{"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 Rise and Ruin of the FLDS Church","slug":"the-rise-and-ruin-of-the-flds-church","published_at":"2026-07-08T04:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005/the-rise-and-ruin-of-the-flds-church","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-rise-and-ruin-of-the-flds-church--72854248","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72854248/dhfldsfinal.mp3","summary":"He was the mouthpiece of God to ten thousand followers. To the FBI, he was a face on the Ten Most Wanted list. And to a Nevada state trooper working a dark stretch of Interstate Fifteen, he was just a nervous man in a red Escalade with a bad paper tag and a pulse he couldn't hide. This week I'm taking you inside the rise and ruin of the FLDS church, from its roots in the polygamy crisis of the eighteen hundreds to the isolated fortress town of Short Creek, where one man came to control every marriage, every home, and every family on both sides of a state line. I'll walk you through the botched 1953 raid that bought the church fifty years of immunity, the doctrine of one-man rule that loaded the gun, and the accountant's son who picked it up. Warren Jeffs banned laughter, expelled hundreds of teenage boys into the desert, married girls as young as twelve, and recorded all of it, because a man who believes his every act is scripture archives his crimes as revelation. Then a fourteen-year-old bride named Elissa Wall grew up, walked into a courtroom, and started tearing the whole empire down. But this story doesn't end with a life sentence in 2011. Warren Jeffs is still issuing revelations from a Texas prison cell, his followers are still scattered across hidden compounds, and as of this recording, two Idaho teenagers who vanished into that network last summer are still missing. This was never a story about religion. It's a story about power, about what happens when nobody is willing to look, and about the survivors who finally made the world see. Everything in this episode comes from court records, sworn testimony, and documented reporting. The FLDS is not the mainstream LDS church, which abandoned polygamy over a century ago and has condemned this group repeatedly. Have…","meta_description":"He was the mouthpiece of God to ten thousand followers. To the FBI, he was a face on the Ten Most Wanted list. And to a Nevada state trooper working a dar…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4068,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/disturbing-history-7341005/episodes/the-rise-and-ruin-of-the-flds-church/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-rise-and-ruin-of-the-flds-church.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}