Mysteries at the Museum

The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia PA is home to the Death Cast of Change and Eng, the original Siamese twins. These celebrated brothers desperately wanted to live apart. But would a surgery to separate them cut their lives short? A simple black umbrella is on display at the International Spy Museum in Washington DC. What role did this object play in the bizarre assassination of a BBC journalist? D...

This episode was narrated by Jay Thomas. The chance discovery of an old letter buried in Yale University's archives for nearly a century threatens to expose a heinous crime allegedly committed by members of Skull and Bones, America's most powerful secret society. In Seattle's Museum of History and Industry one surprising artifact, a 120 year-old pot, utterly transformed Seattle forever. At New Yor...

This episode was narrated by Jay Thomas. No news story has been bigger than the attacks of September 11, 2001. But 9/11 wasn't the first time that an airplane flew into a New York City skyscraper. Within the Museum of the City of New York one artifact tells the incredible story of a US B-25 crashing into the Empire State Building on July 28,1945. The Thomas Flyer automobile and George Shuster win...

This episode was narrated by Jay Thomas. Secured in the archives of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia is one of the first electronic instruments ever made. But this piece of outdated technology is more than just a footnote in musical history. How did this bizarre instrument play a part in triggering one of the biggest spy scandals of the century? At the Detroit Science Center, 36 bodies arran...

This episode was narrated by Jay Thomas. A manuscript and an eyeglass case both pierced by a curious hole. How did these two artifacts save Theodore Roosevelt from an assassin's bullet? In Cleveland, five strange postcards taunt one of America's most legendary crime fighters, Eliot Ness. Are these the deranged musings of a serial killer that eluded Ness? A 1912 wireless message received by a doome...

This episode was narrated by Jay Thomas. In Albuquerque's National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, there's a small antique vial that once contained a wildly popular drug called Radithor. How did this doctor-approved "cure-all" end up destroying countless lives? Inside Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry there's a giant World War Two Submarine. It's a German "U-Boat", known by its infam...

This episode was narrated by Jay Thomas. The largest aircraft to be built almost entirely from wood. It is the “H‐4 Hercules”, better known as “The Spruce Goose” in McMinnville, Oregon at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum. On display at Chicago's Field Museum the remains of "Sue", the largest T-Rex ever discovered, reveal answers to the question; what was life like for the king of the prehis...

This episode was narrated by Jay Thomas. A weapon that helped spark the legend of America’s most notorious criminal duo. Inside the National Museum of the US Air Force a primitive space suit worn by a forgotten pioneer of the skies paved the way for the exploration of man's final frontier. At San Diego's prestigious Scripps Institution Marine biologists show us a deep sea alien that survives Earth...

This episode was narrated by Jay Thomas. In Appleton, Wisconsin, the birthplace of magician Harry Houdini, there's a life-like bust of the world's greatest illusionist. But this bust is said to be haunted by the spirit of a man that many believe could not die. The first airplane, The Josephine Ford, to have supposedly been piloted to The North Pole by Bennett and Byrd. Along the rugged central coa...

This episode was narrated by Jay Thomas. A vintage fire engine survived one of the nation's worst natural disasters, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. But what cataclysmic series of events really destroyed San Francisco on that fateful day?  A semi-automatic rifle was used by one of America's most infamous criminals in a notorious bank robbery. But this was no ordinary villain. To her friends and...

This episode was narrated by Jay Thomas. One plane sealed the fate of thousands. In the National Museum of the United States sits Kennedy's Air Force One and some of the fastest planes on the planet. But how did the "Bockscar" seal the fate of thousands? How did ornate light brackets that would have adorned the walls of the first class Pullman cars of the Great Northern's passenger trains wind up...

This episode was narrated by Jay Thomas. Alcatraz. Once America's most notorious prison now houses four makeshift, dummy heads. Painstakingly crafted and topped with real human hair; how did these masks help destroy the reputation of America's most formidable prison? The Enigma Machine is among the many guns, planes and chilling machines of war at the National Museum of the Navy. How did this mach...

Join 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. For...