Dark History
The Dark History Podcast explores hidden crimes, secret scandals, and suppressed events that shaped the modern world.
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- Sep 17, 2026
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Chernobyl: What Really Happened Inside the Nuclear Disaster (opens the original)
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At one twenty-three in the morning on April twenty-six, nineteen eighty-six, Reactor Four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was destroyed during a turbine rundown test. This episode reconstructs the final hours inside Unit Four, following the night-shift operators, firefighters from Pripyat, plant workers, residents, Soviet officials, and later investigators. The evidence comes from operating records, the nineteen eighty-six Soviet report to the IAEA, INSAG-seven, UNSCEAR health findings, eva
The Electroshock Experiments on Institutionalized Patients (opens the original)
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The Holmesburg Prison Experiments: Inmates Used as Human Test Subjects (opens the original)
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The Willowbrook Experiments: Children Deliberately Infected With Hepatitis (opens the original)
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The FBI and Martin Luther King Jr.: Surveillance, Blackmail, and the Suicide Letter (opens the original)
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