Shows / Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
A podcast about all the things that make us wonder. Each week, we’ll tell you a true story that will fascinate and terrify you: a family who receive letters from a “Watcher” after moving into their new house, a hotel that’s seen so much death that it has to be cursed, UFO encounters, hauntings, Bigfoot sightings, and so much more. Written and hosted by Tony Award-winning actor and celebrated writer Daisy Eagan, “Strange and Unexplained” is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable…
Episodes
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep23: Who Killed Anna Mae Aquash?
Anna Mae Aquash was a passionate and outspoken First Nations activist and one of the few female leaders of the American Indian Movement of the 1970s. In the…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep22: True He’s Gone: The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan
In 1975, Jim Sullivan had all the potential of a classic rocker on the verge of making it big. After the release of his sophomore album, while driving from LA…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep21: Turn on, Tune in, and Disappear: Where are Mitchell Weiser & Bonnie Bickwit?
In 1973, two teenagers ventured to a festival in upstate New York to see their favorite bands play. With just a few dollars in their pockets and a hitchhiking…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep20: Haunted Halls of The Congress Plaza Hotel
Any place that is a repository for transitory people is bound to attract some wayward souls looking to free themselves of their corporeal body. It seems the…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3: Elevators: Terror and Death in a 6 by 6 Foot Box
Hey, Strangers! We're off this week for the holiday, but will be back next week with an all new episode. For this week we wanted to bring back one of our…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep19: The Truly Confounding Disappearance of the Yuba County Five
In early 1978, five young men went out for a fun night together watching college basketball. On the way home they disappeared into the dark late-winter…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep18: Club Kids & False Gods: The Party Monster Story
In the mid-1990s Michael Alig was king of New York City nightlife, ruling over a group of misfits known as the Club Kids. His parties made him the vanguard of…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep17: Silence on the Highway of Tears: What Happened to Alberta Williams?
Alberta Williams was a promising young woman who’s life was taken from her without warning in the summer of 1989. Despite some promising leads, witnesses…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep16: Hey Grandma, The House Is Bleeding!
What if something so strange happened to you that even the authorities and paranormal enthusiasts alike had no idea how to explain it? One night in 1987, the…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep15: World’s Worst Dad: The Story of John List
Could you identify a monster hiding in plain sight? What if he was your colleague, neighbor, or even your own father? Brewing beneath the surface of a…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep14: Tamám Shud: The Mysterious Somerton Man
An unidentified, well dressed man was found dead on an Australian beach in November 1948. He lay on the sand as if sleeping, with no immediate signs of…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep13: All Up In Your Head: Mysteries of Havana Syndrome
Could you identify when you were under attack, even if you couldn’t see it? Over the last decade a number of U.S. Officials on assignment abroad have reported…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep12: NostraDOH!mus: The Simpsons Predict the Future!
Does life imitate art? Does Bart imitate life? Does Homer know more than he’s letting on?? Despite being a work of fiction and, yes, a cartoon, in 34 years on…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep11: Johnny Gosch, Original Milk Carton Kid
Is any place safe? When a child guarded by life in a wholesome, All-American community disappears, is that proof that evil is lurking around every idyllic…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep10: Marsha P. Johnson: Hard Work Being Beautiful
What would you sacrifice to live freely? Would you fight every day, out loud, to defend your way of life? For Marsha P. Johnson, living on her own terms was a…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep9: How sad, How lovely: The Disappearance of Connie Converse
What would you do if you knew your were ahead of your time, if only by a brief moment? In the late-1950s, Connie Converse was young musician at the forefront…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep8: Get Down with the Sickness, It’s Societal Mania!
Throughout history, flashes of group mania have taken hold of entire societies without warning. From dancing 'til you're dead, to laughing yourself into a…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3: From Crimes of the Centuries: Chasing a Ghost
Hey, Strange & Unexplained listeners! We’re off this week for the Memorial Day holiday, but didn’t want to leave you with an empty feed, so we’re featuring an…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep7: The Allagash Four Abductions
In the summer of 1976, a group of college students experienced something otherworldly while on a camping trip in the wilderness of Maine. The mystery…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep6: Murder on the Appalachian Trail
Communing with nature sounds nice, sure, but wilderness can hide darkness in it’s miles of untamed trails. No matter how experienced a hiker you are, bad…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep5: Spring-Heeled Jack’s Spree of Terror
Before the days of Jack the Ripper, there was another Jack terrorizing the streets of Victorian London. Spring-Heeled Jack, the fashionable shape-shifting…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep4: Case Update: The Lady of Dunes
In 1974, The Lady of the Dunes was discovered dead on the beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Who was she? How did she end up on the beach? And what monster…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep3: A Frenzy of Theories: JonBenet Ramsey - Part 2
For some true crime cases, saturation of the headlines can lead to a rabid thirst for public details so vicious and all-consuming that it transforms an…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep2: Mandatory Coverage: JonBenet Ramsey - Part 1
On a snowy morning in December 1996, John and Patsy Ramsey awoke to find their entire world turned upside down as their beloved six year-old daughter JonBenet…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S3 Ep1: The Bridgewater Triangle: Vortex of Evil
Can a region absorb the dark energy of its historical monstrosities? Can land become innately evil, soil cursed by the wounds of violence? In Massachusetts the…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep43: The Doodler: Silent Terror in San Francisco
Does a monstrous society breed monsters? Hate can twist, contort and mutate into something truly evil within an individual, propelling them to do unspeakable…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep42: Someone Else's Memory
What is memory? The Oxford English Dictionary defines memory as the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. Or something remembered from…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep41: The Lincoln Ghost Train
Grief is a powerful thing. It's extremely personal and can make us act in ways unforeseen. So what happens when an entire nation experiences a loss, as they…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
"Crimes of the Centuries" Returns for Season 3!
Strangers! We're so thrilled that Crimes of the Centuries from the Obsessed Network is back for Season 3! Join host Amber Hunt each week as she dives deep into…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep40: The Fox Sisters: Part 2
In the mid 1800s, Maggie and Kate Fox convinced the world that they could communicate with the dead. And, for a fee, they'd communicate with your dead through…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep39: The Fox Sisters: Part 1
The human urge to believe in something bigger than ourselves, to search for answers from above or beyond can go awry. And throughout history, it has. One such…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep38: The Episode That Could Not Be Titled
What makes a monster? Are monsters just our fears materialized? Kill the monster, kill the fear, that's what we tell ourselves. But when we destroy something…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep37: The Disappearance of A Famous Kid
18-year-old Joe Pichler had made it big in Hollywood as a kid, co-starring in movies like "Varsity Blues" and the "Beethoven" franchise. Taking a break to…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep36: Mercy Brown & The New England Vampire Panic
The cultural fear of vampires stretches back centuries throughout Europe, but in the continental U.S. it took seed from another fear entirely: tuberculosis…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep35: Orgasmic Manipulation: The Story of OneTaste
When Nicole Daedone walked into a party in 1998, she was unexpectedly introduced to a “new sexuality practice.” This awakening would spawn an idea: a company…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S1: The Mothman Cometh!
Hey Strangers! We're off this week so please enjoy a rerun our of season 1 finale. Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... a humanoid, moth-like…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep34: D.B. Cooper’s 10,000-foot Caper
In 1971, a man with sunglasses, a raincoat and a small attache case boarded a flight, lit a cigarette and calmly told his stewardess that he had a bomb and a…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
Introducing... I Think Not! (A New True Crime Comedy Podcast)
Hey Strangers! The Obsessed Network has as a brand new podcast from the former hosts and creators of Obsessed with: Disappeared. It's called I Think Not! Enjoy…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep33: Up & Gone: The Disappearance of Asha Degree
At nine years old, Asha Degree packed her bookbag, left her family home in Shelby, North Carolina and set about walking along a nearby highway. The search for…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep32: Lake City Quiet Pills: Unraveling A Reddit Mystery
We pull a lot of accounts with strange & unexplained phenomena from the anonymous posting site Reddit on this podcast. After all, its creators endeavored for…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep31: The Lemp Mansion Legacy
For all intents and purposes, German brewer Johann Adam Lemp achieved the so-called American Dream for generations of his descendants when he arrived in St…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep30: Roosevelt Island’s Harrowing History
The New York Lunatic Asylum opened its doors in 1839 with a mission to humanely treat the mentally ill of NYC from the tranquil isolation of an island on the…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep29: Cross-Country Mystery: The Disappearance of Tara Calico
Tara Calico was a smart, accomplished and athletic college freshman who biked into the New Mexico desert one morning in 1988 and never came back. A year later…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep28: The Living Dead: A Look Inside Cotard’s Syndrome
Feeling dead inside is one thing, but truly believing it is a mysterious, medical reality. With only about 200 known cases worldwide, Cotard’s Syndrome is a…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep27: The Hinterkaifeck Murders
One wintry day in 1922, six bodies were discovered on a remote farm in Bavaria. The scene was ominous, scattered with clues indicating an unclear couple of…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep26: The Impossible Death of Rey Rivera
In 2006, a man was found on the ballroom floor of a hotel in Baltimore, with a hole in the ceiling overhead and a mystery surrounding the occurrence. Rey…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep25: All Aboard The Ghost Blimp!
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, the United States employed an old method of surveillance along its west coast: blimps. And when two pilots took off in one high…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep24: Gilded & Gone: The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold
One December morning in turn-of-the-20th-century New York City, a young society woman went out to run errands and never returned home. Dorothy Arnold’s…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S1: The Watcher House
We're taking a break this week so here's a listen back to our very first episode, based on the same story as the new series "The Watcher" out today on Netflix…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep23: The Bell Witch: America’s Greatest Ghost Story
In the early 1800s, a Tennessee farm-dwelling family began hearing suspicious noises around their home, seeing strange apparitions along their property and…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep22: This Is The Zodiac Speaking
In the late 1960s, the Zodiac Killer terrorized Northern California not necessarily via his body count –only five confirmed victims over the course of a year–…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep21: The Monumental Mystery of Stonehenge
An estimated one million people flock to the enigma that is Stonehenge every year, yet the origin of this circle of stones remains unknown. Who built it? How?…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep20: Astral Projecting Away From Here
Have you ever left your body, willingly or not? Astral projection has a long history, stretching from ancient religious texts and up through our current…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep19: Get Out of My Head: MK Ultra & The Monarch Project
Mind control –as a conspiracy and fear– has its long, questionable history in the United States. Starting in the 1950s in response to the Korean War and up…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S1: The Lady of the Dunes
We're taking a break this week so here's an episode from our first season you may not have heard yet. There she lay face down on a beach towel, naked in the…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep18: Without a Trace: The Disappearance of Lori Ceci Bova
In the early hours of a June morning in 1997, 26-year-old Lori Ceci Bova stepped outside for a smoke break and never came back. She forgot her cigarettes, for…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep17: Death by Disney: The Happiest Place on Earth?
Welcome to the magical world of Disney theme parks, where the huggable characters, glistening turkey legs and all around sparkle are a sheen over some dark…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S1: The Tragicomedy of Typhoid Mary
We're taking a break this week so here's an episode from our first season you may not have heard yet. We'll be back with a new episode next week! This is the…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep16: Dude, Where’s My Personality?
Imagine surviving a freak accident and coming out the other side unrecognizable – not on the exterior, but inside. Where do our personalities live, and how can…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S2 Ep15: The Hum Heard Around the World
Can you hear that? It’s like a car –idling in the distance– or a plane on a tarmac, with a tinge of oil crackling in a pan. Since the 1970s a mysterious sound…