Mysteries at the Museum

Mysteries at the Museum

The stories behind interesting and unusual artifacts stored in museums are told.

Genre: DocumentaryAdventureBiography

Cast:Don WildmanSeth PorgesKatherine WeatherfordJoshua LevineArmen MazlumianRory DuffyKizzy CoxKaren QuinonesKatherine AlcockMegan MarodKeith Elliot GreenbergPaul MeltzerVincent ChanCristina LombardiJohn FarnworthRobert SciglimpagliaJim WynbrandtLouise Hulland


1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Alcatraz; Enigma Machine; Real Mona Lisa

Tue, Nov 2, 2010

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.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ 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.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ San Francisco Quake; Mastodon Story

Tue, Nov 16, 2010

A San Francisco fire truck and ancient mastodon reveal scandalous stories.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Japanese WMD's; Houdini Statue

Tue, Nov 23, 2010

Simple objects reveal a complex, haunted past for Don Wildman.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Bonnie & Clyde Rifle; Deep Sea Fish

Tue, Nov 30, 2010

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.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ T Rex Skeleton; Slinky & McKinley Nightshirt

Tue, Dec 7, 2010

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.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Greensboro Lunch; Radithor; WWII U-Boat

Tue, Dec 14, 2010

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.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Rosa Parks; Elliott Ness; Bigfoot

Tue, Dec 21, 2010

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.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Theremin; Silly Putty; Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Tue, Dec 28, 2010

An electronic instrument in the Philly archives played into spy scandals.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ 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.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ 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.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Concorde; Robert the Doll; Unabombers Shack

Tue, Jan 11, 2011

A crisis in space; how the first supersonic commercial jet became an artifact; an antique doll's little secret.