DH Ep:4 The Lost Colony of Popham: America's Forgotten First Settlement

Everyone remembers Jamestown.
But what if America’s first English colony wasn’t in Virginia… but in the cold, remote woods of Maine?

In 1607, the Popham Colony was founded with bold ambitions: to rival Spain, to build ships, to establish a permanent English foothold in the New World. It had backing, blueprints, and a fort. Then, just like that—it vanished.

n this episode of Disturbing History, Brian digs into the icy winds and political shadows surrounding the lost colony of Popham—a story buried under centuries of silence. Why did it fail? Why was it forgotten? And what traces still linger in the piney wilderness of Maine?This isn’t just a missing settlement—it’s a mystery of memory, power, and the fragile line between history and erasure.


Some colonies leave behind legends.
Others leave behind questions.
And some were never meant to be remembered at all.