Distorted History Podcast

The klan looks to expand its power by incorporating women into its ranks and also by pushing their '100 percent American' agenda through politics. One of the most successful at these political games was DC Stephenson opperating out of Indiana. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more information: https://www.p...

As the klan ties itself to the evangelical movement it experiences both explosive growth and also internal scheming as it begins to shift gears to focus on politics. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more information: https://www.patreon.com/distortedhistory Please Rate and Review the podcast To contact me:...

Ozzy's issues reach a point that he's fired from Black Sabbath. The band though carries on and finds a new singer in Ronnie James Dio. Who helps to revitalize the band. Leading to them to release their best and most successful record in years. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more information: https://www.p...

The 1920s klan is notable for targeting immigrants seeking to take over the government through electing loyal politicians and for being a pyramid scheme style grift. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more information: https://www.patreon.com/distortedhistory Please Rate and Review the podcast To contact me:...

The original klan is finally brought down thanks largely to the efforts of one cavalry officer and his men. Unfortunately the klan's ultimate goal is still realized. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more information: https://www.patreon.com/distortedhistory Please Rate and Review the podcast To contact me:...

As the Klan spreads all throughout the states of the former Confederacy it unleashes a reign of terror on all who stand in their way. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more information: https://www.patreon.com/distortedhistory Please Rate and Review the podcast To contact me: Email: distortedhistorypod@gmail...

The story behind the final two Black Sabbath albums with the original line up. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more information: https://www.patreon.com/distortedhistory Please Rate and Review the podcast To contact me: Email: distortedhistorypod@gmail.com Twitter @DistortedHistor https://twitter.com/Disto...

The ku klux klan is one of the most violent, vile and unfortunately probably most influential organizations in American history. It is then important to examine its history and its motivations. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more information: https://www.patreon.com/distortedhistory Please Rate and Review...

With the people of Central America rising up against him William Walker completes his villain arc. Yet even in defeat he refuses to give up. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more information: https://www.patreon.com/distortedhistory Please Rate and Review the podcast To contact me: Email: distortedhistorypo...

After completing their most ambitious album yet Black Sabbath discover that they'd been betrayed by their own managed. This sabotage and the resulting legal troubles will prove to have an impact not only on their next album but on the band as a whole. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more information: https...

After having his transit company stripped of its contracts and property by the upstart filibuster William Walker. Cornelius Vanderbilt one of the richest men in the United States makes it his mission to destroy Walker and everything that he has build in Nicaragua. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more infor...

William Walker fresh off his failure to conquer and create a new republic out of two Mexican states leaps at the chance to try again. This time by heading down to Nicaragua after being invited by one side of an on going civil war to join their fight by leading a force of filibusters. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS f...

Feeling the pressure to surpass the somewhat disappointing Vol. 4 Black Sabbath contends with a serious case of writers block and some not so supernatural shenanigans in a spooky English castle. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more information: https://www.patreon.com/distortedhistory Please Rate and Revie...

Seemingly determined to make a name for himself and play the hero. William Walker attempts to lead an invasion of the Mexican states of Baja California and Sonora in the name of creating his own republic and saving the people there from the attacks of the Apache. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more inform...

William Walker would go down in history as the man who looked to take over the country of Nicaragua only to be defeated by the combined forces of 5 Central American Republics. In this episode we look at the early beginnings of Walker's life to see what inspired such outlandish acts. While also looking at the phenomenon of filibusters: individuals who would lead private military campaigns to take o...

I look back at the story behind Black Sabbath's 4th album Vol. 4 and how it helped to lead to the eventual breakup of the band's original line up. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more information: https://www.patreon.com/distortedhistory Please Rate and Review the podcast To contact me: Email: distortedhis...

As the city of Tulsa devolved into a violent race riot the white mob soon turned their attention to the prosperous African American district of Greenwood aka Black Wall Street. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more information: https://www.patreon.com/distortedhistory Please Rate and Review the podcast To c...

The Greenwood district in Tulsa Oklahoma was a thriving Black community. In 1921 though this community which had earned the nickname Black Wall Street would be burned down in possibly the worst 'race riot' in American history. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more information: https://www.patreon.com/distor...

What if any impact will the investigations into the Red Cross relief camps have? Meanwhile many African Americans who survived the flood and those relief camps decide they can no longer live in the south after all they have experienced. In doing so they take their culture including their music with them. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podca...

The 4 former conquistadors turned castaways turned 'slaves' escape and find a new life as healers as they continue their journey to the Spanish controlled lands of Mexico. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more information: https://www.patreon.com/distortedhistory Please Rate and Review the podcast To contac...

After failing to conquer Florida the would be conquistadors set sail in hastily built rafts hoping to reach the safety of a Spanish outpost in Mexico. Their journey however doesn't go quite as planned and the survivors find themselves in a very unexpected position. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more info...

Red Cross relief camps throughout the flooded region in general tended to have issues when it came to seeing to the needs of African American refugees. The situation in Greenville however is particularly bad as Black refugees there are practically returned to a state of enslavement. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS fe...

Spanish conquistador Cabeza de Vaca would be among the first Europeans to see and travel through the regions that would one day become the American southwest and northern Mexico. This however was not a purposeful journey but instead the result a series of disastrous mishaps. Starting with an expedition to conquer the lands of the Gulf Coast region starting in Florida. Ad free version available thr...

With the arrival of the survivors of the Forlorn Hope expedition word was finally out about the desperate situation the Donner party was in. Yet even these rescue efforts could not save them from their terrible fate. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and through podcast aps that use RSS feeds. For more information: https://www.patreon.com/distortedhistory...

Now trapped in the mountains without enough food to get through the winter the members of the Donner party attempt to go and get help. This expedition designed to bring back aid however would come to be known as the Forlorn Hope as it becomes one of the main reasons why this story gets passed down through history. Ad free version available through Patreon subscription. Available on Spotify and thr...