Pear Of Anguish: Ribbed For His Pleasure
What if one of the most infamous torture devices in history was never actually used as a torture device?In this episode of Torture: A Dark History, Kevin Young and Dan Hourigan investigate the history...
11 Dec 20221h 5min
Crushing: Doors And Boulders
What would you be willing to endure to keep your family from losing everything you own, even if the price was being slowly crushed to death?In this episode of Torture: A Dark History, Kevin Young and ...
27 Nov 202255min
Synanon Part 2: Syno-do
What happens when a treatment program learns how to break people down and then decides that breaking them is the entire point?In this episode of Torture: A Dark History, Kevin Young and Dan Hourigan r...
13 Nov 20221h 43min
Synanon Part 1: Addiction To Stupidity
What happens when a man sets out to cure drug addictionband ends up building a community that increasingly looks less like a treatment center and more like a cult?In this episode of Torture: A Dark Hi...
30 Okt 20221h 21min
Outlawing: Bad To Be A Twin
What if being declared an outlaw didn't mean you lived outside the law—but meant the law no longer protected you?In this episode of Torture: A Dark History, Kevin Young and Dan Hourigan travel back to...
16 Okt 20221h 20min
Brazen Bull: A Multi-Tasker
What kind of person builds a torture device and then decides to demonstrate it to a tyrant?In this episode of Torture: A Dark History, Kevin Young and Dan Hourigan travel back to ancient Akragas in Si...
2 Okt 20221h 9min
Head Crusher: Medieval Teabagging
What if the torture device they threatened you with was so horrifying that it might not have even been used?In this episode of Torture: A Dark History, Kevin Young and Dan Hourigan take a trip to 16th...
18 Sep 202243min
Robert Hansen Part 2: Twenty-Four Crosses
What happens when a serial killer stops hunting animals and starts hunting people?In Part 2 of Torture: A Dark History, Kevin Young and Dan Hourigan continue the horrifying story of Robert Hansen, the...
4 Sep 202251min
