S4 Ep53: Season Four Finale!!! Anchorites!

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Legend has it for centuries men and women have chosen to be enclosed in impossibly small cells to devote their love to God with no way out and no contact with the outside world. The truth may be a little less clear cut, and a bit stranger.

"Strange and Unexplained" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab & Three Goose Entertainment and is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on. You can get early and ad-free episodes on the Grab Bag Patreon page.

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0:00.0	Do you like your alone time? Do you like the peace and quiet of complete solitude? How long do you think you'd be okay being completely alone? A few days, months, years? What about the rest of your life?
0:26.0	Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.
0:27.6	I love being alone.
0:30.0	Silence is often my favorite sound.
0:36.6	I revel in the quietude of no outside demands, questions, or needs, but only to a point.
0:40.2	After a while, my brain starts to go, hey, where is everyone?
0:44.4	Boy, it's a little too quiet. I think I need to play a zombie shoot-em-up game with my husband scrolling on his phone next to me and my kid yelling on his VR in the next room.
0:48.9	I can only take my own company for so long. Eventually, I can't stand the sound of my thoughts. Maybe that's why I've
0:55.7	been watching so much Law & Order SVU. As you know by now, I started watching SVU from the
1:01.3	beginning this past December because I am an actual lunatic. In case you're interested, I'm on
1:07.1	season 13. I've learned a lot. Mariska Hargadeh looks gorgeous no matter what haircut
1:12.6	she has. It's actually unfair. The team solves the case incorrectly no fewer than four times
1:18.1	before getting it right each episode. And if the show is to be believed, people are a lot more
1:23.8	evil and depraved than I thought. But also, there's an episode in which Stabler decides to
1:30.2	spend three days in solitary confinement in a prison so he can see what it's like, because, you know,
1:36.4	that's totally something a cop would do, just like when Olivia tells a victim she won't rest
1:41.5	until she gets justice. I mean, yes, you will, but it's a nice
1:46.2	fantasy. Anyway, Stabler goes crazy and solitary. After a montage of him working out, which I didn't
1:53.2	mind, he starts hearing voices and at one point befriends a cockroach, which I absolutely
1:58.0	did mind. When the guard comes to let him out, Stabler nearly attacks him
2:02.2	yelling that he said to leave him in there for three days, not a whole week. The guard is like,
2:07.1	whoa, dude, that was three days. But who can keep track of time when one only has one's own brain
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