Do Geese See God

Austin Lee

A palindrome-turned podcast of bizarrities, mysteries, the paranormal, and folklore from across the world and back. Hosted by Austin Lee, former host of Lights Out Podcast.

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S1 · E28
Tuesday · 1 hr 34 min
She Emptied a Family Home in 24 Hours: The Hissing Hag of Detroit
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. Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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.
S1 · E27
October 6 · 59 min
No Brain. No Blood. No Organs. The Real Walking Dead: Cotard's Syndrome
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). Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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.
S1 · E26
September 29 · 1 hr 20 min
Her Dream Became Reality: The Aberfan Disaster
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. Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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.
S1 · E25
September 22 · 1 hr 43 min
A 7-Foot Clown Lured Two Children Into a Windowless Hut: Sam the Sandown Clown
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 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 Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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
S1 · E24
September 15 · 1 hr 30 min
They Called Her a ‘Chemical Weapon.’ No One Could Explain It: Gloria Ramirez
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. Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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.
S1 · E23
September 8 · 1 hr 24 min
They Sent Government Agents to Silence Him After Finding an Endless Void: Mel's Hole
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 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. Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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
S1 · E22
September 1 · 1 hr 32 min
A Cult Gave Birth to a God-Machine: James Murray Spear
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 Underground Railroad to the cult-like scandals of his "Harmonia" commune and his disastrous obsession with mechanical divinity, John Spear believed electricity, magnetism, and hope were the answers to a nation on the verge of civil war. Out of desperation for change, he would attempt to build a mechanical God. Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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
S1 · E21
August 25 · 1 hr 32 min
They Ate Raw Mystery Meat That Fell from the Sky: The Kentucky Meat Shower
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 powers. Word spread, and some curious neighbors tasted and even ate the meat out of curiosity. Soon, the New York Herald picked up the story, initiating an investigation that has lasted over a century. Theories suggested the viscera was possibly horse lung, human infant flesh, frog spawn, or vulture vomit. But what caused it to appear from a clear blue sky? In the bizarre world of fafrotskies and objects falling from nowhere, can this paranormal phenomenon that plagued Kentucky ever truly be explained? Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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.
S1 · E20
August 18 · 1 hr 31 min
A Dead Man's Prank Sparked a $10 Million Baby-Making Race
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 collapsed into one of the strangest, most controversial sagas of the Great Depression, known across Canada as “The Great Stork Derby.” Many who entered the race were from poor, immigrant, and working-class families. Threats of extortion, kidnapping attempts, personal tragedies, lawsuits, racism, classism, and an invasive media circus followed them around for years. And amidst the chaos, as it turns out, life 100 years ago wasn’t all that different from today: the derby uncovered deep-seated xenophobia, eugenics-driven backlash, religious oppression, and courtroom battles over what legally counted as a child. Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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
August 11 · 1 hr 23 min
35 Calls from a Dead Man's Phone
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 life. The writer Dean Koontz once received a warning call from his dead mother that may have saved his life. An elderly couple once had a 30-minute conversation with their old friend who had already been dead for hours. And a French sociologist even received a phone call from his dog who had recently passed away. In this episode, we break down the parapsychology behind it all: Survivalist versus Anti-Survivalist theory, the "mind-ghost," and what the actual data says about grief and comfort. And with the rapid changes in technology, like AI avatars, how does this change the way we speak with the dead? Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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.
S1 · E18
August 4 · 56 min
Black Dispatches: The Enslaved People Who Fooled the Confederacy
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 the Confederate President's office. A recently escaped enslaved couple, Dabney and Lucy Ann Walker, turned a laundry line into a cipher hidden in plain sight. And a legend of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, crawled on her stomach through enemy lines to gather intel. She then went on to carry out the first military operation in U.S. history planned and led by a woman, while also freeing hundreds of slaves in a single night. Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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.
S1 · E17
July 28 · 1 hr 40 min
His Cure for Death: Coconuts and Sunshine: August Engelhardt's Order of the Sun
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 him immortal. It did the opposite. Engelhardt isn't alone. Cults have used diet as a tool of control for decades. And even now, in the age of social media, that same mentality has radicalized how we eat more than we'd like to admit... Patreon Special Guest: ⁠Michael La Bella⁠ DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien This 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
July 21 · 53 min
Falling Through the Cracks in a City of 8 Million People: Joyce Carol Vincent
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 lonely death affects us all. Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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
S1 · E15
July 14 · 1 hr 30 min
A Ship Obliterated By Ice. A Crew That Refused to Die: The Endurance Expedition
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, Ernest Shackleton, was smart enough to navigate the brutal decisions ahead. Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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.
S1 · E14
July 7 · 1 hr 2 min
A Haunting Voice Drove a Family to the Brink: The Zaragoza Goblin
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 statement left many confused and wondering… what even is unconscious ventriloquism? Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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.
S1 · E13
June 30 · 1 hr 16 min
The Great Silence of an Infinite Universe: The Fermi Paradox
“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 among us, keeping us caged in an intergalactic zoo without our knowledge? Matt's Music - Exit Pill DGSG Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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.
S1 · E12
June 23 · 51 min
How Tools Betrayed Us After 3 Million Years
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 critical to our own survival now threaten our existence... with the rise of machines, computers, and AI. Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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
S1 · E11
June 16 · 1 hr 21 min
America's Forgotten King: The Bizarre Mormon Cult of Beaver Island
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 of a bizarre and dangerous cult leader. He even became the first self-declared king elected in the US state government. Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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
S1 · E10
June 9 · 53 min
A Haunting Final Morse Code: The Mystery of the Ourang Medan
“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-secret nerve agents, theories run wild. So after 80 years, do we really know what happened to the Ourang Medan? Patreon DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien And Michael La Bella This 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.
S1 · E9
June 2 · 1 hr 10 min
Can You Create a Superhuman? The Polgar Experiment
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 they tilt the scales in favor of those who can afford them? Patreon Special Guest: ⁠Michael La Bella⁠ DGSG Instagram Host: Austin Lee (Former Host of Lights Out) Editor: Kelley Waterfall Artwork: Kelly Jaye MacCarroll Music: Matt McBrien Sources This 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.

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