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The past isn’t always dead. Sometimes, it’s just been buried... and it’s time to dig it up. Disturbing History is a weekly podcast that dives headfirst into the strange, spooky, and little-known stories that history tried to forget. From secret societies and sinister folklore to lost colonies, unsolved mysteries, and events too dark for your high school textbook — this is where the shadowy corners of the past finally get their time in the spotlight.

Hosted by author, investigator, and storyteller Brian King-Sharp, each episode is a deep, immersive journey into the stories that disturb us — and the ones we have to disturb to uncover the truth. So if you're drawn to the uncomfortable, obsessed with the unexplained, or just can’t shake the feeling that some things never should’ve been buried…

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  • DH Ep:56 Brain Candy

    DH Ep:56 Brain Candy
    Jan 9 2026
    In this special episode of Disturbing History, we step away from ancient mysteries and infamous crimes to confront something far closer and far more unsettling: the forces shaping our thoughts, behavior, and attention right now. This is not a story about the past. It is a story unfolding in real time, in your hands, on your screen, and inside your mind.We begin with a simple observation: most of us carry a device more powerful than all the computers used to reach the moon, yet we spend hours a day trapped in endless, hypnotic scrolling.

    This is not accidental. It is the system working exactly as designed. To understand how we got here, we trace the origins of modern manipulation back to Edward Bernays, the father of public relations, who used psychological insight to shape mass behavior without people ever realizing they were being guided. From his early campaigns to his chilling concept of an “invisible government,” Bernays laid the foundation for an economy built on influence rather than truth.As television rose, attention itself became the product. Networks sold viewers to advertisers, rewarding content that provoked fear, conflict, and emotional intensity over nuance or accuracy.

    The internet promised liberation from this model, but instead created an attention crisis, where infinite content competes for finite human focus. Design choices like infinite scroll quietly removed moments of choice, turning engagement into compulsion and regret into an afterthought.Social media perfected the formula by exploiting our deepest social instincts. Likes, notifications, and algorithmic feedback loops mirror the mechanics of addiction, a fact later acknowledged by the very people who helped build them.

    Platforms optimized for engagement inevitably favor outrage, misinformation, and emotional extremes, not because people crave lies, but because the system rewards whatever keeps us hooked.We explore how these same psychological techniques dominate retail environments, media ecosystems, and digital spaces, all rooted in dopamine-driven anticipation rather than satisfaction. Over time, this constant stimulation reshapes the brain, eroding focus, increasing anxiety, and fueling cycles of craving and withdrawal.

    The effects are especially severe for children and adolescents, where rising rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide closely track the spread of smartphones and social media, despite companies knowing the harm their products cause. The episode also examines shrinking attention spans, declining cognitive measures, and the concentration of media power into the hands of a few dominant platforms that quietly decide what billions of people see, believe, and argue about. Identity itself has shifted from something lived to something performed, curated for an invisible audience, leaving many feeling more connected than ever and yet profoundly alone.As shared reality fractures and misinformation thrives, even the basic foundations of democracy begin to erode.

    When facts are contested and outrage is profitable, persuasion, compromise, and truth lose their footing. The episode closes by asking what resistance looks like in a world engineered for distraction, offering ways to reclaim agency, protect the vulnerable, and rebuild genuine human connection. This is not ancient history. This is the story of now. And the ending has not yet been written.
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    59 m
  • DH Ep:55 The Cold War

    DH Ep:55 The Cold War
    Jan 4 2026
    On the night of September 26th, 1983, a Soviet lieutenant colonel named Stanislav Petrov sat in a bunker monitoring early warning systems when alarms signaled the launch of American nuclear missiles. Alone with the decision, he had mere minutes to determine whether to report the strike and unleash retaliation that could have ended civilization. Petrov hesitated, trusting his gut over the machine.

    He was right—the alert was triggered by sunlight bouncing off clouds. His quiet defiance may have saved the world, but almost no one heard his name for another fifteen years. This episode takes you inside the Cold War as you’ve never heard it—a conflict waged not just with tanks and treaties, but with secrets, sabotage, and surreal moments that brought us terrifyingly close to annihilation.

    We unravel how the United States imported Nazi scientists to build rockets, how the CIA toppled elected governments and plotted the assassination of foreign leaders with gadgets straight out of a spy film, and how the military once seriously considered faking terrorist attacks on U.S. soil to justify war with Cuba. We dive into the stories of individuals who defied orders and changed history, like the Soviet submarine commander who refused to fire a nuclear torpedo during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

    You'll learn about the bloody, U.S.-backed purge in Indonesia, the accidental toppling of the Berlin Wall, and the global chessboard of proxy wars from Korea to Vietnam. Along the way, we confront the rise of a domestic surveillance state that didn’t just target enemies abroad but turned inward on civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. This is a story of unimaginable weapons built by brilliant minds and placed in the hands of flawed men. It’s a story where accidents, miscommunications, and sheer luck averted catastrophe again and again. For forty-five years, the world hovered at the brink, holding its breath. This is how we made it through.
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    1 h y 30 m
  • DH Ep:54 The War On Drugs

    DH Ep:54 The War On Drugs
    Jan 2 2026
    What if the War on Drugs was never really about drugs at all?In this episode of Disturbing History, we pull back the curtain on a devastating truth. For over fifty years, the U.S. government has waged a costly, brutal campaign that’s locked up millions, empowered police militarization, devastated entire communities—and yet, drugs are cheaper and more accessible than ever, with overdose deaths now surpassing 100,000 annually.

    If the goal was to stop drug use, it’s been an undeniable failure. But what if that wasn’t the real goal?We take you on a journey through time, beginning in 1875 San Francisco, where America’s first anti-drug law targeted Chinese immigrants, not opium. From there, we trace a pattern—how drug policy after drug policy has been rooted in racism, fear, and control. You'll hear how Nixon’s declaration of the War on Drugs, Reagan’s crackdown on crack cocaine, Clinton’s crime bill, and beyond, each added layers to a system designed less to protect public health than to marginalize and imprison.

    Along the way, we follow the money—into the pockets of private prisons, testing firms, and police departments incentivized by seizures and incarceration quotas. We dig into how the CIA’s covert dealings with drug traffickers, the practice of civil asset forfeiture, and the arming of local police forces created a system that punishes the vulnerable while shielding the powerful.Y ou’ll meet real people who paid the price—like Kemba Smith and Weldon Angelos—whose sentences make clear just how unforgiving and uneven this war has been.

    We contrast the punitive crack era with the more compassionate response to the opioid crisis and ask: who gets treated, and who gets punished? We don’t stop at America’s borders either. From Mexico and Colombia to the Philippines, we explore how U.S. policy has fueled violence and instability abroad, pushing other nations into our prohibitionist mold.

    But there’s hope. We highlight what’s working—from Portugal’s bold decriminalization model to harm reduction in Switzerland—and reflect on the slow but steady reforms happening here at home. Legalization. Sentencing reform. Rescheduling. Change is coming—but the machine hasn’t stopped.
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    1 h y 34 m
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