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The Watchers We Invited In
How many calls from unknown numbers did you get today? The one about your car's extended warranty, the text about a package that couldn't be delivere…
9 hours ago
Ike And The Alien Treaty
On the night of February twentieth, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower finished dinner at a private ranch in Palm Springs and vanished from public vie…
3 days, 9 hours ago
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 t…
4 days, 23 hours ago
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…
1 week ago
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 s…
1 week, 2 days ago
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 wat…
1 week, 4 days ago
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 …
2 weeks ago
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…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
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, Amer…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
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…
3 weeks ago