27 episodes

Things don’t always go as planned: Sometimes a drive in the mountains, or a swim in the ocean, suddenly turns into a dangerous situation. Other times it might be a medical emergency, or a family lost in a foreign country. These are the true stories of people helping people during the most pivotal moments in their lives.

Each episode also includes a conversation with an expert to provide added advice around crisis situations. Featured guests from the first two seasons include a psychologist, a search-and-rescue expert offering practical tips for surviving a blizzard when you are caught in a remote area, an emergency management expert and many more. Tell Me What Happened is brought to you by OnStar.

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    • Society & Culture
    • 4.7 • 221 Ratings

Things don’t always go as planned: Sometimes a drive in the mountains, or a swim in the ocean, suddenly turns into a dangerous situation. Other times it might be a medical emergency, or a family lost in a foreign country. These are the true stories of people helping people during the most pivotal moments in their lives.

Each episode also includes a conversation with an expert to provide added advice around crisis situations. Featured guests from the first two seasons include a psychologist, a search-and-rescue expert offering practical tips for surviving a blizzard when you are caught in a remote area, an emergency management expert and many more. Tell Me What Happened is brought to you by OnStar.

    Trapped in a Flooding Elevator

    Trapped in a Flooding Elevator

    When Gabriel Otrin and Klever Freire stepped into their office elevator, they naturally assumed they’d be able to get out. It was August 2018, and a massive downpour was causing floods all over Toronto. Gabriel and Klever were working late and went to check on Klever’s car in the basement garage. Before they reached the bottom, however, the elevator stopped with a jerk and began to quickly fill with water. They couldn’t open the doors. They were trapped.

    • 25 min
    Badly Burned in Iceland

    Badly Burned in Iceland

    Nicole Rakowski arrived in Iceland looking for adventure. She left in a wheelchair. In February 2017, Nicole and two friends hiked to a natural hot spring just south of Reykjavík. When they arrived, Nicole took off her boots, changed into her bathing suit and stepped onto the riverbank beside the steaming water. She immediately began to sink into the mud and felt excruciating pain. She screamed for help.

    • 26 min
    Introducing Season 4 of Tell Me What Happened

    Introducing Season 4 of Tell Me What Happened

    Tell Me What Happened — the award-winning podcast about people helping people — is returning this March!

    • 2 min
    Saved from the Nazis, Rescued from Ukraine

    Saved from the Nazis, Rescued from Ukraine

    In 1941, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, the Bogancha family saved two young Jewish girls from Nazi soldiers, giving them fake identities and hiding them in an orphanage. That act of kindness would ripple across time and, amazingly, lead to the help their descendants needed after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

    • 28 min
    A Panic Attack and a Calming Voice

    A Panic Attack and a Calming Voice

    When her crowded New York City subway train screeched to an emergency stop, K.Page Stuart Valdes melted in fear. She’d recently had a stroke nobody could explain. Terrified it would happen again, right there surrounded by strangers, K.Page felt anxiety wash over her. Until one warm voice cut through the fog.

    • 24 min
    Frozen and Fading in the Buffalo Blizzard

    Frozen and Fading in the Buffalo Blizzard

    On the morning of Christmas Eve 2022, Joe White set out on the long walk to his job in the North Park neighborhood of Buffalo, New York. Joe has autism and he didn’t realize he was walking into the deadliest winter storm to hit the region in a century. Severely frostbitten and disoriented, Joe stumbled into snowdrifts and called out for help. A stranger heard his plea.

    • 23 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
221 Ratings

221 Ratings

Carla Filla ,

Touching stories

These are good stories and short enough for my children to even listen to them while in the car. I preview to make sure they aren’t too graphic or traumatic sounding and will pick the ones I think they will learn and enjoy. My children are preteen and older so I feel like it’s a good fit: inspiring, educational and entertaining. I love the beginning intro in which the narrator/host reminds us that everyday we might be a person in need of help or the one able to help. A great reminder for us all. Good job, Onstar!

B B Lang ,

So good and uplifting!

I love these podcasts and they’re so good to liste. To with kids in the car as well. That’s a difficult find these days.

earbud gal ,

Great podcast

I loved listening to this podcast, but unfortunately they haven’t added any new episodes since August. Please add more!!

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