{"podcast":{"title":"Disturbing History","slug":"disturbing-history-7341005","podcast_index_feed_id":7341005,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6628223/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/disturbing-history--6628223","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/f42011dc1c8c8130e84fb37f20a9046e.jpg","author":"Paranormal World Productions LLC","episode_count":106,"summary":"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 mysteries Secret societies and hidden power structures Dark folklore and urban legends Lost colonies and vanished civilizations True crime cases buried by time Historical conspiracies and cover-ups Paranormal events rooted in real history Through 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 dee…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-05T14:19:19.361689+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005"},"episode":{"title":"Eugenics in America","slug":"eugenics-in-america","published_at":"2026-04-17T13:45:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005/eugenics-in-america","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/eugenics-in-america--71407283","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71407283/dheugenicsfinal.mp3","summary":"This episode traces the full history of eugenics in America from its origins in Francis Galton's Victorian-era theories through the establishment of Charles Davenport's Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor and the rise of Harry Laughlin's model sterilization laws. We cover the fraudulent family studies of the Jukes and the Kallikaks, the dangerously elastic diagnosis of feeble-mindedness, and the passage of compulsory sterilization laws beginning with Indiana in 1907. The narrative follows Carrie Buck's story through the landmark 1927 Supreme Court decision in Buck v. Bell, where Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes declared that \"three generations of imbeciles are enough,\" a ruling that has never been explicitly overturned. We examine how eugenics shaped the Immigration Act of 1924, contributed to the turning away of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, and directly influenced Hitler's racial hygiene programs, the Aktion T-4 euthanasia campaign, and the administrative machinery of the Holocaust. The episode documents the continuation of forced sterilization well into the 1970s across California, North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Puerto Rico, and Native American reservations through the Indian Health Service, with tens of thousands of victims disproportionately drawn from poor communities, Black women, Indigenous women, and people with disabilities. We tell the stories of Carrie Buck, Elaine Riddick, the Relf sisters, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others who lived the consequences of this movement, and we follow the thread into the present through the Bell Curve controversy, ICE detention center abuses, and California prison sterilizations that prove the underlying logic of eugenics never fully disappeared. Have a forgotten historical mystery, disturbing event, unsolved…","meta_description":"This episode traces the full history of eugenics in America from its origins in Francis Galton's Victorian-era theories through the establishment of Charl…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4969,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/disturbing-history-7341005/episodes/eugenics-in-america/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005/eugenics-in-america.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}