DH Ep:57 The McCarthy Hearings: America's Reign of Fear
In the spring of 1954, Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt walked into his Senate office with a rifle hidden beneath his overcoat. Weeks of blackmail by allies of Joseph McCarthy had broken him. The gunshot t...
12 Jan 1h 24min
DH Ep:56 Brain Candy
In this special episode of Disturbing History, we step away from ancient mysteries and infamous crimes to confront something far closer and far more unsettling: the forces shaping our thoughts, behavi...
9 Jan 58min
DH Ep:55 The Cold War
On the night of September 26th, 1983, a Soviet lieutenant colonel named Stanislav Petrov sat in a bunker monitoring early warning systems when alarms signaled the launch of American nuclear missiles. ...
4 Jan 1h 30min
DH Ep:54 The War On Drugs
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 Jan 1h 33min
DH Ep:53 American Concentration Camps
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 Dec 20251h 7min
DH Ep:52 The Weird Meteor
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 Dec 20251h 26min
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 Dec 20251h 1min
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 Dec 20251h 23min
