Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

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. This week's sponsors: BetterHelp - Strange & Unexplained is sponsored by BetterHelp. Learn more and save 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/DAISY. Lumi Labs - To learn more about microdosing THC go to Microdose.com and use code STRANGE to get free shipping and 30% off your first purchase. Bare Necessities - Get 20% off your Bare Necessities order at BareNecessities.com with code strange20.

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. This week's sponsors: PrettyLitter - Go to PrettyLitter.com/strange to save 20% on your first order of cat litter. Lomi - Head to Lomi.com/strange and use promo code STRANGE at checkout for $50 off your countertop, electric composter. Lumi - To learn more about microdosing THC go to Microdose.com and use code STRANGE to get free shipping and 30% off your first order.

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? This week's sponsors: Blissy - Head to Blissy.com/STRANGE to try Blissy pillows risk-free for 60 nights, and use code STRANGE to get 30% off. 

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. This week's sponsors: Lumi Labs - To learn more about microdosing THC go to Microdose.com and use code STRANGE to get free shipping and 30% off your first order. FirstLeaf - Get your first six bottles of wine for $39.95 plus free shipping at TryFirstLeaf.com/STRANGE. Blissy - Try Blissy bedding now risk-free for 60 nights at Blissy.com/STRANGE and use code STRANGE to get an additional 30% off. BetterHelp - Visit BetterHelp.com/Daisy to get 10% off you first month of therapy.

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." This week's sponsors: EveryPlate - Get started with EveryPlate for just $1.49 per meal on your first box by going to EveryPlate.com and entering code strange149 at checkout. Lumi Labs - To learn more about microdosing THC go to microdose.com and use code STRANGE to get free shipping and 30% off your first order.

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. This week's sponsors: BetterHelp - Visit BetterHelp.com/Daisy today to get 10% off your first month of therapy. Lumi Labs - To learn more about microdosing THC go to Microdose.com and use code STRANGE to get free shipping and 30% off your first order. Allstate Identity Protection - To find out if your employer offers Allstate Identity Protection or to start your 30-day free trial, head to AIP.com/STRANGE. 

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.

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.

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.

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.