The past isn’t always dead. Sometimes, it’s just been buried... and it’s time to dig it up. Disturbing History is a weekly podcast that dives headfirst into the strange, spooky, and little-known stories that history tried to forget. From secret societies and sinister folklore to lost colonies, unsolved mysteries, and events too dark for your high school textbook — this is where the shadowy corners of the past finally get their time in the spotlight.Hosted by author, investigator, and storyteller Brian King-Sharp, each episode is a deep, immersive journey into the stories that disturb us — and the ones we have to disturb to uncover the truth. So if you're drawn to the uncomfortable, obsessed with the unexplained, or just can’t shake the feeling that some things never should’ve been buried…You’re not alone. Follow. Subscribe. Turn on auto-downloads.And get ready to disturb history.
63 episodes transcribedSomething happened the other night that got me thinking. I sat down to watch the Grammy Awards, expecting a celebration of music. What I got instead f...
This episode takes you through the full, unflinching story of the Holocaust — from the ancient roots of antisemitism that made it possible, to the ris...
We all know where we were that morning. The clear blue sky. The impossible images on our television screens. The moment when time itself seemed to spl...
In June of 1981, the CDC published a brief report about five young gay men in Los Angeles diagnosed with a rare pneumonia. Two were already dead. That...
In this special follow-up to our Space Race episode, we dive headfirst into one of the most persistent conspiracy theories in American history. Did NA...
On October twenty-seventh, nineteen sixty-two, the world came within a single vote of nuclear annihilation. Deep beneath the Caribbean Sea, Soviet sub...
In the spring of 1954, Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt walked into his Senate office with a rifle hidden beneath his overcoat. Weeks of blackmail by allie...
In this special episode of Disturbing History, we step away from ancient mysteries and infamous crimes to confront something far closer and far more u...
On the night of September 26th, 1983, a Soviet lieutenant colonel named Stanislav Petrov sat in a bunker monitoring early warning systems when alarms...
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...
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....
On the morning of December 14, 1807, the residents of southwestern Connecticut witnessed something that would change the course of American science fo...
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...
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...
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...
On February 24, 1978, five friends from Yuba County, California, drove to Chico State University to watch their favorite college basketball team play....
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...
In this comprehensive episode of Disturbing History, we journey back over five centuries to examine the true story of Christopher Columbus, stripping...
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...
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...
