S5 Ep42: The Mysterious Disappearance and Death of Thomas Brown
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
4.0 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In 2016, a healthy young man went missing the night before Thanksgiving. The evidence and clues that slowly revealed themselves over the next few years never got anyone closer to an answer as to what happened to Thomas Brown. To this day no one knows what happened, even though someone DEFINITELY knows what happened.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're fascinated by true crime, then join us in October 26 for CrimeCon London. Meet the biggest names in True Crime TV, experience live forensic demonstrations and dive deep into the criminal mind with your favourite authors, experts, podcasters and content creators. To secure your place, go to crimecon.com.com. now and be part of the UK's biggest true crime community. |
| 0:24.2 | CrimeCon London, partnered by True Crime Channel 3rd and 4th of October, 2026. |
| 0:35.4 | Constantly changing every day. How much of a teenager's life can we truly know? When something happens to someone in that stage of life, where do our minds wander on their fate? And how do we search for answers around lives paused on the cusp of adulthood. |
| 1:00.5 | Welcome to strange and unexplained with me, Daisy Egan. |
| 1:04.1 | Sometimes I marvel at having survived adolescence, |
| 1:07.2 | between the extremely bad and dangerous choices, |
| 1:10.1 | a deep misunderstanding of my own mortality, |
| 1:13.6 | and the true depths of despair I wallowed in as a consequence of trauma and hormones, it is a wonder I am alive and well-ish. |
| 1:20.7 | It seems a cruel trick of evolution that we are so unwise at the same time that we are |
| 1:25.7 | unquantifiably brave, or conversely, that we are so unwise at the same time that we are unquantifiably brave, or conversely, that we are so unwise |
| 1:31.6 | and feel so hopeless. |
| 1:34.3 | For Thomas Brown, however, it seems his fate was not tied to his bad decisions or overconfidence |
| 1:40.5 | in his own mortality. |
| 1:42.6 | For Thomas Brown, it seems, no amount of right decisions could have |
| 1:46.8 | changed his outcome. Before we dive in, much of today's episode relies on the comprehensive |
| 1:55.0 | coverage done by Texas journalist Skip Hollinsworth for a podcast mini-series he did about this case in 2020. |
| 2:03.3 | Oddly enough, when I did a search for this case on newspapers.com, I got zero results. |
| 2:09.0 | Google was a little more helpful, but Skip Hollinsworth was the most helpful. |
| 2:34.0 | Canadian Texas is a very small town that shouldn't really stand out at all. It seems to this city mouse to be the typical rural Texas small town, complete with a high school football stadium with more seats than there are residents of the town. |
| 2:45.0 | And Thomas Tom Brown was about as typical a teenager as teenagers come. In the fall of 2016, Tom was an 18-year-old |
| 2:53.4 | senior at Canadian high school, where at 6'1 and 180 pounds, he was a starting offensive |
| 2:59.6 | lineman on the school's football team. I'm not even going to try to pretend to know what an offensive |
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