Stay ConnectedJoin Don Wildman as he embarks on an epic quest to solve history’s greatest mysteries. From historical institutions to unexplored archives, Don unearths extraordinary relics and sinister artifacts. Featuring direct audio from the hit Travel Channel show, uncover the secrets behind these incredible objects and learn about the history of civilization, war, technology, and everything in between.
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In Elysburg, Pennsylvania, the Anthracite Mining Museum contains a makeshift device rigged from a parachute harness and coveralls that played a role in a dangerous mine rescues. The California Surf Museum is home to a styrofoam and fiberglass surfboard with a large chunk missing, bitten off by a ferocious shark. And at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington, DC is a crude metal device that represents a daring and explosive bank heist.
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Housed in the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society is a chunk of cement and nails that played a role in one of the deadliest disasters in California History. The Philadelphia History Center is home to a taxidermied dog that displayed death-defying courage in the trenches of World War I. And at the 1875 Delta Saloon in Virginia City Nevada is an artifact that strikes fear in the hearts of many. It is said that this gaming table brought about the demise of the men who once owned it.
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Tucked away in the Big Sandy Heritage Center in Pikeville, Kentucky is a cotton-stuffed doll tied to a horrific incident that defies belief. On display at The Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia is a vibrant silk swatch that forever changed the world of fashion. And The Katy Depot Museum in West, Texas is home to an artifact linked to one of the most spectacular publicity stunts of all time.
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Hidden in the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka is a piece of machinery that inadvertently contributed to one of the nation's most tragic natural disasters.
On display at the Connecticut Air and Space Center is a craft that may alter the story of man's first flight.
And the Cold War Museum in Virginia is home to a deadly contraption that is linked to one of the most perilous top secret missions in U.S. history.
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Hidden in The Haggin Museum in California's Central Valley is a vintage trunk which tells a gruesome story of love and betrayal.
On display at The National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas are strange pieces of debris that defy all earthly explanation.
And the Koreshan State Historic Site in Estero, Florida is home to a sphere which speaks to the bizarre beliefs that once bound an unusual cult together.
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Stored at the Furnace Creak Visitor Center in Death Valley National Park is an antique weathered trunk discovered in the unforgiving desert landscape. Some believe it is evidence of a legendary cross-country journey.
On display at the Chicago History Museum are group of bricks that were the key to one of the largest prison breaks of the Civil War.
And the Omaha Public Library is home to a gruesome relic from Nebraska's rough and tumble frontier past: a preserved human scalp.
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At the Clark County Heritage Museum in Las Vegas is a simple poker chip, salvaged from one of Las Vegas's most opulent hotels. This piece of plastic played a huge conflagration that bore witness to one of the city's greatest atrocities.
Stationed at the Marshall County History Museum in Warren, Minnesota is a damaged 1970s police cruiser with a past, that some claim, is out of this world.
Encased at the Confederate Relic Room in Columbia, South Carolina is a battered sword that was carried by a Civil War general.
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Housed in a glass case at The Boone County Historical Center in Boone, Iowa is a seemingly ordinary metal and glass lantern. But this beacon of light helped guide a brave teenager through a stormy night, on a life saving mission.
At the Daredevil Museum in Niagara Falls, New York is a huge, elaborately constructed, 12-foot barrel, built specifically for a death-defying act use in several crazed stunts.
Among the Civil War regalia and crude surgical instruments at South Carolina's, Florence Museum, is a gnarled piece of metal linked to a disaster that nearly wiped a town, off the map.
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Hanging in storage at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka is what appears to be a well-worn naval uniform. It actually belonged to a physician who practiced a bizarre and infamous surgery using the testicles of goats. What common malady was this operation said to cure? And did it really work?
The U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum in Fort Lee, Virginia displays a brass bell that was linked to legendary beast known as the Red Ghost. What was this terrifying creature? And how did it come to stalk the Arizona desert?
Within the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. stands an immense stone figure from a little-known corner of the globe. Who made this mysterious statue? And what role did it play in the collapse of an ancient civilization?
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On display at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts is a small clear plastic box, filled with electrical components and used in a legendary scheme to deceive Las Vegas Casinos. How was it used...and does it actually work?
At the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is an unusual accessory to a regulation US military weapon. The concept behind this strange contraption is that pigeons - acting as pilots - will sit inside a nosecone that fits into the head of a missile- but how will pigeons be trained to steer a warhead?
And at the Museum of the City of New York, an elegant souvenir trowel is linked to one of the most bizarre and chilling disasters in Gotham history. What role did it play in helping rebuild Manhattan's first skyscraper?
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