Episode 1000558

Episode 1000559

DH Ep:55 The Cold War

On the night of September 26th, 1983, a Soviet lieutenant colonel named Stanislav Petrov sat in a bunker monitoring early warning systems when alarms...

DH Ep:54 The War On Drugs

What if the War on Drugs was never really about drugs at all?In this episode of Disturbing History, we pull back the curtain on a devastating truth. F...

DH Ep:53 American Concentration Camps

Disturbing History exists to sit with the parts of our past we’d rather avoid—the moments that force us to ask who we really are when fear takes over....

DH Ep:52 The Weird Meteor

On the morning of December 14, 1807, the residents of southwestern Connecticut witnessed something that would change the course of American science fo...

DH Ep:51 The Odyssey Project: Kids For Sale

In August of 1973, Houston police were still pulling bodies from the dirt floor of Dean Corll’s boat shed when a frightened young man in Dallas picked...

DH Ep:50 The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

In 1932, the United States government told six hundred Black men in rural Alabama that they had "bad blood" and promised them free treatment. What the...

DH Ep:49 The Civil War

This is the episode we've been building toward. The one that sits at the very heart of what disturbing history means. Because nothing in the American...

DH Ep:48 The Yuba County Five

On February 24, 1978, five friends from Yuba County, California, drove to Chico State University to watch their favorite college basketball team play....

DH Ep:47 The African Slave Trade

This episode explores one of history’s greatest crimes in all its complexity. We examine not only the European demand that fueled the transatlantic sl...

DH Ep:46 Christopher Columbus

In this comprehensive episode of Disturbing History, we journey back over five centuries to examine the true story of Christopher Columbus, stripping...

DH Ep:45 The Dust Bowl Migration

On April fourteenth, 1935, a wall of darkness seven thousand feet high and two hundred miles wide tore across the Great Plains at sixty miles per hour...

DH Ep:44 The Incredibly Stupid One

On a sweltering June night in 1967, twenty-year-old sailor Douglas Brent Hegdahl stepped onto the deck of the USS Canberra for a breath of air, unawar...

DH Ep:43 J. Edgar Hoover

On a humid morning in May nineteen seventy-two, the most powerful man in Washington died naked on his bedroom floor, and he wasn't the president. For...

DH Ep:42 The Donner Party

In the winter of 1846–1847, eighty-seven pioneers set out with dreams of a new life in California—and found themselves trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mo...

DH Ep:41 The Thin Blue Line

This episode isn't going to be easy to hear, but it's necessary. I spent sixteen years in law enforcement, ending my career as an Atlanta police offic...

DH Ep:40 Where the Mountains Swallow Men Whole

On a cold November afternoon in 1945, a seasoned hunting guide named Middie Rivers walked into the Vermont wilderness and never came back out. He knew...

DH Ep:39 The Devil’s Tramping Ground

Deep in the pine forests of Chatham County, North Carolina, lies a perfect circle of barren earth where nothing has grown for over three hundred years...

DH Ep:38 Hunting Hitler

In this episode of Disturbing History, we step into one of the most chilling and enduring mysteries of the twentieth century: what really happened to...