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Disturbing History

Disturbing History-True Stories

Disturbing History is a dark history podcast uncovering the strange, sinister, and little-known stories the past tried to bury. Each week, we explore unsolved mysteries, secret societies, forgotten crimes, eerie folklore, lost civilizations, historical conspiracies, and disturbing events that never made it into your high school textbook.Hosted by author, investigator, and storyteller Brian King-Sharp, Disturbing History dives deep into:Unsolved historical mysteriesSecret societies and hidden power

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The Phantom Airships of the 1890's

Disturbing History ·

2026/03/23

Decades before Roswell, decades before the term UFO even existed, something was already flying over America that nobody could explain. On the evening of November 17, 1896, citizens of Sacramento, California, watched a bright light move slowly across the overcast sky at roughly a thousand feet. Some heard voices shouting from the craft. Others reported singing.A witness named R.L. Lowery described a cigar-shaped body with wheels on the sides, powered by two men pedaling a bicycle-like frame. Within

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84:30

The Real Moby Dick

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2026/03/20

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 routine two-and-a-half-year whaling voyage. Just over a year later, on November 20, 1820, roughly 2,000 miles west of South America, an 85-foot bull sperm whale rammed the ship twice with what first mate Owen Chase described as deliberate malice, sinking her in minutes.The twenty crew members escaped in three small whaleboats with limited provisions and

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79:03

The Amityville Horror

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2026/03/18

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 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. His father, mother, two sisters, and two brothers — six people ranging in age from 9 to 43 — were all found face down, shot at close range, in what remains one of the most chilling mass murders in Long Island history. No one in the house appeared to wake up. No neighbor called the police. DeFeo confessed within 48

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77:15

Tesla's Death Ray

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2026/03/15

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 ten thousand enemy aircraft at a distance of two hundred and fifty miles. The press called it a death ray. He called it a peace beam. And the man making the claim wasn't some fringe eccentric chasing headlines. It was Nikola Tesla, the same mind behind the alternating current electrical system that powers the modern world, the same inventor who held

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81:39

The Nazi Bell

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2026/03/13

In this episode of Disturbing History, we investigate Die Glocke, the Nazi Bell, an alleged top-secret SS weapons program that may have been experimenting with anti-gravity technology and exotic physics in the underground mines of Lower Silesia during the final years of World War Two. We trace the rise of SS General Hans Kammler, the engineer who built the gas chambers at Auschwitz and eventually controlled every advanced weapons program in Nazi Germany, from the V-two rockets to the jet fighters to

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80:32

Operation Northwoods: America's False Flag

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2026/03/11

In this episode of Disturbing History, we dive into one of the most shocking declassified documents in American history. Operation Northwoods was a nineteen sixty-two proposal drafted and signed by every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that outlined a series of false flag operations designed to trick the American public into supporting a full-scale military invasion of Cuba.The proposals included staging terrorist attacks in Miami and Washington, D.C., blowing up an American ship and blaming it

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96:47

Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr?

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2026/03/08

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 Memphis, Tennessee. He was thirty-nine years old. The official story has always been simple: a lone escaped convict named James Earl Ray, acting out of personal racial hatred, pulled the trigger and was caught sixty-five days later in London. Case closed. Except it wasn't. And it isn't.In this episode of Disturbing History, we go deep into one of the most

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77:44

The CIA Acoustic Kitty Project

Disturbing History ·

2026/03/06

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 intelligence programs in American history. They called it Acoustic Kitty. The idea was straightforward in the most disturbing possible way: surgically implant a microphone, a radio transmitter, and a battery inside a living cat, thread an antenna along its spine, and deploy it near Soviet officials having conversations in public parks. A cat wandering up

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78:58

The Vampire Panic of New England

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2026/03/04

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 weren't insane. They were desperate. In this episode, we dive deep into the New England Vampire Panic — a terrifying chapter of American history driven by tuberculosis, grief, and folk beliefs that most history books conveniently leave out.We start with the tuberculosis epidemic that killed one in four Americans and Europeans in the 1800s and explore how

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79:23

The War Of The Worlds

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2026/03/01

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 Worlds that supposedly sent millions of Americans into mass hysteria. But did it really happen that way?In this episode of Disturbing History, we pull back the curtain on one of the most misunderstood events in broadcasting history. We walk through Depression-era America and a nation already on edge from the looming threat of war in Europe, break down

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81:45

The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan

Disturbing History ·

2026/02/27

This episode of the Disturbing History Podcast contains graphic discussion of child sexual exploitation, human trafficking, and violence against minors. The content is historically accurate and factually sourced but extremely disturbing in nature. Listener discretion is strongly advised and this episode is not suitable for younger audiences.The dancing boys of Afghanistan represent one of the darkest and most deeply hidden traditions in human history. In this episode of the Disturbing History

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DH Ep:67 The Betty and Barney Hill Alien Abduction

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2026/02/26

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 on a dark stretch of US Route 3 in the White Mountains, they encountered a bright light in the sky that followed their car, descended toward the road, and changed their lives forever. What happened over the next two hours remains one of the most thoroughly documented and hotly debated cases in the history of the UFO phenomenon.In this episode, we

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DH Ep:66 Shadows Over the White House

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2026/02/18

Tonight's episode takes you inside the most famous house on the planet for two stories that are equally strange and equally disturbing. The first is about a ghost that won't leave. Abraham Lincoln is the most frequently reported spirit in the history of the White House, seen by presidents, first ladies, prime ministers, and queens over the span of more than a hundred and fifty years.But this isn't just a ghost story. It's a deep dive into Lincoln's own fascination with the supernatural, the séances

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DH Ep:65 The Curse Of Oak Island

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2026/02/11

In this episode, we travel to a tiny, hundred-and-forty-acre island off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, where a mystery first uncovered by three teenagers in 1795 has consumed fortunes, destroyed lives, and killed six men over the course of more than two hundred and thirty years.We start with sixteen-year-old Daniel McGinnis and his discovery of a mysterious depression on Oak Island, complete with oak log platforms buried every ten feet underground.From there, we trace the full history of the

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DH Ep:64 "In Event of Moon Disaster"

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2026/02/08

In July of 1969, while the world watched Apollo 11 head for the Moon, a speech sat folded in a White House desk drawer. Written by Nixon speechwriter William Safire, the memo titled "In Event of Moon Disaster" was a contingency address prepared for the very real possibility that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would never leave the lunar surface. The ascent engine that had to fire to bring them home had no backup and had never been tested under actual lunar conditions. If it failed, two men would die

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DH Ep:63 The Night I Turned Off the Grammys

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2026/02/04

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 show.And it made me ask a question I think a lot of us have been asking quietly. When did everything become political? When did we lose the ability to just enjoy things together?This episode is different from our usual content. No serial killers. No mass graves. No presidents with dark secrets. But the

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67:43

DH Ep:62 The Holocaust

Disturbing History ·

2026/02/01

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 and humiliated post-World War One Germany, and into the systematic, industrialized murder of six million Jews and millions of others deemed unworthy of life. We walk through the ghettos of Warsaw, where hundreds of thousands were starved behind walls and barbed wire. We follow the Einsatzgruppen death

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79:04

DH Ep:61 911

Disturbing History ·

2026/01/27

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 Disturbing History, we go back to September eleventh, two thousand and one, and tell the complete story of the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil. From the years of planning in Afghan caves and Hamburg apartments to the final desperate moments aboard four hijacked aircraft, this is the full account

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58:15

DH Ep:60 AIDS

Disturbing History ·

2026/01/22

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 epidemic in America, though the virus had been killing long before anyone noticed.This episode examines how a preventable health crisis became a catastrophe through government neglect, institutional indifference, and moral condemnation.President Reagan refused to publicly say the word AIDS until 1985,

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DH Ep:59 Did We Fake The Moon Landing?

Disturbing History ·

2026/01/18

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 1969 and 1972, or was the whole thing an elaborate hoax filmed on a soundstage?We start with Bill Kaysing, the former Rocketdyne technical writer who self-published "We Never Went to the Moon" in 1976 and launched a conspiracy movement that refuses to die. From there, we explore the cultural moment that

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