S2 Ep26: The Impossible Death of Rey Rivera

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

Society & Culture, Science, True Crime

4.0 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	When someone dies unexpectedly, they leave behind loved ones, reeling in shock and confusion.
0:11.2	Why did it happen?
0:12.6	Was there something I could have done to stop it?
0:15.0	Were there signs?
0:16.6	But what happens when a death is so mysterious and strange that it's impossible to even know
0:21.8	what questions to ask, and the answers don't begin to illuminate what really happened?
0:29.1	To be honest, I'm not sure if I'm a stranger to this, but I'm not sure if I'm a
0:32.6	right or an actor who would never stop searching for answers if their loved ones died mysteriously
0:38.1	and unexpectedly.
0:40.2	Even if that search only led me to more questions than answers.
0:44.3	In today's episode, we'll look at the life and extremely mysterious and suspicious death
0:49.0	of Ray Rivera.
0:50.2	The man who, in 2006, was found dead under an impossibly small hole in the roof of a hotel
0:56.7	with a murky past of its own.
0:59.0	Where will our search for answers take us, and will we ever learn the truth about Ray Rivera?
1:13.2	Ray Omar Rivera was born on June 10, 1973 in Madrid, Spain to Puerto Rican American parents.
1:20.8	His father was an officer in the Air Force stationed in Spain.
1:24.7	In 1987, Ray's father retired from the military and the family finally settled down in Orlando,
1:30.6	Florida.
1:32.0	In high school, Ray was a high achiever, taking AP classes and joining the school's brand
1:36.7	new water polo team in 1990.
1:39.8	Despite having never played water polo before, Ray's older brother, Onhell, told the Orlando
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