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Mysteries at the Museum
Mysteries at the Museum

Mysteries at the Museum

—The extraordinary, often bizarre treasures housed in America's museums represent wondrous chapters in history, but a physical display can tell only part of their story. Behind each artifact are amazing tales and secrets to be revealed -- tales sometimes brimming with scandal, mystery, murder and intrigue. In "Mysteries at the Museum," host Don Wildman visits a wide variety of museums across the United States, taking viewers on a sometimes shocking tour of America's past by re-examining what's been left behind. Interviews, archival footage and re-enactments bring to life the artifacts' enduring mysteries, some that have never been told before on television.
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241 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Pike's Peak Peanut Pusher; Hollywood Holdout; Ireland's Lost Treasure
    Peeping Tom Butler; Operation Beaver Bomb; Mother of Mother's Day
    Love Canal; Duquesne Spy Ring; Survival in the Colonies
    Prophet Of Oak Ridge; Human Scalp; Mothman
    Flying Car; Prison Riot; Dreamland Fire
    Beethoven's Mysterious Malady, The Great Raid And Planet X
    The Witch Is Back, Edison's Little Monsters and I Love Toothy
    Battle Of Palmdale, Rain Man And The Man Who Walked Around The World
    Ball of Mystery, Dark Side of the Moon and Fakespeare
    A Father's Mission; Hilary's Yeti; Swedish Titanic
  • Pike's Peak Peanut Pusher; Hollywood Holdout; Ireland's Lost Treasure

    A simple peanut fad; a trunk at the center of a standoff; shimmering gold relics.
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  • Peeping Tom Butler; Operation Beaver Bomb; Mother of Mother's Day

    A trinket symbolizing a holiday; a novel contraption saves wild beavers; a scandalous machine in Victorian England.
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  • Love Canal; Duquesne Spy Ring; Survival in the Colonies

    A property deed tied to an epic fight for justice; a shortwave radio seen as a threat to U.S. security; a human skull speaks.
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  • Prophet Of Oak Ridge; Human Scalp; Mothman

    Historic journey through Death Valley; a group of bricks at a Civil War prison break; a human scalp that tells a tale of bravery.
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  • Flying Car; Prison Riot; Dreamland Fire

    Don looks at a car that can fly; a circular saw that was used in a prison riot; the fire that destroyed Coney Island's amusement park.
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  • Beethoven's Mysterious Malady, The Great Raid And Planet X

    The mysterious illness behind a composer's untimely death; the wartime rescue of 500 prisoners of war; the discovery that changed what scientists knew about the universe.
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Season 33 of 13 Episodes

  • A lantern that helped guide a teenage girl; a homemade barrel used in a stunt; small metal fragment salvaged from a disaster.

  • A makeshift harness that played a role in a mine rescue; a surf board that bears the evidence of an attack; crude explosive device at the center of a bank heist.

  • A detonator used in a robbery; a video camera captured a bizarre phenomenon; the massive skull of a beast.
Mysteries at the Museum

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The extraordinary, often bizarre treasures housed in America's museums represent wondrous chapters in history, but a physical display can tell only part of their story. Behind each artifact are amazing tales and secrets to be revealed -- tales sometimes brimming with scandal, mystery, murder and intrigue. In "Mysteries at the Museum," host Don Wildman visits a wide variety of museums across the United States, taking viewers on a sometimes shocking tour of America's past by re-examining what's been left behind. Interviews, archival footage and re-enactments bring to life the artifacts' enduring mysteries, some that have never been told before on television.

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Don Wildman, Seth Porges, Katherine Alcock, Lawrence Derx, Loren Coleman, Kyle Merker

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