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Come by Chance

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  • Come by Chance Introduces: Agent Layla

    September 28, 2026 · 41 min

    When she was 20 years old, something terrible happened to Vienna Luke. And for more than a decade, the truth of that night remains buried. But when Vienna becomes a mother, she realizes she must confront the past and uncover the truth…

  • E7: Lost and Found

    July 2, 2024 · 33 min

    How does it feel to find out you’ve lived another person’s life? Are the parents you thought you had no longer your parents? Those are the tough questions facing far too many children switched at birth — and they want accountability.

  • E6: Who Knit You?

    June 25, 2024 · 28 min

    Another mother at another rural Newfoundland hospital has suspicions that the little girl she brought home isn’t her own. Over fifty years later, an online ancestry kit connects the dots and allows a mother and daughter to reunite.

  • E5: A Close Call

    June 18, 2024 · 24 min

    It turns out this once in a lifetime mistake might not be so rare. A few months before Clarence and Craig were born at the Come By Chance hospital, a young mother named Muriel felt like the little baby boy she brought home from the…

  • E4: The Truth

    June 11, 2024 · 28 min

    As the Avery family mourns a devastating loss, Clarence Hynes resists their multiple appeals. But the cost of turning away becomes greater and greater for Clarence. The two families hurtle towards an inevitable truth. Note: This episode…

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  • E1: The Birthday Party

    June 4, 2024 · 29 min

    At a worksite on Newfoundland’s coast, the staff take a break for birthday cake in honour of Craig Avery’s 52nd birthday. Coincidentally, another coworker Clarence Hynes is also turning 52 and was born in the same hospital in the same…

  • E2: Mistaken Identity

    June 4, 2024 · 26 min

    When baby Clarence Hynes was brought home from the hospital, someone casually asked if this small dark haired baby was really a Hynes? His parents ignored it, taught to let mysteries lie. And after they died early, Clarence put his head…

  • E3: The Bricklayer’s Dance

    June 4, 2024 · 29 min

    At the same time people were mistaking Clarence Hynes for an Avery, others were mistaking Clifford Avery, Craig’s older brother, for Clarence. In side by side photographs, the two men with their bushy mustaches looked eerily alike. So when…

  • Introducing Come by Chance

    May 24, 2024 · 3 min

    The island of Newfoundland keeps its secrets close, shrouds them in mystery. But sometimes the fog lifts, difficult truths emerge. When two men discover they were born in the same hospital on the same day, an unbelievable secret changes…

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About the show

If you’ve ever been to Newfoundland, you know it’s a place where fog can envelop you so deeply, you don’t know where you’re going or where you came from. When two men, born in the same rural Newfoundland hospital on the same day, discover an unbelievable 52-year-old secret, it changes the way they see themselves forever. But this isn’t the end of the story. Because it turns out these men are not alone. A series of other close calls and near misses have begun to emerge, and not only at Come by Chance hospital. Come By Chance is a story about what it means to belong in a family — and how a twist of fate can upend the life you thought you knew. Hosted by Luke Quinton. Seven episodes releasing Tuesday, June 4, 2024.