I’ve always waffled on how I’ve felt about psychics and mediums. I like to think I’m not so arrogant as to pretend it is impossible for someone to be able to talk to spirits or to have a sixth sense of sorts. But at the same time, there are plenty of charlatans who prey on vulnerable people by reading their body language and other “tells.” Then there are cases like that of the Carroll family, which make believing a whole lot easier.
People was recently given an inside look at a trailer for a new documentary, The Secrets We Bury, which follows the tragic story of George Carroll. As far as his children knew, the Korean War veteran abandoned them in the late 1960s, leaving to get cigarettes and never coming back.
Mike Carroll, George’s son, and his siblings had been searching for answers for decades. They had repeatedly asked their mother if she knew anything and she never addressed it, the magazine reported. When she was on her deathbed, Mike Carroll asked his mother if she had anything to tell him about his father before she went. He claims she merely winked at him and then died.
Mike Carroll bought his childhood home in Lake Grove, New York, after his mother died in 1998. Her death only drudged up more questions, with the family wondering why George Carroll’s car was left in the driveway and his wallet was at home. They even wondered if he had been involved with organized crime.
Eventually, Mike Carroll and his sister — in spite of his skepticism — went to see a psychic years after their father’s mysterious disappearance. “The psychic goes, ‘Oh, the M word: murder. He is in the basement,'” Mike Carroll recounted in the trailer.
He followed the lead and recruited his adult sons to help him excavate his basement for months before making a chilling discovery: bones. NBC New York reported in 2018 that the relatives had found human remains, and after some DNA testing, learned they were George Carroll’s.
The documentary is set to debut on December 16, 2025, on the ID channel as well as stream on HBO Max.
