History's Greatest Mysteries

- Season 1

(2020)

Investigates D. B. Cooper, an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in United States airspace between Portland and Seattle on the afternoon of November 24, 1971.

A dust-covered box hidden in a British manor house for 108 years contains the personal notes of Lord Mersey, the respected British jurist and politician charged with investigating the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton led an expedition to Antarctica but soon after arrival, Shackleton's ship--The Endurance--was destroyed by shifting glaciers, and he was tasked with leading his 27 men across the tundra, on an epic struggle for survival. Shackleton's battle against the odds and his unfailing commitment to bring all his men out alive turned him into a legend. The ship's final resting ground remains one of the greatest polar mysteries. Led by maritime archeologist and shipwreck expert, Mensun Bound, follow a new ground-breaking expedition heading back into...

Confederate extremist John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC then took refuge in a tobacco barn in the nearby Virginia countryside. History tells us that Union troops shot him during a standoff there but apocryphal accounts are explored that he escaped capture, lived his life under alias, and produced offspring. The DNA of alleged descendants is put to the test.

Roswell: The First Witness - The Journal. This multi-part investigation examines the controversial Roswell UFO crash of July 1947. In this first part, cryptic portions of a journal kept by wreckage investigator, US Army Major Jesse Marcel, is evaluated for its authenticity.

This multi-part investigation examines the controversial Roswell UFO crash of July 1947. In this second part, investigators attempt to determine the content of a memo held by Gen Roger Ramey in the controversial "this is a weather balloon" newspaper photo. Also, investigators engage cryptologists to further evaluate the mysterious journal kept by US Army Maj Marcel.

The multi-part investigation of the controversial Roswell UFO crash of July 1947 concludes. In this final part, investigator Ben Smith determines that the mysterious journal was very likely written by Major Saunders, second in command at the Roswell base, though its writing is still encoded. Ben reveals his findings to Major Marcel's family.