S5 Ep10: Live from The Witch City Tarot Convention!

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Science, Society & Culture

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this special episode, recorded live at the Witch City Tarot Convention in Salem, we bring you a triathlon of content! First, we have to 100% true and totally NOT made up HISTORY OF TAROT, then we'll take you on a deep dive into the famous Hawthorne Hotel in historic Salem, Massachusetts, and lastly, we'll chat with Shari DeBenedetti from Ghost Hunters as she reveals some truly horrifying hauntings!

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0:00.0	Hey, strangers, for those of you listening at home, this episode is going to be a little different.
0:06.9	We recorded today's episode live at the Hawthorne Hotel on Friday, July 27th as part of the Witch City Tarot Convention.
0:15.2	So, as the event's first night entertainment, I did a show in three parts.
0:20.0	The first was the totally 100% true, not at all made-up
0:24.4	history of tarot cards, as told by me, a total expert in tarot and its history. The second was
0:30.8	the history of the historic and storied Hawthorne Hotel. And then I interviewed special guest
0:35.6	Sherry D. Benedetti from the hit TV series Ghost
0:38.5	Hunters. Enjoy. All right. Well, I'm very excited to welcome Daisy Egan. Woo! Hey! It's a funny gimmick,
0:50.8	because you just saw me sitting here five seconds ago. It's not like, oh, that's what she looks like.
0:57.5	Wow.
0:58.5	Thank you, Chris.
0:59.8	Hi, everybody.
1:00.7	What a beautiful, gorgeous, sexy audience.
1:04.5	Ugh.
1:05.3	I am Daisy Egan, and I am the host and writer and all of the things of Strange and Unexplained. We're in our fifth season.
1:13.4	Last year I did the Stanley Hotel. We weren't at the Stanley Hotel, but we were in Denver, so I just
1:20.0	figured close enough. And it was sort of fun to kind of do a location-themed kind of episode, and that went
1:27.3	over well. And I thought that for
1:29.3	the tarot convention, we would do sort of both, like a tarot-themed situation and a Hawthorne
1:36.4	hotel situation. If you don't know me, what are you doing? Honestly, like, I am an actor and a writer and a podcaster.
1:46.7	I've been an actor for most of my life,
1:49.2	and I sort of transitioned into this during the pandemic,
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