{"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":"Who Found America First: Columbus or the Vikings?","slug":"who-found-america-first-columbus-or-the-vikings","published_at":"2026-04-26T19:10:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005/who-found-america-first-columbus-or-the-vikings","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disturbing-history-7341005","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/who-found-america-first-columbus-or-the-vikings--71657862","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71657862/dhusafinal.mp3","summary":"A thousand years before Christopher Columbus saw a light on a Bahamian beach, a small band of Norse settlers stood on the northern tip of Newfoundland, swinging iron axes against fir and juniper trees, building sod houses that would still be visible in the grass nearly a thousand years later. We can name the year. We can name it down to a single twelve-month window. The year was ten twenty-one, and we know it because of a solar storm that struck the sun in the year nine hundred and ninety-three, leaving an invisible fingerprint in every tree growing on Earth that year. In this episode, we trace the long arc of who actually found America first, and the answer turns out to be more honest, more complicated, and more human than the version we got in school. From Erik the Red's exile out of Iceland, to his son Leif's voyage west, to the doomed colony at Vinland, to a Genoese sailor with a flawed map and an unshakable belief in himself, this is the story of how two halves of the world finally found each other again after fifteen thousand years apart. We dig into the sagas, the science, the forgeries, the discoveries, and the full weight of what it means to ask who got here first when there were already millions of people here when anyone arrived. The Norse beat Columbus by four hundred and seventy-one years. They left. The world didn't change. Then a different ship pointed west, and everything cracked open. Contact Brian at brian@paranormalworldproductions.com. Subscribe to the free newsletter and explore the full library of shows at paranormalworldproductions.com. Have a forgotten historical mystery, disturbing event, unsolved crime, or hidden conspiracy you think deserves investigation? Send your suggestions to brian@paranormalworldproductions.com. 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