About the Show

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.

About the Host

Don Wildman

An impassioned history enthusiast and adventurer, Don Wildman’s myriad of on-camera investigations have carried him far and wide to mankind’s greatest legends and lore. Whether descending the underground cities of Cappadocia or slogging through London’s labyrinthine sewer system or hiking red-rock ridges in Ethiopia, Wildman has traveled around the globe to history’s hardest places, where visceral tales are set against ancient backdrops and human intrigue is carved into walls.

All About Don

Season 4, Episode 2

Boston Strangler, Operation Pastorius, Nellie Bly

Host 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.

Friday
Mar 15
8am | 7c
Season 12, Episode 8

Blowing Up the House, Beast of Bray Road and The Invention of Penicillin

Don Wildman researches one of the most challenging bomb cases in FBI history, a mysterious encounter with a legendary beast and an artful scientist that accidentally uncovered a revolutionary medicine.

Friday
Mar 15
9am | 8c
Season 19, Episode 2

Real Life Lassie, Spy Who Went Cold and Sinking of the Andrea Doria

Don Wildman examines a heroic hound, a Soviet agent hiding in plain sight and the disastrous voyage of a luxury liner.

Friday
Mar 15
10am | 9c
Season 4, Episode 4

The Dance That Seduced a City, Vanishing Lake, Mysterious Death of Bugsy Siegel

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.

Monday
Mar 18
8am | 7c
Season 12, Episode 9

Lancelot the Unicorn, Prohibition Man, Dragon Island and Blood Rain

Don Wildman examines the origins of a mythical unicorn featured at a popular circus, the baffling case of a missing U.S. politician and an attack by one of the deadliest creatures on the planet.

Monday
Mar 18
9am | 8c
Season 19, Episode 3

Million Dollar Dinner, Thing in the Woods and Cornstalk Colonel

Don Wildman examines an ancient queen who drank a very expensive cocktail, an unusual box discovered by a farmer in the woods and an American colonel who routed the British with corn.

Monday
Mar 18
10am | 9c
Season 13, Episode 9

Fake Breaking News, Rescue Napoleon and Ernest Bravery

Don Wildman examines a patriotic pigeon that saved hundreds of lives during World War II, a clever conman who took advantage of a governmental gaffe and the uncle who inspired one of America's most iconic figures.

Monday
Mar 18
11am | 10c
Season 13, Episode 10

Pony Express, Churchill's Misadventure and First Ambulance Corps

Don Wildman examines a leather saddle cover that changed the way America communicated across the Wild West, a newspaper article that saved a famous politician from financial ruin and a horse cart from that saved countless lives during the Civil War.

Monday
Mar 18
12pm | 11c
Season 13, Episode 11

Riding Thunder, Warm Springs and Catcher Spy

Don Wildman examines a F8 Crusader jet that was at the center of a death-defying plummet to Earth, a specially outfitted convertible designed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and a commemorative coin linked to a baseball player turned spy.

Monday
Mar 18
1pm | 12c
Season 13, Episode 12

Godspeed John Glenn, Canine Convict and Brace for Landing

Don Wildman examines a dangerous mission into outer space, a dogged dilemma after man's best friend is accused of murder and a pilot's heroic plan during an emergency over the Pacific.

Monday
Mar 18
2pm | 1c
Season 13, Episode 13

Legally Haunted, Demise of the Dodo and Jersey Kaboom

Don Wildman examines a house for sale that comes with three ghosts, the maligned reputation of an extinct bird and a mysterious explosion at a munitions factory during World War I.

Monday
Mar 18
3pm | 2c
Season 7, Episode 1

Cellophane Start, Eruption Hoax, Parking Lot King

Don examines a transparent roll of film that revolutionized the retail industry; a jacket that belonged to a prankster with an explosive sense of humor; and an unconventional excavation that puts a 500-year-old mystery to rest. 

Monday
Mar 18
4pm | 3c
Season 7, Episode 2

Mile-High Club, Attempted Assassinatio, Zip to Zap

Don explores an aeronautical device with a notorious claim to fame; a cane that thwarted a would-be presidential assassin; and a souvenir T-shirt from an outlandish event that became an all-out rampage. 

Monday
Mar 18
5pm | 4c
Season 4, Episode 5

Don Bolles' Quest for the Truth, Stanley's Miraculous Snake Oil

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.

Tuesday
Mar 19
8am | 7c
Season 12, Episode 10

Great Snake Hunt, Minneapolis Svengali and Swimming with Sharks

Don Wildman examines a species of Asian cobra that invaded a small town in Missouri, a carriage that was the site of a bizarre murder and a wealthy daredevil who swam with sharks to prove they were harmless.

Tuesday
Mar 19
9am | 8c
Season 19, Episode 6

Italian Sherlock Holmes, King of the Airwaves and Texan Takes Moscow

Don Wildman investigates the origins of the mob, the dramatic story behind a reluctant ruler and the piano prodigy who helped thaw the Cold War.

Tuesday
Mar 19
10am | 9c
Season 4, Episode 6

The Infamous Jersey Devil, Tank Rampage

Host 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.

Wednesday
Mar 20
8am | 7c
Season 12, Episode 11

Metal Winners, the Big Con and Operation Babylift

Don Wildman investigates a Nobel Prize winner's risky experiment in the face of the Nazis, a creative sting operation that ended the career of a notorious crime boss and a lifesaving airlift out of Vietnam.

Wednesday
Mar 20
9am | 8c
Season 19, Episode 8

Jakarta Incident, Toe-to-Toe in Toledo and Assassinating FDR

Don Wildman investigates a pilot forced to fly a jumbo jet with no engines, the scandal behind the biggest boxing upset in history and an assassination attempt on a president-elect.

Wednesday
Mar 20
10am | 9c
Season 4, Episode 7

Margery the Medium, Everest Ascent, The Pastor and the Choir Singer

Host 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.

Thursday
Mar 21
8am | 7c
Season 12, Episode 12

Michelangelo the Forger, Finders Keepers, Brownie Wise and the Wonderbowl

Don Wildman examines a statue created by the world's best-known art forger, a mysterious cache of buried gold coins and a woman whose sales technique made Tupperware a household name.

Thursday
Mar 21
9am | 8c
Season 20, Episode 5

Jack the Ripper, Wooden Money and Deadly Decor

Don Wildman examines a new clue that could identify history's most notorious killer, a peculiar piece of wood that saved a small town and the surprising cause of a deadly illness.

Thursday
Mar 21
10am | 9c
Season 4, Episode 9

East River Blowout and The Day it Rained Meat

Host 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.

Friday
Mar 22
8am | 7c
Season 12, Episode 13

North Pole Expedition, Iceberg Fleet and the Minnesota Iceman

Don Wildman examines the chilling stories behind an eccentric motorized expedition to the North Pole, a frozen feat of nautical engineering during World War Two and a carnival creature in an ice block.

Friday
Mar 22
9am | 8c
Season 19, Episode 11

Jack and the Goat, Operation Hydra and Hell on St. Helens

Don Wildman investigates JFK's four-legged running mate, a daring plan to destroy a Nazi superweapon and the photographer who survived a volcanic eruption.

Friday
Mar 22
10am | 9c