Season 12
6 episodes
64 min. per episode
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A relentless investigator uncovers buried truths, unraveling history's shadows while battling personal demons and powerful secrets.
Episodes
How, during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, a Soviet submarine fleet commander and K-19 survivor, Vasili Arkhipov, kept his cool under enormous pressure and prevented his men from starting WWIII after being surrounded by the US fleet.
An examination of British Intelligence's World War II systematic eavesdropping on German prisoners of war.
Has the 150-year-old mystery behind the deaths of 57 Irish immigrants who came to Pennsylvania to work on the railroad finally been resolved?
Scientists investigate the recently found 49,000 year-old remains of a group of Neanderthals in El Sidron, Spain. Could they have been victims of cannibalism?
Scientists investigate pharaoh Tutankhamun. Was his tomb originally his and why hasn't it been raided like the other pharaoh tombs? Also, how did he die, why was his burial so rushed and why was he erased from history by his successors?
Mysteries involving notable historical events, people and locations are scientifically examined.