{"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":"The Massacre At Son My","slug":"the-massacre-at-son-my","published_at":"2026-08-14T18:45:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005/the-massacre-at-son-my","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-massacre-at-son-my--74003040","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74003040/dh_viet_final.mp3","summary":"On the morning of March 16, 1968, an American helicopter pilot named Hugh Thompson dropped a smoke grenade to mark a wounded Vietnamese woman so a medic could reach her. He flew a circuit and came back a few minutes later. She was dead, and an American officer was standing over her. Within the hour, Thompson would land his helicopter between armed American infantry and a bunker full of civilians and tell his own door gunner to open fire on Americans if they opened fire on the villagers.Almost everyone has heard of My Lai. Almost everything most people believe about it is wrong or badly incomplete. It wasn't one village. It was a village complex called Son My made up of four hamlets, and the place we call My Lai 4 was actually a sub-hamlet named Xom Lang that American mapmakers mislabeled. It wasn't one company, because two separate American infantry units killed civilians in Son My that morning, several kilometers apart, under the same task force headquarters. And it wasn't one man, because the Army's own inquiry identified roughly 30 officers and enlisted men who either committed crimes or helped bury them afterward, up to and including a major general commanding a division.This episode walks the whole operation from the beginning. The attrition strategy and the body-count culture that made dead Vietnamese the measure of a good officer. Quang Ngai Province, the free-fire zones, and why American troops called the area Pinkville. Task Force Barker, an ad hoc unit thrown together from three companies that had never worked with each other, under a colonel who had commanded the brigade for exactly one day when the massacre happened. Charlie Company's three months of losing men to mines and booby traps without ever getting a fight, including the February 25 minefield and th…","meta_description":"On the morning of March 16, 1968, an American helicopter pilot named Hugh Thompson dropped a smoke grenade to mark a wounded Vietnamese woman so a medic c…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4100,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/disturbing-history-7341005/episodes/the-massacre-at-son-my/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-massacre-at-son-my.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}