Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

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Subscribers: 1244
Reviews: 20

Ryan Peck
 Mar 22, 2023
The host awkwardly includes stories of her past in commercials. Her "one woman show" approach feels misplaced for this series. I really find her annoying.


 Jan 5, 2023

Georgia
 Sep 30, 2022
I think people miss the point of this podcast. This isn't meant to be some fancy pretentious podcast. Daisy you are so funny and make this podcast so light-hearted when talking about some pretty terrifying topics.

Matt
 May 9, 2022
This is like a 3rd grade book report with a liberal bias.

Jenny
 Apr 13, 2022
AMAZINGLY good podcast!

Description

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.

Episode Date
S2 Ep42: Someone Else's Memory
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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 recollections, nor does it mention how or where memories are stored. Our current understanding is that they form and are stored in our brains. Our brains after all are the motherboards of our bodies, but what if memories could also live somewhere else within us?

Come see Strange and Unexplained on Tour! Daisy is bringing her FANTASTIC live show--covering The Escape From Alcatraz--to NYC on April 3, Boston on April 20, and Washington DC on April 23. And Daisy will be sticking around for a live Q&A and meet and greet after the show! Get Your Tickets Now!

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 Mar 23, 2023
S2 Ep41: The Lincoln Ghost Train
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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 at the time decided to give the people an outlet for their grief with a small tour of part of the country featuring their dead president. It would be known as the Lincoln Ghost Train, which would serve as a public display of grief and all of it's strange and unexplained forms. 

Come see Strange and Unexplained on Tour! Daisy is bringing her FANTASTIC live show--covering The Escape From Alcatraz--to NYC on April 3, Boston on April 20, and Washington DC on April 23. And Daisy will be sticking around for a live Q&A and meet and greet after the show! Get Your Tickets Now!
Mar 16, 2023
"Crimes of the Centuries" Returns for Season 3!
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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 lost to time.  These cases may not be remembered, but their impact on society lives on.

Today we're sharing the first part of the Season 3 premiere, featuring the story of the Victorian Era's forgotten serial killer, Dr. Thomas Cream.  For the rest of the story and more, follow Crimes of the Centuries wherever you listen to podcasts!
 Mar 13, 2023
S2 Ep40: The Fox Sisters: Part 2
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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 as public, readings, that an entire new religion--Spiritualism--was ushered in to make sense (and profits) of it all. It was all going so well. The were rich and world famous. What could possibly go wrong?

Come see Strange and Unexplained on Tour! Daisy is bringing her FANTASTIC live show--covering The Escape From Alcatraz--to NYC on April 3, Boston on April 20, and Washington DC on April 23. And Daisy will be sticking around for a live Q&A and meet and greet after the show! Get Your Tickets Now!

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 Mar 09, 2023
S2 Ep39: The Fox Sisters: Part 1
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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 would leave a mark and make for a fantastic story.

Come see Strange and Unexplained on Tour! Daisy is bringing her FANTASTIC live show--covering The Escape From Alcatraz--to NYC on April 3, Boston on April 20, and Washington DC on April 23. And Daisy will be sticking around for a live Q&A and meet and greet after the show! Get Your Tickets Now!

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Mar 02, 2023
S2 Ep38: The Episode That Could Not Be Titled
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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?

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We're Going on Tour!!!

Strange & Unexplained is coming to the stage with a couple of live shows this spring and we want to see you there! Come see us on April 3rd at the Bell House in Brooklyn, April 20th at the Crystal Ballroom in Boston, and April 23rd at Union Stage in Washington DC. Tickets and additional information can be found at the link below or at strangeandunexplainedpod.com. See you there!



 Feb 16, 2023
S2 Ep37: The Disappearance of A Famous Kid
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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 his family where he developed a strong friend group and was living a seemingly happy life. So it was a shock when on January 9, 2006, his family found his car abandoned on the side of the road with no trace of Joe. It turned out that he hadn't been seen for days and there were very few clues as to where he'd gone or what had happened to him. 


 Feb 09, 2023
S2 Ep36: Mercy Brown & The New England Vampire Panic
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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 it needed a scapegoat. Enter: the Brown family of Exeter, Rhode Island –specifically a young daughter whose body civilians would use to justify a monster of their own making.

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 Feb 02, 2023
S2 Ep35: Orgasmic Manipulation: The Story of OneTaste
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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 the likes of Silicon Valley movers and shakers, but as with any belief system monetized under capitalism, a cult of manipulation would eventually reveal itself beneath the whole endeavor.

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 Jan 26, 2023
S1: The Mothman Cometh!
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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, West Virginia in 1966 and has fascinated our imaginations since. Here’s how an anomaly with glowing red eyes flew straight into the heart of this small town’s identity.

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 Jan 19, 2023
S2 Ep34: D.B. Cooper’s 10,000-foot Caper
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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 in the press– would go down in history for the stunt he’d pull off, skyjacking a plane and jumping off of it into the night. America was immediately enamored with the mysterious everyman, but who was he and what exactly happened that fateful, rainy night?

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 Jan 12, 2023
Introducing... I Think Not! (A New True Crime Comedy Podcast)
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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 get your podcasts.

NOTE: If you were already subscribed to Obsessed with: Disappeared, STAY subscribed. I Think Not! is taking over that old feed.
 Jan 05, 2023
S2 Ep33: Up & Gone: The Disappearance of Asha Degree
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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 confused community all up to today. No one has seen her since, but many wonder what errant clues haven’t been revealed in this haunting case of a child gone missing.

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 Jan 05, 2023
S2 Ep32: Lake City Quiet Pills: Unraveling A Reddit Mystery
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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 –claiming to be a World War II veteran– advertised his own image-hosting site on Reddit back in 2009, a mystery would unfold across the internet tying in a mysterious jobs board, a stacked party bill and a high-profile assassination.

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 Dec 22, 2022
S2 Ep31: The Lemp Mansion Legacy
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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 family mansion to match. However, as the business got passed down the line, dark history unfurled –haunting the business and house where it all happened.

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 Dec 15, 2022
S2 Ep30: Roosevelt Island’s Harrowing History
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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 ensued and an intrepid reporter found herself within the institution’s walls, reporting its downfall for the world to see. Here’s the story of Roosevelt Island.

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 Dec 08, 2022
Obsessed Fest 2023 Tickets Are On Sale NOW!!!!!
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Dec 02, 2022
S2 Ep29: Cross-Country Mystery: The Disappearance of Tara Calico
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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 away in Florida. The search for Tara would enlist the help of investigators across an ocean only to eventually reveal corruption back home. Whatever happened to her resulted in a sprawling mystery that remains unsolved to this day.

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 Dec 01, 2022
S2 Ep28: The Living Dead: A Look Inside Cotard’s Syndrome
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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 altogether –even while technically living to tell the tale. In this episode, we’ll go over the history of Cotard’s Syndrome, the stories of people who’ve suffered from it and the theories behind how it can confound and take hold of our minds and bodies.

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 Nov 17, 2022
S2 Ep27: The Hinterkaifeck Murders
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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. Decades later, investigators landed on a culprit whose name still hasn’t been revealed. The tragedy at Hinterkaifeck was a mystery complete with complicated relationships, missing weapons and unexplainable footsteps in the snow.

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 Nov 10, 2022
S2 Ep26: The Impossible Death of Rey Rivera
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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 lived, worked and loved in search of greater purpose. But upon going missing, he left clues along the way leading straight back to that hole in the roof of the infamous Belvedere Hotel… without a clear answer as to how he could have possibly fallen through it.

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 Nov 03, 2022
S2 Ep25: All Aboard The Ghost Blimp!
1921
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 could have predicted its wild and wacky ride. A crash landing followed by the discovery of an empty cabin confused onlookers and navy personnel alike. What happened?

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 Oct 27, 2022
S2 Ep24: Gilded & Gone: The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold
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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 at the time. Today –over a hundred years on– her disappearance is still a mystery.

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 Oct 20, 2022
S1: The Watcher House
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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 dream home in Westfield, New Jersey - a 6-bedroom, 3.5-bath mansion at 657 Boulevard. Just days later, before the family even moved in, they received their first letter from "The Watcher."

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 Oct 13, 2022
S2 Ep23: The Bell Witch: America’s Greatest Ghost Story
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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, complete with ghostly dialogue, violent scares in the night and even a cowardly visit from Andrew Jackson himself. And when the spirit finally left… it wasn’t for good.

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 Oct 06, 2022
S2 Ep22: This Is The Zodiac Speaking
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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 crack and mysterious phone calls to police baited many into tormenting themselves with the question: who is the Zodiac? In this episode, we’ll go over the killer’s string of crimes and one particular suspect with a lot of suspicion still surrounding him.
 Sep 29, 2022
S2 Ep21: The Monumental Mystery of Stonehenge
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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 and theories concerning this mysterious landmark and its five thousand-year history on Salisbury Plain.
 Sep 22, 2022
S2 Ep20: Astral Projecting Away From Here
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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 when we do…where do we go? In this episode, we’ll head into the astral realm with the fascinating practice of accessing it.
 Sep 15, 2022
S2 Ep19: Get Out of My Head: MK Ultra & The Monarch Project
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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 some experiments for the purpose of psychological manipulation. The top-secret CIA program MK Ultra spawned suspicion… as well as ideas that twisted themselves into a new conspiracy: The Monarch Project.
 Sep 08, 2022
S1: The Lady of the Dunes
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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 of expensive dental work. In 1974, when a kid and her dog discovered the body of a young woman in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a mystery took off. Who was she? Well, she’s the Lady of the Dunes. 
 Sep 01, 2022
S2 Ep18: Without a Trace: The Disappearance of Lori Ceci Bova
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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 answers emerged. Loved ones, police and bystanders took turns being cagey, and the abundance of psychic input on the case led everyone astray. When someone disappears truly without a trace –not a clue, suspect or body identified– how can the truth unearth itself?
 Aug 25, 2022
S2 Ep17: Death by Disney: The Happiest Place on Earth?
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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 grounds has to have some skeletons hidden away. 

 Aug 18, 2022
S1: The Tragicomedy of Typhoid Mary
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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 her hands and the health department that chased her around New York City in search of a stool sample. She’d end up alone on an island, but everyone knew her name. Here’s how Mary Mallon became Typhoid Mary.
 Aug 11, 2022
S2 Ep16: Dude, Where’s My Personality?
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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 brain injury. On this episode, we’ll head to the dark side of personality change with the stories of Phineas Gage, Eadweard Muybridge and someone whose identity became the personae of whoever they were nearest. 
 Aug 04, 2022
S2 Ep15: The Hum Heard Around the World
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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 confounded those curious to find its source. With no recording of it in existence, and only 2 to 10 percent of affected area populations able to hear it, this hum is a sonic mystery for the ages that we’ll try to get to the bottom of in this episode. 
 Jul 28, 2022
S2 Ep14: Stairway to Hell: The Legend of Stull Church
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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 drew the likes of rowdy college students and celebrities alike, including Kurt Cobain and Ariana Grande. But what’s more haunted: the places that fascinate us or the stories we spin about them?
 Jul 21, 2022
S2 Ep13: Into the Multiverse
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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, we’ll parse through some of these stories about slipping out the other side.
 Jul 14, 2022
S2 Ep12: The Smurl Haunting: A Demonic Drama
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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 family inside while drawing onlookers and media outside. But was this craze the work of a demon or something more morally sinister?
 Jun 30, 2022
S2 Ep11: Murder in the Name of Love: Alice & Freda Part 2 (Pride Series)
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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 up pleading present insanity under the counsel of men who couldn’t even begin to comprehend any deviation from the sexual and gendered norms of the late 19th century. In the second half of our pride series on Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward, we’ll cover what happened to Alice in the wake of Freda’s murder and how their story got warped by the time and place in which they lived.
 Jun 23, 2022
S2 Ep10: Murder in the Name of Love: Alice & Freda Part 1 (Pride Series)
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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 of nearly everyone in Memphis, Tennessee and beyond. In the first half of our pride series, we’ll go over the story of their sapphic relationship, how it functioned in the American South during the Victorian era and how it unraveled to the point of tragedy.
 Jun 16, 2022
S2 Ep9: How We Lost the Plot on the Lost City of Atlantis
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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 underwater. On this episode, we’ll explore how this thought experiment about a fallen empire from the mind of Plato turn into a justification for grand projects of bigotry from eugenicists, pseudo-archeologists and –you guessed it– Nazis. 
 Jun 09, 2022
S1: The Impossible Disappearances of Brian Shaffer and Ian Burnet
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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 week!

Columbus Ohio 2006, 1:15 am: 27-year-old medical student Brian Shaffer is seen on a surveillance camera walking into a bar with two friends. But he never comes back out. Somehow, in a bar packed with potential witnesses, Brian vanished into thin air seemingly INSIDE the bar. 

Then in New York city in 2011, 22-year-old Ian Burnet, visiting friends to celebrate New Year's Eve gets onto a crowded subway car and is never seen again. How is it possible for someone to vanish without a trace from places packed with people and security cameras? What happened? Where did they go?
 Jun 02, 2022
S2 Ep8: Lights, Camera, Moon Landing!
1950
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 long-awaited event that brought the world together and the United States across the Space Race finish line. But, as with any historic victory for powerful people in powerful governments, doubters soon followed. To this day, many still believe the Apollo 11 mission was a Hollywood hoax. 
 May 26, 2022
S2 Ep7: A Decade of Terror: Village of the Damned Part 2
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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 half of this series on the “Village of the Damned,” we’ll go over the hunt for a murderer and the unfortunate string of deaths that followed. How did this decade of terror come to a conclusion? The end would be more bitter than sweet.
 May 19, 2022
S2 Ep6: A Decade of Terror: Village of the Damned Part 1
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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 tragic it was hard not to suspect a site-specific curse. Dryden would come to be known for a time as the “Village of the Damned,” and in Part 1 of this series we’ll trace the first half of this ominous decade there. 
 May 12, 2022
S2 Ep5: An Assassin’s Escape: What Happened to John Wilkes Booth?
1955
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 by Union soldiers on a farm in Virginia 12 days after the assassination, but contrarians to this story have been begging to differ even since. Did John Wilkes Booth escape after all? On this episode, we’ll explore alternative fates for the famed killer and the theories behind them. 
 May 05, 2022
S2 Ep4: Lucid Dreaming: Controlling Worlds Inside Our Heads
2032
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 and cultural fascination that is lucid dreaming. On this episode, we’ll explore the origins, possibilities and dangers of the practice. 
 Apr 28, 2022
Introducing… Let The Women Do The Work with Gillian Pensavalle
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This show has a bone to pick true crime podcasts. Where are all the women’s perspectives? The detectives, the witnesses, the movers and shakers of any case are not always dudes. So let’s widen our framework, shall we? On Let The Women Do The Work, join host Gillian Pensavalle as she follows the stories of ten dynamic, inspiring, badass women in true crime, one episode at a time.

Let The Women Do The Work is a 10-part series premiering weekly in the True Crime Obsessed feed starting April 28th, 2022.
 Apr 22, 2022
S2 Ep3: The Philadelphia Experiment Fallacy
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What started as mysterious letters to a UFOlogist turned into a rumor straight out of science fiction. The USS Eldridge –a naval destroyer– undoubtedly existed, but how did it become the subject of alleged teleportation in a top secret government experiment? On this episode, we’ll traverse the murky waters of the story that brought The Philadelphia Experiment to life. 
 Apr 21, 2022
S2 Ep2: Ed Edwards: The Killer You Might've Missed
2025
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 story of Edward Wayne Edwards was his ability to resist definition. He was a robber and a self-proclaimed “reformed man.” He was a father and a Zodiac Killer enthusiast. He was a vocal opponent of crime while murderously slipping under the radar. To this day, it’s unclear all that he got away with. 
 Apr 14, 2022
S2 Ep1: Mandela Effect Mayhem
2025
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 Nelson Mandela’s death date has exploded over the years into mass mixups concerning the big and small. On this episode, we’ll dive head first into this global phenomenon that is the Mandela Effect. 
 Apr 07, 2022
S1 Ep52: The Mothman Cometh!
1987
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 and has fascinated our imaginations since. Here’s how an anomaly with glowing red eyes flew straight into the heart of this small town’s identity.
 Mar 17, 2022
S1 Ep51: Skeletons Beneath the Surface: Lake Lanier’s Troubling Past
1958
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 ghost town remnants, to bodies to monstrous catfish. The legends along its shores only add to that lore. On this episode, we’ll dive into one of the deadliest lakes in the United States. 
 Mar 10, 2022
S1 Ep50: The Tragicomedy of Typhoid Mary
1791
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 up alone on an island, but everyone knew her name. Here’s how Mary Mallon became Typhoid Mary.
 Mar 03, 2022
S1 Ep49: Secret Society Sampler: Freemasonry & The Illuminati
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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 stories. On this episode we’ll explore the origins of two of the most talked about groups in modern history and where they are today. What happens behind the curtain? Are you wary to find out? Welcome to the club. 
 Feb 24, 2022
S1 Ep48: The Lady of the Dunes
2031
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 discovered the body of a young woman in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a mystery took off. Who was she? Well, she’s The Lady of the Dunes. 
 Feb 17, 2022
S1 Ep47: The Stayner Saga Part 2: Cary’s Gone Killing
1910
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 Cary’s family multiple times, he heads down a dark and deadly road into the forests of Yosemite.
 Feb 10, 2022
S1 Ep46: The Stayner Saga Part 1: Steven’s Gone Missing
1897
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 travel through a family? And what would come next? In these next two episodes, we’ll follow a pair of brothers on their diverging paths, starting with Steven. 
 Feb 03, 2022
S1 Ep45: NXIVM’s Own Starlet: The Wayward Story of Allison Mack
2101
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 aughts. But when a crisis of confidence presented a fork in her road, Mack veered down a dark path of sex-trafficking, conspiracy and a whole lot of interpersonal manipulation. How did it all happen? We trace the story in this episode.
 Jan 27, 2022
S1 Ep44: Lost in the Wilderness Part 2: Hikers Found Dead
1928
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 hard to piece together. This week, two stories of people who went into the great unknown and died. To this day, how they died is also a great unknown. 
 Jan 20, 2022
S1 Ep43: Lost in the Wilderness Part 1: Hikers Gone Missing
1869
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 missing people are embedded across the landscapes they once traversed. This week, we stray from the trailhead with two stories of hikers who seemingly disappeared into thin air.

 Jan 13, 2022
S1: "Crimes of the Centuries" Returns for Season 2!
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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.

Recently named by Rolling Stone as one of the 10 Best Crime Podcasts of 2021, “Crimes of the Centuries” rediscovers the true crime stories that shocked the nation—cases so unbelievable that we thought we’d never forget them, but somehow did. 

We’re starting off the second season with an episode about the Cleveland Torso Murders - when a series of headless torsos began appearing in that city.  Who was behind these gruesome killings, and would they be caught and brought to justice?

We’re bringing you the first part of this episode here in this feed. To hear the rest, click here to find and follow Crimes of the Centuries wherever you get your podcasts.
 Jan 10, 2022
S1 Ep42: Etan Patz: The First Milk Carton Kid
1855
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 York City that spanned 40 years. From flyers to milk cartons, his face and name became a cautionary tale to many, a tale with an unclear ending still to this day.

Jan 06, 2022
S1: The Simulation Theory: Is Any of This Real?
1947
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 better than you think.  This week, we explain what the simulation theory is, share stories of those who have experienced a "glitch" in the Matrix, and offer proof that none of this--or us--are real.
 Dec 30, 2021
S1: Roanoke: That Time 100 People Vanished for No Reason
1976
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 didn't go great. The dude whose idea it was LEFT, and when he came back, everyone was gone.  We have no idea what happened to them... but it won't stop us from guessing.  You're welcome.
 Dec 23, 2021
S1 Ep41: Aliens in the Schoolyard
1947
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 some men in black arrived, enforcing the same. In 1994, alleged aliens touched down at a different school, this time in Zimbabwe. Kids say the darndest things, especially when it comes to mysterious flying objects. But regardless, what happened?
 Dec 16, 2021
S1 Ep40: Who's That Babushka Lady?
2025
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 ran, she stood fast, appearing calm in her head scarf and trench coat. Who was she? Why was she there? And what happened to her footage after all these years? 
 Dec 09, 2021
S1 Ep39: The Disappearance of Timmothy Pitzen
1820
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 was later found dead in a motel room along with a note stating her son’s fate: Timmothy was safe with people who loved him, but he would never be found. There are gaping holes in this story and plenty of theories devised to fill them. What happened to young Timmothy Pitzen, and where is he now? 
 Dec 02, 2021
S1 Ep38: The Denver Airport: A Hub For Travel and Conspiracy Theories
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Welcome to Denver International! Here’s the capstone donated from the freemasons, some murals depicting apocalyptic futures, and be sure not to miss "Blucifer," the giant, blue horse statue with glowing red eyes. Don’t go downstairs though. The New World Order would like to keep their underground highways a secret. Clearly, the air traffic on conspiracy theories here is out of control. 
 Nov 18, 2021
S1 Ep37: Waking Up to Miraculous Talents
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Traumatic brain injuries can be life-altering. Imagine surviving one and coming out the other side completely different. Furthermore, imagine suddenly being able to do things you’ve never done, like master a musical instrument, instantly calculate huge sums in your head or recall the events of your life to a new depth of detail. On this episode, we take a look at acquired savant syndrome and how life-threatening accidents can lead to unexplained abilities.

 Nov 11, 2021
S1 Ep36: The Mysterious Case of the Dyatlov Pass
1882
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 Russia, and the tale their bodies told in the aftermath was far from straightforward.

 Nov 04, 2021
S1 Ep35: Conjuring Up The Conjuring
1962
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 Conjuring (2013) is perhaps the quintessential haunted house movie of today, but it all began with an imperfect book. On this episode, we’ll square up that story with what appears on screen.
 Oct 28, 2021
S1 Ep34: The Salem Witch Trials
1814
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 instances of scapegoating in American history. Was there something in the rye? Evil in the water? Sexism in the air? Well, that goes without saying.

 Oct 25, 2021
S1 Ep33: The Poltergeist: The Film That Unleashed a Curse?
1970
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 actors, accidents on set and an eerily targeted lightning strike. On this episode: a look inside the supposed curse of The Poltergeist franchise.
 Oct 21, 2021
S1 Ep32: A Quartet of Urban Legends
1913
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, and people appear to live under New York City. But is any of it true? You decide on this episode, where we’ll explore the ins and outs of four urban legends.
 Oct 18, 2021
S1 Ep31: The Villisca Axe Murders: A Century-Old Bloodbath
1818
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 town of Villisca, Iowa, open to the public. The case remains unsolved. The details of that night? Unsettling. One visitor even felt compelled to stab himself in the chest while there. On this episode, how a bloodbath from a century ago haunts our imaginations today.
 Oct 14, 2021
S1 Ep30: Hidden Rooms: What Lurks Inside the Walls
1816
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 is all the extra space you always wish you had? Or maybe you’ve had the nightmare version where you open your closet door and instead of your clothes, you’re looking at some kind of medieval torture dungeon. What would you do if you actually found a hole in your home leading to somewhere else....
 Oct 11, 2021
S1 Ep29: Lizzie Borden Had an Axe....
1909
"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 theories surrounding what happened in the Borden home that night. If Lizzie did kill her parents, did she do it alone or did she have help? Listen as we discuss all of the theories including Lizzie's alleged affair with the maid or even the possibility of....aliens?!
 Oct 07, 2021
S1 Ep28: Roland Doe: The Haunted Boy Who Inspired The Exorcist
2068
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 happened if it wasn't for Roland Doe, also known as the Haunted Boy. Listen to how this 14-year-old boy’s story and his saga of possession by the devil and how it inspired it all. 

 Oct 04, 2021
S1 Ep27: The Amityville Horror
1824
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 York? With an entire family gunned down in the home just a year before, did ghosts and demons really torment the home's new residents? Or did the Lutz family make it all up in an attempt to gain fame and fortune? We explore all the options. 
 
 Sep 30, 2021
S1 Ep26: The DeFeo Murders
2070
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 look at the DeFeo family murders of 1974, their lasting effects, and how they kicked off the Amityville Horror franchise.
 Sep 27, 2021
S1 Ep25: Stigmata: The Blessed Miracle or Religious Hoax ?
1772
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 mark them--make them bleed from their hands and feet as a reward for their devoutness? On this week's episode we look at Stigmata: The blessed miracle, religious hoax, or the result of an impressionable mind?


 Sep 23, 2021
S1 Ep24: Who Killed Lois Duncan’s Daughter: The Murder of Kaitlyn Arquette
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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 Kaitlyn was the daughter of famous teen-horror novelist Lois Duncan--famous for her books like “I Know What You Did Last Summer”,-- the murder seemed like it could be the plot of one of Duncan’s books. With few clues and a bungled investigation, it would take 32 years for the case to be solved...WHICH JUST HAPPENED LAST WEEK.

 Sep 16, 2021
S1 Ep23: The Simulation Theory: Is Any of This Real?
1886
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 better than you think.  This week, we explain what the simulation theory is, share stories of those who have experienced a "glitch" in the Matrix, and offer proof that none of this--or us--are real. 

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 Sep 09, 2021
S1: Doris Duke's Dark Secret (from "Crimes of the Centuries")
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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: "Crimes of the Centuries".

Tobacco heiress Doris Duke got upsetting news on Oct. 7, 1966. Her longtime friend and art curator, Eduardo Tirella wanted to end their work relationship. Within hours, Tirella was dead, having been hit by a car driven by Duke. 

Though the crash was quickly dismissed by police as an accident, Tirella's family always believed that the volatile billionaire had killed Tirella on purpose. If so, Duke managed to buy her way out of this crime of the century.

If you enjoyed this episode, you can find and subscribe to "Crimes of the Centuries" wherever you get your podcasts.
 Sep 02, 2021
S1 Ep22: What Lurks Beneath: The Loch Ness Monster & Other Creatures of the Deep
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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 humanoid creatures. Who--or what--are they? This week we explore the mysteries of the deep.

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 Aug 26, 2021
S1 Ep21: Crop Circles: Alien Messages or Man-Made Hoaxes?
2003
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 States and the United Kingdom. But what ARE they? Messages from aliens? Communications from humans of the future? Or elaborate man-made hoaxes? This week we explore all the theories.

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 Aug 19, 2021
S1 Ep20: Gloria Ramirez: The Toxic Lady
1977
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 can be so toxic that you can make people sick just by being near them... or was something more sinister happening at this hospital?

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 Aug 12, 2021
S1 Ep19: Time Travelers: Two People from the Future
1894
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 we bring you two stores of people who did just that. A man hands over his travel documents at a busy international airport only to be told his country doesn't exist. And another man in the early 2000s who started posting on message boards that he was from the near future. Nobody believed him, until his predictions started coming true. 
 Aug 05, 2021
S1 Ep18: Near Death Experiences
1916
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 lived to tell the tale aboout what happened.. Two of them went to heaven, one went....someplace else. 
 Jul 29, 2021
S1 Ep17: The Death of Kendrick Johnson
2043
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, Georgia. A preliminary investigation and autopsy concluded that the death was accidental. But a second autopsy determined that he died from blunt force trauma. So which was it - a tragic accidental death? Or was it murder?

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 Jul 22, 2021
S1 Ep16: The Cecil Hotel: Terror, Murder, and Death in The World's Scariest Hotel
1871
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 there--but you haven't heard them all. This week we revisit a few of these stories and tell you a few other terrifying true stories from The Cecil Hotel that you haven't heard before.

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 Jul 15, 2021
S1 Ep15: The Los Angeles Murder House
1953
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. Their 18-year-old neighbor, Judye Perelson, was begging for her life from inside her home. "Don't kill me" she shouted at her father, the esteemed doctor, Harold Perelson, who had attacked her with a ball-peen hammer. Judye survived, though other members of the family weren't so lucky. And though the surviving Perelsons moved out of the home where this tragedy took place, the echo of the murders remained, and the once great Los Angeles mansion turned into an infamous house of horrors.

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 Jul 08, 2021
S1: The Tylenol Murders (From "Crimes of the Centuries")
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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 Network podcast: "Crimes of the Centuries"

When 52-year-old Bruce Nickell suddenly dropped dead in Washington state, investigators at first thought he'd died of a heart attack. But then a second person collapsed, and police realized that the two victims had both taken the painkiller Excedrin. Suddenly, they realized they were dealing with a copycat of a case that had haunted federal investigators for nearly 15 years. 

In that earlier case, seven people died when someone randomly tampered with the over-the-counter painkiller to replace some of the powder inside capsules with enough cyanide to kill an entire family. Those deaths changed how medication is packaged nationwide and made it a federal crime to tamper with such products -- a legal change that years later came back to bite Nickell's killer.

If you enjoyed this episode, you can find and subscribe to "Crimes of the Centuries" wherever you get your podcasts. 
Jul 01, 2021
S1 Ep14: Hiding in Plain Sight: Secret Identities
1947
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 that secret was about yourself, and if anyone found out about it, it would completely change your life - maybe for the worse. It might even get you killed. This week: two stories, almost a century apart, about important secrets that are completely unrelated, except for their queerness. HAPPY PRIDE, STRANGERS!

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 Jun 24, 2021
S1 Ep13: UFO Encounters: Stories the Government Tried To Hide
2017
For decades, Naval officers and Airforce pilots have reported strange--but very very real--encounters with UFOs. These encounters are up close and very personal. Since the Pentagon's inceptions, the government has denied ever looking into these encounters, but that was a lie. And in July of last year, classified documents detailing these encounters and the top-level investigations into them were finally declassified. The stories are amazing and terrifying and tell us what we've always known: UFOs are real...probably. 
 Jun 17, 2021
S1 Ep12: Vanished in Midair: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
1986
How does a 200-ton passenger plane - carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew - vanish into thin air mid-flight? And how is it possible that even after six years, neither the plane nor the people on board have ever been found? This is the story of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which took off from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014, headed for Beijing, but never arrived there... or anywhere. So what happened? Where did it go? And how?

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 Jun 10, 2021
S1 Ep11: The Impossible Disappearances of Brian Shaffer and Ian Burnet
1958
Columbus Ohio 2006, 1:15 am: 27-year-old medical student Brian Shaffer is seen on a surveillance camera walking into a bar with two friends. But he never comes back out. Somehow, in a bar packed with potential witnesses, Brian vanished into thin air seemingly INSIDE the bar.

Then, in New York city in 2011, 22-year-old Ian Burnet, visiting friends to celebrate New Year's Eve gets onto a crowded subway car and is never seen again. How is it possible for someone to vanish without a trace from places packed with people and security cameras? What happened? Where did they go?

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 Jun 03, 2021
S1: Introducing "Murder in Alliance: Ep. 1 Dead in the Water"
1722
Hey, Strangers! We're so excited to bring you the new show from the Obsessed Network, "Murder in Alliance." We've got the first episode here for you in this feed, and four more available right now wherever you get your podcasts.

Listen to the first five episodes and follow "Murder in Alliance" on your favorite podcast player HERE (https://lnk.to/98BXWuip).

In the podcast, investigative journalist Maggie Freleng reinvestigates the 1999 murder of Yvonne Layne. Though her ex-boyfriend David Thorne was convicted of the murder, evidence points to his innocence. Now, twenty years later, Maggie travels to Ohio to talk with people involved in the case, explore new leads, and try to identify who killed Yvonne.

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 May 27, 2021
S1 Ep10: Murders and Disappearances: Can Psychics Solve the Crimes?
1915
Would you believe that, off that record, 8 in 11 cops admit to working with psychics to solve murders and find missing people? This is a real thing. Today we try to figure out if they're really helping, or are full of shit. A 9 year old girl is kidnapped in broad daylight. An11 year old boy is thrown into a van. A husband and wife are searching for her mother. A man leaves his Manhattan office and is never seen again. In each case, a psychic gets involved., but do they know what happened? 

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 May 20, 2021
S1 Ep9: Roanoke: That Time 100 People Vanished for No Reason
1930
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 didn't go great. The dude whose idea it was LEFT, and when he came back, everyone was gone.  We have no idea what happened to them... but it won't stop us from guessing.  You're welcome.

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 May 13, 2021
S1 Ep8: Bigfoot: Two Encounters with the Elusive Creature
1927
Three men enter the forest decades apart and claim to encounter Bigfoot. Their stories are haunting and harrowing. So Is it possible that Bigfoot really exists? The answer is yes, it is possible. And just maybe the evidence has been right in front of us for years.   

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 May 06, 2021
S1 Ep7: The Vanishing Drowning Men
1896
How does a man disappear from a group of friends and show up dead two months later, in a river, 15 miles away from where he was last seen? And what if the body shows no evidence of having been in the water for more than a few days. What if this happens dozens or even hundreds of times all across the country over a period of years. People claim it's a serial killer? Or a network of serial killers? We don't necessarily agree.   

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 Apr 29, 2021
S1 Ep6: Reincarnation: Four People Who Lived Before
1924
A toddler who remembers dying in a fire, a boy who remembers a fancy life in Hollywood, a kid who remembers being crushed by a tractor, and a man who remembers being a Civil War soldier. Do you believe in reincarnation? You might once you hear these stories and the evidence these four people have to back up their claims.

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 Apr 22, 2021
S1 Ep5: Amelia Earhart: What Really Happened To Her?
2004
Famed aviator and icon, Amelia Earhart, vanished while trying to fly around the world. Evidence suggests she was alive for days, maybe weeks, after she lost radio contact with land. So what happened to her? On this episode, we examine all the theories.

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 Apr 15, 2021
S1 Ep4: Trapped Spirits: Broadway's Two Most Haunted Theatres
1902
Broadway’s St. James and Belasco Theatres are said to be two of the most haunted theatres in the country, and Daisy has worked at both of them. This week, she’ll share the haunted history of each, tell you what she experienced there, and share the terrifying ghostly encounters of others that have become theatre - and paranormal -legend.

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 Apr 09, 2021
S1 Ep3: Elevators: Terror and Death in a 6 by 6 Foot Box.
1971
Elevators: they’re a modern convenience that we take for granted. But maybe we shouldn’t. This week we bring you two stories about terror and death in a 6 by 6 foot elevator car.

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 Apr 02, 2021
S1 Ep2: Vanished in the Bermuda Triangle
1985
This week: Two stories of large groups of people vanishing—completely disappearing without a trace—in the world’s most notorious body of water: The Bermuda Triangle. Part 1 takes place LAST YEAR when a boat carrying about 20 passengers set sail from the Bahamas headed to Florida, but never made it. Part 2 tells the story of a routine test flight in which 6 planes and 27 airmen, yes, TWENTY SEVEN AIRMEN, lost contact with ground control and vanished without a trace of any human or plane every being recovered. Their final transmissions with the mainland alone will have you sleeping with the lights on. PLUS all the theories—some of them pretty bonkers—about what is going on there.

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 Apr 02, 2021
S1 Ep1: The Watcher House
1979
In June 2014, Derek and Maria Broaddus bought their dream home in Westfield, New Jersey—a 6-bedroom, 3.5-bath mansion at 657 Boulevard. Just days later, before the family even moved in, they received their first letter from “The Watcher.”

The Watcher said they had been watching the house for decades—watching the house was their job, their life. “Do you know the history of the house?” the letter asked. “Do you know what lies within the walls of 657 Boulevard? Why are you here? I will find out.” And that was just the beginning of the nightmare.

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 Apr 02, 2021
S1: PREVIEW: Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
81
From Executive Producer Patrick Hinds and the Obsessed Network comes a new podcast about all the weird stuff happening around us.

Do you believe in ghosts? How about bigfoot? Do you think it’s strange and fascinating that a 4 year old in Oklahoma could look at a black and white picture of a man from the 1930s and say ‘that was me. Before.” And then provide actual, verifiable details of the man’s life? If so, “Strange and Unexplained With Daisy Eagan” is about to be your new favorite podcast.

Daisy is a Tony Award-winning actor, writer, and true crime fanatic. But she’s also a skeptic. Each week She looks at real stories of hauntings, disappearances, UFO encounters, the Bermuda Triangle, near death experiences, and anything else that feels just beyond what we can easily make sense of. She is your guide into the inexplicable details of these stories. But she’s also like, “show me the receipts.”
 Mar 19, 2021