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.
62 episodes transcribedIn 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...
On a humid Virginia morning in 1796, Thomas Jefferson recorded the death of Jupiter, his enslaved personal attendant of thirty-six years, with exactly...
On a warm summer evening in 1950, Betty Donner stood in her Minneapolis backyard, scanning the night sky for her husband's plane. Northwest Flight 250...
On a clear January evening in 1969, future president Jimmy Carter stood with twenty other men outside a Lions Club meeting in Leary, Georgia, and witn...
Welcome aboard another captivating episode of Disturbing History, as we touch down at America's strangest airport—Denver International. Since opening...
In this chilling episode of Disturbing History, we unlock the vault on one of the most unsettling and secretive programs ever run by the United States...
On December 21, 1970, the most unlikely meeting in American political history took place when Elvis Presley appeared unannounced at the White House ga...
On this episode of Disturbing History, we dive deep into one of the most extraordinary and suppressed stories connected to the JFK assassination that...
In this searing episode of Disturbing History, we uncover the devastating truth behind the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre—one of the deadliest and most syst...
