{"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 Dozier School for Boys","slug":"the-dozier-school-for-boys","published_at":"2026-05-13T04:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005/the-dozier-school-for-boys","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-dozier-school-for-boys--71981969","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71981969/dhdozierfinal.mp3","summary":"This episode contains discussion of child abuse, physical and sexual violence against minors, and descriptions of deaths in state custody. Listener discretion is advised. For more than a century, the state of Florida ran a place in the panhandle town of Marianna that called itself a school. It opened on January 1, 1900 and didn't close until June 30, 2011. In those one hundred and eleven years, it operated under four different names. The Florida State Reform School. The Florida Industrial School for Boys. The Florida School for Boys. And finally, the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. Same campus. Same staff. Same building, set back near the trees, that the boys inside called the White House. In this episode of Disturbing History, we walk through the gates of one of the most brutal institutions ever operated by an American state. We trace it from its origins in the late 19th-century \"child savers\" reform movement to the small white concrete building where boys were beaten with a weighted leather strap until they passed out. We sit with the survivors who carried it in silence for half a century before finding each other on the internet and going public in 2008. And we walk into the woods behind the cemetery, where University of South Florida forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle and her team finally answered the question families had been asking for generations. Where are our boys. You'll meet Thomas Varnadoe, the 13-year-old who died 38 days after arriving on a malicious trespass charge for stealing a typewriter. George Owen Smith, the 14-year-old whose family was told he'd been found dead under a house. Earl Wilson, the 12-year-old killed at Dozier in 1944. Robert Stephens, identified through DNA from a nephew named after him who had never been told his uncle existed.…","meta_description":"This episode contains discussion of child abuse, physical and sexual violence against minors, and descriptions of deaths in state custody. Listener discre…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3740,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/disturbing-history-7341005/episodes/the-dozier-school-for-boys/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-dozier-school-for-boys.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}