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Disturbing History

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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.

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Today · 1 hr 4 min
Mass Extinctions: The Five Times Earth Nearly Died
Five mass extinctions. Billions of years of evolution. Entire species wiped from existence. And one disturbing question: Are we living through the next one? In 1796, a young French anatomist named Georges Cuvier examined the fossilized remains of...
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Friday · 1 hr 3 min
The Golden State Killer
For more than four decades, one of America's most terrifying serial killers hid in plain sight. He was a burglar, a serial rapist, a murderer—and for six years, a sworn police officer. His name was Joseph James DeAngelo, but the world would come to...
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Wednesday · 1 hr 4 min
The False Confession
You'd never confess to a crime you didn't commit, right? Out of the first 375 people in the United States cleared by DNA evidence after a conviction, 102 of them had. In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian looks at how an innocent person ends...
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October 25 · 48 min
The Hills Have Eyes
The Hills Have Eyes: The Terrifying Legend Behind the Horror MovieIn episode three of our Spooky Season series exploring the true stories behind Hollywood’s most terrifying horror movies, Brian investigates the disturbing legend that inspired Wes...
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October 23 · 1 hr 1 min
The 27 Club
What do Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse have in common? They all died at 27, becoming part of one of music history's most haunting legends: The 27 Club. But is there really a deadly curse, or does...
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October 21 · 1 hr 4 min
The 2010's
In 2013, Time branded millennials “The Me Me Me Generation.” The accusations were familiar: lazy, entitled, and obsessed with themselves. Yet teenage drinking, smoking, pregnancy, and fighting were all declining, while young adults faced rising...
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October 18 · 1 hr 14 min
The Seven Hidden Dimensions
What if our universe contains entire dimensions of space that we cannot see, touch, or detect? What if those hidden dimensions exist all around us, occupying the very rooms we live in? And could they explain some of humanity's greatest mysteries, from...
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October 16 · 1 hr 3 min
The 2000's
The 2000s began with America preparing for a disaster that never happened: Y2K. But while the country worried about computer failures, a far more dangerous threat was already taking shape. What followed was a decade of extraordinary technological...
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October 11 · 1 hr 3 min
Nightmare On Elm Street
What if the terrifying premise behind A Nightmare on Elm Street wasn't entirely fiction? What if people really were going to sleep, experiencing horrifying nightmares, and dying before they could wake up?In the fall of 1980, a Hmong refugee named Vang...
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October 9 · 1 hr 1 min
The Killer Lakes
On the night of August 21, 1986, a small crater lake in the highlands of northwest Cameroon released something close to a quarter of a cubic mile of carbon dioxide in a matter of minutes. The gas was heavier than air. It poured over the rim of the...
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October 7 · 1 hr 2 min
The Exorcist
On August 20, 1949, the Washington Post put a story on its front page under the headline "Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil's Grip." It said a 14-year-old from the Maryland suburbs had been freed of demonic possession after a Jesuit...
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October 4 · 1 hr 9 min
The Telepathy Tapes: Is Telepathy Real?
In September 2024 a documentary filmmaker named Ky Dickens released the first episode of a podcast called The Telepathy Tapes. By the first week of January 2025 it had passed Joe Rogan on Spotify's U.S. chart. Its claim is that children and young...
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October 2 · 1 hr 4 min
Is Big Pharma Hiding the Cure for Cancer?
This episode asks a simple question: if someone really discovered a cure for cancer, would the medical industry suppress it? Brian begins with a clear disclaimer that he is not a doctor and is making no medical claims, then looks at the history behind...
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September 30 · 1 hr 12 min
The 1990's
On July 16, 1990, Time magazine put a group of young adults on its cover beneath the word “twentysomething” and asked whether they were laid back, late blooming, or simply lost. The story said they struggled to make decisions, would rather hike the...
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September 27 · 1 hr 18 min
The Siege At Ruby Ridge
Listener discretion is advised. This episode contains descriptions of real-life violence and death, including the shooting deaths of a fourteen-year-old boy, his mother, and a federal law enforcement officer. It also includes direct quotations...
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September 25 · 1 hr 9 min
The 1980's
The 1980s began with 52 Americans still being held hostage in Tehran and ended with crowds tearing open the Berlin Wall. Between those two moments came one of the most turbulent, contradictory decades in modern American history. In this fourth...
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September 23 · 1 hr 1 min
Halley's Comet
On the night of May 18, 1910, people across the world waited for Halley’s Comet to kill them.Hotels in New York opened their rooftops. Miners in Pennsylvania refused to go underground. A religious sect outside Atlanta reportedly barricaded itself...
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September 21 · 1 hr 19 min
The Freeway Killer
This episode discusses sexual violence against children and teenagers, torture, and murder and is not suitable for younger audiences. Listener discretion is strongly advised. On the night of June 11, 1980, plainclothes officers who had been...
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September 18 · 1 hr 2 min
The 1970's
The 1970s opened in conflict.On April 30, 1970, President Richard Nixon announced the expansion of U.S. military operations into Cambodia. Days later, four students were killed by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State. On May 8, construction workers...
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September 16 · 1 hr
The Bystander Effect
On March 27, 1964, The New York Times published a story that would become one of the most famous examples of human indifference ever told. According to the report, 38 people in Queens watched as 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was stalked and attacked for...
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