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Who Found America First: Columbus or the Vikings?
A thousand years before Christopher Columbus saw a light on a Bahamian beach, a small band of Norse settlers stood on the northern tip of Newfoundlan…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The American Gold Rush
Most of us learned a version of the Gold Rush that was cheerful, portable, and mostly wrong. In this episode we set that version aside and go looking…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
The 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre
In September 1857, a wagon train of roughly one hundred and forty men, women, and children from Arkansas made camp in a remote valley in southwestern…
5 months ago
The Aurora Texas Alien Crash
In this episode of Disturbing History, we step away from the dark corridors of government experiments and serial killers to explore one of the strang…
5 months ago
Eugenics in America
This episode traces the full history of eugenics in America from its origins in Francis Galton's Victorian-era theories through the establishment of …
5 months ago
The Battle of Blair Mountain
The Battle of Blair Mountain stands as the largest armed insurrection on American soil since the Civil War, yet for nearly a century it was virtually…
5 months, 1 week ago
The Horror of Holmesburg Prison
For more than two decades, incarcerated men inside Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison were used as human test subjects in experiments that sound like s…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The SR-71 Blackbird: The Cold War at Mach Three
The SR-71 Blackbird remains the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft ever built. It cruised above Mach three, operated at altitudes above eighty-fiv…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Berlin Wall
Tonight on Disturbing History, we're going to Berlin. On the morning of August 13th, 1961, the residents of one of the world's great cities woke up t…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Hatfield and McCoy Feud
In this episode of Disturbing History, we take a deep and unflinching look at the Hatfield-McCoy feud, the most infamous family conflict in American …
5 months, 3 weeks ago