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.
127 episodes transcribedFor more than two thousand years, powerful institutions have understood something that gets rediscovered in every generation: an absorbed public is a...
In June of 1816, snow fell on Vermont and killing frost swept through New England in the middle of what should have been the growing season. Frost ret...
How many calls from unknown numbers did you get today? The one about your car's extended warranty, the text about a package that couldn't be delivered...
On the night of February twentieth, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower finished dinner at a private ranch in Palm Springs and vanished from public view...
He was elected President of the United States 4 times, and a whole generation of Americans grew up unable to remember anyone else in the office. In th...
Taxes don't sound like Disturbing History territory, until you learn the trail of blood and power behind them. This episode traces the entire violent...
There's a building in Washington where, for the better part of a century, ordinary Americans mailed in the impossible. Flesh that fell from a clear sk...
Some nights the well runs dry, and I do what everybody does — I sink into the couch and let Netflix babysit me for a while. That's how I ended up watc...
He was the mouthpiece of God to ten thousand followers. To the FBI, he was a face on the Ten Most Wanted list. And to a Nevada state trooper working a...
In the winter of nineteen fourteen, a five-year-old girl named May Pierstorff stood on a train platform in Grangeville, Idaho, with fifty-three cents...
Before the Food and Drug Administration, before warning labels, before anyone had to prove a medicine was safe or even admit what was inside it, Ameri...
The word propaganda began as something holy. In sixteen twenty-two a committee of cardinals in Rome coined it to mean the spreading of the faith, and...
On the night of June 9, 1912, in the small railroad town of Villisca, Iowa, someone walked into the home of Josiah and Sarah Moore and killed all eigh...
In the high desert of Nevada, about twenty miles south of the town of Lovelock, a dry limestone cave holds one of the richest archaeological records i...
What happens when the most powerful man in the world asks his own government a direct question and still can't get a straight answer? When Bill Clinto...
Walt Disney built the most trusted brand in the world, and he built it on top of a story the company has spent eighty years hoping you would never hea...
The murder of John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November twenty-second, nineteen sixty-three remains the most contested crime in American history, and at t...
Ulysses S. Grant left the White House without a fortune, never took a bribe, and never sold an office, yet his administration produced more documented...
On New Year's Day 1927, New York City's medical examiner stood in front of reporters and accused the United States government of poisoning its own cit...
