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The Vampire Panic of New England
For nearly a century, families across rural New England dug up their dead, cut out their hearts, burned them, and fed the ashes to the living. They w…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
The War Of The Worlds
On October 30th, 1938, a twenty-three-year-old Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre troupe performed a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells's The War of th…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
This episode of the Disturbing History Podcast contains graphic discussion of child sexual exploitation, human trafficking, and violence against mino…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
DH Ep:67 The Betty and Barney Hill Alien Abduction
On the night of September 19th, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were driving home to Portsmouth, New Hampshire after a short vacation in Canada. Somewher…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
DH Ep:66 Shadows Over the White House
Tonight's episode takes you inside the most famous house on the planet for two stories that are equally strange and equally disturbing. The first is …
7 months ago
DH Ep:65 The Curse Of Oak Island
In this episode, we travel to a tiny, hundred-and-forty-acre island off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, where a mystery first uncovered by three te…
7 months, 1 week ago
DH Ep:64 "In Event of Moon Disaster"
In July of 1969, while the world watched Apollo 11 head for the Moon, a speech sat folded in a White House desk drawer. Written by Nixon speechwriter…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
DH Ep:63 The Night I Turned Off the Grammys
Something happened the other night that got me thinking. I sat down to watch the Grammy Awards, expecting a celebration of music. What I got instead …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
DH Ep:62 The Holocaust
This episode takes you through the full, unflinching story of the Holocaust — from the ancient roots of antisemitism that made it possible, to the ri…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
DH Ep:61 911
We all know where we were that morning. The clear blue sky. The impossible images on our television screens. The moment when time itself seemed to sp…
7 months, 3 weeks ago