We’re back with our resident death ambassador, Holland, this week to discuss the odd, messy, and overall just wild case of William H. Bates. First he disappears, then he reappears, then he takes a left turn with his career in "eyes." Buckle in as we jump around from North Dakota to TikTok diet influencers to truck nuts on a Saturn, because it’s weird and we’d like to talk about it. 

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Sources: 

Mental Floss

The Mother Source on William H. Bates, the Bates Method, and Benarr Macfadden

The American Journal of Ophthalmology, Volume 8 on Google Books 

Lansing State Journal article on the will probate of William Bates

Inner Blindness, a website dedicated to curing bad eyesight

The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Volume 24

The New York Times article on Dr. Bates from 1931

Daytonian in Manhattan architecture blog

Annals of Ophthalmology, Volume 9

Reddit

Sixty-Second Annual Report of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children

Amulet Films