The BEST episodes of History's Greatest Mysteries season 6
Every episode of History's Greatest Mysteries season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of History's Greatest Mysteries season 6!
Investigate a wide range of historically compelling topics and the mysteries surrounding each including the Titanic, D.B. Cooper, Roswell, John Wilkes Booth, and more. Each program within the franchise will showcase fresh, new evidence and perspectives including never-before-released documents to the general public, personal diaries and DNA evidence to unearth brand-new information about these infamous and enigmatic chapters in history.
#1 - The Rendlesham Forest Incident
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/24/2025
An event outside a U.S. Air Force base near the Rendlesham Forest in England becomes an international legend, and one of history's strangest unidentified encounters; for more than 40 years, the question has endured.
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#2 - The Lost Loot of Jesse James
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/17/2025
Cash, jewels, and two million dollars in gold bars; Jesse James and his gang robbed trains, stagecoaches and banks, and buried the spoils; but only a fraction of the millions has actually been found.
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#3 - The Search for Atlantis
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/21/2025
It's history's most famous lost city: Atlantis, the island kingdom that's baffled explorers for centuries. Some say Atlantis is a myth, while others insist it was a very real place wiped out thousands of years ago. Finding Atlantis would not only be the archaeological coup of this century, but perhaps for all time. Is Atlantis a real place, and if so, where could it be?
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#4 - The Missing Tesla Papers
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/12/2025
Nicola Tesla is the epitome of what some would call the "mad scientist" and also one of history's most influential inventors. The father of AC electricity, Tesla had revolutionary ideas--but in the hands of the wrong people, those ideas could be used for evil purposes. When Tesla died, he allegedly had 80 trunks of papers full of groundbreaking ideas. But only 60 of those trunks have ever been seen again. Where are the other 20 trunks? What happened to Tesla's missing files... and what was in them?
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#5 - The Missing Riches of Genghis Khan
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/5/2025
The legendary ancient ruler who amassed a fortune estimated to be worth 120 trillion in today's dollars--Genghis Khan--hid his riches so well that to this day no one has unearthed them. 800 years later the fate of his treasure remains a mystery. Where are Genghis Khan's buried riches?
#6 - The Amazing Events of the Book of Exodus
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/14/2025
The Burning Bush, the 10 Plagues, the Parting of the Red Sea...these legendary Biblical events in the Book of Exodus have shaped Judeo Christian beliefs for centuries. But were these events divinely inspired miracles, or do they have a more earthly explanation? Is it possible some of these famous legends in the Book of Exodus aren't parables... but rooted in fact?
#7 - Roswell
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/27/2025
It's one of America's most mythic UFO incidents--a 200-yard swath of debris that landed near Roswell, New Mexico. Some believe it was an alien craft, others that it was a secret government experiment. The deeper researchers dig, the more perplexing the story gets. It's a mystery that's endured for nearly 80 years. So what really crashed in Roswell in 1947?
#8 - What is the Yeti?
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/24/2025
Sightings of the Yeti, a creature of myth and legend, has been recorded for thousands of years throughout the Himalayas and surrounding regions; a seven-foot-tall creature, covered in shaggy gray hair is hiding in plain sight.
#9 - The Final Flight of Amelia Earhart
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/3/2025
Amelia Earhart, the world's most famous female pilot, takes off on the final leg of a record-breaking flight; but Earhart never arrives at her next stop: an island in the Pacific Ocean; the search for this flier has revealed conflicting stories.
#10 - The Death of Dillinger
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/28/2025
He was the first Public Enemy Number One--the legendary outlaw John Dillinger. His life consisted of brazen bank robberies across the country, but his death remains shrouded in mystery. What really happened to John Dillinger?
#11 - The Valentine's Day Massacre
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/10/2025
On February 14th, 1929, one of the most shocking murders in mob history goes down in Chicago--and becomes known as the Valentine's Day Massacre. The 20s and 30s are full of gangland murders, but the Valentine's Day Massacre is considered the most brutal -- and the toughest to solve. So who carried out the Valentine's Day Massacre? And why?
#12 - The Franklin Expedition
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/3/2025
The search for the illusive Northwest Passage leads to a historic expedition that sets sail into a labyrinth of ice and is never heard from again. That disappearance sparks a search for clues spanning nearly two centuries... and leading to unthinkable ends. What really killed the men of the Franklin Expedition?
#13 - The Death and Fortune of Pablo Escobar
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/10/2025
Pablo Escobar, the narco-trafficker who single-handedly supplied most of America's cocaine in the 1980s, had billions of dollars in cash; by the time he was gunned down in 1993, it's believed he was worth over $50 billion in today's money.
#14 - Secrets of the Copper Scroll
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/19/2025
This is the most mysterious of the Dead Sea Scrolls. An ancient treasure map, recorded on a rare Copper Scroll, could lead to billions of dollars of buried treasure in gold, in silver, in jewels, hidden away thousands of years ago from Roman invaders. The most mysterious of the Dead Sea Scrolls; The clues listed on the Copper Scroll could lead to this vast fortune. Where is the secret treasure of the Copper Scroll?