Mysteries at the Museum
Don Wildman embarks on an epic quest to solve the world's greatest mysteries. From historical institutions to unexplored archives, Don unearths extraordinary relics and sinister artifacts, each with an incredible story to tell and a secret to be revealed.
- 2010-2020
- 24 seasons
- Travel Channel
- Documentary, Action & Adventure, Suspense
- TV-PG
Don Wildman embarks on an epic quest to solve the world's greatest mysteries. From historical institutions to unexplored archives, Don unearths extraordinary relics and sinister artifacts, each with an incredible story to tell and a secret to be revealed.
Season 1 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 2010 - 2011
Episode 1
Alcatraz; Enigma Machine; Real Mona Lisa
Tue, Nov 2, 2010 43 mins
Artifacts include Alcatraz escape dummy heads, WWII Enigma code machine, Fiji Mermaid art relic, Apollo 13 air filter, Dymaxion pre-fabricated house, and Mona Lisa painting copy.
Episode 2
Prehistoric Monster; 60 Year Old Government Coverup
Tue, Nov 9, 2010
Artifacts include fossilized saber-tooth cat skull, "BOCKSCAR" B-29 Bomber aircraft, Cardiff Giant sculpture, Pullman train car light bracket, Air Force high-altitude parachute test dummy, and President George Washington's dentures.
Episode 3
San Francisco Quake; Mastodon Story
Tue, Nov 16, 2010 43 mins
Artifacts included Patty Hearst's M1 carbine rifle, fossilized Mastadon skeleton, Humbldt squid, Los Alamos security ID of spy Klaus Fuchs, horse-drawn fire engine used during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and an immigrant literacy test card.
Episode 4
Japanese WMD's; Houdini Statue
Tue, Nov 23, 2010 43 mins
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 nation's most sensational unsolved murders? These are the mysteries that Don Wildman Investigates.
Episode 5
Bonnie & Clyde Rifle; Deep Sea Fish
Tue, Nov 30, 2010 43 mins
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.
Episode 6
T Rex Skeleton; Slinky & McKinley Nightshirt
Tue, Dec 7, 2010 43 mins
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.
Episode 7
Greensboro Lunch; Radithor; WWII U-Boat
Tue, Dec 14, 2010 42 mins
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.
Episode 8
Rosa Parks; Elliott Ness; Bigfoot
Tue, Dec 21, 2010 43 mins
An early episode of the series from before host Don Wildman joined the show, this episode narrated by actor Jay Thomas includes 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 civil rights movement, and Bigfoot. Some of these segments later had new narration recorded by Wildman and were re-cut into newer episodes of the series.
Episode 9
Theremin; Silly Putty; Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Tue, Dec 28, 2010 43 mins
This episode examines the invention of the Theremin musical instrument, a piece of concrete from the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Tacoma, WA, the invention of Silly Putty while trying to create a replacement for rubber, the discovery of more than 100 mummy's in a Mexican cemetery, a tree destroyed in the eruption of Mount St. Helens, and a box from the cargo ship Cyclops which disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle.
Episode 10
Dillingers Death Mask; Frisbee; Shipwreck
Tue, Jan 4, 2011
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.
Episode 11
USS Intrepid; Seattle Glue Pot; Wing Walkers
Tue, Jan 11, 2011
An old letter is discovered in the Yale archives; 120 year-old pot transforms Seattle; four mysterious objects are found on the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
Episode 12
Concorde; Robert the Doll; Unabombers Shack
Tue, Jan 11, 2011 43 mins
A crisis in space; how the first supersonic commercial jet became an artifact; an antique doll's little secret.