On a clear January evening in 1969, future president Jimmy Carter stood with twenty other men outside a Lions Club meeting in Leary, Georgia, and witnessed something that would forever change his perspective on what flies in our skies. The glowing, color-shifting object that hovered, approached, and retreated over the course of ten minutes would make Carter the first and only U.S. president to officially file a UFO report, and lead to his unprecedented campaign promise to reveal everything the government knew about UFOs if elected.

This episode explores not just Carter's extraordinary sighting and his frustrated attempts at disclosure, but the entire hidden history of American presidents and their complex relationships with the UFO phenomenon. From Harry Truman's startling admission that flying saucers, if they existed, were "not constructed by any power on Earth," to the recent congressional testimonies about retrieved non-human craft, we trace seven decades of presidential encounters with the unknown.We delve into Eisenhower's alleged meeting with extraterrestrials at Edwards Air Force Base and his reported threat to invade Area 51 if the CIA didn't brief him on their activities. We examine Kennedy's mysterious memo requesting all UFO files just ten days before his assassination, and his plan to share UFO information with the Soviet Union to prevent nuclear war.

The narrative reveals Nixon's supposed midnight trip to show comedian Jackie Gleason alien bodies at Homestead Air Force Base, and Reagan's obsessive references to alien threats in major speeches that his staff couldn't stop him from making.The episode exposes how the classification system's complexity made Carter's promise of full UFO disclosure impossible to keep, even for the most powerful office in the world. Through interviews, declassified documents, and insider accounts, we explore how presidents from Truman to Biden have each grappled with the same fundamental tension between the public's right to know and the imperatives of national security.

We reveal how some presidents were allegedly told that UFO information existed in Special Access Programs so secret that even they, as commander-in-chief, couldn't access it without a specific operational need to know.From Gerald Ford's congressional hearings on UFOs in the 1960s to Clinton tasking his Associate Attorney General with finding out what the government knew about UFOs and being stonewalled, from Obama's cryptic jokes about aliens exercising "strict control over us" to Trump's administration overseeing the release of authenticated Navy UFO videos, this episode presents the most comprehensive examination of presidential involvement with the UFO phenomenon ever assembled.

The journey from Carter's sighting in rural Georgia to today's Pentagon UAP investigations reveals how the UFO issue has evolved from ridicule to respectability, from denial to official acknowledgment, from Project Blue Book to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. Through this lens, we see not just a story about mysterious objects in our skies, but a profound examination of power and its limits, secrecy and democracy, and humanity's ongoing encounter with the unknown.This is the story of how a peanut farmer's ten-minute sighting became part of a decades-long struggle for transparency that continues today, as Congress holds hearings, NASA conducts studies, and military pilots testify about objects that seem to defy our understanding of physics. It's a reminder that some mysteries transcend even presidential power, and that the universe still holds secrets that humble the most powerful people on Earth.

Welcome aboard another captivating episode of Disturbing History, as we touch down at America's strangest airport—Denver International. Since opening in 1995, this massive facility has become ground zero for some of the wildest conspiracy theories on the planet.From the towering blue horse statue with glowing red eyes (nicknamed "Blucifer") to underground tunnels rumored to house alien bases and New World Order bunkers, DIA is more than an airport—it's a modern myth factory.

We’ll dig into the delayed and over-budget construction that kicked off the speculation, explore Leo Tanguma’s apocalyptic murals, and revisit claims by early whistleblowers who swore there were secret bases below the runways.We’ll also look at how the airport leaned into its eerie rep, using humor and bizarre PR stunts to turn controversy into a brand—and profits. But not without cost: artists like Tanguma and Luis Jiménez have had their work twisted into something it was never meant to be.

From Masonic symbols to fake alien graffiti, DIA has become a breeding ground for paranoia and pop culture. Join us as we explore how this airport became the world’s strangest layover—and why people can’t stop asking what’s really going on beneath the surface.

In this chilling episode of Disturbing History, we unlock the vault on one of the most unsettling and secretive programs ever run by the United States government: Project MK Ultra.Born from Cold War paranoia and fueled by a race to control not just territory but thought itself, MK Ultra was a covert CIA operation aimed at mastering the art of mind control.

What followed was decades of illegal human experimentation carried out in the shadows. Ordinary Americans were drugged, manipulated, and monitored—most of them never knowing they were part of an experiment at all.We trace the tangled roots of this program, beginning with early postwar intelligence obsessions and the growing fear that communists were developing brainwashing techniques the U.S. couldn’t match.

That fear gave birth to a sprawling web of black-budget experiments, involving powerful psychedelics like LSD, sensory deprivation, psychological conditioning, and more. Scientists and intelligence agents began probing the boundaries of consciousness—not to heal, but to break, control, and rebuild. At the heart of the episode lies the haunting story of Frank Olson, a U.S. government biochemist who died under mysterious circumstances after being secretly dosed with LSD by his own colleagues.

His death was ruled a suicide. Others believed—and still believe—it was something much darker. His story, like so many others, became collateral damage in a war no one signed up for.

The MK Ultra files were meant to stay buried. Much of the program was destroyed before Congress could investigate. But the fragments that remain point to a government willing to cross every ethical line in pursuit of power—not just over enemies, but over its own people. This isn’t science fiction. It’s history. And it happened here.

On December 21, 1970, the most unlikely meeting in American political history took place when Elvis Presley appeared unannounced at the White House gates, requesting to become a "Federal Agent at Large" in President Nixon's war on drugs.

What followed was a surreal 30-minute encounter in the Oval Office that produced the most requested photograph in National Archives history—more popular than the Constitution itself.This episode explores the extraordinary true story of two deeply troubled American icons whose brief meeting revealed the dysfunction at the heart of 1970s leadership.

 Nixon, paranoid and medicated, was desperate for cultural validation during one of the darkest periods of his presidency. Elvis, struggling with his own severe prescription drug addiction, genuinely believed he could save America's youth from the very substances that were destroying his own life.

The irony was breathtaking: the King of Rock and Roll, who would die seven years later with fourteen different drugs in his system, volunteering to be Nixon's soldier in the anti-drug crusade. Meanwhile, the President was battling his own dependency on barbiturates, amphetamines, and mood stabilizers while authorizing a federal narcotics badge for a man whose medicine cabinet resembled a pharmacy.

Drawing from White House memos, Secret Service reports, and eyewitness accounts, we chronicle Elvis's impulsive flight to Washington carrying a loaded gun as a presidential gift, the bureaucratic miracle that made the meeting possible, and the genuine human connection that developed between two men who were perhaps the loneliest people in America.

Their handshake captured a moment when American power and celebrity culture collided in the most powerful office in the world, creating an image that remains both hilarious and haunting more than fifty years later. This is the story of how the establishment met the revolution, how two addicts found each other in their shared delusions of patriotic service, and how one photograph became the perfect symbol of an era when reality had become stranger than fiction.

On this episode of Disturbing History, we dive deep into one of the most extraordinary and suppressed stories connected to the JFK assassination that you've probably never heard of. While millions of Americans can recite the basic facts of November 22, 1963, virtually none know the name Christopher Fulton or the incredible price he paid for possessing physical evidence that could have rewritten history.

Christopher Fulton was a successful construction magnate living the Canadian dream when he acquired what seemed like a simple piece of Kennedy memorabilia—a gold Cartier watch that had belonged to President Kennedy. What he didn't know was that this timepiece had been torn from JFK's bloodied wrist at Parkland Hospital and contained microscopic traces of mercury that would serve as smoking-gun evidence of the real assassination plot. This wasn't just any vintage watch; it was the key to unlocking one of the most explosive coverups in American history. Through a complex chain of custody involving Kennedy's personal secretary Evelyn Lincoln and collector Robert L. White, Fulton found himself in possession of not just the watch, but secret Oval Office recordings, documents, and other physical evidence that Bobby Kennedy had deliberately kept from falling into government hands after his brother's murder. 

The materials painted a picture of conspiracy that reached the highest levels of government and revealed Kennedy's awareness of plots against his life in the days leading up to Dallas.When Fulton's research led to a secret meeting with JFK Jr., who had plans to acquire the evidence and finally expose his father's killers, the intelligence community struck back with devastating force.

 Fulton was labeled a threat to national security, placed on the FBI's most wanted list, and imprisoned for nearly a decade on sealed federal charges. His multimillion-dollar business empire was systematically dismantled, his family was destroyed, and his very existence was nearly erased from the historical record. We explore how the 1998 Guernsey's auction of Kennedy memorabilia became a battleground between the Kennedy family, federal authorities, and collectors, revealing the government's willingness to use legal pressure to reclaim assassination evidence.

 We examine the broader implications of Fulton's story and how it demonstrates that the Kennedy assassination conspiracy didn't end in Dallas in 1963, but continues to operate today, adapting its methods of suppression for each new generation.This episode reveals the chilling efficiency of a system designed to make inconvenient witnesses disappear from public consciousness while maintaining the illusion of open debate about the assassination.

We ask the disturbing question: if they were willing to destroy Christopher Fulton so completely, how many other voices have been silenced? How many potential witnesses have been eliminated, discredited, or simply erased from history? While the sanitized version of the Kennedy assassination remains acceptable public discourse, the stories of those who got too close to the real truth have been systematically suppressed.

Christopher Fulton's survival and willingness to tell his story represents a rare crack in the machine of institutional silence, offering us a glimpse into the true cost of challenging power in America. This is the story they never wanted you to know existed, and exactly why we do this show—because sometimes those who truly disturb history come closest to the truth.

In this searing episode of Disturbing History, we uncover the devastating truth behind the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre—one of the deadliest and most systematically buried atrocities in American history.

 This isn't just a story about racial violence. It's about the rise and deliberate destruction of Black Wall Street, a thriving African American community in Tulsa’s Greenwood District, built from the ground up by formerly enslaved people and their descendants. We explore how Greenwood became an extraordinary economic powerhouse, home to hundreds of Black-owned businesses, luxury homes, and professional services. But its success drew deadly envy.

On May 31, 1921, fueled by a false accusation and a white mob’s rage, a coordinated attack—backed by police, the National Guard, and even private aircraft—unleashed fire and terror on Greenwood. Within 24 hours, the district was reduced to ashes. This wasn’t a riot. It was a military-style assault, complete with aerial bombings and mass internment of Black residents. While official records claimed only 39 deaths, survivors and researchers estimate the toll was in the hundreds. The trauma didn’t end with the destruction. The city, media, and insurance companies orchestrated a cover-up so effective that the massacre vanished from textbooks and public memory for nearly 80 years.

We track the slow rediscovery of this buried truth—through survivors’ voices, modern archaeological efforts to locate mass graves, and renewed calls for justice and reparations. The massacre's impact still ripples through generations, symbolizing not just what was lost but what was stolen.This episode challenges listeners to confront America’s historical amnesia and reckon with the systems that erase inconvenient truths. It's a tribute to those who built Black Wall Street and those who perished defending it—a story that demands to be remembered.

In this episode, we uncover the remarkable true story of Ward Hill Lamon, the rough-edged Virginia lawyer who became Abraham Lincoln’s closest friend and self-declared bodyguard. Lamon wasn’t just a loyal companion—he helped shape the very idea of presidential security in America long before it became an institution.

From their unlikely bond as law partners traveling the Illinois circuit to the life-threatening Baltimore Plot of 1861, this episode traces Lamon’s obsessive commitment to protecting Lincoln at all costs—and how his absence on one critical night changed everything.We explore the conspiracy that nearly ended Lincoln’s life before his presidency even began and the behind-the-scenes power struggle between Lamon and detective Allan Pinkerton.

We also dive into Lamon’s colorful exploits during the Civil War, including his oversized weapons stash, questionable military titles, and direct confrontations with Confederate forces.But Lamon’s legacy doesn’t end on the battlefield. His role in one of the strangest political controversies of the time—the so-called Antietam “banjo incident”—sparked national outrage and shaped public perception of Lincoln during the 1864 election.

We also examine Lamon’s later attempts to defend Lincoln’s memory through a biography that was so explosive, Lincoln’s own son tried to erase it from history.Throughout the episode, we separate fact from folklore, analyzing famous dreams, ghostwritten confessions, and the myths that surround both Lamon and Lincoln to this day. And in the end, we return to that fateful night at Ford’s Theatre—the one time Lamon wasn’t at Lincoln’s side—and ask the haunting question: if he had been, would history have turned out differently?

This is the story of a bodyguard who broke every rule, a friendship that defied convention, and a legacy still shaped by absence.

In this episode of Disturbing History, we dive into the staggering, stranger-than-fiction life of America's most ferocious leader—the one and only Theodore Roosevelt. He wasn’t just a president. He was a warrior, a naturalist, a writer, a boxer, a conservationist, and, quite possibly, the first U.S. president to publish a serious account of a Sasquatch encounter.Born a sickly child with severe asthma, Roosevelt seemed destined for a quiet, fragile life—until sheer willpower turned him into a force of nature.

As a young boy, he stood along the streets of New York City watching Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession. That same child would grow into a human dynamo with a near-photographic memory, devouring two to three books a day, authoring 35 of his own, and writing over 150,000 letters during his lifetime.But his unstoppable energy was matched by devastating personal tragedy.

On Valentine’s Day in 1884, Roosevelt’s wife and mother died in the same house, mere hours apart. His haunting diary entry read simply: “The light has gone out of my life.” In the aftermath, he disappeared into the harsh wilderness of the Dakota Badlands—where he lived as a cowboy, hunted thieves, and captured outlaws at gunpoint. It was here, he would later say, that he truly became the man who could one day lead a nation.As president, Roosevelt became a catalog of firsts: the youngest man to ever assume the office at age 42, the first to ride in an airplane, own a car, dive in a submarine, travel overseas while in office—and the first to keep a hyena as a pet in the White House.

He boxed regularly until a punch cost him vision in one eye. Then he took up jujitsu. He swam naked in the Potomac River, banned Christmas trees to protect the environment, and famously despised his own nickname, “Teddy,” because it reminded him of his late wife.But perhaps one of the most fascinating—and least discussed—aspects of Roosevelt’s life lies buried in his 1893 book The Wilderness Hunter. In a chapter easily dismissed as folklore, he recounts a tale told to him by a seasoned trapper named Bauman: a terrifying encounter in the Montana wilderness with a bipedal creature that walked like a man, stalked their camp, and ultimately killed Bauman’s partner by snapping his neck. Roosevelt, never one to flinch from mystery, referred to it as “a goblin story which rather impressed me.”

Some believe it to be the first widely published Sasquatch account in American literature—and the fact that Roosevelt included it in his work speaks volumes.Roosevelt’s love of the wild wasn’t just personal—it became policy. As president, he protected over 230 million acres of American wilderness, an area larger than France. He established national parks, bird reserves, monuments, and national forests. His legendary camping trip with John Muir in Yosemite laid the groundwork for the modern conservation movement. He understood the wild was not just a resource—but a mystery worth protecting.Even after his presidency, Roosevelt couldn't resist danger. In 1912, while campaigning under the Bull Moose Party, he was shot in the chest. The bullet passed through his steel eyeglass case and a 50-page speech in his coat pocket, slowing its path.

 Bleeding, he refused to seek treatment until he finished delivering his speech. “Friends,” he said, “I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot.”Later, he embarked on an African safari where he and his team collected over 11,000 specimens for the Smithsonian. Then, nearly a decade after leaving office, he pushed further—into the deadly heart of the Amazon on an expedition to map the River of Doubt, which would later bear his name. He contracted malaria, nearly died, and was forced to make a partial confession: that the limits of his body were finally catching up to the boundlessness of his will.This episode explores the Roosevelt most people never learn about—a man who lived so far...

In this episode of Disturbing History, we take you deep into the shadows of one of America’s most controversial and misunderstood conflicts: the Vietnam War. But this isn't just a retelling of battles and timelines—this is the story behind the war. The one laced with deception, hidden agendas, political manipulation, and secret operations that spanned decades and cost millions of lives.

We trace the war's dark roots all the way back to the Eisenhower administration, revealing how every U.S. president who followed—Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon—made decisions that pushed the conflict deeper into chaos. Some of those decisions were strategic; others were rooted in fear, ego, or political survival. Along the way, we explore the real story behind the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and how that single manipulated event opened the floodgates to full-scale war.But the battlefields of Vietnam weren’t the only ones soaked in blood.

We also uncover the CIA-backed coups that overthrew South Vietnamese leaders in the shadows, and the devastating secret bombings in Laos and Cambodia—operations kept hidden not only from the public but often from Congress itself. These covert campaigns, driven by Cold War paranoia and the desire to contain communism at all costs, operated in the dark for years, until the truth began leaking out piece by piece.

This episode dives into the political machinery behind the war effort—how the military-industrial complex gained momentum, how public support was manipulated through controlled narratives, and how media coverage was both weaponized and suppressed. The American people were fed patriotism and half-truths, while the full scale of the horror was buried in classified files and military jargon.

We also confront the brutal legacy of programs like Operation Phoenix, a CIA initiative that blurred the line between intelligence gathering and assassination. And we ask the hardest question of all: when did our leaders stop fighting to win—and start fighting to save face? If you think you know the Vietnam War, this episode will change your perspective. Because this isn’t just history—it’s a reminder of what happens when truth becomes expendable in the name of power. 

Listener discretion is advised, as we cover sensitive topics including wartime violence, political corruption, and state-sponsored deception. If this episode makes you uncomfortable, good. 

History should make us uncomfortable. That’s how we learn from it.

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In this hard-hitting episode, we unravel the hidden history behind one of humanity’s proudest achievements: landing on the moon. Beneath the surface of scientific triumph lies a story of moral compromise, wartime secrets, and human suffering. We trace the incredible arc from the Wright brothers’ first flight in 1903 to Neil Armstrong’s giant leap in 1969—a leap made possible not just by innovation, but by deals with former Nazi scientists through Operation Paperclip.

 The American space program’s celebrated heroes include men directly tied to slave labor and war crimes, whose pasts were buried in the rush to beat the Soviets.Amid Cold War paranoia, the space race became a propaganda war. The U.S. and USSR both pushed technological limits while hiding the human toll: cosmonauts lost in space, astronauts killed in preventable accidents, and workers exposed to toxic materials.

Communities around launch sites still live with the environmental fallout.We also explore how the military-industrial complex exploited the space program for profit, inflating costs and sidestepping accountability. Defense contractors enriched by Nazi labor reemerged as key players in America’s aerospace boom, while taxpayers footed the bill.

The Apollo missions themselves were razor-thin gambles. The spacecraft were riddled with design flaws and untested systems. Yet despite the danger—and the darker history behind the hardware—two men walked on the moon in 1969. That moment of triumph was real, but so were the costs hidden behind it.We also examine the roots of moon landing conspiracy theories—not because the landings were fake, but because the government’s track record of secrecy and deception made such doubts inevitable.

As we follow the legacy of these compromises into today’s era of privatized space exploration, one truth becomes clear: the stars didn’t cleanse us of our history. They reflect it.

This episode challenges the mythology of space progress and asks: Can we pursue the heavens without repeating the same moral failures? And if not—what does that say about us?

On a hot August night in 1955, in the quiet rural stretch between Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky, something strange lit up the sky. What happened next would become one of the most bizarre and chilling close encounter cases in American history. That evening, a family arrived at the local police station in a panic, claiming their farmhouse had been under siege—not by people, but by creatures. Small, glowing-eyed beings with long arms, talon-like claws, and ears that pointed straight back like bat wings.

They said the creatures emerged from the woods, peeked through windows, clawed at doors, and seemed to float or glide just out of reach—impervious to gunfire, and relentless in their silent pursuit.The story sounded insane. But when law enforcement returned to the farmhouse, they found evidence that something had happened—spent shells, damaged property, and a group of witnesses who had nothing to gain and everything to lose by coming forward.

Over the years, skeptics would blame barn owls, hysteria, or simple misidentification. But the details didn’t fade, and the consistency of the family’s account has continued to keep the case alive nearly 70 years later.

In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian revisits that long Kentucky night and explores how the Kelly-Hopkinsville Incident helped shape the very image of alien encounters in America—from the glowing eyes to the pointy ears to the fear of what might be lurking just beyond the treeline. Whether you believe it was a mass hallucination, an alien landing, or something even stranger, one thing is certain: that night changed everything for the people who lived through it.

Because sometimes, history doesn’t just haunt the past…
It knocks at your door in the middle of the night.

One if by land, two if by sea.
We all know the legend of Paul Revere’s midnight ride — but what if I told you he wasn’t the only one?In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian King-Sharp shines a light on the forgotten riders of America’s revolution — the men and women who risked everything in the dead of night to spread word of British troop movements.At the center of this lost chapter is Sybil Ludington, a 16-year-old girl who rode twice as far as Revere — alone, through stormy woods, warning militia forces in New York. And she wasn’t alone. Names like Israel Bissell, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott played critical roles, only to be buried under the weight of one man’s legend.We explore:

• The real network of riders that fanned out across the colonies
• How and why Paul Revere became the face of the story
• The forgotten bravery of Sybil Ludington’s 40-mile ride
• And how history often favors the simplest version — even when it leaves heroes behind

Because sometimes, the most disturbing part of history isn’t what we remember…
It’s what we choose to forget.

It started with a phone call....

In 1997, a man named Mel Waters called into Coast to Coast AM, the legendary late-night radio show dedicated to the unexplained. What he shared was bizarre, chilling, and completely unforgettable—a tale of a bottomless hole on his property in rural Washington State that defied the laws of physics… and maybe reality itself.

In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian unpacks the legend of Mel’s Hole—a seemingly endless pit that swallowed fishing lines by the mile, resurrected dead animals, and attracted the interest of mysterious government agents who may have erased it from existence.

We explore:

• Mel’s original call and the surreal claims he made on air
• The strange behavior of the hole—and what happened to objects tossed inside
• Alleged government intervention, land seizure, and Mel’s mysterious disappearance
• Theories ranging from military experiments to interdimensional gateways
• The cultural aftershock that made Mel’s Hole a modern American myth

Was it a hoax, a hallucination, or a glimpse into something bigger and stranger than we can imagine?Because sometimes the most disturbing stories aren’t written in the history books…

They’re whispered over the airwaves—
and they’re never heard the same way twice.

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In the early 1830s, the U.S. government signed into law one of the most devastating policies in its history—The Indian Removal Act, forcing tens of thousands of Native Americans from their ancestral homelands.What followed was a harrowing journey of betrayal, suffering, and death known as The Trail of Tears.

In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian traces the brutal expulsion of the Cherokee and other Southeastern tribes at the hands of the American government. Under President Andrew Jackson’s directive, entire communities were marched west at gunpoint—across freezing rivers, through disease-ridden camps, and along miles of unforgiving terrain.

We explore:

• The political motivations behind Indian Removal
• The resistance efforts led by the Cherokee Nation
• The forced marches and staggering death toll
• And the long-lasting scars this event left on Native peoples—and on America itself

This isn’t just a story of relocation. It’s a story of calculated erasure—of promises broken, cultures shattered, and the dark price of expansion.Because sometimes, the past isn’t forgotten by accident.
Sometimes, it’s buried on purpose.

In 1974, a family exploring the aftermath of a wildfire on their Florida property stumbled upon something strange: a perfectly smooth, polished metal sphere, about the size of a bowling ball.They brought it home.

That’s when the weirdness began.The sphere rolled on its own. It reacted to music. It moved without being touched, stopping and starting as if it had a mind of its own. Doors slammed. Guitars vibrated. And a quiet family suddenly found themselves at the center of one of the most bizarre scientific mysteries of the 20th century.

In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian  unpacks the story of the Betz Sphere—an object studied by scientists, the Navy, and even aerospace engineers, yet never fully explained. Was it a piece of alien technology? A Cold War surveillance device? Or an elaborate hoax that got way out of hand? We explore:

• The Betz family’s discovery and the sphere’s strange behavior
• Scientific examinations that left experts baffled
• Government involvement and sudden radio silence
• Theories ranging from advanced spy tech to extraterrestrial origin
• And why the Betz Sphere quietly disappeared from public view

To this day, no one knows where the sphere is… or what it really was.Because sometimes, the most disturbing mysteries aren’t ancient—they’re sitting in someone’s living room, rolling around on the floor.

July 8, 1947. The U.S. military made a stunning announcement: they had recovered a “flying disc” from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Hours later, they walked it back. Just a weather balloon, they said. Case closed. But what really happened in those 24 hours? 

In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian dives deep into the origins of America’s most enduring UFO mystery—beginning with rancher Mac Brazel, who discovered strange debris scattered across his land after a violent storm. 

When he reported it, the story quickly escalated to the highest levels of the military. Major Jesse Marcel, Colonel William Blanchard, and General Roger Ramey all played pivotal roles in the bizarre flip-flop that followed. Decades later, Marcel would claim he had been ordered to participate in a cover-up.We follow the trail from funeral home rumors to government denials, from secret Cold War programs like Project Mogul to explanations involving crash-test dummies. 

But the questions remain: Why the press release? Why the secrecy? And why do so many witnesses—military and civilian—still tell stories that don’t align with the official version?

The Roswell Incident is more than just a UFO tale—it’s a mirror reflecting our hopes, suspicions, and the fine line between truth and belief.Because sometimes, the past isn’t dead.
Sometimes, we have to disturb history to understand what it’s really hiding.

She was First Lady of the United States during its most fractured hour—graceful in public, defiant in politics, and privately… unraveling. But behind the veils, the funerals, and the shadow of a war-torn White House, Mary Todd Lincoln was spiraling into something far stranger than grief. 

She wasn’t just mourning her children. She was chasing them—into the afterlife.In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian steps into the quiet madness that gripped Mary Todd Lincoln following a lifetime of unimaginable loss. From secret séances in the Red Room to whispered messages from beyond the veil, her world became one ruled by mediums, mysticism, and a desperate hope that death wasn’t the end.Was it spiritual healing… or something darker?


A woman ahead of her time—or lost to it?This is the story of a First Lady who didn’t just endure grief—she invited it in, gave it a seat at the table, and refused to let it leave.

Some ghosts haunt places.
Others haunt people.
And sometimes, we invite them in… with open arms.

Everyone remembers Jamestown.
But what if America’s first English colony wasn’t in Virginia… but in the cold, remote woods of Maine?

In 1607, the Popham Colony was founded with bold ambitions: to rival Spain, to build ships, to establish a permanent English foothold in the New World. It had backing, blueprints, and a fort. Then, just like that—it vanished.

n this episode of Disturbing History, Brian digs into the icy winds and political shadows surrounding the lost colony of Popham—a story buried under centuries of silence. Why did it fail? Why was it forgotten? And what traces still linger in the piney wilderness of Maine?This isn’t just a missing settlement—it’s a mystery of memory, power, and the fragile line between history and erasure.


Some colonies leave behind legends.
Others leave behind questions.
And some were never meant to be remembered at all.

Christmas Eve, 1945. The Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia goes up in flames. Within minutes, the house is reduced to smoldering rubble—and five of the Sodder children are never seen again.But what begins as a tragic fire quickly spirals into something far stranger.No remains.
No smoke inhalation.
No bodies in the ashes.
Just... questions.

In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian revisits one of the most haunting disappearances in American history. This isn’t just a missing persons case—it’s a tale of war, conspiracy, obsession, and a family that refused to stop asking the questions no one else would.What really happened to the Sodder children?

Why did the phone lines go dead just before the fire?
And why were strangers suddenly so interested in this quiet, immigrant family?

From suspicious sightings to billboard pleas and decades of unanswered grief, this is a story that scorches the edge of logic and burns its way into the shadows of the past.

Sometimes the past leaves ashes.
Sometimes, it leaves silence.
And sometimes, it leaves a hole so deep… it disturbs history forever.

A secret U.S. Navy project. A warship shrouded in green mist.
And then… nothing.

Witnesses claimed the USS Eldridge vanished from a naval yard in Philadelphia—only to reappear miles away. Some say it teleported. Others say it traveled through time. But those who were on board? Some never came back the same. Some never came back at all.

In this episode of Disturbing History, Brian dives deep into one of America’s most enduring military legends: The Philadelphia Experiment. Was it a cloaking device gone wrong? A breakthrough in quantum physics? Or something darker—an experiment that cracked reality open and left its crew behind?

The fog may have lifted…
But the questions haven’t.

When the truth bends time and space,
It’s not just science fiction—
It’s history we were never meant to remember.