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 Apr 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 Apr 1h 18min
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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 1h 19min
