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.
50 episodes transcribedIn 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth stepped into the presidential box at Ford's Theatre and fired a single shot that would echo through...
On November 22, 1963, three shots in Dealey Plaza shattered America's innocence and sparked the most controversial investigation in our nation's histo...
Between 1817 and 1821, the Bell family of Robertson County, Tennessee experienced what would become the most documented poltergeist case in American h...
This week on Disturbing History, we dive into the unsettling life of Lyndon B. Johnson, America’s 36th president. Rising from poverty in the Texas Hil...
On November 18, 1978, over 900 Americans died in the Guyanese jungle in what remains the largest loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act un...
In the early hours of the Cold War, as Americans watched the skies for Soviet bombers, their own military was quietly conducting one of the most exten...
In the mid-1980s, in the mountains of rural north Georgia, I watched through my childhood window as robed figures burned a cross in our yard. This was...
