The BEST episodes directed by Luke Wales
#1 - American Atlantis
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 5 - Episode 2
An abandoned town in the Nevada desert are the ruins of an American Atlantis, destroyed by catastrophic floods when the Hoover Dam was built. Stories: 1) SS Bakery, Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg; Germany; 2) St. Thomas, Nevada, USA; 3) The Northern Forts, Liepaja, Latvia; 4) Makhonjwa Mountains, Southern Africa
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#2 - Kingdom of the Vanished
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 5 - Episode 4
A mysterious town in South Africa is deserted, even though it was once a booming community; experts reveal the cataclysm that caused the people of this once-prosperous town to suddenly leave and never come back. Stories: 1) Podborsko Nuclear Bunker, Poland; 2) Willamette Falls Industrial Site, Oregon City, USA; 3) Pilgrim's Rest Ghost Town, South Africa; 4) Chard Canal, Somerset, England, UK
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#3 - American Ghost Park
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 7 - Episode 2
Deep in the wilderness of the American south, a long-abandoned amusement park is home to secrets of a forgotten, imaginary world; when experts investigate, they reveal why this bizarre place was built and what caused its downfall. Stories: 1) Dogpatch USA, Marble Falls, Arkansas, USA; 2) Drakelow Tunnels, Kidderminster, England, UK; 3) Nimrod Fortress, Golan Heights; 4) Spaç Prison, Spaç, Albania
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#4 - Jungle of the Damned
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 5 - Episode 1
At an infamous prison in the Amazon, the most dangerous criminals on earth faced hard labor, a hostile environment, and death by guillotine. Stories: 1) Vermork Hydro-Plant, Norway; 2) Salton Sea Ghost Towns, California, USA; 3) Saint-Lautent-du-Maroni Prison, French Guiana; 4) Ralsko Cold War Military Base, Czech Republic
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#5 - World's Strangest Ghost Towns
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 4 - Episode 1
The world's strangest ghost towns are home to dark secrets, creepy buildings, and eerie sights. Towns: 10) Villa Epecuén, Argentina; 9) Thurmond, West Virginia, USA; 8) Kolmanskop, Namibia; 7) Kayaköy, Turkey; 6) Chernobyl, Ukraine; 5) Bodie, California, USA; 4) Pyramiden, Norway; 3) Craco, Basilicata, Italy; 2) Prora, Germany; 1) Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA
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#6 - The Devil's Prison
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 5 - Episode 7
A prison with a terrifying past once housed America's most notorious criminals, the fortress stands in ruin, and experts reveal evidence of ghostly secrets hidden in the crumbling jailhouse walls. Stories: 1) West Virginia Penitentiary, USA; 2) National School of Art, Havana, Cuba; 3) The Quarries of Montigny, Oise, France; 4) Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, North Staffordshire, UK
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#7 - Tower of Death
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 3 - Episode 3
An alien Nazi structure that changed history, a strange Soviet monolith known as the Tower of Death, and a concrete ocean giant are deserted engineering projects. Stories: 1) Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France; 2) "Oddball", Yorkshire, England; 3) Fort Drum, Manila Bay, Philippines; 4) Yekaterinburg Television Tower, Yekaterinburg, Russia
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#8 - Nazi Death Star
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 3 - Episode 8
A Nazi fortress that could have changed history if it was finished, an underwater graveyard of unexpected American treasures, and a network of tunnels hiding a secret history of New York. Stories: 1) La Coupole, Pas De Calais, France; 2) Red Army HQ, Wünsdorf, Germany; 3) SS Empire Heritage, Malin Head, Ireland; 4) Old Croton Aqueduct, New York State, USA
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#9 - Journey to Outcast Island
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 5 - Episode 5
On a desolate island near Greece, abandoned buildings are evidence of a group of people that were forbidden to leave; experts reveal who was forced to stay here and if there was a cover-up to conceal what really happened at this strange place. Stories: 1) Isle of Portland, UK; 2) Pratt Cotton Gin Factory, Alabama, USA; 3) Spinalonga Leper Colony, Crete, Greece
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#10 - Haunting of Heartbreak Castle
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 5 - Episode 3
A mysterious castle was once a fairytale estate, but today, the building is said to be haunted, and experts investigate the secrets of this eerie fortress and the ghostly stories inside. Stories: 1) Gwrych Castle, North Wales, UK; 2) Keroman U-Boat Base, Lorient, France; 3) Fort Jackson, Louisiana, USA
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#11 - Into the Murder Labyrinth
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 7 - Episode 1
An underground labyrinth once used by a secret police force could warp the mind and turn friend into foe. Stories: 1) Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Louisville, Kentucky, USA; 2) Porto Flavia, Masua, Sardinia, Italy; 3) Odessa Catacombs, Odessa, Ukraine; 4) Hario Wireless Telegraph Station, Sasebo, Japan
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#12 - Secrets of the Doomsday Caves
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 5 - Episode 6
A vast network of subterranean bunkers in the American west was home to the power to destroy nations, but today, this facility is deserted. Stories: 1) Larson Missile Silo, Washington, USA; 2) Rangsdorf Airfield, Berlin, Germany; 3) Mesa Verde, Colorado, USA; 4) Castries Harbor, St. Lucia, Caribbean
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#13 - Labyrinth of the Dead
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 4 - Episode 4
Tunnels filled with human bones lie beneath the streets of Paris, and this horrifying engineering marvel points to a dark secret. New discoveries reveal why this grisly underground death maze was built. Stories: 1) Kienbaum, Berlin, Germany; 2) The Catacombs, Paris, France; 3) Fort Loncin, Liege, Belgium; 4) Cape Romano Dome Home, Florida, USA
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#14 - Secrets of Mafia Island
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 7 - Episode 3
A Mediterranean island paradise is not all that it seems; its complex of abandoned buildings were once prisons for the world's most dangerous Mafiosi; experts investigate new evidence to reveal who was imprisoned here and the secrets they left behind. Stories: 1) Fort Saint Elmo, Valletta, Malta; 2) Dredge Number 5, Nome, Alaska; 3) Alddreu Airfield, Jeju Island, South Korea; 4) Asinara Island, Sardinia, Italy
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#15 - Pompeii's Gate to Hell
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 4 - Episode 8
Near the destroyed city of Pompeii, an eerie complex of underground tunnels snake beneath a volcano, and some believe these passages were intended as a gateway to hell. Stories: 1) Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, former East Germany; 2) Drydock No. 1, California, USA; 3) Baia Archaeological Park, Naples, Italy; 4) Isla San Lucas, Costa Rica
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#16 - City of the Damned
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 3 - Episode 6
A deserted town in Spain with a bloody past and a ghost fleet heading nowhere are homes to dark American secrets. Stories: 1) Belchite, Zaragoza, Spain; 2) Concrete Ships, British Columbia, Canada; 3) Weingut 1, Upper Bavaria, Germany; 4) Eagle Lake Tramway, Maine, USA
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#17 - Curse of Satan's Catacombs
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 5 - Episode 8
An abandoned system of caves was once the meeting place of a secret society that worshiped Satan and performed black magic, and why a Founding Father was a frequent guest. Stories: 1) British S.O.E Cave & Tragjas, Albania; 2) Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, West Virginia, USA; 3) Hellfire Caves, West Wycombe, UK
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#18 - Escobar's Castle
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 4 - Episode 3
The ruins of a once-palatial compound contain the secrets of one of history's most notorious criminals. 1) Hacienda La Manuela, Guatapé, Colombia; 2) The Zeppelin Bunker, Wünsdorf, Germany; 3) Sao Domingos Mine, Alentejo, Portugal; 4) Denge Sound Mirrors, Dungeness Peninsular, Kent, UK
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#19 - Secret of Supervillain Island
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 4 - Episode 2
On a strange island off the coast of Croatia, the mysterious ruins of a long-abandoned hideout look like they once belonged to a James Bond supervillain. Stories: 1) Vis Island Base, Adriatic Sea, Croatia; 2) Sutro Baths, San Francisco, California, USA; 3) Port Arthur Penal Colony, Tasmania, Australia; 4) Deutsche Stadion full scale model, Oberklausen, Germany
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#20 - Haunting on Plague Island
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 4 - Episode 9
A strange complex of buildings on a remote tropical island was once home to a large seaside community, but today, locals avoid the area and claim that it's haunted. Stories: 1) 1936 Olympic Village, Berlin, Germany; 2) Chacachacare Leper Colony, Trinidad and Tobago; 3) BOS 400, Hout Bay, South Africa; 4) Carnon Viaduct, Cornwall, UK
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#21 - Alien Hell Portal
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 4 - Episode 7
A strange complex of tunnels on the grounds of a bizarre mansion were under lock-and-key for a century, and since its rediscovery, some believe its mysterious place is a gate to hell. Stories: 1) Villa De Vecchi, Rhodes, Greece; 2) Nuttallburg, West Virginia, USA; 3) The Initiation Well, Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra, Portugal; 4) Botallack and Levant Mines, Cornwall, UK
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#22 - Swamp of Despair
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 6 - Episode 2
In a remote Louisiana swamp, the ruins of a massive industrial operation suggest that something evil once happened here. Stories: 1) Goli Otok Prison, Croatia; 2) Laurel Valley Plantation, Louisiana, USA; 3) Invergordon Fuel Depot, Scotland, UK; 4) Port Royal, Jamaica
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#23 - Alaska's Fort Apocalypse
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 4 - Episode 6
In Alaska, the ruins of a massive compound point to eerie evidence of an apocalyptic mystery. New discoveries reveal why this strange marvel was built in the snowy wilds of the Last Frontier. Stories: 1) Buckner Building, Whittier, Alaska, USA; 2) Expo '92 Site, Seville, Spain; 3) Siegfried Line, Germany; 4) Red Star Train Graveyard, Budapest, Hungary
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#24 - Treasure of Outlaw Valley
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 4 - Episode 5
A ghost town in the American West was once a Gold Rush hotspot and one of the most violent places in America. Today, there are legends of a secret treasure buried in the surrounding hills. Stories: 1) Bannack, Montana, USA; 2) Der Riese, Owl Mountains, Poland; 3) Poldice Valley Mines, Cornwall, England, UK; 4) Wünsdorf Soviet Army Headquarters, Berlin, Germany
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#25 - Florida Doomsday Castle
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 6 - Episode 5
A strange bunker near the Kennedy Space Center once served a top-secret military function should doomsday ever come; experts use declassified intel to reveal the purpose of this forbidding facility. Stories: 1) Christianstadt Dynamite Factory, Krzystkowice, Poland; 2) AT&T Bunker, Florida, USA; 3) Coastal Forts, Gold Coast, Ghana; 4) The Sugar Refinery, Belgrade, Serbia
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#26 - Hell on Blood Island
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 6 - Episode 4
An island of dense jungle is home to an abandoned complex with a dark past of bloodshed and rebellion, and new discoveries reveal why it was built and the circumstances of its downfall. Stories: 1) Royal Hospital Haslar, Hampshire, UK; 2) Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, Alabama, USA; 3) Sazan Island, Albania; 4) Cinnamon Bay Plantation Ruins, St. John, US Virgin Islands
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#27 - The World’s Strangest Disaster Zones
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 6 - Episode 1
Special access to the world's strangest disaster zones reveals buried secrets. The Top 10 Strangest Disaster Zones: 10) Dallol, Afar Region, Ethiopia; 9) Muynak, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan; 8) Exclusion Zone, Plymouth, Montserrat; 7) 921 Earthquake Faultline, Nantou County, Taiwan; 6) Vajont Dam, Bellund, Italy; 5) Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan; 4) Centralia, Columbia County, Pennsylvania,USA; 3) Porong District, Java, Indonesia; 2) Villa Epecuén, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina; 1) Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
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#28 - Towers of Blood
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 6 - Episode 7
Abandoned towers in southern Greece are the ruins of a fearsome warrior civilization descended from the Spartans, and new discoveries reveal the role these towers played during generations of violent blood feuds among the clans that lived here. Stories: 1) Antonov AN-225, Kiev, Ukraine; 2) Loch Ewe, Scotland, UK; 3) Kingsbury Ordnance Plant, Indiana, USA; 4) Mani Peninsula, Greece
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#29 - The Real Shawshank
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 3 - Episode 9
An eerie prison with a dark past that became the setting of an iconic Hollywood movie and alien monoliths on a strange and remote island are deserted engineering projects. Stories: 1) Ohio State Reformatory, Mansfield, Ohio, USA; 2) Batterie Mirus, Guernsey, UK; 3) Jussarö Island, Raseborg, Finland; 4) Orford Ness, Suffolk, UK
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#30 - The Thing on Hell Mountain
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 6 - Episode 8
A massive, alien-like fortress built into a mountainside is the central node to a network of pipelines that race outwards like tentacles. Stories: 1) Shuinandong Smelter, Jinguashi, Taiwan; 2) Chanute Air Force Base, Campaign County, Illinois, USA; 3) Pidhirtsi Castle, Ukraine; 4) Fort Hermann, Bovec Basin, Slovenia
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#31 - End Times on Lake Michigan
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Season 6 - Episode 3
An abandoned industrial complex by Lake Michigan was once a top-secret military compound; new discoveries reveal what really happened here and why the government turned its back on this juggernaut. Stories: 1) Nike Missile Sites and Gary, Indiana, USA; 2) Vindolanda, Northumberland, UK; 3) Dire Dawa Railway Yard, Ethiopia; 4) Kaunas Fortress, Lithuania
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