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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: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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54:32

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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DH Ep:20 The Vietnam Deception

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2025/06/23

In this episode of Disturbing History, we take you deep into the shadows of one of America’s most controversial and misunderstood conflicts: the Vietnam War. But this isn't just a retelling of battles and timelines—this is the story behind the war. The one laced with deception, hidden agendas, political manipulation, and secret operations that spanned decades and cost millions of lives.We trace the war's dark roots all the way back to the Eisenhower administration, revealing how every U.S. president

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DH Ep:19 NASA’s Dirty Secret

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2025/06/18

In this hard-hitting episode, we unravel the hidden history behind one of humanity’s proudest achievements: landing on the moon. Beneath the surface of scientific triumph lies a story of moral compromise, wartime secrets, and human suffering. We trace the incredible arc from the Wright brothers’ first flight in 1903 to Neil Armstrong’s giant leap in 1969—a leap made possible not just by innovation, but by deals with former Nazi scientists through Operation Paperclip. The American space program’s

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DH Ep:18 The Kelly-Hopkinsville Incident

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2025/06/15

On a hot August night in 1955, in the quiet rural stretch between Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky, something strange lit up the sky. What happened next would become one of the most bizarre and chilling close encounter cases in American history. That evening, a family arrived at the local police station in a panic, claiming their farmhouse had been under siege—not by people, but by creatures. Small, glowing-eyed beings with long arms, talon-like claws, and ears that pointed straight back like bat

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DH Ep:17 The Riders Who Saved a Revolution

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2025/06/11

One if by land, two if by sea.We all know the legend of Paul Revere’s midnight ride — but what if I told you he wasn’t the only one?In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian King-Sharp shines a light on the forgotten riders of America’s revolution — the men and women who risked everything in the dead of night to spread word of British troop movements.At the center of this lost chapter is Sybil Ludington, a 16-year-old girl who rode twice as far as Revere — alone, through stormy woods, warning

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DH Ep:16 Mel's Mystery Hole

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2025/06/06

It started with a phone call....In 1997, a man named Mel Waters called into Coast to Coast AM, the legendary late-night radio show dedicated to the unexplained. What he shared was bizarre, chilling, and completely unforgettable—a tale of a bottomless hole on his property in rural Washington State that defied the laws of physics… and maybe reality itself.In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian unpacks the legend of Mel’s Hole—a seemingly endless pit that swallowed fishing lines by the mile,

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DH Ep:15 The Trail Of Tears

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2025/06/01

In the early 1830s, the U.S. government signed into law one of the most devastating policies in its history—The Indian Removal Act, forcing tens of thousands of Native Americans from their ancestral homelands.What followed was a harrowing journey of betrayal, suffering, and death known as The Trail of Tears.In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian traces the brutal expulsion of the Cherokee and other Southeastern tribes at the hands of the American government. Under President Andrew Jackson’s

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DH Ep:14 The Betz Sphere

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2025/05/26

In 1974, a family exploring the aftermath of a wildfire on their Florida property stumbled upon something strange: a perfectly smooth, polished metal sphere, about the size of a bowling ball.They brought it home.That’s when the weirdness began.The sphere rolled on its own. It reacted to music. It moved without being touched, stopping and starting as if it had a mind of its own. Doors slammed. Guitars vibrated. And a quiet family suddenly found themselves at the center of one of the most bizarre

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