Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

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From Executive Producer Patrick Hinds and the Obsessed Network comes a new 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 that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on.

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06.01.2023

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 episode from another Obsessed Network show, “Crimes of the Centuries” Crime is ...

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06.01.2023 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 episode from another Obsessed Network show, “Crimes of the Centuries” Crime is ...
05.25.2023 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 surrounding the phenomenon would entangle the men for the next forty years, leading them down ...
05.18.2023 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 things have a tendency to be lurking out in the woods. Spanning over 2,000 ...
05.11.2023 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 Victorian Era boogeyman terrorized citizens from all walks of life for upwards of 50 years without ever directly ...
05.04.2023 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 was behind her gruesome murder? For nearly 50 years these ...
04.27.2023 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 criminal investigation into media frenzy. Entangled in a winding web of misconstrued details, misinformed ...
04.20.2023 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 lay dead in the basement of their Colorado home. A decades-long media frenzy ...
04.13.2023 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 Bridgewater Triangle seems to be a vortex of the paranormal, perhaps created by horrific ...
04.04.2023 S2 Ep44: The Zodiac Killer (Potentially) Identified: A New Project from Obsessed Network Earlier this year, author Jaret Kobec named a new suspect to be the Zodiac Killer. This was based on years of research which uncovered never before seen evidence and answered many of the open questions in the case. Kobec's evidence ...
03.30.2023 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 things. In the 1970s, a serial killer stalked the clubs and lounges of San Francisco, targeting ...
03.23.2023 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 the past; a recollection. But the OED doesn’t weigh in on the factual accuracy of those ...
03.16.2023 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 did in 1865 when President Lincoln was assassinated? The powers that were ...
03.13.2023 "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 a case that was huge when it happened but somehow got ...
03.09.2023 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 a séance. The sisters became so famous for their private, as well ...
03.02.2023 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 example took two girls and their followers on a whirlwind journey that ...
02.16.2023 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 just because we don't understand it, who is the real monster? This Week's Sponsors: ...
02.09.2023 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 finish high school, Joe left Los Angeles and moved back to Bremerton, Washington with ...
02.02.2023 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. The New England Vampire Panic of the 19th-century was a reaction to a deadly disease so mysterious ...
01.26.2023 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 centered around embracing the power of the female orgasm. OneTaste made a splash with ...
01.19.2023 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 creature? The Mothman entered the scene of Point Pleasant, ...
01.12.2023 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 handful of demands. Dan Cooper –misnamed as D.B. Cooper ...
01.05.2023 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 the trailer here and check out the first episode out now wherever you ...
01.05.2023 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 Asha would unfold over 20 years, testing family, law enforcement and a ...
12.22.2022 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 it to be the “front page of the internet.” However, when a frequent poster ...
12.15.2022 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. Louis, Missouri in 1838. His humble lager recipe ballooned into a huge brewery with a ...
12.08.2022 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 East River. However, as the years unfolded, cracks showed, trouble ...
12.02.2022 Obsessed Fest 2023 Tickets Are On Sale NOW!!!!! Hey, Strangers!! Tickets are on sale NOW for Obsessed Fest 2023, taking place in Dallas Texas from October 20th - 22nd. You can get all the information and tickets at obsessedfest.com
12.01.2022 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, a peculiar photograph appeared in a parking lot over a thousand miles ...
11.17.2022 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 rare condition characterized by delusions of missing body parts, lost organs or being dead ...
11.10.2022 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 days leading up to the sextuple murder of the family and its maid. ...
11.03.2022 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 Rivera was –for all intents and purposes– an average guy, who ...
10.27.2022 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 above San Francisco Bay one summer morning in 1942, no one ...
10.20.2022 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 forbidden love affair, writerly aspirations and wealth combined to stir up intrigue over what happened to her ...
10.13.2022 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. In June 2014, Derek and Maria Broaddus bought their ...
10.06.2022 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 believing a wicked force had befallen them. The Bell Witch would go on to become a legendary haunting, ...
09.29.2022 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– but through his ability to manipulate fear into notoriety. Letters to newspapers, codes to ...
09.22.2022 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? And, of course, why? In this episode, we’ll cover the facts, debates ...
09.15.2022 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, quarantined imaginations. We humans desire to get out of ourselves from time to time, but ...
09.08.2022 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 through the LSD tests of the 1960s, the American government cooked up ...
09.01.2022 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 sand: handless, dead and with a mouth full ...
08.25.2022 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 one, and as the search for Lori unfolded more questions than ...
08.18.2022 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 secrets –which makes sense. Any place touting a policy of zero death on its ...
08.11.2022 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 story of a cook who refused to wash ...
08.04.2022 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 they shift drastically? In season one, we covered miraculous talents resulting from traumatic ...
07.28.2022 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 has tormented communities across the globe and ...
07.21.2022 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. Accounts of cold brushes with spirits and theories on a stairway to hell ...
07.14.2022 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 stretch back to the 12th century and forward to the annals of reddit today. On this episode, ...
06.30.2022 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 Pittston, Pennsylvania. Exploding appliances, strange sounds, violent events and a foul odor tortured the ...
06.23.2022 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 believe her motivation –least of all her own defense team. She’d end ...
06.16.2022 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 drama soon followed. Alice loved Freda and killed her accordingly –to the crazed confusion ...

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