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Expedition Files
Expedition Files

Expedition Files

—Josh Gates travels through history on a search to uncover new evidence and answers to unexplained mysteries and true stories that defy explanation, offering revelations and new insights.
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  • Josh Gates explores American history, including a theory that John Wilkes Booth escaped justice -- only to meet a stranger fate; learn myth-busting truths behind Paul Revere's midnight ride and a U.S. Navy sub that vanished in the Cold War.

  • Josh Gates explores mysteries shaped by extreme weather: the fate of the Donner Party, a group of pioneers trapped in a Sierra Nevada blizzard; a secret Cold War missile base entombed in Arctic ice; and the ghost ship Mary Celeste, adrift in the Atlantic.

  • From a secret World War II unit that deceived Nazis, to the alleged crimes of the Knights Templar and a royal death tied to a scandal, Josh Gates explores mysteries built on coverups; was the truth buried to protect power, reputation and empires?

  • Josh Gates reopens cases where the truth stayed buried -- he exposes new clues, alibis and revelations that challenge everything that we thought we know about Noah's Ark, the terror of anthrax attacks and Bugsy Siegel's murder.

  • Josh Gates investigates three aquatic mysteries: the Kraken, Lake Lanier and Atlantis; from terrifying sailor lore, to a deadly lake's dark past and a lost city beneath the sea, he searches for evidence behind legends shaped by fear, myth and history.

  • Josh Gates investigates Dracula, Cold War psychic spying and Spartacus; from Vlad the Impaler's infamous reign of terror, to secret U.S. mind-control tests and a gladiator who defied Rome, he seeks the truth behind history's legends that refuse to die.

  • Josh Gates investigates sensationalistic stories, seeking the truth behind the unexplained: rock legend Jim Morrison's death, a bizarre, preserved mermaid found in a Japanese temple, and claims of alien abduction from a U.S. Airman.

  • Josh uncovers the culprits behind three of history's most baffling mysteries -- the suspected murder of explorer Meriwether Lewis, a possible U.N. plot around Dag Hammarskjöld's 1961 plane crash and the vanishing of New York judge Joseph Crater.

  • King of Pirates Henry Every's $400M heist and disappearance; the palace harem's conspiracy behind Pharaoh Ramesses III's death; new evidence about the mythical Amazon warriors' existence.

  • Josh Gates explores hidden identities: a 50-year-old cold case about a mysterious woman; new evidence that could rewrite the account of Judas' betrayal of Jesus; and the shocking tale of a teenager claiming to be a lost German prince.

  • Josh Gates explores the supernatural, from Nikola Tesla's mysterious Death Ray to an encoded message from a Sicilian nun believed to be of demonic origin; scientists uncover the real explanation behind the Oracle of Delphi's prophetic visions.

  • Josh Gates explores how new evidence reshapes history's mysteries: a fresh analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's death; a novel take on Ponce de León's quest for the Fountain of Youth; and DNA evidence reviving the murder case of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen's wife.

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14 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Conspiracy Theories
    Mysterious Phenomena
    Truth Vs. Tabloids
    Fateful Coverups
    Mysteries of American History
    Tragic Endings
    Lost Civilizations
    Mysterious Relics
    Larger Than Life
    Deadly Forecast
  • Conspiracy Theories

    Josh Gates investigates conspiracy theories, including new discoveries suggesting the Titanic was sunk by more than just an iceberg, the true story behind the death of Harry Houdini and lost Civil War gold that spawned a lawsuit against the FBI.
    Upcoming
  • Mysterious Phenomena

    Josh Gates looks closely at some of history's most intriguing hoaxes and unexplained events, including the Amityville Horror, the strange fate of a military submarine crew, and a phenomenon in which people's body fat causes them to burn alive.
    Upcoming
  • Truth Vs. Tabloids

    Josh Gates investigates sensationalistic stories, seeking the truth behind the unexplained: rock legend Jim Morrison's death, a bizarre, preserved mermaid found in a Japanese temple, and claims of alien abduction from a U.S. Airman.
    Upcoming
  • Fateful Coverups

    From a secret World War II unit that deceived Nazis, to the alleged crimes of the Knights Templar and a royal death tied to a scandal, Josh Gates explores mysteries built on coverups; was the truth buried to protect power, reputation and empires?
    Upcoming
  • Mysteries of American History

    Josh Gates explores American history, including a theory that John Wilkes Booth escaped justice -- only to meet a stranger fate; learn myth-busting truths behind Paul Revere's midnight ride and a U.S. Navy sub that vanished in the Cold War.
    Upcoming
  • Tragic Endings

    Josh Gates explores the alleged curse behind King Tut's tomb explorers' deaths, the Dyatlov Pass incident where 9 hikers died mysteriously and an influencer's disappearance in Nevada desert, investigating potential supernatural links.
    Upcoming
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Josh Gates travels through history on a search to uncover new evidence and answers to unexplained mysteries and true stories that defy explanation, offering revelations and new insights.

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