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History's Greatest Mysteries

  • TV-14
  • 2020–
  • 7 seasons
  • Documentary, Mystery
  • 7.7

Investigates a wide range of historically compelling topics and the mysteries surrounding each including the Titanic, D.B. Cooper, Roswell, John Wilkes Booth, and more. Fresh, new evidence and perspectives will be showcased, such as never-before-released documents, personal diaries and DNA evidence.

Episodes

Using new evidence to look at some of the most historically important mysteries of recent times.

20 episodes
  1. 1Roswell

    41 minJan 27, 2025

    It's one of America's most mythic UFO incidents. A 200 yard swath of debris that landed near Roswell, New Mexico. Some believe it was an alien craft, others that it was a secret government experiment. The deeper researchers dig, the more perplexing the story gets. It's a mystery that's endured for nearly 80 years. So what really crashed in Roswell in 1947?

  2. 2The Franklin Expedition

    41 minFeb 3, 2025

    The search for the illusive Northwest Passage, leads to a historic expedition that sets sail into a labyrinth of ice and is never heard from again. That disappearance sparks a search for clues spanning nearly two centuries and leads to unthinkable ends. What really killed the men of the Franklin Expedition?

  3. 3The Valentine's Day Massacre

    41 minFeb 10, 2025

    On February 14th 1929, one of the most shocking murders in mob history goes down in Chicago and becomes known as the Valentine's Day Massacre. The 20s and 30s are full of gangland murders, but the Valentine's Day Massacre is considered the most brutal and the toughest to solve. So who carried out the Valentine's Day Massacre and why?

  4. 4What is the Yeti?

    41 minFeb 24, 2025

    Sightings of the Yeti, a creature of myth and legend, have been recorded for thousands of years throughout the Himalayas and surrounding regions. Could this seven foot tall creature, covered in shaggy gray hair, be hiding in plain sight? And if the Yeti does exist, is it a living being or something else entirely?

  5. 5The Final Flight of Amelia Earhart

    41 minMar 3, 2025

    Amelia Earhart, the world's most famous female pilot, takes off on the final leg of a record breaking flight. But Earhart never arrives at her next stop, a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean. The search for this famed flier has revealed conflicting stories and in the eyes of some, secrecy. What really happened to Amelia and her navigator?

  6. 6The Death and Fortune of Pablo Escobar

    41 minMar 10, 2025

    Pablo Escobar, the notorious narco trafficker who single handedly supplied most of America's cocaine in the 1980s, had billions of dollars in cash and hid stacks of it all over the country. By the time he was gunned down in 1993, it's believed he was worth over $50 billion in today's money. To some, he was a Robin Hood. To others, he was pure evil. Who killed Pablo Escobar and where did all his money go?

  7. 7The Lost Loot of Jesse James

    41 minMar 17, 2025

    Cash, jewels and two million dollars in gold bars. Jesse James and his gang robbed trains, stagecoaches and banks They buried the spoils, but only a fraction of the millions has actually been found. If James and his gang hid a fortune, where could it be?

  8. 8The Rendlesham Forest Incident

    60 minMar 24, 2025

    A surreal event outside a U.S. Air Force base near the Rendlesham Forest in England, becomes an international legend and one of history's strangest unidentified encounters. For more than 40 years, the question has endured... What was really out there in the Rendlesham Forest and what were the Rendlesham lights?

  9. 9The Amazing Events of the Book of Exodus

    41 minApr 14, 2025

    The Burning Bush, the 10 Plagues, the Parting of the Red Sea... these legendary Biblical events in the Book of Exodus have shaped Judeo Christian beliefs for centuries. But were these events divinely inspired miracles, or do they have a more earthly explanation? Is it possible that some of these famous legends in the Book of Exodus, aren't parables... but rooted in fact?

  10. 10The Search for Atlantis

    41 minApr 21, 2025

    It's history's most famous lost city... Atlantis, the island kingdom that's baffled explorers for centuries. Some say Atlantis is a myth, while others insist it was a very real place wiped out thousands of years ago. Finding Atlantis would not only be the archaeological coup of this century, but perhaps for all time. Is Atlantis a a real place, and if so, where could it be?

  11. 11The Death of Dillinger

    41 minApr 28, 2025

    He was the first Public Enemy Number One... the legendary outlaw, John Dillinger. His life consisted of brazen bank robberies across the country, but his death remains shrouded in mystery. What really happened to John Dillinger?

  12. 12The Missing Riches of Genghis Khan

    41 minMay 5, 2025

    The legendary ancient ruler who amassed a fortune estimated to be worth 120 trillion in today's dollars, Genghis Khan, hid his riches so well that to this day, no one has unearthed them. 800 years later, the fate of his treasure remains a mystery. Where are Genghis Khan's buried riches?

  13. 13The Missing Tesla Papers

    39 minMay 12, 2025

    Nicola Tesla is the epitome of what some would call the "mad scientist" and also one of history's most influential inventors. The father of AC electricity, Tesla had revolutionary ideas--but in the hands of the wrong people, those ideas could be used for evil purposes. When Tesla died, he allegedly had 80 trunks of papers full of groundbreaking ideas. But only 60 of those trunks have ever been seen again. Where are the other 20 trunks? What happened to Tesla's missing files... and what was in them?

  14. 14Secrets of the Copper Scroll

    63 minMay 19, 2025

    This is the most mysterious of the Dead Sea Scrolls. An ancient treasure map, recorded on a rare Copper Scroll, could lead to billions of dollars of buried treasure in gold, in silver, in jewels, hidden away thousands of years ago from Roman invaders. The most mysterious of the Dead Sea Scrolls; The clues listed on the Copper Scroll could lead to this vast fortune. Where is the secret treasure of the Copper Scroll?

  15. 15The Killing of Bugsy Siegel

    63 minJul 14, 2025

    It's one of the most infamous and unsolved mob murders--notorious mobster Bugsy Siegel is gunned down in his Beverly Hills living room.

  16. 16Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z

    63 minJul 21, 2025

    One of the most famous explorers in the world, Percy Fawcett, becomes obsessed with a lost city deep in the Amazon jungle, a place he names the City of Z.

  17. 17Secret of the Sphinx

    63 minJul 28, 2025

    Rising from the sands of the Egyptian desert is one of the ancient world's greatest wonders--the mighty Sphinx. This mythological creature, with the head of a human and the body of a lion, looks like it's standing guard at the great pyramids of Giza.

  18. 18The Lost Pirate Treasure of Jean Lafitte

    40 minAug 4, 2025

    Known as :The Terror of the Gulf"; the whereabouts of Jean Lafitte's treasure remains unknown; the swamps and bayous were his base, and likely also his hiding place; treasure hunters have found very little of Lafitte's stash.

  19. 19The Secrets of Easter Island

    Aug 11, 2025

    The gigantic statues of Easter Island have mystified humanity for centuries; how in the world did an ancient civilization, with only primitive tools, carve and then move thousands of these rock monuments around the island, and why?

  20. 20Lost Places of the Old Testament

    Aug 18, 2025

    The Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, and Mount Sinai have seemingly vanished from the map; where are the Old Testament's legendary lost places, and what might they reveal?

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Series cast

Laurence FishburneSelf - Host103 episodes
Bruce LeeSelf (archive footage)1 episode
Jeff ChangSelf - Author1 episode
Robert Lee Jan-FaiSelf - Brother1 episode
Deborah BlumSelf - Professor of Journalism, MIT1 episode
Asha RangappaSelf1 episode

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