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DH Ep:45 The Dust Bowl Migration
On April fourteenth, 1935, a wall of darkness seven thousand feet high and two hundred miles wide tore across the Great Plains at sixty miles per hou…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
DH Ep:44 The Incredibly Stupid One
On a sweltering June night in 1967, twenty-year-old sailor Douglas Brent Hegdahl stepped onto the deck of the USS Canberra for a breath of air, unawa…
8 months ago
DH Ep:43 J. Edgar Hoover
On a humid morning in May nineteen seventy-two, the most powerful man in Washington died naked on his bedroom floor, and he wasn't the president. For…
8 months ago
DH Ep:42 The Donner Party
In the winter of 1846–1847, eighty-seven pioneers set out with dreams of a new life in California—and found themselves trapped in the Sierra Nevada M…
8 months, 1 week ago
DH Ep:41 The Thin Blue Line
This episode isn't going to be easy to hear, but it's necessary. I spent sixteen years in law enforcement, ending my career as an Atlanta police offi…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
DH Ep:40 Where the Mountains Swallow Men Whole
On a cold November afternoon in 1945, a seasoned hunting guide named Middie Rivers walked into the Vermont wilderness and never came back out. He kne…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
DH Ep:39 The Devil’s Tramping Ground
Deep in the pine forests of Chatham County, North Carolina, lies a perfect circle of barren earth where nothing has grown for over three hundred year…
9 months ago
DH Ep:38 Hunting Hitler
In this episode of Disturbing History, we step into one of the most chilling and enduring mysteries of the twentieth century: what really happened to…
9 months, 1 week ago
DH Ep:37 John Wilkes Booth
On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth stepped into the presidential box at Ford's Theatre and fired a single shot that would echo through…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
DH Ep:36 The Kennedy Assassination
On November 22, 1963, three shots in Dealey Plaza shattered America's innocence and sparked the most controversial investigation in our nation's hist…
9 months, 4 weeks ago