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.
86 episodes transcribedThis episode traces the full history of eugenics in America from its origins in Francis Galton's Victorian-era theories through the establishment of C...
The Battle of Blair Mountain stands as the largest armed insurrection on American soil since the Civil War, yet for nearly a century it was virtually...
For more than two decades, incarcerated men inside Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison were used as human test subjects in experiments that sound like so...
The SR-71 Blackbird remains the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft ever built. It cruised above Mach three, operated at altitudes above eighty-five...
Tonight on Disturbing History, we're going to Berlin. On the morning of August 13th, 1961, the residents of one of the world's great cities woke up to...
In this episode of Disturbing History, we take a deep and unflinching look at the Hatfield-McCoy feud, the most infamous family conflict in American h...
The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 is one of the most misunderstood events in American history. Most people know the version they learned in school or sa...
In the summer of 1932, roughly twenty thousand World War One veterans and their families descended on Washington, D.C., to demand early payment of bon...
Decades before Roswell, decades before the term UFO even existed, something was already flying over America that nobody could explain. On the evening...
On August 12, 1819, the whaleship Essex departed Nantucket Island with a crew of twenty men bound for the Pacific Ocean on what was expected to be a r...
On November 13, 1974, Ronald "Butch" DeFeo Junior took a .35 caliber Marlin rifle and murdered his entire family as they slept in their beds at 112 Oc...
In the early nineteen thirties, an aging inventor living alone in a New York City hotel room told the world he'd built a weapon capable of destroying...
In this episode of Disturbing History, we investigate Die Glocke, the Nazi Bell, an alleged top-secret SS weapons program that may have been experimen...
In this episode of Disturbing History, we dive into one of the most shocking declassified documents in American history. Operation Northwoods was a ni...
On April 4th, 1968, a single rifle shot ended the life of Doctor Martin Luther King Junior on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphi...
In the early nineteen sixties, at the height of Cold War paranoia, the CIA's Technical Services Division conceived and built one of the strangest inte...
For nearly a century, families across rural New England dug up their dead, cut out their hearts, burned them, and fed the ashes to the living. They we...
On October 30th, 1938, a twenty-three-year-old Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre troupe performed a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells's The War of the...
This episode of the Disturbing History Podcast contains graphic discussion of child sexual exploitation, human trafficking, and violence against minor...
On the night of September 19th, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were driving home to Portsmouth, New Hampshire after a short vacation in Canada. Somewhere...
