S5 Ep15: The Bizarre, True Story of Aimee Semple McPherson, Part Two: Who's That Girl?

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In part two, we learn all about the fallout from Aimee's disappearance and miraculous return. To call it a circus would be an insult to circuses. This thing was a slow-motion steam train going off the rails with the whole nation watching every moment. The former Canadian farm girl, turned religious mega star warned everyone: You were either with her or with the devil, himself.

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1:14.2	What would you do to get out of a bad situation?
1:18.2	How far would you go to escape from unpleasant circumstances?
1:22.9	What if those circumstances were of your own making?
1:26.6	And what if your life just became a series of escapes
1:29.6	and avoidances, each making your original bad situation seem less bad? When does walking away
1:37.7	feel impossible? And what are the alternatives? Sometimes death might feel like the only escape. But what if you don't actually
1:47.9	want to die? Welcome to strange and unexplained with me, Daisy Egan. Some years ago I wrote a
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