S1: 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

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We're taking a break for the holiday so we wanted to feature an episode from our first season you may not have heard yet. We'll be back with a new episode next week!

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?

Transcript

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0:00.0	So, will it be skiing?
0:03.0	Or Christmas markets on a city break?
0:06.0	Skiing? Or a city break?
0:09.0	Some problems are good problems to have.
0:12.0	Especially with flights this winter from 29.99 one-way
0:17.0	and Package Holidays from £159 per person.
0:21.0	Get the King at EasyJet.com.
0:24.0	Selected dates, Holidays at all protected based on two adults for three nights,
0:28.0	restrictions and season C's apply.
0:30.0	Hey strangers, we're taking a break this week, but we'll be back next week with an all-new episode of Strange and Unexplained.
0:41.0	While we're away, here's a look back at one of our episodes from season one,
0:45.0	the impossible disappearances of Brian Schaeffer and Ian Burnett,
0:49.0	two stories of young men who walked into places, a bar, a subway car, and never left.
0:56.0	How does someone disappear without a trace?
0:59.0	And how do we cope with these stories unfinished?
1:02.0	On this episode, I go over the many theories surrounding these two famed cases
1:07.0	and leave you to decide what you think really happened.
1:11.0	Enjoy the episode and we'll see you next week.
1:14.0	15 years ago on Friday, April 1, 2006,
1:25.0	Brian Schaeffer, a 27-year-old med student at Ohio State,
1:29.0	was celebrating the end of exams in the beginning of spring break
1:32.0	by bar hopping with his friend Clint Florence and the throng of other spring breakers.
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