From The Vault- Elevators: Terror and Death in a 6 by 6 Foot Car

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

Society & Culture, Science, True Crime

4.0 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Hey, strangers, before we jump in, I need to issue an apology. As one Twitter user let me know
0:05.6	when this episode was first released in 2021, I use the term fireman instead of firefighter.
0:13.2	The Twitter user warned me to do better. Please forgive my Gen Z brain and know that I'm
0:19.1	always striving to do better.
0:25.9	Have you ever been stuck in an elevator? For how long? Ten minutes? 30? An hour? Have you ever
0:35.1	been stuck in an elevator so long you wondered if you might die in there?
0:40.3	Do you think it's possible that an elevator can transport you to some alternate universe from which you may never return?
0:48.9	Welcome to Strange and Unexplained, the podcast that asks for the receipts and is usually like, oh shit, this adds up.
0:57.4	I'm your host, Daisy Egan. I'm a writer and an actor and a skeptic. This week, elevators. We ride them
1:05.5	every day without thinking about the potential for death. But is that cavalier? There are so many things we use every day that we take for granted.
1:24.6	Imagine life without refrigeration. Imagine life without television or books
1:29.8	or cell phones. Actually, that last one I imagine all the time. Walking down the street without having
1:37.3	to step around groups of people taking selfies, not being available to everyone every minute of the
1:42.7	day, not constantly doom scrolling while comparing my entire life
1:47.3	to someone's highly curated social media feed.
1:52.0	Anyway.
1:55.9	Elevators.
1:57.0	We take them for granted, but maybe we shouldn't.
2:01.6	The first story I'm going to tell you is the story of Nicholas White.
2:06.2	I first heard this story over 10 years ago, and it blew my mind.
2:11.6	It has haunted me ever since.
2:14.7	A quick side note before we begin.
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