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DH Ep:34 Lyndon Johnson's Obsession with Power—and His Pants
This week on Disturbing History, we dive into the unsettling life of Lyndon B. Johnson, America’s 36th president. Rising from poverty in the Texas Hi…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
DH Ep:33 Jonestown: The People's Temple
On November 18, 1978, over 900 Americans died in the Guyanese jungle in what remains the largest loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act u…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
DH Ep:32 Operation Poisoned Skies
In the early hours of the Cold War, as Americans watched the skies for Soviet bombers, their own military was quietly conducting one of the most exte…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
DH Ep:31 The Ku Klux Klan
In the mid-1980s, in the mountains of rural north Georgia, I watched through my childhood window as robed figures burned a cross in our yard. This wa…
9 months ago
DH Ep:30 Jefferson and Monticello's Darker Side
On a humid Virginia morning in 1796, Thomas Jefferson recorded the death of Jupiter, his enslaved personal attendant of thirty-six years, with exactl…
9 months ago
DH Ep:29 The Lake Michigan Triangle
On a warm summer evening in 1950, Betty Donner stood in her Minneapolis backyard, scanning the night sky for her husband's plane. Northwest Flight 25…
9 months, 1 week ago
DH Ep:28 The UFO President: Jimmy Carter's Close Encounter
On a clear January evening in 1969, future president Jimmy Carter stood with twenty other men outside a Lions Club meeting in Leary, Georgia, and wit…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
DH Ep:27 The Terminal Agenda
Welcome aboard another captivating episode of Disturbing History, as we touch down at America's strangest airport—Denver International. Since opening…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
DH Ep:26 Brainwashed: The Real MK Ultra Story
In this chilling episode of Disturbing History, we unlock the vault on one of the most unsettling and secretive programs ever run by the United State…
10 months ago
DH Ep:25 When Elvis Met Nixon
On December 21, 1970, the most unlikely meeting in American political history took place when Elvis Presley appeared unannounced at the White House g…
10 months, 1 week ago