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Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

S4 Ep42: There's a Ghost in my Quarter Pounder! Haunted Fast Food Restaurants

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.110K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Turns out indigestion may not be the hauntiest thing about some fast food joints.

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0:00.0

Have you ever been lectured on the horrors of fast food?

0:08.1

Have you been warned about the long-term health implications of frequenting Mickey D's or one of its competitors?

0:14.3

Have you ever eaten so many slices or tacos or chicken nuggets that you frightened yourself?

0:20.3

Fast food can be scary.

0:25.3

Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.

0:28.5

When I'm not trying desperately to eat healthy and encouraging a balanced diet for my family,

0:33.0

I am huddled in my driver's seat dipping my egg McMuffin into my Frosty McFlurry or whatever the

0:38.2

hell they call it. Come on, everyone eats fast food sometimes. Some people eat it as a regular

0:43.9

part of their diet, while others reserve it for road trips, busy days, late nights, and those special

0:48.9

moments when you want to support anti-LGBQIA plus lobbyists with your food dollars. Either way, fast food is an

0:56.9

undeniable part of the landscape of American life. But what if I told you it is also a part of

1:02.8

the landscape of American death and not the way you're thinking? Today we will be exploring the

1:08.8

secret menu of fast food hauntings that plague fast food restaurants across the country and the creepy residue they leave behind.

1:16.6

And I don't mean the French fry grease. Miami'sburg, Ohio is a little suburb of Dayton, Ohio, but long ago, before it was incorporated, it was a little hamlet known as

1:45.3

Holesville. I guess I'm not surprised they changed the name. Wow, I can already see the

1:51.2

fast food associations. Miami's burger. Donut Holesville. Oh my God. Okay. Anyway, if there was an

1:59.2

old-timey Pirates map of Miami'sburg, on that map would be in Arby's.

2:03.6

You know Arby's.

2:04.6

They have the meats, or so they say.

2:07.1

And it would seem they have more than that.

2:09.7

Fun fact, I was well into my 30s before I learned that Arby's was a phonetic spelling for the letters R and B, which stand for roast beef, which, I guess,

2:19.1

is the main menu offering at Arby's. However, Arby's Twitter account will tell you that the

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