S1 Ep11: The Impossible Disappearances of Brian Shaffer and Ian Burnet

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

Society & Culture, Science, True Crime

4.0 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

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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0:34.0	Have you ever gotten lost? Turned around, separated from your friends.
0:39.0	Maybe in a city you didn't know.
0:41.0	There's that moment where the panic starts to set in.
0:44.0	How will I find my way back?
0:47.0	Did anyone notice I was missing?
0:49.0	What if I never find my way back?
0:53.0	Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.
0:57.0	I'm a writer and an actor and a podcaster who tries to be the reasonable one,
1:02.0	but usually ends up wondering if maybe there is a portal into another dimension at the back of their closet.
1:08.0	This week, two men go missing from impossibly crowded places
1:12.0	where security cameras abound, never to be seen again.
1:17.0	Or maybe they were?
1:21.0	Today, I'm telling you two stories of men who vanished.
1:30.0	15 years ago on Friday, April 1st, 2006, Brian Schaefer, a 27-year-old med student at Ohio State,
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