Do Geese See God

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 h...

T-shirts (a few S,M,L left) ⁠Patreon⁠ ⁠Deep 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 wit...

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 Ra...

T-SHIRTS (Available only in the Contiguous 48 US states and D.C.) Elaine Page Art Elaine's Instagram The 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 withi...

John Murray Spear and his followers thought they could build a Messiah. Once a respected man in his community, John took a sharp turn into the strange world of Spiritualism. Guided by a group of spirits known as "The Electricizers," he was tasked with a divine mission: to assemble a perpetual motion machine that would change the world forever. From his genuine, life-saving work on the Un...

Chunks of bloody flesh rained down from a clear blue sky across the Crouch family farm on March 3rd, 1876. A “wagonload of meat” covered an area the size of a football field in Bath County, Kentucky.  Rebecca Crouch thought it was an omen, foretelling the violent fate of her husband and son who had gone into town that day. Others thought it was a sign from God and that the meat had supernatural po...

A life-changing amount of money was on the line, as a dead man's prank led to a “race” to see who could have the most babies in 10 years. In 1926, eccentric Toronto millionaire Charles Vance Millar left behind a bizarre will. His final clause was the strangest of all: his entire fortune would go to the Toronto woman who gave birth to the most children in the next decade. What started as a joke...

In 2008, Charles Peck died in the wreckage of the deadliest train crash in Metrolink history in Los Angeles. But over the next 11 hours, his cell phone called his family and fiancée 35 times. His phone was never recovered. The calls were never explained. Phone Calls from the Dead is a well-documented category of After-Death Communication, and they're experienced by people from all walks of lif...

These are the stories of enslaved people that history nearly forgot. A network of enslaved men and women became the Union's most valuable spies during the Civil War, known as "Black Dispatches." The Confederacy thought their servants were too "simple" to understand the war happening in front of them. And this oversight cost them greatly. A servant, Mary Bowser, infiltrated...

Nudism, nature, and coconuts. These were August Engelhardt's favorite things. Shaped by a growing cultural movement, he rejected the norms of mainstream German society and turned toward the natural world. On a remote island in German New Guinea, he set out to build a utopia he called the Order of the Sun, and for over a decade he ate almost nothing but coconuts, believing the fruit could make...

Joyce Carol Vincent does not fit the profile of someone who would die a lonely death. She was young, had a family, was sociable, and was not an addict. When her body was found in her London bedsit apartment more than 2 years after her death many wondered: in a city of millions of people, how did her death go completely unnoticed? In this episode we explore who Joyce was and how the epidemic of a l...

An audacious expedition became the most incredible Antarctic survival story ever told. For almost 2 years, the 28 men that made up the Endurance Expedition cheated death several times. Mother nature might have stranded them, destroyed their ship, and subjected them to life-threatening weather conditions, but she also gave them just enough mercy to beat the odds… as long as their fearless leader, E...

The Spanish government’s response to a haunting, disembodied voice was as bizarre as the paranormal phenomenon itself. Droves of witnesses were convinced that an unseen entity hid inside the Palazon family’s stove or kitchen walls. They named it the Zaragoza Goblin. To try to put the public at ease, the government explained that this was simply a case of "unconscious ventriloquism.” This vague sta...

“Where is everybody?” The Fermi Paradox is one of the simplest yet most puzzling contradictions of the entire universe. With how vast the universe is and how likely it must be that some extraterrestrial life must exist– why is there absolutely no hard evidence? Theories reach far and wide. Is intelligent life extremely rare, is there some great barrier for advancement, or… are the aliens already a...

Jane Goodall’s journey to the Gombe Stream in 1960 forced us to redefine what makes us human, starting with tools. Her observation of chimps made us question our own relationship with our most primitive tools stretching back 3 million years. Through millennia, as our dependency on them grew, we remapped our brains to include them as extensions of ourselves. And what were once seen as objects criti...

The US once had a king, James Strang, a Mormon cult leader who conquered Beaver Island, Michigan. With thousands of followers, he would rule his “Kingdom of God” with uncompromising control. Countless scandals, public floggings, theft, arson, betrayal, murder, and having his second wife disguise herself as his own nephew just to get away with polygamy… the King of Beaver Island had all the fixings...

“I die.” — the final distress call from the SS Ourang Medan. After a series of disturbing Morse code messages, nearby ships responded to the SOS only to find the entire crew dead, strewn across the deck in peculiar positions. For a century, the demise of the ship has never been fully explained, but its tragic tale has been shared in different languages across the globe. From alien weaponry to top-...

Laszlo and Klara Polgar believed they could create geniuses by raising their daughters in a highly curated environment. Others have simply believed prodigies are born with innate abilities. The debate of Nature vs. Nurture rages on, but as we barrel into the future with cybernetic technology, pharmaceuticals, and improved medical science, will these advancements level the playing field… or will th...

Ricky Megee woke up in a shallow grave, in the middle of the Australian desert, being pawed at by a pack of dingoes. Desperately hoping to find an end to the half-a-million square mile nightmare, he walked as far as he could, losing half his body weight over 71 days of survival. He ate lizards, frogs, and leeches in the 104 degree heat. When found, doctors believed he truly had been out there in t...

Erika Eiffel claimed her romantic relationship with the Eiffel Tower was as real as any other. Objectum Sexuality, or Objectophilia, remains a fringe, stigmatized, and under-researched concept regarding love and relationships. No one knows exactly how to categorize it or why it occurs. The first empirical behavioral investigation wasn’t published until 2019, and while it gave some answers, the con...

The Six Million Dollar Man TV crew accidentally discovered the remains of a real mummy hanging in an amusement park in California. Investigators discovered it belonged to a ne'er do well train robber, Elmer McCurdy. And it turned out that his remains had a longer history than Elmer ever had in life. His discovery raised questions surrounding how we exploit the dead and how there are countless othe...

Human-wildlife cooperation is an extremely rare phenomenon and has only been recorded in a few known species around the world. While the Thaua people of Australia maintained one of the most remarkable human-orca relationships on the planet for possibly thousands of years, it soon fell apart when intruders took over the ancient pact.  Patreon DGSG Instagram  Host:  Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights...

Within only 3 weeks in May 2001, nearly 400 people reported sightings of a humanoid monkey creature in certain neighborhoods of India’s capital city. About 60 residents suffered injuries that brought them to the hospital. So… was the Monkey Man a real, unexplained invasion of some sort of cryptid, or did other circumstances contribute to the panic? Patreon The Show: https://www.instagram.com/dogee...

The true story of Christopher Knight, one of the most famous hermits in modern history, flaws and all. He survived in the woods all alone for 27 years, but the suspicions surrounding his achievement and the overall response to his isolation weren't as welcoming as you might think... Patreon The Show: https://www.instagram.com/dogeeseseegodpod https://www.tiktok.com/@dogeeseseegodpod Host: Austin L...

Agatha Christie, the world's most beloved mystery writer, vanished for 11 days. Some claimed it was a fugue state, a form of dissociative amnesia. Others thought it was a publicity stunt to sell more novels. But a few theorized that it was all just a ploy to get back at her husband who had crossed her… So which was it? Remember to Subscribe and Follow on Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts...