Chapter 25 - Open Water: The Disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan

12/27/22 • 30 min

27 December 2022
The Insidious Agenda Podcast
Chapter 25 - Open Water: The Disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan
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I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and are enjoying this little week in between where days and times really don't exist. That being said, happy Tuesday! Of course, that brings with it a new episode of the Insidious Agenda Podcast.
This week's story is one that inspired the 2003 film, Open Water. It is the disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan; a couple who was left behind on a diving trip in Australia on their way back to the United States after a posting to the peace corps.
Though it's not the usual type of content I do, I believed it was an important story to tell and ties in well to some of our central undertones. That of terror and fear. It's also a bit of an emotional rollercoaster that involves relief, dread, anger and sadness. It's also a major testament to what happens when you simply don't do your job. That being said, it doesn't discount the possibility that it was planned by the Lonergans. I won't get into more than that here.
As we start to wrap up the year, i'll have a New Year's episode coming out on NYE 2022. It will outline my Top 10 favourite moments of the first year of my podcast, fill you all in on what lead to me starting it and capping it all off with our inaugural awards - The Insidi-est!
I hope you enjoy the episode and, as always, thanks for coming back to the Insidious Agenda Podcast. It means more than you know!
Stay spooky,
Nick

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12/27/22 • 30 min

The Insidious Agenda - Chapter 25 - Open Water: The Disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan

Transcript

Young, idealistic and in love. This is how relatives of Thomas Lonergan and Eileen Hains would describe the couple. Tom was 57, born on the 28th of December in 1964; Eileen was 53, born on the 3rd of March, 1969. They were from Baton Rouge, a city in the state of Louisiana. They both would obtain degrees from Louisiana State University. Tom and Eileen met while at LSU, fell in love and were married in Jefferson, Texas on the 24th of June in 1988. Initially the couple were teachers but

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