About Six Feet of History – Dark History in 5 Minutes
History has a body count.
Six Feet of History digs up the disturbing events, cursed places, and dark origins behind the things you thought you knew and tells the whole story in five minutes flat.
From the factory women who glowed in the dark to towns that have been burning for sixty years, every episode is a short, gripping, true story you won't forget. No filler. No fluff. Just the dark history they buried — unearthed daily.
A Dark Whisper Studios production.
New episodes every day.
Follow now and start digging.
Two young sisters claimed the knocking in their walls was a spirit answering their questions, and from that prank grew a movement of millions who believed the living could speak with the dead. This is the true history of how a childish trick became a religion.
On Six Feet of History, host August Mercer tells the real story of the Fox sisters and the birth of Spiritualism: the knocks, the séances that swept America, the public confession decades later that it was all a fraud, and the grief that no confession could ever touch.
If you love true history, strange true stories, the history of belief, and the dark untold corners of the past, this is your history podcast. New stories every day. Follow Six Feet of History and subscribe wherever you listen. A Dark Whisper Studios production.
#history #truehistory #historypodcast #foxsisters #spiritualism #strangehistory #paranormalhistory #historyfacts #untoldhistory #sixfeetofhistory
23 Oct 2026
The Wow! Signal: 72 Seconds From the Stars
In nineteen seventy-seven, a radio telescope detected a strong signal from deep space, at exactly the frequency scientists expected aliens to use. It lasted seventy-two seconds and never came back. This is the true history of a mystery we have never solved.
On Six Feet of History, host August Mercer tells the real story of the Wow! Signal: the one word an astronomer scrawled in the margin, the alien hypothesis that cannot be proven, the mundane explanations that do not quite fit, and the hard discipline of holding a genuine mystery open.
If you love true history, unexplained mysteries, space science, SETI, and the strange untold corners of the past, this is your history podcast. New stories every day. Follow Six Feet of History and subscribe wherever you listen. A Dark Whisper Studios production.
#history #truehistory #historypodcast #wowsignal #space #aliens #unexplained #historyfacts #untoldhistory #sixfeetofhistory
22 Oct 2026
The General Slocum: Fire on the Water
On a bright morning in nineteen oh-four, a steamboat carrying a community of women and children to a picnic caught fire, and more than a thousand died in sight of the shore. This is the true history of New York's deadliest day before the eleventh of September.
On Six Feet of History, host August Mercer tells the real story of the General Slocum disaster: the burst fire hoses, the life jackets rotted to dust, the lifeboats wired in place, and the corporate neglect that killed over a thousand people and erased an entire neighbourhood, now almost completely forgotten.
If you love true history, forgotten disasters, dark history, and the untold stories the world let slip away, this is your history podcast. New stories every day. Follow Six Feet of History and subscribe wherever you listen. A Dark Whisper Studios production.
#history #truehistory #historypodcast #generalslocum #disaster #newyorkhistory #forgottenhistory #historyfacts #untoldhistory #sixfeetofhistory
Contact Six Feet of History – Dark History in 5 Minutes
Guest appearances
Does not typically book guests
Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.
Host of Six Feet of History – Dark History in 5 Minutes?
Claim your podcast to manage its listing and keep your show details accurate.
Pod Engine is an independent podcast discovery and analytics service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by this podcast. Artwork and show content belong to their owners. Full legal notice.
Explore this show Podcast research with Pod Engine
