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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Host Don Wildman examines an automobile designed to take to the skies. He inspects a circular saw that was transformed into a deadly weapon and wielded in a terrifying prison riot. And he investigates a fire that decimated Coney Island's most extravagant amusement park.
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The Pennsylvania State Police Museum is home to a lottery ticket inscribed with the sinister digits 6-6-6. What role did this ticket play in a state lotto-fixing scam?
Among the weapons of war at the National Navy UDT SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce, Florida is one item that's designed to save lives. It's a giant orange lifeboat, and stenciled on it is the name, "Maersk Alabama." What role did this vessel play in one of the most harrowing hijackings in recent memory?
In the archives of Florida's History Miami is a mangled floor panel from a jumbo jet. What happened to the jet and its passengers? And is the wreckage of the plane really haunted?
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On display at the Centers for Disease Control Museum in Atlanta is a seemingly simple cardboard box. Once, its contents were tied to a deadly outbreak that left the nation paralyzed with fear. So what exactly did this box carry?
Among the glitzy treasures at the Hollywood Museum in California is one item that looks decidedly ordinary. It's a small plastic pill bottle, and on its faded label is the name, Marilyn Monroe. What does this bottle have to do with the icon's untimely death?
The Warren Lasch Conservation Center in Charleston, South Carolina houses a groundbreaking Civil War submarine. During its maiden voyage, it vanished without a trace. What happened to the sub and its crew?
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At the Carbon County Museum in Wyoming is a pair of men's Oxford shoes. What role did they play in one of the most gruesome tales of the Wild West?
The National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio is home to one object that cannot fly: a miniature spacesuit. What happened to the unconventional space pioneer who wore it?
In the archives of The Museum of the Confederacy in Virginia is a coded wartime message, found inside a glass bottle. What does this message in a bottle say, and who wrote it?
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On display at the Oakland Museum of California is the marble statue of a girl who was once named the most beautiful woman in the state. What happened to her, and how did her crowning achievement also lead to her downfall?
The Oregon Historical Society is home to an ordinary-looking tire cover that boasts a very unusual printed message. What warning does it provide against a power-hungry religious cult?
A massive steel robot sits in the State Museum of Pennsylvania. What role did it play in the worst nuclear crisis in American history?
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Host Don Wildman examines what appears to be a miniature human head, brought back from the jungles of South America. In the pages of a handwritten journal, he discovers the harrowing details of an Arctic expedition that ended in disaster. He surveys the dented casing of the hydrogen bomb that sat at the center of a horrifying nuclear accident.
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In the collection of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, is a standard-issue US Postal Service mailbox. It's tied to one of the biggest spy cases of the Cold War. But how did something so ordinary become a tool of deception?
The LaPorte County Historical Society Museum in Indiana is home to an antique wheelbarrow. This battered piece of farm equipment wasn't used to work the land - but to carry out a gruesome crime spree. What grisly secret does it hold?
The monstrous head preserved at the Scripts Institution of Oceanography in San Diego once belonged to an enormous creature. But can it really prove the existence of a legendary monster of the deep?
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In the collection of the Chicago Maritime Museum is a life jacket from the SS Eastland. In 1915, the steamship suddenly capsizes in the Chicago River, killing hundreds. But during the catastrophe, the Eastland is still tied to the dock. What causes this deadly disaster?
Four stone slabs carved with cryptic symbols are on display at the Superstition Mountain Museum in Apache Junction, AZ. Some believe the markings are actually a map that leads to a legendary gold mine in the rugged mountains of Arizona. Are these stones really a treasure map?
An old axe, in the collection of New Hampshire's Portsmouth Athenaeum, is used in the commission of a brutal double murder on a desolate island. Who wielded this deadly weapon? And why?
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In the collection of the Drug Enforcement Agency Museum in Arlington, Virginia, is a dossier of black and white photographs. It comes from the files of the police officers who brought down a powerful drug syndicate known as the French Connection. How did they do it?
A gold ingot is on display at the Museum of American Finance in New York. How did it end up on the bottom of the ocean, and how was it recovered?
A dusty metal plate lies in the vaults of the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas. It's a fragment from a mysterious aircraft that was the focus of a massive cover-up. What was the government hiding?
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On display at the University of Akron's Center for the History of Psychology is a simple khaki uniform. It played a pivotal role in one of the most controversial science experiments ever conducted. But did a costume really bring out the worst in a group of volunteers?
The story of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - and how they died in a South American shootout -- is one of the most enduring tales of the Wild West. But is it true? The answer may lie in a 200-page manuscript at the American Heritage Center in Wyoming.
The tangled remains of two Ice Age mammoths are found locked together in a death grip. But why would these otherwise peaceful creatures, now on display at the Trailside Museum in Nebraska, engage in a fatal battle?
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