FDR: The Man Who Could Have Been King
He was elected President of the United States 4 times, and a whole generation of Americans grew up unable to remember anyone else in the office. In this episode of Disturbing History, we pull apart th...
17 Jul 1h 23min
The Fair Tax
Taxes don't sound like Disturbing History territory, until you learn the trail of blood and power behind them. This episode traces the entire violent history of taxation in America, from the Stamp Act...
15 Jul 1h 15min
The Smithsonian's Strange Phenomena Files
There's a building in Washington where, for the better part of a century, ordinary Americans mailed in the impossible. Flesh that fell from a clear sky onto a Kentucky farmwife making soap. A swarm of...
12 Jul 1h 1min
Loving the Monster
Some nights the well runs dry, and I do what everybody does — I sink into the couch and let Netflix babysit me for a while. That's how I ended up watching The Worst Ex Ever, and that's how I ended up ...
10 Jul 1h 1min
The Rise and Ruin of the FLDS Church
He was the mouthpiece of God to ten thousand followers. To the FBI, he was a face on the Ten Most Wanted list. And to a Nevada state trooper working a dark stretch of Interstate Fifteen, he was just a...
8 Jul 1h 7min
Children Sent Through the Mail
In the winter of nineteen fourteen, a five-year-old girl named May Pierstorff stood on a train platform in Grangeville, Idaho, with fifty-three cents in postage stamps pinned to her coat. Her parents ...
5 Jul 1h 1min
The Poison Bottles America Trusted
Before the Food and Drug Administration, before warning labels, before anyone had to prove a medicine was safe or even admit what was inside it, America ran on the bottle.This episode opens the cabine...
3 Jul 59min
Nazi Propaganda & The American Mirror
The word propaganda began as something holy. In sixteen twenty-two a committee of cardinals in Rome coined it to mean the spreading of the faith, and in this episode I follow that single word as it cu...
1 Jul 1h 4min
