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 that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on.
Not Recorded from my Car: The Lincoln/JFK "Coincidences
Only a year after JFK was assassinated, a list was published of all the eerie similarities between him and Abraham Lincoln. This list is still circulated today and, of course, has been added to over the years. Now, you can find it anywhere you look on the internet. But are the similarities between Lincoln and JFK all that strange or are they just... similarities?
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the...
A Whimsical Melange
Today we bring you three minisodes. Was Founding Father Ben Franklin actually a serial killer? What's up with the British and Blobby? And did Scottish fairies leave little coffins behind?
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
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Engineering Fate: The Life and Death of Rudolf Diesel
Rudolf Diesel built the world's first internal combustion engine and had hopes it would help lift people out of poverty and prevent the devastation caused by mining for fossil fuels. He had friends and enemies in high places. And so, when he vanished off a boat in the middle of the night in 1913, there were all kinds of theories as to what befell him. The mystery of Rudolf Diesel has never been solved.
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that...
Carl Tanzler's Monstrosity of Obsession
When Carl Tanzler was very young, he claimed a dead relative of nobility came to him and showed him the woman he would eventually marry. He spent the next four decades in search of the woman, and when he found her, he never let her go, even long after she had died.
*Content warning: This episode deals with several forms of abuse toward women. It may be extremely upsetting for some to hear. Please listen with caution.
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into...
Thar Be Monsters Thar! (But probably not): The Lake Michigan Triangle
You've heard of the Bermuda Triangle, you may have heard of the Bridgewater Triangle, but did you know there is a triangle in Lake Michigan that swallows up ships and airplanes by the thousands? The Lake Michigan Triangle is said to have an underwater alien base and its very own Nessy!
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over...
The Disappearance of Agatha Christie: An Agatha Christie Mystery
In December of 1923 up and coming mystery writer, Agatha Christie drove away from her life and vanished. When she reappeared 12 days later she had no idea what had happened or who she was. But, unlike her expertly crafted murder mysteries, this story was never solved.
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
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Oakville Blob and Mongolian Death Worm
In two very different places, thousands of miles apart, innocent people and their animals were plagued by unexplained phenomena. One came from above, and the other, it seemed, came from Hell.
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
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*From The Vault* 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 taking a single life. Over a century later, the mystery remains: was this monster truly a lunatic on the loose, or merely an urban legend?
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the l...
This Whole Affair Stinks! The Van Meter Visitor
In the late 1800s, the people of Van Meter, Iowa, were beset by a most unwelcome (and stinky) guest who eluded capture and left the residents terrified. Was The Van Meter Visitor real, or just the product of one person's vivid imagination?
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
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Off-screen Filth: John Holmes & The Wonderland Murders
In the 1970s and early 80s, in the grittier part of Hollywood, where the money, drugs, and body hair were flowing freely, one porn star got himself enmeshed in a world of drugs and violence, a world in which no one would escape.
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
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The Ashbrook Family's Mysterious Deaths
When the brother of an Ohio Congressman was found dead under suspicious circumstances, the investigation into his death was strangely perfunctory and hurried. When the Congressman himself died two years later under suspicious circumstances, everyone said, "Nothing to see here, folks," and his autopsy was sealed. What happened to the Ashbrook brothers, and why?
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and...
"Dr." Linda Hazzard's Starvation Grift
Conning people into buying bogus "cures" is nothing new. In the early 1900's Linda Hazzard put her own spin on the age-old practice. Her patients would find themselves out much more than the price of her "treatment."
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
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The Galapagos Affair Part 1: A Crossover with Murder: True Crime Stories
In this special two-part crossover, I join Carter Roy, host of Murder: True Crime Stories, to trace the rise of the so-called paradise on the island of Floreana, the strange settlers who built it, and the slow unraveling that would soon turn the Enchanted Islands into one of the strangest unsolved cases of the 20th century.
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Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will...
Gorephanage!
There is a road in Ohio ominously called Gore Orphanage Road. In a classic case of a snake eating its tail, the road's evocative name (named only in part for an orphanage that had once stood there) inspired tales of terror. But were those tales true, or just the morphing of various legends blended over time?
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free...
The Butterfly People of Joplin, Missouri
On May 22nd, 2011, one of the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history struck the town of Joplin, Missouri. After the dust settled, survivors began sharing stories of ethereal, otherworldly beings who protected them and kept them alive, or shepherded their loved ones to the other side. What exactly were The Butterfly People of Joplin?
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and...
Who Killed Dorothy Kilgallen?
Dorothy Kilgallen spent her career doggedly sniffing out the truth and that really pissed off J. Edgar Hoover and his minions. And then she was found dead in her home under extremely suspicious circumstances. They wanted us to think she killed herself. If she'd still been alive, she never would have let them get away with it.
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and...
*From The Vault* Justice Delayed. Justice Denied: The Dr. Sam Sheppard Story Part 2
Dr. Sam Sheppard and his family fought for decades to clear his name in the death of his wife, Marilyn. But the long arm of law, right or wrong, is hard to run from.
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
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Dorothy Kilgallen: Unstoppable Force and Government Bugaboo
Dorothy Kilgallen was the first female media mogul. Her undeniable talent helped her climb the ranks in journalism, earning her a syndicated column, a radio show, and a regular spot on "What's My Line." Her tenacious curiosity helped her climb the ranks on the government's shit list, earning her a target on her back.
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and...
*From The Vault* Trials and Tribulations: The Dr. Sam Sheppard Story pt. 1
Dr. Sam Sheppard awoke to find his pregnant wife murdered in her bed and would soon learn it was just the beginning of a waking nightmare.
Strange and Unexplained is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
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The World's Most Best Step-Brother! The Tragic Story of Nicole Van Den Hurk.
15-year-old Nicole Van Den Hurk was assaulted and murdered in 1995. 16 years later, with the case gone cold, her stepbrother, Adam, took an incredibly risky chance to get justice for Nicole.
Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
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Introducing Dear Daisy: Some Thoughts Need To Stay Inside
A podcast about secrets hosted by Daisy Eagan.
This episode was originally published for subscribers over at www.grabbagcollab.com New episodes of Dear Daisy are published every other Friday.
In this episode, a woman writes about questioning who she is right now, feeling invisible, and the anger that comes with it all. Daisy and the chat had a lot of feelings about this one.
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*From The Vault* Gef! The Talking Mongoose
**Strange And Unexplained is in between seasons, so we are bringing you episodes from the vault that you might have missed the first time around.**
Isolated on the Isle of Man, the Irving Family’s farmhouse began receiving a mysterious visitor in the autumn of 1931. At first thought to be a weasel living in the walls, soon the mischievous creature learned speak several languages, sing songs, and hurl insults - as well as projectiles - at his enemies. Meet Gef, the talking mongoose whose sassy antics took the Irving family on a wild, tempestuous ride!
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S5: *From The Vault* Lady of the Dunes Update
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 answers have remained a mystery… until now.
Strange and Unexplained is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
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*From The Vault* Lady of the Dunes
**Strange And Unexplained is in between seasons, so we are bringing you episodes from the vault that you might have missed the first time around.**
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.
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S5: *From The Vault* Monsters 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 humanoid creatures. Who--or what--are they? This week, we explore the mysteries of the deep.
Strange and Unexplained is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
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*From The Vault* Dyatlov Pass
**Strange And Unexplained is in between seasons, so we are bringing you episodes from the vault that you might have missed the first time around.**
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.
Strange and Unexplained is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping...
S5: *From The Vault* 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 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.
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From The Vault- Elevators: Terror and Death in a 6 by 6 Foot Car
Elevators: they’re a modern convenience that we take for granted. But maybe we shouldn’t. This week we bring you two stories about the terror and death in a 6 by 6 foot elevator car.
Strange and Unexplained is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
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Seven Went Up. One Came Down. The Khamar Daban Incident
In August of 1993, six experienced young hikers and their extremely experienced guide went up into the mountains of Siberia. About a week later, only one of them returned, bloodied and traumatized. Her story would change over the years and spark decades of debate as to what actually happened to the rest of her group.
Strange and Unexplained is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and m...
The Case Files History Left Unsolved | Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat
Dr. Harini Bhat is a clinical pharmacist and storyteller obsessed with the moments in history that still can't be fully explained. Every week she investigates real events that defy easy explanation. Mass hysterias. Vanished civilizations. Medical oddities. Strange signals. Unexplained phenomena that keep repeating across centuries, as if history is trying to tell us something.
Hidden History doesn't dismiss ancient events as myth or superstition. It treats them as open case files, shaped by the limits of knowledge, technology, and record-keeping. Because the unknown isn't a failure of explanation. It's a constant in human experience, one that...
The Central Park Exonerated Five
In April of 1989, a group of boys took part in a series of attacks on innocent park-goers in New York City's Central Park. An awful twist of fate would up-end the boys' lives when they were accused of a truly horrific crime they did not commit.
Strange and Unexplained is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
<...Near Death Experiences UPDATE
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 about what happened. Two of them went to heaven, one went... someplace else. A rerun with a few updates!!
Strange and Unexplained is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free...
The Carroll A. Deering Ghost Ship
In our first ever listener-submitted episode, we learn all about the haunting tale of the Carroll A. Deering Ghost Ship, a truly Strange and Unexplained story!
Strange and Unexplained is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
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How Many Staircases Does it Take to Outrun the Ghosts
In the late 1800s, a widow took her fortune and moved out west to pursue an unusual hobby. The result was what we now call The Winchester Mystery House. Was Sarah Winchester really trying to outrun ghosts, or was she just trying to live out the rest of her life in peace and comfort?
Strange and Unexplained is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and...
The Mysterious Disappearance and Death of Thomas Brown
In 2016, a healthy young man went missing the night before Thanksgiving. The evidence and clues that slowly revealed themselves over the next few years never got anyone closer to an answer as to what happened to Thomas Brown. To this day no one knows what happened, even though someone DEFINITELY knows what happened.
Strange and Unexplained is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much...
*BONUS Re-Run* 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 when we do…where do we go? In this episode, we’ll head into the astral realm with the fascinating practice of accessing it.
Strange and Unexplained is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the ligh...
Elizabeth Klarer and her Alien Zaddy
Elizabeth Klarer claimed to have an intergalactic love-child with a timeless silver fox from outer space. Was she really in contact with alien beings, or was there a scarier, and far more terrestrial reason for her visions?
Strange and Unexplained is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
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BONUS: Melon Heads
In the woods of Kirtland, Ohio there is said to be a pack of feral children with misshapen heads who feed on babies. How people created monsters in the Midwest.
Strange and Unexplained is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and 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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Bird, Ape or Secret Third Thing? Classifying The Dover Demon
In the late 70's, a small group of teenagers independently witnessed a creature no one had ever encountered before. As word spread, a team of UFOlogists caught wind and came to find out what they'd seen. Was the Dover Demon a cryptid, or alien? Or was it something much more ordinary?
Strange and Unexplained is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over...
Smells like Teen Spirit: The Teenage Nazi-Killers
In the midst of World War 2, three girls were recruited by a Dutch resistance group fighting the Nazis. The girls were tasked with extremely unusual jobs. The kind of jobs only suited to young women. They were very, very good at it.
Strange and Unexplained is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes and much more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
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