

Something Was Wrong
Broken Cycle Media
Something Was Wrong is an award-winning docuseries about survivors' discovery, trauma, and recovery from crime and abuse.
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Sep 1, 2022 • 43min
S13 Ep18: [Claire + Riley] He's Done It Again
*Content Warning: This episode includes descriptions of grooming, sexual and emotional abuse of minors, disordered eating, obsessive compulsive disorder and suicidal ideation.
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SWW’s theme music – U think U by Glad Rags, from their album Wonder Under.

Aug 25, 2022 • 42min
S13 Ep17: [Claire + Riley] I Might Not Be Alone
*Content Warning: This episode includes descriptions of grooming, sexual and emotional abuse of minors, disordered eating, obsessive compulsive disorder and suicidal ideation.
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SWW’s theme music – U think U by Glad Rags, from their album Wonder Under.

Aug 18, 2022 • 1h 3min
S13 Ep16: [Sadie + Levi] A Dream Come True
*Content warning: fraud, gaslighting.
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SWW’s theme music – U think U by Glad Rags, from their album Wonder Under.

Aug 11, 2022 • 53min
S13 Ep15: [Grace] We All Turned Into Numbers
*Content warning: This episode includes discussion of bullying, harassment, stalking, emotional and physical violence, cyber harassment, and suicidal ideation.
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SWW’s theme music – “U think U” by Glad Rags, from their album Wonder Under.
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Episode sources:
-https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-rage-of-the-incels (2018)
-https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvnw3d/incels-elliot-rodger-misogyny-far-right (2022)
-https://www.cbsnews.com/news/incel-threat-secret-service-report/ (2022)

Aug 4, 2022 • 1h 6min
S13 Ep14: [Birdie] Everything Went Dark
*Content warning: This episode includes discussion of false imprisonment, drugging, self-harm, sexual, psychological and physical violence.
For free and confidential resources, please visit: somethingwaswrong.com/resources
RAINN is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline in partnership with more than 1,000 local sexual assault service providers across the US. If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, help is available. https://www.rainn.org/ Telephone hotline: 800-656-HOPE (4673)
SWW’s theme music – “U think U” by Glad Rags, from their album Wonder Under.
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Jul 28, 2022 • 46min
S13 Ep13: [Zoe] Escalating and Escalating
*Content warning: This story includes descriptions of grooming and sexual abuse, threats of gun violence, workplace abuse, suicidal ideation, physical and emotional violence, stalking, threats of homicide, abortion, self-harm, and stalking.
If you or someone you love is being abused, please call The National Domestic Violence Hotline Call 1.800.799.SAFE (7233) Text "START" to 88788 or Chat Live at https://www.thehotline.org provides essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence so they can live their lives free of abuse, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. The Hotline can expect highly-trained, expert advocates to offer free, confidential, and compassionate support, crisis intervention information, education, and referral services in over 200 languages.
For free and confidential resources, please visit: somethingwaswrong.com/resources
SWW’s theme music – U think U by Glad Rags, from their album Wonder Under.
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Jul 21, 2022 • 44min
S13 Ep12: [Zoe] I Just Thought You Should Know
*Content warning: This episode includes discussion of grooming and sexual abuse involving a minor, gun violence, workplace abuse, suicidal ideation, physical and emotional violence, stalking, threats of homicide.
If you or someone you love is being abused, please call The National Domestic Violence Hotline Call 1.800.799.SAFE (7233) Text "START" to 88788 or Chat Live at https://www.thehotline.org provides essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence so they can live their lives free of abuse, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. The Hotline can expect highly-trained, expert advocates to offer free, confidential, and compassionate support, crisis intervention information, education, and referral services in over 200 languages.
For free and confidential resources, please visit: somethingwaswrong.com/resources
SWW’s theme music – U think U by Glad Rags, from their album Wonder Under.
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Jul 14, 2022 • 57min
S13 Ep11: [Iris] Runaway
*Content Warning: Today’s episode discusses self-harm, suicidal ideation, substance use disorder, psychological abuse, interpersonal violence involving minors.
If you or someone you love is being abused, please call The National Domestic Violence Hotline Call 1.800.799.SAFE (7233) Text "START" to 88788 or Chat Live at https://www.thehotline.org provides essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence so they can live their lives free of abuse, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. The Hotline can expect highly-trained, expert advocates to offer free, confidential, and compassionate support, crisis intervention information, education, and referral services in over 200 languages.
SAMHSA’s National Helpline is a free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service (in English and Spanish) for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders. The National Helpline provides 24-hour free and confidential referrals and information about mental and/or substance use disorders, prevention, treatment, and recovery in English and Spanish. SAMHSA's National Helpline 800-662-HELP (4357) TTY: 800-487-4889 For additional information on finding help and treatment options, visit www.samhsa.gov/find-treatment.
For free and confidential resources, please visit: somethingwaswrong.com/resources
SWW’s theme music – U think U by Glad Rags, from their album Wonder Under.
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Jul 7, 2022 • 51min
S13 Ep10: [Whitney] CODE PINK
*Content Warning: Today’s episode discusses kidnapping, pseudocyesis, miscarriage and psychological violence. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization. NCMEC offers services for families, victims, professionals, schools, law enforcement, private industry, and communities to help prevent abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children and to mitigate and combat exploitation. www.missingkids.org
For free and confidential resources, please visit: somethingwaswrong.com/resources
SWW’s theme music – U think U by Glad Rags, from their album Wonder Under.
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Sources:
KOCO 5 News, 2019, video archives (1990): https://cs-cz.facebook.com/koco5/videos/294426101245444/
KOCO 5 News, Jan. 2019, video archives (1990):
Baby snatched from Oklahoma City hospital, now adult, speaks out for first time
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree, by Tony Orlando and Dawn, sample via youtube: https://youtu.be/PxG9XFqHSFw (Album: Tuneweaving, 1973)

Jun 30, 2022 • 45min
S13 Ep9: [Sage] The Hinge Hustler
*Content Warning: Today’s episode discusses psychological and physical violence, stalking, harassment and substance use disorder.
If you or someone you love is being abused, please call The National Domestic Violence Hotline Call 1.800.799.SAFE (7233) Text "START" to 88788 or Chat Live at https://www.thehotline.org provides essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence so they can live their lives free of abuse, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. The Hotline can expect highly-trained, expert advocates to offer free, confidential, and compassionate support, crisis intervention information, education, and referral services in over 200 languages.
SAMHSA’s National Helpline is a free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service (in English and Spanish) for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders.
The National Helpline provides 24-hour free and confidential referrals and information about mental and/or substance use disorders, prevention, treatment, and recovery in English and Spanish. SAMHSA's National Helpline 800-662-HELP (4357) TTY: 800-487-4889 For additional information on finding help and treatment options, visit www.samhsa.gov/find-treatment.
For more free and confidential resources, please visit: somethingwaswrong.com/resources.
SWW’s theme music – “U think U” by Glad Rags, from their album Wonder Under.
Follow Something Was Wrong on Instagram.