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.
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DH Ep:63 The Night I Turned Off the Grammys (01:16:51)
Something happened the other night that got me thinking. I sat down to watch the Grammy Awards, expecting a celebration of music. What I got instead felt more like a political rally than an awards sho...
DH Ep:62 The Holocaust (01:07:43)
This episode takes you through the full, unflinching story of the Holocaust — from the ancient roots of antisemitism that made it possible, to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in a broken a...
DH Ep:61 911 (01:19:04)
We all know where we were that morning. The clear blue sky. The impossible images on our television screens. The moment when time itself seemed to split into before and after.In this episode of Distur...
DH Ep:60 AIDS (00:58:15)
In June of 1981, the CDC published a brief report about five young gay men in Los Angeles diagnosed with a rare pneumonia. Two were already dead. That report marked the official beginning of the AIDS ...
DH Ep:59 Did We Fake The Moon Landing? (01:29:15)
In this special follow-up to our Space Race episode, we dive headfirst into one of the most persistent conspiracy theories in American history. Did NASA really land men on the moon six times between 1...
DH Ep:58 The Bay Of Pigs (00:54:56)
On October twenty-seventh, nineteen sixty-two, the world came within a single vote of nuclear annihilation. Deep beneath the Caribbean Sea, Soviet submarine commander Valentin Savitsky prepared to lau...
DH Ep:57 The McCarthy Hearings: America's Reign of Fear (01:24:54)
In the spring of 1954, Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt walked into his Senate office with a rifle hidden beneath his overcoat. Weeks of blackmail by allies of Joseph McCarthy had broken him. The gunshot t...
DH Ep:56 Brain Candy (00:58:52)
In this special episode of Disturbing History, we step away from ancient mysteries and infamous crimes to confront something far closer and far more unsettling: the forces shaping our thoughts, behavi...
DH Ep:55 The Cold War (01:30:01)
On the night of September 26th, 1983, a Soviet lieutenant colonel named Stanislav Petrov sat in a bunker monitoring early warning systems when alarms signaled the launch of American nuclear missiles. ...
DH Ep:54 The War On Drugs (01:33:31)
What if the War on Drugs was never really about drugs at all?In this episode of Disturbing History, we pull back the curtain on a devastating truth. For over fifty years, the U.S. government has waged...
DH Ep:53 American Concentration Camps (01:07:50)
Disturbing History exists to sit with the parts of our past we’d rather avoid—the moments that force us to ask who we really are when fear takes over.In this episode, Brian walks through one of the da...
DH Ep:52 The Weird Meteor (01:26:11)
On the morning of December 14, 1807, the residents of southwestern Connecticut witnessed something that would change the course of American science forever. A blazing globe of fire, nearly two-thirds ...
DH Ep:51 The Odyssey Project: Kids For Sale (01:01:41)
In August of 1973, Houston police were still pulling bodies from the dirt floor of Dean Corll’s boat shed when a frightened young man in Dallas picked up the phone and called the FBI. What he had witn...
DH Ep:50 The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (01:23:28)
In 1932, the United States government told six hundred Black men in rural Alabama that they had "bad blood" and promised them free treatment. What these men didn't know—what they would never be told—w...
DH Ep:49 The Civil War (01:24:00)
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 story comes close to what happened between 1861 an...
DH Ep:48 The Yuba County Five (01:21:01)
On February 24, 1978, five friends from Yuba County, California, drove to Chico State University to watch their favorite college basketball team play. It should have been a routine trip: an hour north...
DH Ep:47 The African Slave Trade (01:35:01)
This episode explores one of history’s greatest crimes in all its complexity. We examine not only the European demand that fueled the transatlantic slave trade, but also the African kingdoms, warlords...
DH Ep:46 Christopher Columbus (01:29:10)
In this comprehensive episode of Disturbing History, we journey back over five centuries to examine the true story of Christopher Columbus, stripping away the mythology that has long obscured one of h...
DH Ep:45 The Dust Bowl Migration (01:08:06)
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. Black Sunday wasn’t just a storm—it was the mome...
DH Ep:44 The Incredibly Stupid One (01:14:56)
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, unaware that a single blast from the ship’s guns would k...
DH Ep:43 J. Edgar Hoover (01:19:16)
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 forty-eight years, John Edgar Hoover had been the ...
DH Ep:42 The Donner Party (00:44:04)
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 Mountains during one of the worst winters ever recor...
DH Ep:41 The Thin Blue Line (01:17:17)
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 officer in 2016, and I can tell you from experience tha...
DH Ep:40 Where the Mountains Swallow Men Whole (00:55:27)
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 every inch of Glastenbury Mountain, yet he vanish...
DH Ep:39 The Devil’s Tramping Ground (00:59:14)
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.Known as The Devil’s Tramping Ground, this myster...
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