True tales of horror, bizarre happenings, unexplainable events.

On our podcast, disturbed, terror takes center stage, kidnappings, serial killers, hauntings,

and the very essence of your worst nightmares coming to life on this weekly true horror show.

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I found this perhaps not in the strangest of places, but while watching a travel food show.

In Anthony Bourdain, no reservations,

somewhere in the seventh season when he goes to Cambodia.

Halfway through the episode, a woman begins talking about the Khmer Rouge regime, led by Pol Pot.

And I looked it up, and began to learn about the horrors involved.

Not in the supernatural sense, although I couldn't believe humans could be capable of such atrocities,

especially after what happened in Nazi Germany.

Searching for patterns I learned about the Uyghurs and the Turkic Muslims in re-education centers in Xinjiang, China.

The disappearances, torture, and forced labor in Eritrea of up to 400,000 people since 1991.

The Russian filtration camps during the Chechen Wars, the Vojno, the Olmarzka camps in Bosnia in the 90s,

North Korea's prison camps, Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic cleansing.

These stories terrified me to my core, ideas that spread like viruses and caused so much pain,

and the way the messaging affects belief.

I'm convinced if there's true evil in the world, this is it.

And in all of these cases, they started with people having a hard time believing what was

happening, justifying it with the law, with seemingly valid reasons, allowing themselves

to be cruel, saying that it can't be that bad, that those who sound the alarm are exaggerating.

That's just politics. That it couldn't possibly happen again.

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