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Mysteries at the Museum: Season 5
August 14, 2013
12 Episodes
~60 min per episode
Overview
No overview available for this season.
Episodes
12
1
Edison’s Electric Pen, Vanishing Carroll Deering, Lizard Man
Aug 15, 2013
60 min
Don Wildman examines a failed invention that helped create a multi-billion dollar industry, the bell of a ship whose crew vanished at sea, and a footprint of a lizard-like creature that roams the swamps of South Carolina.
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2
Boston Strangler, Operation Pastorius, Nellie Bly
Aug 22, 2013
60 min
Don Wildman examines a weapon that belonged to a secret network of spies, a bag that belonged to a pioneering journalist, and a switchblade that belonged to a man some believed was Boston's most notorious killer.
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3
Squeaky Fromme, Hodag, Typhoid Mary
Aug 29, 2013
60 min
Don Wildman examines a weapon involved in a twisted plot to assassinate a US president, a beast that some believed terrorized people in Wisconsin, and a file that speaks of a notorious woman whose illness brought fear to New York City.
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4
The Dance That Seduced a City, Vanishing Lake, Mysterious Death of Bugsy Siegel
Sep 5, 2013
60 min
At the Chicago History Museum, a pair of ostrich-feather fans tells of a risque dancer who scandalized the Chicago's World Fair. At the Joseph Jefferson Mansion and Gardens on Lake Peigneur in Louisiana, an antique urn is one of few relics to survive a terrifying earth-shaking disaster. And at the Los Angeles Police Museum, twisted bullet fragments are all that remain of a notorious gangster's brutal slaying that remains shrouded in mystery.
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6
Don Bolles' Quest for the Truth, Stanley's Miraculous Snake Oil
Sep 12, 2013
60 min
Don Wildman examines a mangled car which tells of an intrepid journalist's quest for the truth, a vile of liquid containing what was believed to be a miracle cure and an iron safe which played a key role in a heist.
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7
The Infamous Jersey Devil, Tank Rampage
Sep 19, 2013
60 min
Don Wildman explores a plaster cast of hoof prints made by a mythic beast, a colossal war machine that once laid waste to an American city, and a presidential train car that remains shrouded in mystery.
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8
Margery the Medium, Everest Ascent, The Pastor and the Choir Singer
Sep 26, 2013
60 min
Don Wildman investigates a strange wooden box used in a ritual, a weather beaten oxygen tank which tells of a daring ascent and the torn hat of a local pastor found at the scene of a crime.
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9
Jack the Ripper in New York, Jim the Penman
Oct 3, 2013
60 min
Don Wildman investigates an aged dossier which may be linked to one of the world’s most notorious killers, a century-old $20 bill which was once wielded by a brilliant and elusive criminal and an insect specimen which once wreaked havoc on America’s Heartland.
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10
East River Blowout and The Day It Rained Meat
Oct 10, 2013
60 min
Don Wildman examines a piece of industrial machinery from the early 1900s, a glass medical jar containing a strange substance and a tattered shirt that is one of the last vestiges of a aviation anomaly.
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11
The Death William Wood, Hacker Spy, Skunk Ape
Oct 24, 2013
60 min
Don Wildman investigates a set of tattered and chipped ventriloquist dummies, a rudimentary electronic device and a plaster cast that may prove the existence of a creature thought only to exist in myths.
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12
Prison Experiment, The Real Noah’s Ark
Nov 14, 2013
60 min
Don Wildman investigates a tattered briefcase belonging to an eccentric doctor who went to gruesome lengths in search of the fountain of youth, a massive chunk of stone which some believe is the fossilized remains of a biblical ship, and a reel-to-reel tape recorder used by one of the FBI's most prolific and notorious informants.
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13
Asylum Poisoning, Naked Joe, The Mad Bomber
Nov 21, 2013
60 min
Don Wildman investigates a pair of timeworn, everyday dining implements that were at the center of an event that shocked and terrified a psychiatric ward, a charcoal portrait of a scantily clad man once embroiled in a notorious news expose and an aged dossier from the 1950s whose pages tell of one madman’s reign of terror.
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