Do Geese See God

Shirts are back in stock!Today marks the 51st anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Queen of the Lakes. On November 10, 1975, Captain McSorley radioed one final message, “We are holding our own.” Minutes later, his entire 729-foot-long ship vanished in Lake Superior. No distress call. No survivors. All 29 men were lost.All these years later, mysteries and controversies surround the wreck, and no one knows exactly what happened. On this episode of Do Geese See God, we cover the theories suggesting problems with the hatch covers, a shallow shoal, rogue waves, or a poorly-structured ship. Loosening regulations and adjustments in load lines might’ve also put the ship in harm’s way. Then came the controversies with the wreck itself and the dives that crossed the line, since this was, after all, a gravesite.If you want to watch the anniversary memorial service and pay your respects, there will be a live stream of it hosted by The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society.PatreonDGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley WaterfallArtwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarrollMusic: Matt McBrienAnd Michael La BellaThis channel hosts a documentary series for educational purposes (EDSA). Content features authoritative sources, including academic journals, scientific studies, interviews, and newspaper articles designed to educate. All videos include editorial context that enhances their educational and artistic value.

Did Mary Toft concoct the most elaborate medical hoax?In October 1726, newspapers reported that a woman from Godalming, Surrey had given birth to animal viscera. Within only a few weeks, she had delivered over a dozen rabbits.Respected surgeons examined her, claiming it was all real. The King’s own personal physician staked his entire reputation and published a book, confirming the reports.Soon, visitors were cycling through the delivery room to have a look for themselves. And many believed that Mary had formed these pregnancies through “maternal impressions,” with the power of her mind.In this episode of DGSG, we explore whether this was a genuine biological anomaly or if the peasant Mary and her accomplices somehow duped countless witnesses. And if she had duped them, a modern retrospective questions the extent of the manipulation and self-inflicted violence that had to take place… to make it all seem real.PatreonDGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley WaterfallArtwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarrollMusic: Matt McBrienAnd Michael La BellaThis channel hosts a documentary series for educational purposes (EDSA). Content features authoritative sources, including academic journals, scientific studies, interviews, and newspaper articles designed to educate. All videos include editorial context that enhances their educational and artistic value.

Did Mary Roff return from the dead by possessing the body of another teenager, Lurancy Vennum?In this Halloween episode, we cover America’s first and most-documented possession case: the Watseka Wonder. In 1878, 13-year-old Lurancy began experiencing bizarre trances, terrifying physical episodes, and visions of spirits. But when a local Spiritualist claimed he could help her, something extraordinary happened. Lurancy allegedly became Mary Roff, a young woman who had died 12 years earlier.Lurancy suddenly couldn’t recognize her own family. Instead, she claimed to remember specific details of Mary’s family. Fully supported by all the adults involved, she went to live in the home of the grieving Roff family in the form of their resurrected daughter.In this episode of Do Geese See God, with host Austin Lee, we break down this chilling case of spirit possession. Was it proof of life after death, a remarkable psychological phenomenon, or something far more complicated? We also dissect the rise in Spiritualism, mysterious medical episodes, suspiciously convenient memories, and the families caught in the middle of turmoil and tragedy.PatreonDGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley WaterfallArtwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarrollMusic: Matt McBrienAnd Michael La BellaThis channel hosts a documentary series for educational purposes (EDSA). Content features authoritative sources, including academic journals, scientific studies, interviews, and newspaper articles designed to educate. All videos include editorial context that enhances their educational and artistic value.

Were vampires once… real?In July 1725, nine people died in eight nights in a small Serbian village. A health official thought the mystery could be explained by an epidemic, but the witness statements didn’t add up. All the villagers claimed the victims had been assaulted and murdered by Peter Blagojević, a man who had been dead for weeks. The villagers called him “vampiri,” meaning “back from the dead.”In this episode of DGSG, we dive into the origins of real vampires. From a misunderstanding of decomposition and epidemiology to the mass panic of folklore becoming reality, vampires were perceived as real, murderous creatures of the night. And the response to this hysteria created an international phenomenon. This widespread fear within a brutal and primitive past would evolve through literature, giving us our modern perceptions of romantic, bat-like, metaphorical vampires.PatreonDGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley WaterfallArtwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarrollMusic: Matt McBrienAnd Michael La BellaThis channel hosts a documentary series for educational purposes (EDSA). Content features authoritative sources, including academic journals, scientific studies, interviews, and newspaper articles designed to educate. All videos include editorial context that enhances their educational and artistic value.

When actual nightmares become reality: The Old Hag of Martin Street.In October 1962, Shirley Patterson stayed in the cramped, back bedroom of his cousin’s rental house in Detroit. The horrific hissing hag who appeared in the room that night later drew hundreds of onlookers and got the story featured in the Detroit Free Press.Bill Adams, Shirley’s cousin, a soft-spoken Army veteran, didn’t believe in ghosts. But within 24 hours, this oppressive, mutilated, smelly, hissing, greasy-haired hag would drive Bill and his entire family out of the house.This week on DGSG, returning guest Loyd and host Austin Lee dig into the local story of the Old Hag of Martin Street. We break down every creepy angle, with eyewitness interviews, police statements, and a haunting history going back decades. We also cover the lore of the old hag and its connection to sleep paralysis: nightmare fuel that is more literal than figurative. PatreonDGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley WaterfallArtwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarrollMusic: Matt McBrienAnd Michael La BellaThis channel hosts a documentary series for educational purposes (EDSA). Content features authoritative sources, including academic journals, scientific studies, interviews, and newspaper articles designed to educate. All videos include editorial context that enhances their educational and artistic value.

Only a few Small and Medium T-shirts left!What if you were completely convinced that you were already dead?In the late 1800s, French neurologist Jules Cotard documented patients who believed they had no organs, no blood, no brain, or even a soul. Some believed they had never existed at all. Others thought they were immortal, eternally damned, or trapped somewhere between life and death.Today, this rare phenomenon is known as Cotard’s syndrome, AKA the “Walking Corpse” or the “Walking Dead” syndrome.In this episode of DGSG, we explore the strange and deeply unsettling history of this condition. We’ll hear about people who refused food because they believed they were dead, patients who believed their bodies had disappeared, and the disturbing religious delusions that accompany the syndrome.We then jump into the modern world of psychiatry and what has been learned about Cotard’s delusion and why some researchers believe these seemingly impossible beliefs might actually be attempts to rationalize profoundly altered experiences of the self and reality.We’ll also explore modern cases, including first-person accounts, and examine modern treatments such as medication and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).PatreonDGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley WaterfallArtwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarrollMusic: Matt McBrienAnd Michael La BellaThis channel hosts a documentary series for educational purposes (EDSA). Content features authoritative sources, including academic journals, scientific studies, interviews, and newspaper articles designed to educate. All videos include editorial context that enhances their educational and artistic value.

Only 13 shirts in stock (S,M,L) when this episode went live!On October 21, 1966, a 111-foot coal-waste spoil tip collapsed on the Welsh village of Aberfan. The slurry engulfed several homes and the Pantglas Junior School, a tragedy that would create a cultural grief lasting decades. Beyond the tragedy, what shocked many was the number of alleged premonitions about the Aberfan disaster before it happened. One came from 10-year-old Eryl Mai Jones, who told her mother a night before the disaster that she had dreamed of the school being destroyed. Several more came forward with their unique premonitions of the Aberfan Disaster, to the point that psychiatrist John Barker opened the British Premonitions Bureau. Fully convinced they could use this information to avert future disasters, he and his team began collecting specific predictions before tragic events occurred.Two people, Kathleen Middleton and Alan Hencher, became the bureau’s “stars” after making astonishing predictions about plane crashes, RFK’s assassination, floods, earthquakes, and disasters involving astronauts. But were all of these legitimate? How much of them were coincidences, results of confirmation bias, or vague guesses? Or is there a hidden truth connected to these premonitions? Some researchers suggest they are very real… but it’s not as paranormal as we might think.PatreonDGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley WaterfallArtwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarrollMusic: Matt McBrienAnd Michael La BellaThis channel hosts a documentary series for educational purposes (EDSA). Content features authoritative sources, including academic journals, scientific studies, interviews, and newspaper articles designed to educate. All videos include editorial context that enhances their educational and artistic value.

T-shirts (a few S,M,L left)⁠Patreon⁠⁠Deep in the marshlands of the Isle of Wight, a 7-foot creature with a paper-white face, triangular eyes, and a colorful patchwork costume lured two children to his hut in 1973 — and what happened next became one of Britain's most famous cryptid legends.This is the bizarre story of "Sam the Sandown Clown" (aka All Colors Sam). It all started with a 1973 encounter and its obscure 1978 BUFORA write-up. Then it evolved into a wild string of "return" sightings through the 1980s, where Sam allegedly predicted real-world events. And finally, to a 2025 update that reignited the legend online. We trace that sudden shift in folklore, especially after the 2016 Clown Panic, while unpacking the psychology and history behind coulrophobia (the fear of clowns), and explore cryptid theories ranging from interdimensional beings, Isle of Wight Festival drifters, and a Ringo Starr prank gone wrong.DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley WaterfallArtwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarrollMusic: Matt McBrienAnd Michael La BellaThis channel hosts a documentary series for educational purposes (EDSA). Content features authoritative sources, including academic journals, scientific studies, interviews, and newspaper articles designed to educate. All videos include editorial context that enhances their educational and artistic value.Sources

A few shirts left! A 31-year-old mother is rushed into Riverside Hospital. The staff is alarmed by unusual smells and an oily sheen found on her body. Within minutes, nurses and doctors collapse to the floor, sending the entire ER into a frenzy. The entire floor is evacuated during one of the strangest and most-disputed medical mysteries of the modern era.This is the unexplained case of Gloria Ramirez, a woman labeled as “the Toxic Lady,” after officials tried to explain what happened in the hospital that night by suggesting that her body was somehow producing a chemical weapon. Other professionals claimed mass hysteria. Yet the family claimed that the hospital was trying to cover up a documented history of toxic gas violations in the hospital.Three delayed autopsies, sexism in healthcare, suspicious violations by the hospital, and conflicting eyewitness accounts created the most complex mystery of the 90s. PatreonDGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley WaterfallArtwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarrollMusic: Matt McBrienAnd Michael La BellaThis channel hosts a documentary series for educational purposes (EDSA). Content features authoritative sources, including academic journals, scientific studies, interviews, and newspaper articles designed to educate. All videos include editorial context that enhances their educational and artistic value.

T-SHIRTS (Available only in the Contiguous 48 US states and D.C.)Elaine Page ArtElaine's InstagramThe enigmatic Mel Waters calls into a late-night radio show in 1997. He says there’s a hole on his Washington property that has no bottom. It swallows everything, including appliances, cow carcasses, and thousands of feet of fishing line that Mel uses to try to find the end. Dogs won’t go within 100 feet. Birds won't perch near its edge. One day, an odd coin appears in the dirt nearby, and a beam of darkness can be seen emanating from the hole at night. Soon, seedy government agents appear at Mel’s Hole. They cause him nothing but trouble as he tries to unlock the mystery of this ominous, bottomless pit. His increasingly bizarre journey continues over the course of five years. So in this episode, we try to uncover what exactly is true about Mel's Hole despite the seemingly impossible claims.PatreonDGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley WaterfallArtwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarrollMusic: Matt McBrienAnd Michael La BellaThis channel hosts a documentary series for educational purposes (EDSA). Content features authoritative sources, including academic journals, scientific studies, interviews, and newspaper articles designed to educate. All videos include editorial context that enhances their educational and artistic value.Sources