The Monkey Trial
The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 is one of the most misunderstood events in American history. Most people know the version they learned in school or saw in Inherit the Wind — a noble defense attorney h...
29 Maalis 1h 18min
The Bonus Army: America Attacks Its Own
In the summer of 1932, roughly twenty thousand World War One veterans and their families descended on Washington, D.C., to demand early payment of bonus certificates they'd been promised under the Wor...
26 Maalis 1h 19min
The Phantom Airships of the 1890's
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, Cali...
23 Maalis 1h 20min
The Real Moby Dick
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 ov...
20 Maalis 1h 24min
The Amityville Horror
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, mo...
18 Maalis 1h 19min
Tesla's Death Ray
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 h...
15 Maalis 1h 17min
The Nazi Bell
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 physi...
13 Maalis 1h 21min
Operation Northwoods: America's False Flag
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 ev...
11 Maalis 1h 20min
