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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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Season 412 of 12 Episodes

  • 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.

Record to Watch Later

4 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Family Secrets
    Code Breakers
    Strange but True
    Dark Waters
  • Family Secrets

    The truth about serial killer H.H. Holmes's death may be exposed by one of his descendants; did the government conspire with the mafia about a mysterious helicopter crash?
    Upcoming
  • Code Breakers

    Josh examines clues left by the Zodiac Killer, the location of Forrest Fenn's million-dollar buried treasure, and the Voynich Manuscript.
    Upcoming
  • Strange but True

    A real-life child whose possession inspired "The Exorcist"; a con artist leaves a trail of deception and perhaps, even murder; an ancient army is defeated by hallucinogenic honey; these three stories prove that truth can outmatch fiction.
    Upcoming
  • Dark Waters

    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.
    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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