The 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre
In September 1857, a wagon train of roughly one hundred and forty men, women, and children from Arkansas made camp in a remote valley in southwestern Utah Territory. They were headed to California. Th...
22 Huhti 1h 19min
The Aurora Texas Alien Crash
In this episode of Disturbing History, we step away from the dark corridors of government experiments and serial killers to explore one of the strangest and most enduring mysteries in American history...
19 Huhti 1h 18min
Eugenics in America
This episode traces the full history of eugenics in America from its origins in Francis Galton's Victorian-era theories through the establishment of Charles Davenport's Eugenics Record Office at Cold ...
17 Huhti 1h 22min
The Battle of Blair Mountain
The Battle of Blair Mountain stands as the largest armed insurrection on American soil since the Civil War, yet for nearly a century it was virtually absent from the nation's textbooks and public memo...
10 Huhti 1h 14min
The Horror of Holmesburg Prison
For more than two decades, incarcerated men inside Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison were used as human test subjects in experiments that sound like something out of a dystopian novel. Beginning in 195...
8 Huhti 1h 18min
The SR-71 Blackbird: The Cold War at Mach Three
The SR-71 Blackbird remains the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft ever built. It cruised above Mach three, operated at altitudes above eighty-five thousand feet, and for more than two decades it f...
5 Huhti 1h 24min
The Berlin Wall
Tonight on Disturbing History, we're going to Berlin. On the morning of August 13th, 1961, the residents of one of the world's great cities woke up to find their home cut in half. Barbed wire had gone...
3 Huhti 1h 18min
The Hatfield and McCoy Feud
In this episode of Disturbing History, we take a deep and unflinching look at the Hatfield-McCoy feud, the most infamous family conflict in American history. Spanning nearly three decades along the Tu...
1 Huhti 1h 12min
