America’s Strangest History

About America’s Strangest History

America's Strangest History is about the stranger aspects of American history. Our weekly video podcast covers history overlooked by mainstream historians. Join us as we rediscover the untold parts of history. Hosted by John Genua and cohost/law school buddy, Jimmy Molloy. Laugh and learn about historical accounts of true crime, paranormal, Bigfoot, lost treasure and more!

Publisher

Americasstrangesthistory

Category

comedy · history · history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Jun 2024

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

126 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   MKOFTEN. The CIA's Secret Experiments in Black Magic and the Occult

   During the Cold War, the CIA ran programs that went far beyond espionage. Project MKOFTEN, a little-known offshoot of the agency's mind control research, reached into the occult, witchcraft and ritual magic. Did the U.S. government really study black magic and supernatural forces as tools of national security?

2. 

   16 Oct 2026

   The Satanist the Pentagon Protected. Michael Aquino, MindWar, and the Presidio Child Scandal

   In 1987 a three-year-old girl at the Presidio of San Francisco pointed at a man in an Army store and said he was a bad man. The man was Lt. Colonel Michael Aquino, a military intelligence officer with an above-top-secret clearance, co-author of the Pentagon paper From PSYOP to MindWar, and founder of the Temple of Set. At least 58 children at the Presidio daycare showed signs of abuse, three agencies investigated, the building burned on the autumnal equinox, and nobody was ever convicted.

3. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Project SERPO. The Human Alien Exchange Program the Government Won't Confirm

   Twelve American military specialists allegedly boarded an extraterrestrial craft in 1965 and vanished for thirteen years, bound for a world orbiting Zeta Reticuli. Thousands of leaked pages describe training curricula, packing manifests, medical protocols and debrief transcripts. Either the most elaborate intelligence hoax ever crafted, or the greatest secret in U.S. history.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

89,056

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

97

Social presence

0

YouTube

85

Engagement

0

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