S01E10: Empire State Building Plane Crash, Dillinger's Death Mask, Thomas Flyer, Edmund Fitzgerald, Frisbee, Fall of Saigon
A New York City museum displays an artifact from an airplane which brought dread and destruction to the city; a metal staircase from the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam is on display at the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Overview
Don Wildman unearths relics from the world's greatest institutions to reveal secrets from the past. He examines each artifact to illuminate history's most incredible triumphs, sensational crimes and bizarre encounters.
Episodes
S01E01 Alcatraz, Enigma Machine, Fiji Mermaid, Apollo 13, Dymaxion House, Real Mona Lisa
November 2, 2010 60 min
Did homemade heads help destroy the reputation of Alcatraz prison? How did the Enigma machine help to win World War II? And is the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore the actual home of the Mona...
S01E02 Smilodon, Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Bockscar", Cardiff Giant, Train Disaster, Roswell UFO Crash, George Washington's Dentures
November 9, 2010 60 min
Does a prehistoric "monster" provide clues to an Ice Age puzzle? Is an odd wooden figure the explanation for a 60-year-old mystery or the key to a government cover-up?
S01E03 Patty Hearst, Mastodon, Humboldt Squid, Manhattan Project, San Francisco Earthquake, Ellis Island
November 16, 2010 60 min
What does a vintage fire engine tell us about what really destroyed San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake? Does a 10,000-year-old mastodon skeleton reveal a shocking story of greed and murder inside one of our...
S01E04 Harry Houdini Bust, Richard Byrd Expedition, Japanese Secret Weapon, "NOW" Protest Flag, Lizzie Borden, Adlai Stevenson's Briefcase
November 23, 2010 60 min
Did the Japanese send weapons of mass destruction to the US mainland during World War II? Is a statue of illusionist Harry Houdini haunted? Does an old hatchet hold the key to one of the...
S01E05 Bonnie and Clyde Rifle, Iwo Jima Flag, Aerotrain, Anglerfish, Frederick Cook Diary, Joseph Kittinger Harness
November 30, 2010 60 min
Bonnie and Clyde's Gun - The Iwo Jima Flag - The Aerotrain 1955 - The Deep Sea Anglar Fish - Who reach the North Pole First - 1960 100,000 feet parachute Trial.
S01E06 Spruce Goose, T-Rex Skeleton, President McKinley Nightshirt, Art Heist, Johnstown Flood, Slinky
December 7, 2010 60 min
Artifacts include the "Spruce Goose" aircraft, a T-Rex skeleton, President William McKinley's torn nightshirt, empty picture frames from an art heist, a watch from the Johnstown flood, and the invention of the Slinky.
S01E07 Watergate, Radithor, German U-Boat 505, Lindbergh Ransom Note, Pat Garrett Gun, Greensboro Lunch Counter
December 14, 2010 60 min
In the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, there's a small vial that once contained a wildly popular drug called Radithor. Don Wildman discovers how this doctor-approved "cure-all" end up destroying countless lives.
S01E08 Theodore Roosevelt, Eliot Ness, Spirit of America, The Titanic, Rosa Parks, Bigfoot
December 21, 2010 60 min
Artifacts relating to the attempted assassination of Teddy Roosevelt, the Cleveland, OH torso murder serial killer, the capture of the land speed record by the U.S. from the British, the sinking of the Titanic, the...
S01E10 Empire State Building Plane Crash, Dillinger's Death Mask, Thomas Flyer, Edmund Fitzgerald, Frisbee, Fall of Saigon
January 4, 2011 60 min
A New York City museum displays an artifact from an airplane which brought dread and destruction to the city; a metal staircase from the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam is on display at the Gerald Ford...
