S5 Ep36: Clown? Alien? Ringo Starr?? Sam, the Sandown Clown
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
4.0 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In the early 70s, on the Isle of Wight, two young children claimed to have had a visit with... something. The story of Sam, the Sandown Clown has grown more and more epic over the ensuing half-decade. But, is any of it true?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, strangers, before we jump into today's episode, I wanted to tell you about a live show I'm doing on March 15th, which has absolutely nothing to do with Strange and Unexplained. |
| 0:11.8 | Daisy and Jordan's Sunday Brunch of Shame is a comedy show, my comedy partner, Jordan Kai Burnett, and I have been doing since 2014. |
| 0:19.3 | This is our first live show in about eight years. |
| 0:22.3 | If you're in the New York area, you can get tickets for the live show, but if you can't make it into the city, you can live stream it from anywhere in the world. |
| 0:31.4 | March 15th at 1 p.m. Eastern at the Lori Beechman Theater in New York City. |
| 0:36.5 | Head to TheBeachman.com for tickets. |
| 0:39.7 | That's t-H-E-B-E-E-C-H-M-A-N dot com for tickets. See you there. |
| 0:51.2 | Are fairies and goblins and cryptids real? |
| 0:55.2 | Or are they just the fancies of creative people? |
| 0:58.8 | How many people have been fooled by the seeming magic of a firefly |
| 1:02.9 | or by inexplicable sounds in the night? |
| 1:06.0 | How many make-believe stories have been believed and passed down |
| 1:10.0 | turning into history on their way. |
| 1:13.3 | When does a story become folklore? |
| 1:18.3 | Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan. |
| 1:22.2 | I am neutral on clowns. |
| 1:24.2 | I know there are those who find them universally creepy. |
| 1:29.2 | I think Pennywise and John Wayne Gacy helped turn clowns. I know there are those who find them universally creepy. I think Penny Wise and John Wayne Gacy helped turn clowns from lovable pie tossing, water squirting, flower-wearing, |
| 1:34.9 | fun-loving rapscallions into the stuff of nightmares. I got to be a clown once in the Ringling |
| 1:41.3 | Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. I feel like maybe I've talked about |
| 1:45.0 | that before on this show, but it's been 7,000 years and who can keep track anymore. It was for a |
| 1:50.9 | charity thing and I got all dressed up and rode on an elephant and did the clown car routine with the |
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