The Impossible Disappearances of Brian Shaffer and Ian Burnet (from "Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan")

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True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 11.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Fam! We're taking the week off, but we wanted to share you a fascinating and terrifying episode from another Obsessed Network podcast called Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan.

Columbus Ohio 2006, 1:15 am: 27-year-old medical student Brian Shaffer is seen on a surveillance camera walking into a bar with two friends. But he never comes back out. Somehow, in a bar packed with potential witnesses, Brian vanished into thin air seemingly INSIDE the bar.

Then, in New York city in 2011, 22-year-old Ian Burnet, visiting friends to celebrate New Year's Eve gets onto a crowded subway car and is never seen again. How is it possible for someone to vanish without a trace from places packed with people and security cameras? What happened? Where did they go?

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0:29.9	Hey fam, we're taking a little break this week, but we wanted to share with you an episode
0:42.4	from another obsessed network podcast called Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Egan.
0:48.5	This episode is perfect for those of you who, like me, are obsessed with bizarre disappearances.
0:55.1	This episode tells two stories of impossible disappearances. I'm obsessed with both of
0:59.7	them. The first is about a 27 year old man named Brian Schaefer who in 2006 walked into
1:06.3	a bar in Columbus, Ohio. And there's video of him entering the bar that you can see on
1:11.8	YouTube and he never came out. It's been 15 years, you guys, and nobody has seen him
1:18.7	since he walked into the bar that night. The second story in this episode is about a young
1:22.8	man named Ian Burnett who, in 2011, vanished from the Harlem neighborhood I used to live
1:28.8	in. I remember seeing his missing person's flyers on telephone poles outside my apartment
1:34.2	and I've been obsessed with this case ever since. So enjoy this episode of Strange and Unexplained
1:39.7	with Daisy Egan. And if you love it, find and subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen.
1:52.1	Have you ever gotten lost? Turned around, separated from your friends. Maybe in a city you
1:57.6	didn't know. There's that moment where the panic starts to set in. How will I find
2:03.5	my way back? Did anyone notice I was missing? What if I never find my way back?
2:12.3	Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan. I'm a writer and an actor and
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