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Disturbing History

Disturbing History-True Stories

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

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DH Ep:40 Where the Mountains Swallow Men Whole

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2025/10/29

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 vanished as if the earth had swallowed him whole. That disappearance marked the beginning of one of Vermont’s most enduring mysteries—a five-year wave of strange vanishings that turned this quiet stretch of forest into something far darker: the Bennington Triangle.For centuries, the Abenaki people warned that

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DH Ep:39 The Devil’s Tramping Ground

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2025/10/19

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 mysterious patch of soil has terrified locals, inspired scientists, and baffled investigators since colonial times.Our story begins in 1746, when surveyors first recorded the strange clearing — decades before the founding of the United States. We trace its roots through Native American legends of cursed

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DH Ep:38 Hunting Hitler

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2025/10/14

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 Adolf Hitler after the fall of Berlin in 1945? Our episode opens in Buenos Aires, 1959. A local dentist sits across from a quiet man calling himself Ricardo Klement — until he recognizes something he can’t ignore. The man’s dental bridgework matches the records from Hitler’s bunker. Could it be possible that the most notorious dictator in history

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DH Ep:37 John Wilkes Booth

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2025/09/28

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 American history. But what if the story didn't end twelve days later in a burning Virginia barn? What if the man who died that morning wasn't actually Lincoln's assassin?This episode takes you deep into one of America's most enduring mysteries, beginning with the fateful Good Friday when a celebrated actor became the most wanted man in America. We

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DH Ep:36 The Kennedy Assassination

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2025/09/24

On November 22, 1963, three shots in Dealey Plaza shattered America's innocence and sparked the most controversial investigation in our nation's history. This comprehensive episode examines every aspect of President Kennedy's assassination, from the political tensions that brought him to Dallas to the enduring mysteries that remain unsolved six decades later.We trace the complete lives of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby, two troubled men whose violent intersection would deny America the truth it

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DH Ep:35 The Bell Witch

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2025/09/17

Between 1817 and 1821, the Bell family of Robertson County, Tennessee experienced what would become the most documented poltergeist case in American history. What began as mysterious knocking sounds and strange creature sightings on their prosperous farm escalated into a four-year ordeal of supernatural terror that would claim a human life—the only such death officially attributed to a spirit in American records.The entity, which called itself the Bell Witch, didn't merely haunt the family; it

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DH Ep:34 Lyndon Johnson's Obsession with Power—and...

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2025/09/12

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 Hill Country, Johnson clawed his way to power through manipulation, intimidation, and a relentless drive for control. His legacy remains a paradox: groundbreaking civil rights achievements on one hand, and the catastrophic Vietnam War and bizarre personal behavior on the other.We explore Johnson’s infamous “Johnson Treatment,” his ruthless rise in

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DH Ep:33 Jonestown: The People's Temple

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2025/09/05

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 until September 11, 2001. But the story of Jonestown didn't begin in South America. It began decades earlier with a charismatic boy preacher from Depression-era Indiana who promised racial equality, social justice, and heaven on earth.This episode traces Jim Jones's transformation from a small-town outsider conducting funeral services for dead animals to

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DH Ep:32 Operation Poisoned Skies

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2025/09/01

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 extensive human experiments in the nation's history. Between 1950 and 1970, the U.S. Army and Navy released chemical and biological simulants over dozens of American cities, exposing millions of unwitting citizens to substances the military claimed were harmless.This episode explores the secret atmospheric testing programs that turned Minneapolis, St

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DH Ep:31 The Ku Klux Klan

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2025/08/29

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 wasn't ancient history—this was the Reagan era, the time of MTV and personal computers.Yet there they were, the Ku Klux Klan, making it clear that some Americans would never be safe in their own homes.This deeply personal narrative traces the complete history of America's most enduring terrorist organization, from six bored Confederate veterans gathering

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DH Ep:30 Jefferson and Monticello's Darker Side

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2025/08/26

On a humid Virginia morning in 1796, Thomas Jefferson recorded the death of Jupiter, his enslaved personal attendant of thirty-six years, with exactly seven words in the same ledger where he tracked the weight of newborn lambs. This chilling juxtaposition captures the essence of a story that has been deliberately hidden from American classrooms for generations—the transformation of Monticello into a laboratory where Enlightenment rationalism was weaponized to perfect human bondage.While textbooks

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DH Ep:29 The Lake Michigan Triangle

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2025/08/24

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 2501 was due to pass overhead on its way from New York to Seattle, carrying fifty-eight souls including Robert Donner. Betty waited and watched as storm clouds gathered on the horizon, but the aircraft lights she expected never appeared.Her husband's plane had vanished somewhere over the dark waters of Lake Michigan, becoming part of one of America's most

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DH Ep:28 The UFO President: Jimmy Carter's Close...

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2025/08/15

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 witnessed something that would forever change his perspective on what flies in our skies. The glowing, color-shifting object that hovered, approached, and retreated over the course of ten minutes would make Carter the first and only U.S. president to officially file a UFO report, and lead to his unprecedented campaign promise to reveal everything the

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DH Ep:27 The Terminal Agenda

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2025/08/03

Welcome aboard another captivating episode of Disturbing History, as we touch down at America's strangest airport—Denver International. Since opening in 1995, this massive facility has become ground zero for some of the wildest conspiracy theories on the planet.From the towering blue horse statue with glowing red eyes (nicknamed "Blucifer") to underground tunnels rumored to house alien bases and New World Order bunkers, DIA is more than an airport—it's a modern myth factory.We’ll dig into the

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DH Ep:26 Brainwashed: The Real MK Ultra Story

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2025/07/28

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 government: Project MK Ultra.Born from Cold War paranoia and fueled by a race to control not just territory but thought itself, MK Ultra was a covert CIA operation aimed at mastering the art of mind control.What followed was decades of illegal human experimentation carried out in the shadows. Ordinary Americans were drugged, manipulated, and

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DH Ep:25 When Elvis Met Nixon

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2025/07/19

On December 21, 1970, the most unlikely meeting in American political history took place when Elvis Presley appeared unannounced at the White House gates, requesting to become a "Federal Agent at Large" in President Nixon's war on drugs.What followed was a surreal 30-minute encounter in the Oval Office that produced the most requested photograph in National Archives history—more popular than the Constitution itself.This episode explores the extraordinary true story of two deeply troubled American

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DH Ep:24 The Inheritance: JFK Assassination Truth

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2025/07/11

On this episode of Disturbing History, we dive deep into one of the most extraordinary and suppressed stories connected to the JFK assassination that you've probably never heard of. While millions of Americans can recite the basic facts of November 22, 1963, virtually none know the name Christopher Fulton or the incredible price he paid for possessing physical evidence that could have rewritten history.Christopher Fulton was a successful construction magnate living the Canadian dream when he

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DH Ep:23 The Tulsa Massacre

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2025/07/07

In this searing episode of Disturbing History, we uncover the devastating truth behind the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre—one of the deadliest and most systematically buried atrocities in American history. This isn't just a story about racial violence. It's about the rise and deliberate destruction of Black Wall Street, a thriving African American community in Tulsa’s Greenwood District, built from the ground up by formerly enslaved people and their descendants. We explore how Greenwood became an

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DH Ep:22 Lincoln's Body Double?

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2025/07/02

In this episode, we uncover the remarkable true story of Ward Hill Lamon, the rough-edged Virginia lawyer who became Abraham Lincoln’s closest friend and self-declared bodyguard. Lamon wasn’t just a loyal companion—he helped shape the very idea of presidential security in America long before it became an institution.From their unlikely bond as law partners traveling the Illinois circuit to the life-threatening Baltimore Plot of 1861, this episode traces Lamon’s obsessive commitment to protecting

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DH Ep:21 The Lost Chapters of Theodore Roosevelt

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2025/06/27

In this episode of Disturbing History, we dive into the staggering, stranger-than-fiction life of America's most ferocious leader—the one and only Theodore Roosevelt. He wasn’t just a president. He was a warrior, a naturalist, a writer, a boxer, a conservationist, and, quite possibly, the first U.S. president to publish a serious account of a Sasquatch encounter.Born a sickly child with severe asthma, Roosevelt seemed destined for a quiet, fragile life—until sheer willpower turned him into a force

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