What Went Wrong: The Mysterious Death Of Natalie Wood (With Daisy Eagan)

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Hey Strangers! Daisy was recently on an episode of What Went Wrong. Here's a snippet of that episode. For the full thing, visit: What Went Wrong, or find it wherever you get your podcasts!

When Natalie Wood drowned in 1981 she was only 43 years old. Thanks to films like ‘West Side Story’, ‘Rebel Without a Cause’, and ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ she was an icon, but she’d been out of the spotlight for almost a decade. Wood was in the midst of filming her comeback, ‘Brainstorm’, when she, her co-star Christopher Walken, and her husband Robert Wagner took their yacht out for Thanksgiving weekend. What happened that night depends on who you ask… and when you ask them.
Join Chris, Lizzie, and special guest Daisy Eagan from Strange and Unexplained for the first episode of our bonus series 'Out of Frame' where we’ll investigate the darker, more obscure corners of Hollywood history. In this episode we’ll find out if Wood’s death sank her final film, or if ‘Brainstorm’ had something to do with her death.

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0:00.0	The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be
0:06.8	wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain
0:13.0	that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching
0:18.7	their peak in the afternoon.
0:23.0	Not in the mood for miserable weather?
0:25.8	Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.
0:28.7	Sun Express, non-stop sunshine.
0:33.2	Looking for a true crime podcast that goes beyond the headlines.
0:35.6	When I interviewed her 20 years on,
0:41.0	she said that Fred told her there were hundreds of bodies buried in Gloucester.
0:43.8	It's a deeply disturbed love story.
0:50.3	Join Sky News crime correspondent Martin Brunt and journalist Helen Fospero on true criminals.
0:55.5	A weekly deep dive into the cases that shook the world, with insights so shocking they still haunt our imagination today.
0:58.5	This is True first episode of a new bonus series called Out of Fram. and welcome back to what went wrong, except this isn't going to be your standard episode.
1:28.3	This is the first episode of a new bonus series called Out of Frame,
1:32.0	where we'll be focusing on the obscure and sometimes dark corners of Hollywood
1:35.6	and also taking a little more time to discuss the off-camera lives of some of your favorite on-screen stars.
1:42.1	Today we're investigating the mysterious death of Hollywood icon Natalie Wood
1:45.9	and how it intersects in some very strange ways with her final film, Brainstorm. I'm here, as always,
1:52.8	with my lovely co-host, Chris Winterbauer, but because this is essentially a true crime episode,
1:57.8	and we are not true crime experts, we've enlisted the help of an actual expert.
2:03.5	We have Daisy Egan here with us today of Strange and Unexplained. Their show is in the fifth season.
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