{"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":145,"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":"2026-09-07T04:18:26.325177+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005"},"episode":{"title":"Operation Sea Spray","slug":"operation-sea-spray","published_at":"2026-08-19T18:55:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005/operation-sea-spray","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/operation-sea-spray--74331991","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74331991/dh_sea_final.mp3","summary":"In September 1950, a United States Navy vessel spent eight days off the San Francisco coastline spraying clouds of live bacteria into the wind, and nobody on shore was told. The operation was called Sea-Spray, and it was designed to answer a question that terrified early Cold War planners: could an enemy attack an American city with a biological weapon delivered from a small boat, invisibly, without ever being detected? The answer, recorded in a classified document called Special Report No. 142, was yes. Forty-three monitoring stations around the Bay measured the result, and the Army concluded that every one of the city's 800,000 residents exposed to the cloud was inhaling five thousand or more particles every minute they breathed. The material was tracked as far as twenty-three miles inland. Three weeks later, an unprecedented outbreak began at Stanford's hospital, then located in San Francisco. Eleven patients developed infections caused by Serratia marcescens, an organism so rarely seen in clinical practice that the doctors published the cases in the Archives of Internal Medicine, where they remain the first documented hospital outbreak of that bacterium anywhere in the world. One patient died: Edward J. Nevin, seventy-five years old, an Irish immigrant who had kept his naturalization papers framed on the wall. This episode traces the whole arc, from the doctrine of the \"harmless\" simulant and the Pentagon test that came before San Francisco, through the twenty-six years of silence, the 1977 Senate hearings that revealed 239 open-air tests over American soil, and the federal lawsuit brought by Nevin's grandson that ended with a court ruling the question was not one an American court had jurisdiction to decide. It widens to the zinc cadmium sulfide dispersals, the Ne…","meta_description":"In September 1950, a United States Navy vessel spent eight days off the San Francisco coastline spraying clouds of live bacteria into the wind, and nobody…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4023,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/disturbing-history-7341005/episodes/operation-sea-spray/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/operation-sea-spray.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}