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.
117 episodes transcribedBefore 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...
For weeks this show has lived in the corridors of power, among presidents and spies and the men who shaped the country from behind closed doors. This...
In this episode of the Disturbing History presidential series, we cross out of settled history and into living memory to examine the presidency of Geo...
The nation wept for Warren G. Harding in August 1923. The funeral train crawled home through crowds that stretched for miles, mourners singing hymns b...
This week we step away from the corridors of presidential power and head into the North Georgia mountains, to a hand-built stone castle on Taylor's Ri...
Everyone knows George Washington was the first President of the United States. Technically true. But it's also a sleight of hand, because fourteen men...
Dwight Eisenhower is the president most Americans remember as the calm grandfather of the nineteen fifties. The general who beat Hitler. The man who b...
The story of the Foo Fighters of World War Two is one of the strangest, best-documented, and least-resolved cases in the history of military aviation....
Most people think they know Watergate. They don't. They know the headline. The break-in, the tapes, the resignation, the wave from the helicopter on t...
In the late afternoon of November twenty-first, 1986, Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall stood inside an office a shor...
On the day after Christmas, 1862, 38 Dakota men were hanged from a single scaffold in Mankato, Minnesota. It remains the largest mass execution in Ame...
