Monumental Mysteries

Monumental Mysteries
Genre Reality
Documentary
Starring Don Wildman
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 26
Production
Executive producer(s) Dominic Stobart
Producer(s) Edward Hambleton
Eve Rodrick
Editor(s) Ed Katz
Michael Wei
Margaret Noble
Mario Gonzalez
Michelle Kim
Cinematography Justin Lee Stanley
Camera setup Multiple-camera
Running time 60 minutes
Production company(s) Optomen Productions
Distributor Travel Channel
Broadcast
Original channel Travel Channel
Original run May 9, 2013 – present
Chronology
Related shows Mysteries at the Museum
External links
Website

Monumental Mysteries is an American reality television series currently airing on the Travel Channel and is hosted by Don Wildman. The show uncovers stories of history and unsolved mysteries behind America's national monuments. The series premiered on May 9, 2013, at 9:00 p.m. EST. The second season aired on June 13, 2014, at 9:00 p.m. EST.

Premise

Host Don Wildman travels the country for America's most amazing and unusual national monuments, uncovering the histories and mysteries hidden within. Each episode features a monument, historical marker, landmark, sculpture, or statue that has a special story or unique secret about them.

Opening Introduction: (narrated by Don Wildman):

“ Sometimes the greatest secrets lie in plain sight. These are "Monumental Mysteries". ”

Special (2012)

Note: Monumental Mysteries: A Mystery at the Museum Special aired on July 17, 2012 as a special episode apart of the related Travel Channel Mysteries at the Museum series. The special also served as a spin-off episode for the first season premiere of Monumental Mysteries in 2013. It's also called Mysteries at the Museum: Monumental Mysteries Special.

Sp. # Title Original air date
1"Monumental Mysteries: A Mystery at the Museum Special"July 17, 2012
Don investigates the tragic history of the Hollywood Sign when aspiring actress Peg Entwistle jumped off this world-famous landmark after her hopes and dreams were dashed by a failed film in 1932; visits the Statue of Liberty, where in 1916, this iconic American symbol was nearly obliterated by a seismic explosion from 2 million pounds of ammunition in a munitions plant on nearby Black Tom Island; examines the Georgia Guidestones in Elbert County, Georgia, a controversial monument of six granite stones etched with cryptic messages; learns the story behind a macabre memorial called "Black Aggie", a statue of a mournful veiled woman in a Washington, D.C. courtyard that was once believed to be possessed by an evil spirit that caused pregnant women to miscarry; discovers that when construction began in 1848, some viewed the Egyptian obelisk design of the Washington Monument as an emblem of evil of the New World Order; uncovers the mystery of a secret "Hall of Records" vault carved inside Mount Rushmore in South Dakota's Black Hills.

Series overview

Season Episodes Originally aired DVD and Blu-ray release date
Season premiere Season finale Region 1 Region 2
1 13 May 9, 2013 August 8, 2013 N/A N/A
2 13 June 13, 2014 September 5, 2014 N/A N/A

Episodes

Season 1 (2013)

Ep. # Title Original air date
1.1"Teen Vampire; King of Cons; First Escape From Alcatraz"May 9, 2013
In the series premiere, host Don Wildman examines a tombstone linked to the Mercy Brown Vampire Incident at Chestnut Hill Baptist Church Cemetery in Exeter, Rhode Island; learns how con artist George C. Parker schemes off of New York City's landmarks—including selling Grant's Tomb; uncovers the first escape from Alcatraz, the infamous prison in San Francisco Bay by convicts Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe; discovers that the gold-leafed Statue of the Republic at Jackson Park in Chicago, Illinois is connected to the 1893 World's Fair murders by America’s first serial killer, H.H. Holmes; investigates a UFO sighting by pilot Kenneth Arnold in Washington's Mt. Rainier; and explores the theory that John Wilkes Booth escaped Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln.
1.2"Sickness of the Brooklyn Bridge; Day the Sky Fell Down; Gram Parsons Coffin Heist"May 16, 2013
Don learns of an illness called "caisson disease" workers suffered in underwater cassions during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge; examines a marble sculpture in Sylacauga, Alabama called "Falling Star" that commemorates a meteorite that fell from the sky, striking housewife Ann Hodges in 1954; uncovers the plot to steal singer-songwriter Gram Parsons' body, who died near Joshua Tree National Park in California’s Mojave Desert; learns the legend of the Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise, Alabama that pays tribute to an insect, the boll weevil that threatened the cotton industry; visits the James A. Garfield Memorial at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, dedicated to President Garfield, who was assassinated in 1881; discovers the strange story of the Loretto Chapel's spiral staircase, the "Miraculous Stair" in Santa Fe, New Mexico that was built by a mysterious carpenter.
1.3"Smoky the Yorkie; Golden Gate Bridge; Oakville Blobs"May 23, 2013
Don examines the mysterious substance of "clear blobs" raining from the skies at Capitol State Forest in Oakville, Washington; visits a war dog memorial in Cleveland Ohio's Metroparks dedicated to "Smoky", a Yorkshire terrier who became a hero in the Pacific War; learns how Harlem's Collyer Brothers Park got its name after compulsive hoarders who were killed by their own junk; investigates the tragic origins of constructing San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge; explores Half Dome in California's Yosemite National Park, which was deemed inaccessible by human feet until in 1875 when blacksmith George Anderson scaled to the summit by drilling spikes in its face; and uncovers the true story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona when "The Cowboys" leader Johnny Ringo wasn't killed by Wyatt Earp after he was found dead just outside town after fleeing the shootout.
1.4"Grand Central Occult; Superhero Surfer; Charleston Jail"May 30, 2013
Don uncovers sinister symbolism in the astronomical ceiling that may depict the Age of Aquarius of the Illuminati in New York City's Grand Central Terminal; examines the life of Hawaiian hero Duke Kahanamoku, known as the father of modern surfing through his bronze statue his hometown of Honolulu, Hawaii; investigates the haunted Old Charleston Jail in Charleston, South Carolina, where America's first female serial killer Lavinia Fisher was hanged; visits Showmen's Rest marked by a granite elephant at Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois that’s dedicated to the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus showmen who lost their lives in the a train wreck in 1918; learns that London Bridge is really located in Lake Havasu City, Arizona; and explores Scotty's Castle in California's Death Valley National Park that was a token of an unusual friendship between a con man and a businessman.
1.5"Chrysler Building; Stanford Mausoleum; Hedy Lamarr"June 6, 2013
Don uncovers the Chrysler Building where a rivalry between architects William Van Alen and H. Craig Severance competed against each other to build the world's tallest building; investigates the Stanford Mausoleum at Stanford University in Stanford, California, which holds the remains of co-founder Jane Stanford, who’s unnatural death is shrouded in mystery; examines a 2-foot statue in Sunol, California, a tribute to best-loved local—Bosco, a dog who was elected town mayor; explores the 60-foot Hindenburg disaster memorial at Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey; learns how actress Hedy Lamarr earned her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame when she comes up with a secret commination system for torpedoes to hit their mark during the Cold War; and visits the Grand Staircase in Escalante, Utah, where artist Everett Ruess mysteriously disappeared.
1.6"Ellis Island; Sailing Stones; Alamo Treasure"June 13, 2013
Don examines the role that New York City's Ellis Island played in the lives of the Trapp Family Singers who inspired the Sound of Music; learns how scientist Thomas Jaggar helped the residents of Hilo when the Mauna Loa in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on The Big Island lava flow threatened the town; uncovers the strange story behind the labyrinth of rooms inside the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California; explores Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park that became the setting for an unsolved mystery when newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde disappeared while traveling down the dangerous Colorado River; discovers treasure hidden within the walls of The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas is possibly the reason why Jim Bowie and his militia defended the fortress; and investigates moving rocks called "sailing stones" on the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park.
1.7"The Real Rocky; Dr. Burdell; Kissing Sailor"June 20, 2013
Don visits the Rocky Balboa statue at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, uncovering the real story behind the fictional character through boxer Chuck Wepner, who inspired Sylvester Stallone to write Rocky; examines the tombstones of a murdered dentist and his mistress, Emma Cunningham, who are eternally linked in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery; investigates San Diego's "Unconditional Surrender" sculpture of the Alfred Eisenstaedt photo of a World War II sailor kissing a nurse; explores L.A.'s Elizabeth Lake ("Devils Lake") in Angeles National Forest, home of the Thunderbird, a 90-foot winged creature; discovers Hilo, Hawaii's town clock's hands are permanently frozen at 1:04 a.m. when a tsunami hit on May 22, 1960; and learns of the Nez Perce woman Watkuese, who saved Lewis and Clark's expedition, making it possible for the "Captain's Return" statue at St. Louis Arch's base.
1.8"Sleeping Prophet; Mysterious Death of Mozart; the Real Poltergeist"June 27, 2013
Don visits the grave site of controversial mysticist Edgar Cayce, the "Sleeping Prophet" in the Riverside Cemetery in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, who had the gift of healing through hypnosis; looks into the mysterious death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when viewing his bronze bust in Brooklyn's Prospect Park; explores Cheesman Park in Denver, Colorado, a city park centered around a pavilion that was built on top of a cemetery, making its hauntings the inspiration behind horror movie, Poltergeist; examines a stainless-steel monument on the Space Walk of Fame in Titusville, Florida that pays tribute to Gemini 8s emergency landing after a thruster malfunction; uncovers the role Niagara Falls played as a gateway to freedom for escaping slaves on the Underground Railroad; and learns about how woodsman Galen Clark saved California's Yosemite National Park from mining developers.
1.9"American Venus; Alien Abduction; Buffalo Wings"July 11, 2013
Don unveils the story of "American Venus" Audrey Munson through the connection of three statues in Manhattan's New York Public Library, Columbus Circle and the Municipal Building; visits Arizona’s Sitgreaves National Forest where logger Travis Walton was allegedly abducted by a UFO; looks into the history of buffalo wings at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York where a carved statue of its inventor, Teressa Bellissimo is located; explores South Dakota's Shadehill State Recreation Area, where a bronze plague tells the tale of fur trapper Hugh Glass' survival from a grizzly bear attack; investigates the ghostly "face in the courthouse window" of a freed slave who was lyched at the Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton, Alabama; and uncovers the hoax of the Lake George Monster first discovered by Colonel William d'Alton Mann in Lake George in Upstate New York's Adirondack Park.
1.10"Devil's Music; Fisherman's Wharf; Alaska Triangle Hale Boggs"July 18, 2013
Don looks into the story behind Charles Dickens's statue at Clark Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dedicated to his "spirit pen" completing The Mystery of Edwin Drood; examines a case of warrant fraud by entrepreneur Henry Meiggs' loss on Meiggs Wharf of San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf; learns about bluesman Robert Johnson's alleged deal with the devil through the "Crossroads Monument" at the intersection of Highway 61 and 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi; investigates the unsolved disappearances of congressmen Hale Boggs and Nick Begich in Alaska's Chugach National Forest; visits "Taliesin" in Spring Green, Wisconsin, the former home of Frank Lloyd Wright, which became the scene of a killing spree; explores Delta National Forest in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, the setting of how Theodore Roosevelt got his nickname "Teddy Bear" during a hunting trip with Holt Collier.
1.11"First Circus Elephant; Greenbrier Ghost; Death of Captain Cook"July 25, 2013
Don visits a memorial in Somers, New York to "Old Bet", the first circus elephant, which Hachaliah Bailey brought to the U.S. for the public to see; uncovers the legend of a woman's ghost that solved her murder, naming her the "Greenbrier Ghost" on her headstone in a cemetery in Lewisburg, West Virginia; examines the James Cook statue in Waimea, Kauai that commemorates his discovery of the Hawaiian Islands; looks into the story behind the "Champ" monument, which is dedicated to the lake monster/sea serpent that inhabits Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont; explores Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York where the elaborate tombstone of daredevil Steve Brodie, the first person to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge and survive; and investigates the survival story of Air Force Lt. David Steeves after his T-33 Trainer Jet exploded over California’s Kings Canyon National Park.
1.12"Eureka Springs Cancer Hotel; Female Paul Revere; Frozen Grandpa"August 1, 2013
Don visits the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where swindler Norman Baker proposed a cure for cancer; examines a statue in Carmel, New York of Sybil Ludington, Colonel Henry Ludington's teenage daughter who became a hero of the Revolutionary War with her horsemanship, riding 40 miles to deliver a message; learns about a cryogenically frozen man whose body is stored in a shed in Nederland, Colorado; discovers a statue at the Edwards Air Force Base in Edwards, California that pays tribute to Chuck Yeager, who flew at the speed of sound; investigates the Pontalba Buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana, the oldest apartments in the U.S. and its designer Baroness Micaela Almonester Pontalba's life; and explores the Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, home of a memorial dedicated to the USS Scorpion disappearance.
1.13"Ames Pyramid; Straus Titanic; Cracking the Zodiac"August 9, 2013
Don learns the story behind the Ames Pyramid in Laramie, Wyoming, a symbol of a financial scandal involving the Ames Brothers during the First Transcontinental Railroad; visits Manhattan's Straus Park, where a monument called "Memory" commemorates the love of Macy's co-owner Isidor Straus for his wife Ida Straus, who both died in the Titanic sinking; investigates California's Lake Berryessa island's link to the Zodiac Killer; examines Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial, where after being banned at Constitution Hall, African-American vocalist Marian Anderson broke the racial barrier by performing in front of an integrated crowd in 1939; explores Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida, where lovers met their death after having an affair behind the fort commander's back; and visits Marfa, Texas, where a terra cotta viewing platform showcases the mysterious Marfa lights.

Season 2 (2014)

Ep. # Title Original air date
2.1"Lucy the Elephant; Capitol Bomber; Hitler in Hollywood"June 13, 2014
Don Wildman visits Lucy the Elephant, an elephant-shaped building in Margate, New Jersey that once faced extinction from a wrecking ball; uncovers the story of German Nationalist Frank Holt, who bombed the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. in 1915; learns of Jacque St. Germain, believed to be a vampire who lived in a house at the Corner of Royal and Ursuline Streets in New Orleans, Louisiana; investigates the Oriental Saloon in Tombstone, Arizona where Casimir Zeglen, a young priest used the journals of local Dr. George E. Goodfellow to invent the bulletproof vest; explores Murphy Ranch in Rustic Canyon, Los Angeles, California, an abandoned bunker compound built for Silver Legion of America, a Nazi sympathizer cult; and discovers Dr. Charles Norris of the Manhattan Municipal Building in New York City is linked to Standard Oil's scandal involving Tetraethyllead poisoning.
2.2"St. Urho; Mystery Castle; Bat Bombs"June 20, 2014
Don learns about the truth behind a 14-foot statue of the fictitious patron saint of Finland, Saint Urho in Menahga, Minnesota; investigates the 1974 alien abduction of a hunter in Medicine Bow National Forest of Wyoming/Colorado; examines a double-sided plague in Flint, Michigan that honors Sarah Emma Edmonds who served as a nurse in the Union Army as her secret persona, Franklin Thompson during the Civil War; checks out a bronze statue in Fort Smith, Arkansas of "The Invincible Marshall", Bass Reeves, a slave-turned U.S. Deputy Marshal; visits the Mystery Castle in Phoenix, Arizona, where a father suffering from tuberculosis made a promise to his daughter to build her a fairy tale castle; and shares the story of how bats residing in Carlsbad Caverns National Park in Carlsbad, New Mexico inspired a top secret weapon to turn bats into bombs during the Pacific War.
2.3"Mike the Headless Chicken; the Mystery of Boon Island; Sister Aimee's Scandal"June 27, 2014
Don examines a sculpture of a strange creature called "Mike the Headless Chicken" in Fruita, Colorado; explores Boon Island off the coast of Maine where a shipwreck occurred in 1710; learns about the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a building that was once linked to a nationwide financial scheme; visits a cave in Casper, Wyoming where, in 1932, prospectors found a pygmy known as the Pedro Mountains Mummy; uncovers a scandal involving celebrity evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson when she claimed she was kidnapped near Balboa Park in San Diego, California; and learns about the very first president of the United States, John Hanson at the county courthouse in Frederick, Maryland.
2.4"Kidnapping the Sacred Cod; Baseball's Forgotten Hero; the Artichoke War"July 4, 2014
Don investigates the Massachusetts State House in Boston, Massachusetts, where the fishy theft of the 1798 "Sacred Cod", a 5-foot long wood-carved cod occurred in 1933, examines a historical marker in Toledo, Ohio of Moses Fleetwood Walker, the real first African-American baseball player—a catcher for the Toledo Blue Stockings in 1883; discovers the statue of New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in Manhattan, New York, who took on the mob in the "artichoke wars"; discovers a possession of a girl known as the "Watseka Wonder" in the Roff Home in Watseka, Illinois; learns about a sculpture in New Orleans, Louisiana of jazz musician Buddy Bolden, a cornet player who descended into madness; and explores the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes in Southern California, where the lost Egyptian set from Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments is buried under the sand.
2.5"The Mystery of Captain Thunderbolt; Newsboy's Versus the World; the Rocket Man"July 11, 2014
Don investigates the mysterious past of a highwayman-turned teacher who founded the Round Schoolhouse in Brookline, Vermont; discovers a commemorative plaque in New York City that honors the Newsboys Strike of 1899; explores Lake Crescent in Washington's Olympic National Park, which played a key role in bringing a murderer to justice; examines the statue of Fredrick Douglass in Harlem, New York that uncovers his origins with a hoodoo root called "John the Conqueror" to ward off his master's beatings when he was a slave seeking freedom; learns about the life-sized bronze statue of famed physicist Robert H. Goddard in Roswell, New Mexico, who built the world's first liquid-propellant rocket; and visits the Great Sand Dunes National Park in San Luis Valley, Colorado, where a UFO sighting was connected to a horse mutilation.
2.6"Kecksburg Space Acorn; Skyscraper Swindle; Emperor of the U.S."July 18, 2014
Don examines a bizarre acorn-shaped sculpture that commemorates the UFO incident in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania on December 9, 1965; discovers a signpost in Martinsburg, West Virginia that marks the spot of the Belle Boyd Home, belonging to the famous Confederate spy who shot and killed a Union soldier; uncovers the story behind the world's littlest skyscraper in Wichita Falls, Texas that was once at the center of a fraudulent investment scheme during the oil boom; investigates the haunted Mission San Miguel Arcángel in Paso Robles, California which holds the horrors of a ghastly massacre that occurred during the gold rush; explores the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, an engineering wonder inspired by eccentric emperor of the U.S. Joshua Norton; and uncovers the story behind a statue of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California.
2.7"The King and the Spanish Dancer; a Communist Comes to America; Filth Party"July 25, 2014
Don investigates the cottage of Lola Montez, a Spanish dancer who lived in Grass Valley, California and had an affair with Ludwig I of Bavaria, which cost him his throne; examines a plague at the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in Madison, Wisconsin dedicated to Dr. Joseph Goldberger, who used himself as a lab rat to study a Pellagra epidemic in 1914; visits a 16-foot controversial statue of Vladimir Lenin, in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington; uncovers the truth behind the UFO incident at Hart Canyon in Aztec, New Mexico; learns about a bronze statue of Nikola Tesla that is a tribute to his part in the invention of radio in Shoreham, New York on Long Island; and explores Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada, where sightings of a 17-foot serpentine creature called "Tahoe Tessie" have been reported since the 1950s.
2.8"Superman vs. the KKK; Who Killed Huey Long?; Marches to Montgomery"August 1, 2014
Don learns how author Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan on Georgia's Stone Mountain by going undercover and exposing them through the Superman radio show; visits the statue of U.S. Senator Huey Long, who was mysteriously assassinated in front of the State Capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; investigates a UFO sighting witnessed by the Ground Observer Corps over South Dakota's Black Hills National Forest, spearheading Project Blue Book; examines the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, the site of "Bloody Sunday", the 1965 attack on civil rights activists while marching from Selma to Montgomery; uncovers the Murder in Coweta County trial at Coweta County Courthouse in Newnan, Georgia involving famed fortune-teller Mayhayley Lancaster; and discovers a monument in Dallas, Texas dedicated to Longhorns having the cure of Texas cattle fever.
2.9"The Reanimator; Florida Three Toes; the Man Who Invented Martians"August 9, 2014
Don discovers the story of real-life Dr. Frankenstein, Robert E. Cornish trying to resurrect the dead at the University of California at Berkley; investigates the giant penguin hoax when witnesses spotted three-toed footprints on the beaches at Florida's Honeymoon Island State Park; explores Sybil's Cave in Hoboken, New Jersey that was tied an unsolved celebrity murder of Mary Rogers, a beautiful cigar girl, who was killed nearby; uncovers the criminal case of the "Barefoot Bandit", teenage outlaw Colton Harris-Moore who hid out in Turtleback Mountain Preserve on Washington states’s San Juan Island; examines the work of Dr. Oliver Sacks at Manhattan's New York Academy of Medicine that was the focal point of "sleepy sickness"; and visits the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, named after astronomer Percival Lowell who claimed there are Martian canals on Mars.
2.10"Blind Tom; Invention of the Tommy Gun; Granddaddy of Snowboarding"August 15, 2014
Don visits the grave of slave-turned-pianist Blind Tom Wiggins at Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, whose musical prowess led to a custody battle; visits the birthplace of army officer John T. Thompson, the inventor of Tommy gun; examines the statue of aviation pioneer Jackie Cochran in Neillsville, Wisconsin, who served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (W.A.S.P.'s) during World War II; investigates the Lining House in Charleston, South Carolina, where Dr. William Trott opened up an apothecary shop, luring customers with the gimmick of a seeing live "mermaid"; discovers the origins of snowboarding with The Turning Point monument in Muskegon, Michigan when engineer Sherm Poppen invents the "snurfer", giving way for Jake Burton Carpenter's redesign—the snowboard; and learns the legend of teenage lawman Elfego Baca through his sculpture in Reserve, New Mexico.
2.11"Escape From Slavery; A Witch on Hatteras Island; The Horn That Made a Big Bang"August 22, 2014
Don visits the Lewis and Harriet Hayden House in Boston, Massachusetts that's connected to the most daring escape from slavery by Ellen and William Craft; examines the "Cora Tree", a majestic oak tree's connection to witchcraft while on Hatteras Island, North Carolina; discovers how the Holmdel Horn Antenna in Holmdel, New Jersey changed people's understanding of life's origins with the Big Bang Theory; discovers a gravestone linked to the murders of nursing home owner, Amy Archer-Gilligan at Hillside Cemetery in Cheshire, Connecticut; investigates the mystery of "Old Rip", a horned toad that survived 31 years sealed in Eastland County Courthouse's cornerstone in Eastland, Texas; and explores Mount Lemmon in Tucson, Arizona, where Wilhelm Reich claims the site has cosmic forces he calls "orgone energy" and experiments with his rain-inducing device, "Cloudbuster".
2.12"The House That Sugar Built; Kill Dozer; Rocking Chair Riots"August 29, 2014
Don learns about local welder Marvin Heemeyer, who went on a bulldozer rampage after losing a zoning dispute, damaging the Granby Town Hall in Granby, Colorado; uncovers the story of the 1901 "rocking chair" riot that took place in New York City's Central Park; investigates the "Philadelphia Experiment", an alleged cloaking device that was put aboard the U.S.S. Eldridge at Philadelphia's Navy Yard; visits the Hack House in Milan, Michigan that was at the center of a sugar swindle when owner Henry Friend claimed he could refine sugar with his electric refining machine; examines a monument in Cherry, Illinois that pays tribute to the 1909 Cherry Mine disaster, a coal mining fire where 259 men perished from "black damp"; and explores the moonlight towers in Austin, Texas are linked to a crime spree of the Servant Girl Annihilator, a Malay cook/serial killer who only murdered women.
2.13"Roosevelt's Moroccan Mission; The Last Bare Knuckle Boxer; America's First Spy Ring"September 5, 2014
Don explores the link between Philadelphia's U.S.S. Olympia and the Morocco political scandal involving Theodore Roosevelt, the Perdicaris incident; uncovers the story how one cop exposed a con-artist fortuneteller as he worked the case in New York City's former Former Police Headquarters Building; examines an historical marker in Hattiesburg, Mississippi that marks the spot of the last bare-knuckle boxing prize fight between John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain in 1889; discovers the mystery of a salvaged submarine found by a diver underneath Chicago's Lyric Opera/Madison Street Bridge; visits the house of Major Benjamin Tallmadge in Litchfield, Connecticut, the master of America's first spy ring that changed the course of the Revolutionary War; and investigates a UFO hoax from a memorial plague that replaced a stolen "alien" tombstone in Aurora Cemetery in Aurora, Texas.

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