Disturbing History

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Disturbing History is a dark history podcast uncovering the strange, sinister, and little-known stories the past tried to bury. Each week, we explore unsolved mysteries, secret societies, forgotten crimes, eerie folklore, lost civilizations, historical conspiracies, and disturbing events that never made it into your high school textbook .Hosted by author, investigator, and storyteller Brian King-Sharp, Disturbing History dives deep into: Unsolved historical mysteriesSecret societies and hidden power structuresDark folklore and urban legendsLost colonies and vanished civilizationsTrue crime cases buried by timeHistorical conspiracies and cover-upsParanormal events rooted in real historyThrough immersive storytelling and investigative research, we uncover the shadowy corners of the past — the uncomfortable truths, forgotten tragedies, and disturbing secrets that shaped our world.If you’re fascinated by dark history, obsessed with unexplained events, or drawn to stories that blur the line between fact and legend, this podcast is for you. Because the past isn’t always dead. Sometimes it’s just been buried. Follow Disturbing History and turn on automatic downloads for weekly deep dives into history’s most unsettling stories.

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  1. 1d ago

    The Hills Have Eyes

    The Hills Have Eyes: The Terrifying Legend Behind the Horror MovieIn episode three of our Spooky Season series exploring the true stories behind Hollywood’s most terrifying horror movies, Brian investigates the disturbing legend that inspired Wes Craven’s 1977 cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes. For nearly 300 years, the story of Sawney Bean and his murderous Scottish cannibal clan has haunted generations. According to legend, Bean and his family lived in a remote coastal cave, ambushing, murdering, and devouring more than 1,000 unsuspecting travelers before being discovered and executed. But did any of it actually happen? Brian traces the legend back to its earliest known publication in 1734, uncovering historical contradictions, missing evidence, and the disturbing political and cultural influences that may have created the entire story. Along the way, he explores documented cases of cannibalism and notorious American murder families whose real crimes rivaled anything Hollywood could imagine. Then, discover how Wes Craven transformed a centuries-old Scottish nightmare into The Hills Have Eyes, moving the horror from a seaside cave to the desolate American desert. Was Sawney Bean history’s most horrifying serial killer, or was the entire legend a carefully constructed fiction? The truth behind The Hills Have Eyes may be more unsettling than the movie itself. Email Brian Get Brian's Books Leave Us A Voicemail Visit Our Website Have a forgotten historical mystery, disturbing event, unsolved crime, or hidden conspiracy you think deserves investigation? Send your suggestions to brian@paranormalworldproductions.com. Disturbing History is a dark history podcast exploring unsolved mysteries, secret societies, historical conspiracies, lost civilizations, and the shadowy stories buried beneath the surface of the past. Follow the show and enable automatic downloads so you never miss a deep dive into history’s most unsettling secrets. Because sometimes the truth is darker than fiction.

    The Hills Have Eyes

  2. 2d ago • Subscribers Only

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    The Hills Have Eyes: The Terrifying Legend Behind the Horror MovieIn episode three of our Spooky Season series exploring the true stories behind Hollywood’s most terrifying horror movies, Brian investigates the disturbing legend that inspired Wes Craven’s 1977 cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes. For nearly 300 years, the story of Sawney Bean and his murderous Scottish cannibal clan has haunted generations. According to legend, Bean and his family lived in a remote coastal cave, ambushing, murdering, and devouring more than 1,000 unsuspecting travelers before being discovered and executed. But did any of it actually happen? Brian traces the legend back to its earliest known publication in 1734, uncovering historical contradictions, missing evidence, and the disturbing political and cultural influences that may have created the entire story. Along the way, he explores documented cases of cannibalism and notorious American murder families whose real crimes rivaled anything Hollywood could imagine. Then, discover how Wes Craven transformed a centuries-old Scottish nightmare into The Hills Have Eyes, moving the horror from a seaside cave to the desolate American desert. Was Sawney Bean history’s most horrifying serial killer, or was the entire legend a carefully constructed fiction? The truth behind The Hills Have Eyes may be more unsettling than the movie itself. Email Brian Get Brian's Books Leave Us A Voicemail Visit Our Website

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  3. 3d ago

    The 27 Club

    What do Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse have in common? They all died at 27, becoming part of one of music history's most haunting legends: The 27 Club. But is there really a deadly curse, or does the truth reveal something far more disturbing? In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian  investigates the mysterious deaths, unanswered questions, and decades of controversy surrounding rock music's most infamous club. From Brian Jones's suspicious drowning and Jimi Hendrix's disputed final hours to Jim Morrison's death in Paris without an autopsy, each case reveals a different tragedy. Brian also examines Kurt Cobain's controversial death, Amy Winehouse's fatal relapse, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding blues legend Robert Johnson. Finally, Brian explores two major scientific studies that investigated whether musicians really face a greater risk of dying at 27.  Their findings challenge the legend while exposing a troubling reality about fame, addiction, mental health, and premature death in the music industry. Is the 27 Club a supernatural curse, a statistical coincidence, or a self-fulfilling prophecy?  The answer may be more disturbing than the legend itself. Email Brian Get Brian's Books Leave Us A Voicemail Visit Our Website Have a forgotten historical mystery, disturbing event, unsolved crime, or hidden conspiracy you think deserves investigation? Send your suggestions to brian@paranormalworldproductions.com. Disturbing History is a dark history podcast exploring unsolved mysteries, secret societies, historical conspiracies, lost civilizations, and the shadowy stories buried beneath the surface of the past. Follow the show and enable automatic downloads so you never miss a deep dive into history’s most unsettling secrets. Because sometimes the truth is darker than fiction.

    The 27 Club

  4. 3d ago • Subscribers Only

    The 27 Club-Ad Free Vault Access

    What do Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse have in common? They all died at 27, becoming part of one of music history's most haunting legends: The 27 Club. But is there really a deadly curse, or does the truth reveal something far more disturbing? In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian  investigates the mysterious deaths, unanswered questions, and decades of controversy surrounding rock music's most infamous club. From Brian Jones's suspicious drowning and Jimi Hendrix's disputed final hours to Jim Morrison's death in Paris without an autopsy, each case reveals a different tragedy. Brian also examines Kurt Cobain's controversial death, Amy Winehouse's fatal relapse, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding blues legend Robert Johnson. Finally, Brian explores two major scientific studies that investigated whether musicians really face a greater risk of dying at 27.  Their findings challenge the legend while exposing a troubling reality about fame, addiction, mental health, and premature death in the music industry. Is the 27 Club a supernatural curse, a statistical coincidence, or a self-fulfilling prophecy?  The answer may be more disturbing than the legend itself. Email Brian Get Brian's Books Leave Us A Voicemail Visit Our Website

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  5. 5d ago

    The 2010's

    In 2013, Time branded millennials “The Me Me Me Generation.” The accusations were familiar: lazy, entitled, and obsessed with themselves. Yet teenage drinking, smoking, pregnancy, and fighting were all declining, while young adults faced rising student debt and a difficult path to homeownership. The complaints about the next generation were nothing new. The world they were inheriting deserved a closer look. In the seventh installment of Disturbing History’s journey through American life, Brian revisits the 2010s—the decade when his own generation became the adults doing the complaining. The economy recovered, smartphones transformed everyday life, and scientific discoveries pushed the boundaries of human knowledge. But prosperity and progress shared the headlines with addiction, corporate deception, and warnings that went unanswered. This episode follows the opioid epidemic from prescription pills to fentanyl, examines Flint’s water crisis, and revisits disasters from Deepwater Horizon to Hurricane Maria and the destruction of Paradise, California. Along the way, Theranos, Wells Fargo, and Boeing raise an unsettling question: what happens when protecting an institution becomes more important than protecting the people who trust it? Then there’s the device in everyone’s pocket. Instagram and viral fundraising showed what connection could accomplish. Cambridge Analytica, data breaches, and conspiracy theories revealed its costs. From surveillance disclosures to Pizzagate and the harassment of Sandy Hook families, the decade exposed how quickly information—and misinformation—could change lives. There were also extraordinary reasons to look up: the Higgs boson, gravitational waves, Pluto in startling detail, and the first image of a black hole. Rescuers brought Chilean miners and a Thai youth soccer team home alive. Violent crime remained far below its early-1990s peak. Even the Cubs finally won. The decade closes with avocado toast, “snowflake” accusations, and the reply “okay, boomer.”  By then, the millennials on that magazine cover were approaching middle age—and the first complaints about the generation behind them were already appearing in the same magazines. Email Brian Get Brian's Books Leave Us A Voicemail Visit Our Website Have a forgotten historical mystery, disturbing event, unsolved crime, or hidden conspiracy you think deserves investigation? Send your suggestions to brian@paranormalworldproductions.com. Disturbing History is a dark history podcast exploring unsolved mysteries, secret societies, historical conspiracies, lost civilizations, and the shadowy stories buried beneath the surface of the past. Follow the show and enable automatic downloads so you never miss a deep dive into history’s most unsettling secrets. Because sometimes the truth is darker than fiction.

    The 2010's

  6. 5d ago • Subscribers Only

    The 2010's-Ad Free Vault Access

    In 2013, Time branded millennials “The Me Me Me Generation.” The accusations were familiar: lazy, entitled, and obsessed with themselves. Yet teenage drinking, smoking, pregnancy, and fighting were all declining, while young adults faced rising student debt and a difficult path to homeownership. The complaints about the next generation were nothing new. The world they were inheriting deserved a closer look. In the seventh installment of Disturbing History’s journey through American life, Brian revisits the 2010s—the decade when his own generation became the adults doing the complaining. The economy recovered, smartphones transformed everyday life, and scientific discoveries pushed the boundaries of human knowledge. But prosperity and progress shared the headlines with addiction, corporate deception, and warnings that went unanswered. This episode follows the opioid epidemic from prescription pills to fentanyl, examines Flint’s water crisis, and revisits disasters from Deepwater Horizon to Hurricane Maria and the destruction of Paradise, California. Along the way, Theranos, Wells Fargo, and Boeing raise an unsettling question: what happens when protecting an institution becomes more important than protecting the people who trust it? Then there’s the device in everyone’s pocket. Instagram and viral fundraising showed what connection could accomplish. Cambridge Analytica, data breaches, and conspiracy theories revealed its costs. From surveillance disclosures to Pizzagate and the harassment of Sandy Hook families, the decade exposed how quickly information—and misinformation—could change lives. There were also extraordinary reasons to look up: the Higgs boson, gravitational waves, Pluto in startling detail, and the first image of a black hole. Rescuers brought Chilean miners and a Thai youth soccer team home alive. Violent crime remained far below its early-1990s peak. Even the Cubs finally won. The decade closes with avocado toast, “snowflake” accusations, and the reply “okay, boomer.”  By then, the millennials on that magazine cover were approaching middle age—and the first complaints about the generation behind them were already appearing in the same magazines. Email Brian Get Brian's Books Leave Us A Voicemail Visit Our Website

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  7. Oct 18

    The Seven Hidden Dimensions

    What if our universe contains entire dimensions of space that we cannot see, touch, or detect? What if those hidden dimensions exist all around us, occupying the very rooms we live in? And could they explain some of humanity's greatest mysteries, from unexplained disappearances and paranormal encounters to UFOs, Sasquatch, and even telepathy? In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian takes a deep dive into one of the most fascinating and controversial ideas in theoretical physics: the seven hidden dimensions of M-theory. Modern physics describes a universe with three dimensions of space and one of time. But M-theory proposes eleven dimensions in total, including seven additional spatial dimensions that may be concealed within the fabric of reality itself.  Brian traces the remarkable history of this idea, from Einstein's groundbreaking work on spacetime to the forgotten physicists who first proposed invisible dimensions, the strange geometry of string theory, and the revolutionary discoveries that gave rise to M-theory. But this isn't just a journey through theoretical physics. Brian explores the unsettling possibility that hidden dimensions could help explain phenomena that have puzzled humanity for centuries.  Could ghosts, apparitions, and other unexplained encounters involve something beyond our familiar three-dimensional world? What about the theories suggesting UFOs and UAPs originate from another dimension rather than another planet? Could the mysterious behavior sometimes attributed to Sasquatch point toward something far stranger than an undiscovered primate? The investigation also revisits The Telepathy Tapes, examining extraordinary claims involving consciousness, unexplained communication, and quantum entanglement. Brian explores what science actually tells us about these phenomena, including the groundbreaking experiments that earned the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, and why quantum entanglement cannot be used to transmit information. Along the way, we examine the real experiments searching for hidden dimensions, from precision gravity measurements to the Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS Collaboration's September 2026 search for microscopic black holes.  So far, the results have revealed no evidence of additional spatial dimensions.Where does established science end and speculation begin? And if seven invisible dimensions really do surround us, what might that mean for our understanding of reality, consciousness, and the unexplained? The science is extraordinary. The possibilities are mind-bending. But the biggest mystery remains unanswered. Are we experiencing all of reality, or only the tiny fraction our senses allow us to perceive? Email Brian Get Brian's Books Leave Us A Voicemail Visit Our Website Have a forgotten historical mystery, disturbing event, unsolved crime, or hidden conspiracy you think deserves investigation? Send your suggestions to brian@paranormalworldproductions.com. Disturbing History is a dark history podcast exploring unsolved mysteries, secret societies, historical conspiracies, lost civilizations, and the shadowy stories buried beneath the surface of the past. Follow the show and enable automatic downloads so you never miss a deep dive into history’s most unsettling secrets. Because sometimes the truth is darker than fiction.

    The Seven Hidden Dimensions

  8. Oct 18 • Subscribers Only

    The Seven Hidden Dimensions-Ad Free Vault Access

    What if our universe contains entire dimensions of space that we cannot see, touch, or detect? What if those hidden dimensions exist all around us, occupying the very rooms we live in? And could they explain some of humanity's greatest mysteries, from unexplained disappearances and paranormal encounters to UFOs, Sasquatch, and even telepathy? In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian takes a deep dive into one of the most fascinating and controversial ideas in theoretical physics: the seven hidden dimensions of M-theory. Modern physics describes a universe with three dimensions of space and one of time. But M-theory proposes eleven dimensions in total, including seven additional spatial dimensions that may be concealed within the fabric of reality itself.  Brian traces the remarkable history of this idea, from Einstein's groundbreaking work on spacetime to the forgotten physicists who first proposed invisible dimensions, the strange geometry of string theory, and the revolutionary discoveries that gave rise to M-theory. But this isn't just a journey through theoretical physics. Brian explores the unsettling possibility that hidden dimensions could help explain phenomena that have puzzled humanity for centuries.  Could ghosts, apparitions, and other unexplained encounters involve something beyond our familiar three-dimensional world? What about the theories suggesting UFOs and UAPs originate from another dimension rather than another planet? Could the mysterious behavior sometimes attributed to Sasquatch point toward something far stranger than an undiscovered primate? The investigation also revisits The Telepathy Tapes, examining extraordinary claims involving consciousness, unexplained communication, and quantum entanglement. Brian explores what science actually tells us about these phenomena, including the groundbreaking experiments that earned the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, and why quantum entanglement cannot be used to transmit information. Along the way, we examine the real experiments searching for hidden dimensions, from precision gravity measurements to the Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS Collaboration's September 2026 search for microscopic black holes.  So far, the results have revealed no evidence of additional spatial dimensions.Where does established science end and speculation begin? And if seven invisible dimensions really do surround us, what might that mean for our understanding of reality, consciousness, and the unexplained? The science is extraordinary. The possibilities are mind-bending. But the biggest mystery remains unanswered. Are we experiencing all of reality, or only the tiny fraction our senses allow us to perceive? Email Brian Get Brian's Books Leave Us A Voicemail Visit Our Website

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Disturbing History is a dark history podcast uncovering the strange, sinister, and little-known stories the past tried to bury. Each week, we explore unsolved mysteries, secret societies, forgotten crimes, eerie folklore, lost civilizations, historical conspiracies, and disturbing events that never made it into your high school textbook .Hosted by author, investigator, and storyteller Brian King-Sharp, Disturbing History dives deep into: Unsolved historical mysteriesSecret societies and hidden power structuresDark folklore and urban legendsLost colonies and vanished civilizationsTrue crime cases buried by timeHistorical conspiracies and cover-upsParanormal events rooted in real historyThrough immersive storytelling and investigative research, we uncover the shadowy corners of the past — the uncomfortable truths, forgotten tragedies, and disturbing secrets that shaped our world.If you’re fascinated by dark history, obsessed with unexplained events, or drawn to stories that blur the line between fact and legend, this podcast is for you. Because the past isn’t always dead. Sometimes it’s just been buried. Follow Disturbing History and turn on automatic downloads for weekly deep dives into history’s most unsettling stories.

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  • Creator
    Disturbing History-True Stories
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    326
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    Explicit
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    © 2025 Paranormal World Productions LLC
  • Show Website
    Disturbing History
  • Provider
    Brian King-Sharp

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