DH Ep:35 The Bell Witch
Between 1817 and 1821, the Bell family of Robertson County, Tennessee experienced what would become the most documented poltergeist case in American history. What began as mysterious knocking sounds a...
17 Syys 20251h 7min
DH Ep:34 Lyndon Johnson's Obsession with Power—and His Pants
This week on Disturbing History, we dive into the unsettling life of Lyndon B. Johnson, America’s 36th president. Rising from poverty in the Texas Hill Country, Johnson clawed his way to power through...
12 Syys 20251h 4min
DH Ep:33 Jonestown: The People's Temple
On November 18, 1978, over 900 Americans died in the Guyanese jungle in what remains the largest loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act until September 11, 2001. But the story of Jonestown...
5 Syys 20251h 27min
DH Ep:32 Operation Poisoned Skies
In the early hours of the Cold War, as Americans watched the skies for Soviet bombers, their own military was quietly conducting one of the most extensive human experiments in the nation's history. Be...
1 Syys 202544min
DH Ep:31 The Ku Klux Klan
In the mid-1980s, in the mountains of rural north Georgia, I watched through my childhood window as robed figures burned a cross in our yard. This wasn't ancient history—this was the Reagan era, the t...
29 Elo 20251h 16min
DH Ep:30 Jefferson and Monticello's Darker Side
On a humid Virginia morning in 1796, Thomas Jefferson recorded the death of Jupiter, his enslaved personal attendant of thirty-six years, with exactly seven words in the same ledger where he tracked t...
26 Elo 20251h 2min
DH Ep:29 The Lake Michigan Triangle
On a warm summer evening in 1950, Betty Donner stood in her Minneapolis backyard, scanning the night sky for her husband's plane. Northwest Flight 2501 was due to pass overhead on its way from New Yor...
24 Elo 20251h 31min
DH Ep:28 The UFO President: Jimmy Carter's Close Encounter
On a clear January evening in 1969, future president Jimmy Carter stood with twenty other men outside a Lions Club meeting in Leary, Georgia, and witnessed something that would forever change his pers...
15 Elo 202554min
