Disturbing History

What if the War on Drugs was never really about drugs at all?In this episode of Disturbing History, we pull back the curtain on a devastating truth. For over fifty years, the U.S. government has waged...

2 Tammi 1h 33min

Disturbing History exists to sit with the parts of our past we’d rather avoid—the moments that force us to ask who we really are when fear takes over.In this episode, Brian walks through one of the da...

24 Joulu 20251h 7min

On the morning of December 14, 1807, the residents of southwestern Connecticut witnessed something that would change the course of American science forever. A blazing globe of fire, nearly two-thirds ...

21 Joulu 20251h 26min

In August of 1973, Houston police were still pulling bodies from the dirt floor of Dean Corll’s boat shed when a frightened young man in Dallas picked up the phone and called the FBI. What he had witn...

17 Joulu 20251h 1min

In 1932, the United States government told six hundred Black men in rural Alabama that they had "bad blood" and promised them free treatment. What these men didn't know—what they would never be told—w...

12 Joulu 20251h 23min

This is the episode we've been building toward. The one that sits at the very heart of what disturbing history means. Because nothing in the American story comes close to what happened between 1861 an...

7 Joulu 20251h 24min

On February 24, 1978, five friends from Yuba County, California, drove to Chico State University to watch their favorite college basketball team play. It should have been a routine trip: an hour north...

3 Joulu 20251h 21min

This episode explores one of history’s greatest crimes in all its complexity. We examine not only the European demand that fueled the transatlantic slave trade, but also the African kingdoms, warlords...

30 Marras 20251h 35min