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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
S2 Ep14: Stairway to Hell: The Legend of Stull Church
In 1974, an article in a local paper turned the sleepy town of Stull, Kansas upside down. It was about an abandoned church and its surrounding cemetery…
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S2 Ep13: Into the Multiverse
The possibility of parallel universes has long been considered in science fiction, pop culture and even plain, old physics. Accounts of interdimensional travel…
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S2 Ep12: The Smurl Haunting: A Demonic Drama
Jack and Janet Smurl were your typical, civically engaged, small-town couple. That is, until they –and their four kids– moved into a haunted house in West…
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S2 Ep11: Murder in the Name of Love: Alice & Freda Part 2 (Pride Series)
The trial of teenage murderer Alice Mitchell was an all out spectacle. After killing her former lover Freda Ward in a crime of passion, no one seemed to…
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S2 Ep10: Murder in the Name of Love: Alice & Freda Part 1 (Pride Series)
When 19-year-old Alice Mitchell jumped from a carriage and slit the throat of 17-year-old Freda Ward one fateful day in 1892, a rampant fascination over the…
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S2 Ep9: How We Lost the Plot on the Lost City of Atlantis
The mythic metropolis of Atlantis has long been an object of our curiosity, but the search for where it was and who lived there has left its origin story…
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S1: The Impossible Disappearances of Brian Shaffer and Ian Burnet
We're taking a break for the holiday so we wanted to feature an episode from our first season you may not have heard yet. We'll be back with a new episode next…
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S2 Ep8: Lights, Camera, Moon Landing!
When Neil Armstrong touched down and said “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” he meant it, right? The 1969 moon landing was a…
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S2 Ep7: A Decade of Terror: Village of the Damned Part 2
We left off in the ill-fated Dryden, NY with two high school cheerleaders missing and a town in mourning for years of tragedy under its belt. In the second…
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S2 Ep6: A Decade of Terror: Village of the Damned Part 1
Dryden, New York is your typical, small town nestled among forestry, ponds and plains. But in the 1990s, that peace was disrupted by a string of events so…
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S2 Ep5: An Assassin’s Escape: What Happened to John Wilkes Booth?
After former president Abraham Lincoln was shot dead at Ford’s Theatre, a manhunt for John Wilkes Booth ensued immediately. History tells us Booth was captured…
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S2 Ep4: Lucid Dreaming: Controlling Worlds Inside Our Heads
The dream world is a mysterious place of delights, nightmares and lots and lots of memories. But what if we could control it? Many do by harnessing the skill…
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S2 Ep3: The Philadelphia Experiment Fallacy
What started as mysterious letters to a UFOlogist turned into a rumor straight out of science fiction. The USS Eldridge –a naval destroyer– undoubtedly…
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S2 Ep2: Ed Edwards: The Killer You Might've Missed
History’s most infamous serial killers had calling cards, from names and symbols to systems and strategies of predation. But the only thing tying together the…
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S2 Ep1: Mandela Effect Mayhem
The Berenstain Bears, Tony the Tiger’s blue nose and a ‘90s movie starring Sinbad as a genie have all come back to haunt us. What started off as confusion over…
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S1 Ep52: The Mothman Cometh!
Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... a humanoid, moth-like creature? The Mothman entered the scene of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1966…
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S1 Ep51: Skeletons Beneath the Surface: Lake Lanier’s Troubling Past
One of Georgia’s most popular tourist attractions is also the site of some dark history. From the bottom up, the manmade Lake Lanier holds everything from…
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S1 Ep50: The Tragicomedy of Typhoid Mary
This is the story of a cook who refused to wash her hands and the health department that chased her around New York City in search of a stool sample. She’d end…
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S1 Ep49: Secret Society Sampler: Freemasonry & The Illuminati
From their esoteric symbols to their elusive rituals & doings, secret societies control our curiosity. If we can’t join them, we can still poke around their…
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S1 Ep48: The Lady of the Dunes
There she lay facedown on a beach towel, naked in the sand: handless, dead and with a mouth full of expensive dental work. In 1974, when a kid and her dog…
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S1 Ep47: The Stayner Saga Part 2: Cary’s Gone Killing
In Part 2 of this series on the Stayners, we turn to Cary: the brother left to live through Steven’s disappearance and eventual return. After tragedy strikes…
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S1 Ep46: The Stayner Saga Part 1: Steven’s Gone Missing
When 7-yr-old Steven Stayner was kidnapped, his family was shaken. And when 14-yr-old Steven returned home, life was still far from normal. How does trauma…
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S1 Ep45: NXIVM’s Own Starlet: The Wayward Story of Allison Mack
Allison Mack set off on her acting career at a young age, playing dorks, "plain Janes" and other blonde-haired, girl-next-door types across the ‘90s and early…
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S1 Ep44: Lost in the Wilderness Part 2: Hikers Found Dead
If a tree falls in the forest –and nobody’s around to hear it– who knows if it killed someone below? The mysterious, fatal instances that occur in nature are…
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S1 Ep43: Lost in the Wilderness Part 1: Hikers Gone Missing
We walk into nature to confront the unknown, but returning home isn’t a guarantee. From the desert of Nevada to the mountainous forest of Vermont, secrets of…
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S1: "Crimes of the Centuries" Returns for Season 2!
Hey, Strangers! Today the Obsessed Network is launching Season 2 of “Crimes of the Centuries” - the true crime podcast from award-winning reporter Amber Hunt…
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S1 Ep42: Etan Patz: The First Milk Carton Kid
On a spring morning in 1979, a young boy walked to his bus stop and never returned home. The disappearance of Etan Patz would result in a search across New…
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S1: The Simulation Theory: Is Any of This Real?
Is our existence a reality, or are we the product of someone else's imagination? The chances that we are all just avatars in someone else's video game are…
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S1: Roanoke: That Time 100 People Vanished for No Reason
So... we still don't know what happened, you guys. BUT 420ish years ago, a bunch of white people tried to form a colony in present-day North Carolina. It…
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S1 Ep41: Aliens in the Schoolyard
In 1966, a group of schoolchildren in Australia pointed their fingers at what looked like a UFO. School personnel cautioned everyone to hush up, and apparently…
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S1 Ep40: Who's That Babushka Lady?
When John F. Kennedy was assassinated on that fateful drive in Dallas, The Babushka Lady was there, capturing it all on film. As onlookers ducked, screamed and…
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S1 Ep39: The Disappearance of Timmothy Pitzen
On a spring morning in 2011, a father dropped off his six-year-old son at school. An hour later, a mother picked the boy up, whisking him away on vacation. She…
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S1 Ep38: The Denver Airport: A Hub For Travel and Conspiracy Theories
Welcome to Denver International! Here’s the capstone donated from the freemasons, some murals depicting apocalyptic futures, and be sure not to miss…
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S1 Ep37: Waking Up to Miraculous Talents
Traumatic brain injuries can be life-altering. Imagine surviving one and coming out the other side completely different. Furthermore, imagine suddenly being…
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S1 Ep36: The Mysterious Case of the Dyatlov Pass
A slashed tent, scattered footprints, radioactive clothing and a dislodged tongue. In February of 1959, nine hikers were found dead in the Ural Mountains of…
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S1 Ep35: Conjuring Up The Conjuring
When a movie introduces itself as “based on a true story,” everything that follows is subject to scrutiny. What true story, and according to whom? The…
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S1 Ep34: The Salem Witch Trials
Bubble, bubble, toil and lots of trouble. The puritanical witch hunt of Salem, Massachusetts took the lives of 19 innocent people as one of the most dramatic…
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S1 Ep33: The Poltergeist: The Film That Unleashed a Curse?
Steven Spielberg’s 1982 horror hit scared audiences silly with its story of a suburban family cursed by demonic ghosts. Off-screen, there were deaths of…
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S1 Ep32: A Quartet of Urban Legends
A chain-mail letter warns of an organ-harvesting cabal. A supposed mountain gremlin appears in a video. A hitchhiker in an evening gown vanishes into thin air…
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S1 Ep31: The Villisca Axe Murders: A Century-Old Bloodbath
One summer night in 1912, eight people were axe murdered in their sleep under the same roof. Over a hundred years later, the house remains in its rural farming…
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S1 Ep30: Hidden Rooms: What Lurks Inside the Walls
Have you ever had one of those dreams where you discover other rooms in your apartment? Like, suddenly there’s a door you never noticed before, and beyond it…
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S1 Ep29: Lizzie Borden Had an Axe....
"Lizzie Borden had an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one." Or did she? There are lots of…
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S1 Ep28: Roland Doe: The Haunted Boy Who Inspired The Exorcist
When The Exorcist movie was released in theaters, people claimed that it was one of the scariest films they had ever seen. However this movie may never have…
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S1 Ep27: The Amityville Horror
It's the most infamous haunted house story of all time. But what really happened to the Lutz family when they moved into 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New…
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S1 Ep26: The DeFeo Murders
It’s totally normal to run into a packed bar to announce that your family’s been killed, right? Like, that’s a logical choice. On this week's episode we take a…
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S1 Ep25: Stigmata: The Blessed Miracle or Religious Hoax ?
What do you believe in? How much do you believe in it? Do you have faith? Do you think it's possible for someone to have *so much* faith that the divine would…
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S1 Ep24: Who Killed Lois Duncan’s Daughter: The Murder of Kaitlyn Arquette
On July 16, 1989, 18-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette was found murdered--shot to death--in her car near her home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When it was learned that…
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S1 Ep23: The Simulation Theory: Is Any of This Real?
Is our existence a reality, or are we the product of someone else's imagination? The chances that we are all just avatars in someone else's video game are…
- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
S1: Doris Duke's Dark Secret (from "Crimes of the Centuries")
Strangers! We're taking a break this week, but we wanted to share the fascinating story of "Doris Duke's Dark Secret" from another Obsessed Network podcast…
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S1 Ep22: What Lurks Beneath: The Loch Ness Monster & Other Creatures of the Deep
Stories of encounters with the Loch Ness Monster date back centuries, but is she real? And in the world’s deepest lake, scientists encounter 10-foot tall…
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S1 Ep21: Crop Circles: Alien Messages or Man-Made Hoaxes?
Crop circles - we’ve all seen them. The beautiful, often perfectly symmetrical, patterns that seem to appear out of nowhere in rural crop fields in the United…
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S1 Ep20: Gloria Ramirez: The Toxic Lady
A 31-year-old woman is rushed to the emergency room, but instead of helping her, the doctors and nurses start to collapse around her. Is it possible that you…
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S1 Ep19: Time Travelers: Two People from the Future
Do you believe time travel is possible? That it's possible for people from the future can slip back into our time either on purpose or by accident? This week…
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S1 Ep18: Near Death Experiences
Where do we go when we die? Do you think it's possible to cross over to the other side and come back? Today, three stories of people who have died but then…
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S1 Ep17: The Death of Kendrick Johnson
On January 11, 2013, the body of 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson was found inside a vertical rolled up gym mat in the gymnasium of his high school in Valdosta…
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S1 Ep16: The Cecil Hotel: Terror, Murder, and Death in The World's Scariest Hotel
You've heard a lot of the stories from the Cecil Hotel--the serial killers who called it home, the tragic case of Elisa Lam who vanished and was found dead…
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S1 Ep15: The Los Angeles Murder House
In the early morning hours of December 6, 1959, the residents of a wealthy section of Los Feliz, Los Angeles, woke up to the sound of a blood curdling scream…
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S1: The Tylenol Murders (From "Crimes of the Centuries")
Strangers! We're taking a break this week, but we wanted to share the FASCINATING AND TERRIFYING TALE of the "The Tylenol Murders" from another Obsessed…
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S1 Ep14: Hiding in Plain Sight: Secret Identities
Have you ever had a secret? Have you ever known something important - something other people really want to know - and just kept it to yourself? Now imagine…
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S1 Ep13: UFO Encounters: Stories the Government Tried To Hide
For decades, Naval officers and Airforce pilots have reported strange--but very very real--encounters with UFOs. These encounters are up close and very…