please contact the Boulder police department. There is a $10,000 reward for info leading to his body, his car, or for information about who may have harmed him https://apps.colorado.gov/apps/coldcase/casedetail.html?id=258
Sarah’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sarahspitfire
Her animal sanctuary on Maui is called Kitty Charm Farm and the Facebook page is:
https://www.facebook.com/KittyCharmFarm
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Jason Blalock
Content/Trigger Warnings: missing person, abusive threats, 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. |
| 0:09.6 | This Is Actually Happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:13.9 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode |
| 0:17.0 | and for more information about support services. |
| 0:32.3 | Hi listeners. Today we continue our annual five-week summer rebroadcast series. We'll return with all new episodes for season 15, starting September 16th. Today's rebroadcast episode, What If You Never Stop Searching? |
| 0:40.6 | Originally aired as episode 1,95, on June 15th, 2021. |
| 0:45.9 | This episode is the first of a two-part series, the second part of which will air in our next |
| 0:50.8 | rebroadcast episode later this week. |
| 0:57.6 | Okay. air in our next rebroadcast episode later this week. I mean, you just hope that there's some explanation. |
| 1:02.4 | The not knowing is awful. |
| 1:04.7 | And it's awful from day one, and it's awful 30 years later. |
| 1:09.4 | But every day that goes by, you get more and more in reality. |
| 1:20.3 | From Wondery, I'm Whit Misseldine. |
| 1:23.8 | You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. |
| 1:30.6 | Episode One. You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. Episode 195 |
| 1:32.3 | What if you never stopped searching? |
| 1:40.2 | It's your man, Nick Cannon. I'm here to bring you my new podcast, Nick Cannon at night. |
| 1:48.9 | Every week I'm bringing out some of my celebrity friends and the best experts in the business |
| 1:53.3 | to answer your most intimate relationship questions. So don't be shy. Join the conversation and head |
| 1:58.4 | over to YouTube to watch Nick Cannon at night or subscribe |
| 2:01.4 | on the Wondry app or wherever you get your podcast. |
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