How sad, How lovely: The Disappearance of Connie Converse

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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What would you do if you knew your were ahead of your time, if only by a brief moment? In the late-1950s, Connie Converse was young musician at the forefront of New York City’s burgeoning folk scene. Her groundbreaking songs poised her for greatness, but soon the male-dominated scene spearheaded by the likes of Bob Dylan had sucked out all the air around her. Connie Converse never got her due. Then she disappeared without a trace, never to be seen again.

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0:42.0	Hey, strangers, here's another classic episode from Strange and Unexplained.
0:46.9	It's one of my favorite episodes, How Sad, How Lovely, The Disappearance of Connie Converse,
0:49.8	originally aired June 15th, 2023.
0:50.5	Enjoy.
1:07.3	If there's one thing that televised talent competitions have taught us, it is that anyone you might come across in your day-to-day life could have an exceptional hidden talent that no one knows about.
1:12.0	The guy who bakes your bread at your local bakery, the woman who delivers your mail, your accountant. Remember Susan Boyle? Or that woman who sang shallow in the London
1:17.5	tube station? Or the Walmart yodeling kid? Innate artistic genius may not be as rare as we
1:24.3	like to think it is. Maybe if we placed more value on the arts, more people would
1:30.1	be able to identify their artistic strengths at a young age and help grow them. Imagine what it would
1:36.4	be like if we focused as much resources on the arts as we do on math and reading in schools. Imagine if that loaf of bread came with a chorus of,
1:46.6	I've got a brand new pair of roller skates,
1:49.3	or your mail person left beautiful little sketches
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