S4 Ep46: Vortices, and Portals, and Lights! Oh My! The Phoenix Lights and Other Strange Goings On in Arizona

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Sedona, Arizona has long been a destination spot for wellness-types. Turns out humans aren't the only ones who like it there. Aliens seem to LOVE the area, too. Is it the healing vortices? The portals to space? Or just a good PR team for the town?

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0:00.0	If you had the whole universe at your fingertips, where would you go?
0:09.2	If the universe contained portals to other places, would you visit the rings of Saturn, the moons of Jupiter?
0:16.9	Or would you travel farther out to find somewhere livable far, far away from this burning
0:22.3	hell rock careening toward oblivion? Why on Earth, if you could visit anywhere in the universe,
0:28.8	would you visit Earth? Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.
0:41.1	I've never lived in the Southwest, but I know plenty of people who have.
0:46.3	The people who occupied our house before us moved to Arizona because they were tired of the cold.
0:51.8	It was a wild choice to me, considering Arizona is very rapidly running out of water.
0:55.7	My best friend has a house in Vegas and fantasizes that our kids will someday live there together. This makes me laugh and laugh. The idea that Vegas will be
1:01.5	anything other than a Mad Max hellscape by the time our kids are grown-ups is hilarious in a
1:07.6	devastating way. Anyway, my point is I'm not entirely clear
1:12.8	why anyone would choose to live in the desert these days,
1:16.0	but sure, it's a lovely place to visit,
1:18.2	and clearly the aliens agree
1:20.1	because they seem absolutely Gaga
1:22.7	over the American Southwest.
1:41.3	I'm not going to be. the American Southwest. Before Sedona, Arizona became a hot spot for UFO activity, it was a hot spot for healing and tofu.
1:51.0	Until the 1980s, Sedona was your run-of-the-mill hippie-slash wellness-type community,
1:56.5	with lots of spiritual retreats and self-help gurus with crystals and caftans.
2:01.9	The area is stunning, with gorgeous red rocks and other nifty desert landscape stuff that people dig.
2:08.5	And it is generally accepted that the area was considered a sacred site to the people who inhabited it before white people,
2:15.6	specifically the Hopi, Apache, and Yavapay.
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