{"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":"The 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre","slug":"the-1857-mountain-meadows-massacre","published_at":"2026-04-22T04:00:05+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005/the-1857-mountain-meadows-massacre","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-1857-mountain-meadows-massacre--71533087","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71533087/dhmassacrefinal.mp3","summary":"In September 1857, a wagon train of roughly one hundred and forty men, women, and children from Arkansas made camp in a remote valley in southwestern Utah Territory. They were headed to California. They never made it. Over the course of five days, members of the local Mormon militia and recruited Paiute warriors besieged the Fancher-Baker party at Mountain Meadows, and on September 11, under a white flag of truce, lured the emigrants into surrendering their weapons with a promise of safe escort. What followed was one of the worst mass killings in American frontier history. The men were shot at point-blank range by the militiamen walking beside them. The women and older children were attacked simultaneously. Only seventeen children survived, all under the age of seven, spared because they were deemed too young to identify the killers. This episode traces the full story from the decades of genuine persecution that drove the Latter-day Saints west, through the paranoia of the Utah War and the incendiary rhetoric of the Mormon Reformation, into the valley where faith and fear produced an atrocity that the institution then spent over a century trying to bury. We examine the five-day siege, the white-flag deception, the systematic killing, the plundering of the dead, the theft of the surviving children, and the cover-up that followed. We follow the twenty-year road to the trial and execution of John D. Lee, the only man ever held accountable, who was offered up as a scapegoat while the men who gave the orders lived out their lives as free men. And we confront the deeper question that Mountain Meadows forces on all of us — what happens when an institution decides its survival matters more than the truth, and how the machinery of denial, deflection, and carefully managed regre…","meta_description":"In September 1857, a wagon train of roughly one hundred and forty men, women, and children from Arkansas made camp in a remote valley in southwestern Utah…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4776,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/disturbing-history-7341005/episodes/the-1857-mountain-meadows-massacre/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/the-1857-mountain-meadows-massacre.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}