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Mysteries at the Museum
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.
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Episodes
- Mysteries at the Museum
Alcoholic Antidote, Reno Haven, Strange Death of President Taylor
Host Don Wildman examines in Louisiana a precious metal that reportedly cured alcoholism, discovers how Reno was once a destination for disgruntled spouses…
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Forgotten Lindbergh, Fordlandia, Forest Owlet Fraud
Don Wildman heads to Chicago to examine an odd glass medical device invented by an aviator, discovers in Michigan a set of tools used in a failed auto…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Cellini Heist, Real Romeo and Juliet, Link to the Skies
Host Don Wildman visits a famous Renaissance sculpture that was once stolen in Vienna, studies a rare book at Harvard that reveals the inspiration behind a…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Wild West Rumble, Sweet Smell of Success, Antiseptic Doctor
Don examines a porcelain washbasin used to fight a deadly disease, studies a Colt .45 that once belonged to Wyatt Earp and learns how a small circular artifact…
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Fallen Robins, Romeo Spies, All In For Poker
Host Don Wildman examines a bird specimen that marks a baffling plague in Michigan, studies a camera used in a spy love story in Berlin and uncovers the rise…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Operation Migration, Sausage Duel and Around the World
Don Wildman examines a bizarre-looking costume that tells of an epic struggle to save a majestic species from extinction, looks at a 19th-century instrument…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Dolley Madison, Christmas Truce, Exploding Whale
Don Wildman uncovers the heroics of a First Lady who fought to preserve the nation's treasures, travels to England to examine a soccer ball linked to a WWI…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Sci Fi A Bomb, Ford v. Ferrari, Colorado Brown Stain
Host Don Wildman examines a beautiful hand-crafted glass plant that blurs the line between science and art and a muscle car that grew out of a legendary race…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Crossword Code, Ampelmann, Brushy Bill
Don Wildman examines a puzzling crossword, a set of traffic signals that became a beloved symbol of East German culture and a set of leg irons that once…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Great Kipton Train Wreck, First Inoculation, The Education of Ruby Bridges
Don Wildman inspects a set of watchmaking tools that belonged to a man who changed America's railroads, a journal that tells the story of a risky experiment…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Cherry Sisters, President's Missing Cow, Birth of a Nation Riot
Don Wildman examines a painted wooden sign that once advertised a vaudeville act so bad it was good, a famous White House cow's milk can and a program from one…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Peeping Tom Butler, Operation Beaver Bomb, Mother of Mother's Day
Don Wildman examines a trinket symbolizing the stormy evolution of a beloved holiday, a novel contraption deployed to save a bevy of wild beavers in Idaho and…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Pikes Peak Peanut Pusher, Hollywood Holdout, Ireland's Lost Treasure
Host Don Wildman examines a simple peanut that played a role in an unusual 20th Century fad that took one man on a daring adventure, and a set of shimmering…
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- Mysteries at the Museum
Invention of Pop Rocks, Pinball Wizard, London Smog
Host Don Wildman examines one of America's most explosive candies, a pinball machine that represents one of the game's gutsy player who saved it from obscurity…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Erno Rubik's Magic Cube, World's First Factory, The Amphicar
Don examines a classic toy that became a pop culture phenomenon, a delicate silk sample that symbolizes a stunning tale of international espionage and a quirky…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Birth of the Road Map, Attack of the Killer Bees, Invention of the Gas Mask
Host Don Wildman examines an iconic road sign that was part of a revolutionary plan to bring order to America's roads, a tiny bee specimen that unleashed a…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Stolen Strad, Fall From Space, Czech Dream
Host Don Wildman examines a concert program that marks one of the most infamous nights in the history of a prestigious music venue, a space capsule used by a…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Opera Riot, Golfer Behind Enemy Lines, The Great Mail Train Robbery
Host Don Wildman examines a copy of a play that sparked one of the biggest riots in New York City history, a monocular used by a soldier who made a daring and…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Mile-High Club, Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson and Zip to Zap
Don Wildman examines an aeronautical device with an infamous claim to fame, a cane that thwarted a presidential assassin and a souvenir t-shirt from an…
- Mysteries at the Museum
The Invention of Cellophane, Mt. Edgecumbe, The King In the Parking Lot
Don Wildman examines a roll of film that revolutionized the retail industry, a jacket belonging to a prankster with an explosive sense of humor and an…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Dial M for Missing, $7 Renoir, Secret in the Attic
Host Don Wildman examines a time worn tome that may explain the perplexing disappearance of the world's greatest mystery writer, a Renoir painting believed to…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Porcelain Twins, The Warden's Wife, Lost City of Atlantis
Host Don Wildman investigates a china doll that speaks to a mystifying tale of deception and intrigue, a bullet-marked sleigh that stands witness to the…
- Mysteries at the Museum
The Kiss that Saved a Million Lives, Heist of the Century, Lorenzo's Oil
Host Don Wildman examines the beguiling cast of a woman who helped save thousands of lives-after her death, a surfboard that speaks to one of the nation's most…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Dramatic Defection, Wrong Way Flight, Cowboy's Revenge
Host Don Wildman investigates a revolver that was once featured in a life or death situation with global consequences, a bare-bones plane that speaks to a…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Robber's Bride, The Night Disco Exploded, Escape By Sea
Host Don Wildman examines an old Concord stagecoach that destroyed the dreams of a legendary lonely heart, a collection of melted vinyl records that sparked…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Mail Missile, Dare to Dream, Child Warrior
Host Don Wildman investigates a simple postal box that embarked on an unprecedented gravity-defying journey, a traditional Viking vessel that sailed into the…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Skull in the Ashes, Nazi Art Hoax, Hunger Strike
Host Don Wildman examines a damaged metal identification tag that played a role in a bizarre and heated crime that stunned the nation, a painting by a man who…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Radioactive Boy Scout, Match of the Century, Four Corners Outbreak
Host Don Wildman investigates the badge that inspired an ambitious teen to undertake a perilous nuclear experiment, a chess set used in an unparalleled match…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Tootsie Roll Miracle, Singing Convict, Operation Paperclip
Host Don Wildman examines the Tootsie Roll candies that once saved the lives of a courageous band of soldiers, a guitar owned by a legendary musical jailbird…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Doyle & Houdini, The Poison Squad, The Great Imposter
Host Don Wildman examines a captivating portrait that played a central role in a tale that pitted a master magician against a literary lion, a medal that was…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Love Canal, Duquesne Spy Ring, Survival in the Colonies
Host Don Wildman investigates a property deed tied to an epic fight for justice, a short-wave radio that wrought havoc in a high-stakes game of espionage, and…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Circling the Skies, Lady & the Panda, 12 Years a Slave
Host Don Wildman examines a reel of film that depicts a high-flying stunt that changed aviation history, a panda discovered by an unlikely heroine, and an aged…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Brassiere Brigade, Flight for Life, Connecticut Haunting
Host Don Wildman examines a brassiere that gave salacious schemers an unexpected boost, a plane that soared to safety in a daring rescue mission, and a…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Son of a Gun, Whale Rescue, Bottle Popping Poltergeist
The Old Courthouse Museum in Vicksburg, Mississippi displays a bullet that is connected to a shocking tale of seemingly Immaculate Conception. The Iñupiat…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Damascus Missile, Eye in the Sky, Soapy Smith
Arkansas' Jacksonville Museum of Military History holds pieces of jagged shrapnel that rained down on the nearby town of Damascus during an explosion of…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Annie Oakley, Project Chariot, Old State Prison Haunting
The Autry National Center in Los Angeles, California displays a pistol that is linked to a legendary love story that sparked the career of America's first…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Baseball Stalker, Peggy Shippen, Moon Hoax
The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Montclair, New Jersey displays a baseball bat that's linked to a case of fanatical obsession that haunted…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Civil War Prostitutes, Art Hoax, In Cold Blood
The National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Maryland has in its collection a glass vial filled with a silvery salve that was used to wage a battle…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Failed Assassination of JFK, Max Factor, Martian Monkey
The Belmont Public Library in Belmont, New Hampshire has in its collection a small pin that is connected to a devious plot that threatened the country's most…
- Mysteries at the Museum
The Blonde Butcher, Charley Ross Kidnapping, Southern Sasquatch
The Pinal County Historical Society Museum in Florence, Arizona has on display a handcrafteddoll that is linked to one of the most salacious and sensational…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Cinder Woman, Milgram Experiment, Gold Accumulator Hoax
The St. Petersburg Museum of History in St. Petersburg, Florida holds in its collection a set of binders containing details and clues about an incendiary tale…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Outlaw Marshall, 76 Days Adrift, Diamond Hoax
The Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka, Kansas has a deadly wild-west weapon that played a central role in a duplicitous plot orchestrated by a very…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Funhouse Mummy, Playboy's Gold, Lawn Chair in the Sky
The Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library in Guthrie, Oklahoma holds in its collection a pistol that is tied to one of the most freakish, bizarre…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Psychic Horse, Strange Story of Rubber, Pulaski Axe
The Rhine ESP/Parapsychology Museum in Durham, North Carolina holds in its collection a small memorandum book with notes that document a remarkable equine…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Strangers on a Train, Madame Tussaud, WD-40
At the Municipal Archives in New York City is a black and white negative containing an image of a deadly weapon used in a sinister plot of revenge. Just uptown…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Miracle Car, Glass Armonica, Yankee Spy
At the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California visitors can see a bright yellow car with a unique design, built with promises that seemed too…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Asylum Poisoning, Naked Joe, The Mad Bomber
At the The Oregon State Hospital Museum of Mental Health in Salem, visitors inspecting a pair of commonplace dining implements will be shocked to discover they…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Prison Experiment, The Real Noah's Ark, The Informant
At the Marin History Museum in San Rafael, California, a tattered and time-worn briefcase in the collection once belonged to an eccentric doctor who performed…
- Mysteries at the Museum
The Death of William Wood, Hacker Spy, Skunk Ape
At the Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell Kentucky, visitors to the worlds only museum dedicated to the art of ventriloquism will see a set of tattered and…
- Mysteries at the Museum
East River Blowout, The Day It Rained Meat, Michigan Triangle
At the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn, a piece of early 1900's industrial machinery reminds visitors of a catastrophic subterranean disaster that took…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Jack the Ripper in New York, Jim the Penman, Locust Swarm
At New York City's Municipal Archives, one aged dossier stored in their collection may contain critical information linking a gruesome turn-of-the-century…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Margery the Medium, Everest Ascent, The Pastor and the Choir Singer
At the Salon De Magie in Loveland, Ohio, visitors to the collection can see a strange wooden box which was used in a chilling ritual that was said to summon…
- Mysteries at the Museum
The Jersey Devil, Tank Rampage, The Mysterious Death of President Harding
At the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine, a plaster cast of hoof prints speaks of a mythic beast that is thought to haunt the woods of New…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Don Bolles' Quest for the Truth, Stanley's Snake Oil, The Northfield Raid
At the Newseum in Washington DC, the mangled body of a car tells of an intrepid journalists dogged pursuit of the truth. At the Skeptiseum at the Center for…
- Mysteries at the Museum
The Dance That Seduced a City, Vanishing Lake, Death of Bugsy Siegel
At the Chicago History Museum in Chicago, Illinois, a pair of ostrich feather fans stored in the museum's archives tells of a risqué dancer who scandalized the…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Squeaky Fromme, Hodag, Typhoid Mary
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum showcases a pistol that was used by a member of a notorious cult in a twisted attempt to assassinate the…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Operation Pastorius, Nellie Bly, Boston Strangler
The National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia displays a pistol that once belonged to members of a secret network of wartime spies that plotted against…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Edison's Electric Pen, Vanishing Carroll Deering, Lizard Man
The Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange New Jersey displays a failed gadget of the famed inventor that went on to leave a surprising and…
- Mysteries at the Museum
Great Train Robbery, Phoenix Lights, Santa Cruz Sea Serpent
At the Smithsonian Institution's National Postal Museum visitors can find an aged wooden detonator box found in the wreckage of one of the most daring and…