Disturbing History

Disturbing History

Disturbing History is a dark history podcast uncovering the strange, sinister, and little-known stories the past tried to bury. Each week, we explore unsolved mysteries, secret societies, forgotten crimes, eerie folklore, lost civilizations, historical conspiracies, and disturbing events that never made it into your high school textbook

.Hosted by author, investigator, and storyteller Brian King-Sharp, Disturbing History dives deep into:
  • Unsolved historical mysteries
  • Secret societies and hidden power structures
  • Dark folklore and urban legends
  • Lost colonies and vanished civilizations
  • True crime cases buried by time
  • Historical conspiracies and cover-ups
  • Paranormal events rooted in real history
Through immersive storytelling and investigative research, we uncover the shadowy corners of the past — the uncomfortable truths, forgotten tragedies, and disturbing secrets that shaped our world.If you’re fascinated by dark history, obsessed with unexplained events, or drawn to stories that blur the line between fact and legend, this podcast is for you.

Because the past isn’t always dead.
Sometimes it’s just been buried.

Follow Disturbing History and turn on automatic downloads for weekly deep dives into history’s most unsettling stories.

Episoder(91)

DH Ep:51 The Odyssey Project: Kids For Sale

DH Ep:51 The Odyssey Project: Kids For Sale

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 Des 20251h 1min

DH Ep:50 The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

DH Ep:50 The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

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 Des 20251h 23min

DH Ep:49 The Civil War

DH Ep:49 The Civil War

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 Des 20251h 24min

DH Ep:48 The Yuba County Five

DH Ep:48 The Yuba County Five

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 Des 20251h 21min

DH Ep:47 The African Slave Trade

DH Ep:47 The African Slave Trade

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 Nov 20251h 35min

DH Ep:46 Christopher Columbus

DH Ep:46 Christopher Columbus

In this comprehensive episode of Disturbing History, we journey back over five centuries to examine the true story of Christopher Columbus, stripping away the mythology that has long obscured one of h...

28 Nov 20251h 29min

DH Ep:45 The Dust Bowl Migration

DH Ep:45 The Dust Bowl Migration

On April fourteenth, 1935, a wall of darkness seven thousand feet high and two hundred miles wide tore across the Great Plains at sixty miles per hour. Black Sunday wasn’t just a storm—it was the mome...

23 Nov 20251h 8min

DH Ep:44 The Incredibly Stupid One

DH Ep:44 The Incredibly Stupid One

On a sweltering June night in 1967, twenty-year-old sailor Douglas Brent Hegdahl stepped onto the deck of the USS Canberra for a breath of air, unaware that a single blast from the ship’s guns would k...

20 Nov 20251h 14min

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