DH Ep:50 The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
In 1932, the United States government told six hundred Black men in rural Alabama that they had "bad blood" and promised them free treatment. What these men didn't know—what they would never be told—w...
12 Des 20251h 23min
DH Ep:49 The Civil War
This is the episode we've been building toward. The one that sits at the very heart of what disturbing history means. Because nothing in the American story comes close to what happened between 1861 an...
7 Des 20251h 24min
DH Ep:48 The Yuba County Five
On February 24, 1978, five friends from Yuba County, California, drove to Chico State University to watch their favorite college basketball team play. It should have been a routine trip: an hour north...
3 Des 20251h 21min
DH Ep:47 The African Slave Trade
This episode explores one of history’s greatest crimes in all its complexity. We examine not only the European demand that fueled the transatlantic slave trade, but also the African kingdoms, warlords...
30 Nov 20251h 35min
DH Ep:46 Christopher Columbus
In this comprehensive episode of Disturbing History, we journey back over five centuries to examine the true story of Christopher Columbus, stripping away the mythology that has long obscured one of h...
28 Nov 20251h 29min
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 hour. Black Sunday wasn’t just a storm—it was the mome...
23 Nov 20251h 8min
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, unaware that a single blast from the ship’s guns would k...
20 Nov 20251h 14min
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 forty-eight years, John Edgar Hoover had been the ...
16 Nov 20251h 19min
