{"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 Amityville Horror","slug":"the-amityville-horror","published_at":"2026-03-18T20:55:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005/the-amityville-horror","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-amityville-horror--70725095","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70725095/dhamityfinal.mp3","summary":"On November 13, 1974, Ronald \"Butch\" DeFeo Junior took a .35 caliber Marlin rifle and murdered his entire family as they slept in their beds at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. His father, mother, two sisters, and two brothers — six people ranging in age from 9 to 43 — were all found face down, shot at close range, in what remains one of the most chilling mass murders in Long Island history. No one in the house appeared to wake up. No neighbor called the police. DeFeo confessed within 48 hours and was convicted on all six counts of second-degree murder, receiving six consecutive sentences of 25 years to life. Thirteen months later, George and Kathy Lutz purchased the house at a steep discount, moved in with Kathy's three children from a previous marriage, and claimed that over the next 28 days they experienced escalating paranormal phenomena that drove them to flee in the middle of the night. Their account included a priest who heard a disembodied voice command him to \"get out\" during a house blessing, swarms of flies in the dead of winter, green slime oozing from the walls, 5-year-old Missy's invisible friend Jodie — described as a pig with glowing red eyes — and George's disturbing physical and psychological transformation into someone who increasingly resembled DeFeo himself. The Lutzes' story became Jay Anson's 1977 bestseller \"The Amityville Horror: A True Story,\" which sold over 10 million copies and spawned the 1979 film starring James Brolin and Margot Kidder. Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated the house and produced the famous \"Ghost Boy\" infrared photograph, launching their careers as America's most recognized paranormal investigators.But the cracks in the story were significant. DeFeo's defense attorney William Weber told the Associated Press the h…","meta_description":"On November 13, 1974, Ronald \"Butch\" DeFeo Junior took a .35 caliber Marlin rifle and murdered his entire family as they slept in their beds at 112 Ocean…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4743,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/disturbing-history-7341005/episodes/the-amityville-horror/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-amityville-horror.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}