Diamonds Are Forever
For most of human history, diamonds were genuinely rare. Then in 1867, on a sheep farm near the Orange River in South Africa, a fifteen-year-old boy picked up a shiny pebble that turned out to be a 21...
29 Huhti 1h 8min
The American Gold Rush
Most of us learned a version of the Gold Rush that was cheerful, portable, and mostly wrong. In this episode we set that version aside and go looking for what actually happened — the history that didn...
25 Huhti 1h 7min
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
