Phoebe Handsjuk

CCTV footage of Phoebe and her dog

Photograph of Phoebe's apartment on the night of her death

(Victoria Police)

Georgia:

The mysterious death of Phoebe Handsjuk

Episode sources:

1. “Phoebe’s Fall”

2. “What really happened to Phoebe Handsjuk?” by Robert Hardy (Marie Claire, October 31, 2016)

3. “Phoebe Handsjuk: Coroner ignored his counsel’s advice” by Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie

4. Lorne Campbell Statement for Coroner’s Inquest

Karen:

The sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Episode sources:

1. “Shipwreck: The Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald” (Discovery Channel)

2. “The Fateful Journey” by Sean Ley (Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum)

3. “Edmund Fitzgerald” (Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum)

4. “The Storm That Sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald” (Michigan Sea Grant)

5. “The Day the Lake Took the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Martha Lundin (Orion Magazine) 2022

6. “Beware of the ‘November Witch!’ by Jamie McLeod (Farmers’ Almanac) 2025

7. “The haunting Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck happened nearly 50 years ago” by Doyle Rice (USA Today) 2025

8. “Lake Superior Facts” (University of Missouri-Kansas City)

9. “10 Great Lakes Fun Facts You May Not Know” (Pure Michigan)

10. “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Capt. Jeff Werner (Marina Life) 2014

11. “Marine Definitions” (National Weather Service)

12. “Burlington Northern Ore Docks” (The Historical Marker Database)

13. “Great Lakes and Inland Seas” (USGS)

14. “Lake-Effect Season Is Beginning And We're Not Talking About Snow” (The Weather Channel) 2025

15. “How a 1975 storm reached its peak fury on Lake Superior, dooming the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Keith Matheny (Detroit Free Press) 2025

16. “The Bell of the Fitzgerald: Twenty-Nine Rings – and One Extra – Fall 1995” by Carol Johnson (National Museum of the Great Lakes)

17. “The Edmund Fitzgerald hasn’t been explored in 30 years. Will there ever be another dive?” by Joe Augustine (Fox9) 2025

18. “Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale” (National Weather Service)

19. “This Legendary Ship Sank Without Warning. Fifty Years Later, Science Could Finally Solve the Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” by Emily Sohn (Popular Mechanics) 202

20. “What is a ‘panhandle hooker,’ and why is it called that?” (The Weather Guys) 2014

21. “Edmund Fitzgerald” (Wikipedia)

22. “Caribou Island (near Michipicoten Island) (Wikipedia)

23. “Gordon Lightfoot’s Haunting Elegy Finally Hits No. 1 — 50 Years After the Edmund Fitzgerald Sank” by Andrea Reiher (Parade) 2025

24. “Thousands Gather in Paradise for 50th Anniversary of Edmund Fitzgerald Sinking” by Shelley Cowan (Old Mission Gazette) 2025

The Great Lakes

Ernest M. McSorley

Bernie Cooper, captain of the Arthur M. Anderson

Edmund Fitzgerald Shipwreck

(Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society)

The Edmund Fitzgerald's bell

(National Museum of the Great Lakes)