The WORST episodes of History's Greatest Mysteries
Every episode of History's Greatest Mysteries ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of History's Greatest Mysteries!
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 - Roswell: The First Witness – The Writer
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/26/2020
Investigator Ben Smith travels to Jesse Marcel's hometown on Louisiana's Gulf Coast to speak with family members who reveal information that supports Marcel's story of a government coverup. Smith speaks with Leslie Kean, the investigative journalist who broke The New York Times story about a clandestine U.S. government program to investigate UFOs. Smith also digs deeper into the mystery of the journal as he studies writing samples to determine if the journal might have been written by one of Marcel's fellow officers who later claimed he was ordered to oversee the military's coverup. Back in Marcel's hometown, Smith meets with a man who swears Marcel confided in him about alien bodies-- something Marcel had never mentioned to the press or family. As the results come back from soil, metal and forensic handwriting analysis, Smith shares his findings with the Marcel grandchildren.
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#2 - 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.
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#3 - The Phoenix Lights Phenomenon
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/27/2023
In 1997, thousands of people across Phoenix witness a series of strange lights unlike anything they've ever seen. Could this be one of the largest-scale UFO sightings in history, or is there another explanation for this mysterious phenomenon?
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#4 - The Ark of the Covenant
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/6/2023
One of the holiest and most powerful relics from the Bible has been missing for over 2,000 years. While some believe the Ark of the Covenant was destroyed, many people think it's still out there. Could new clues finally tell us what happened to the Ark, and lead us to where it can be found?
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#5 - The Amityville Horror
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/21/2022
After a series of dark and ominous events, an unassuming family home on Long Island becomes the most notorious house in America. 50 years later, it's spawned a title wave of books, documentaries, and films; but do haunted houses really exist? Who--or what--is really responsible for the Amityville horror?
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#6 - Expedition Bermuda Triangle
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/2021
On December 5, 1945, five American WW2 torpedo bombers took off from Florida with all men and planes disappearing without a trace. Hours later, the search plane dispatched to find them, also vanished, believed to be lost to the infamous Bermuda Triangle. The number of men tragically lost that day totaled 27 and 75 years later, it remains an unsolved mystery. No ship in history has searched the extreme depths of the Bermuda Triangle, thought to have claimed over 1,000 ships and planes, until now. The late Paul Allen's ship, R/V Petrel, the most advanced search vessel of its kind, will deploy a wide array of cutting edge technology including deep-diving submersibles to investigate three miles down, in an effort, to find the lost squadron and solve the mystery that began the legend of the Bermuda Triangle.
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#7 - Who is D.B. Cooper?
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/15/2023
It's the only unsolved air piracy case in history; in 1971, a man hijacks a Northwest Orient Airlines flight, demanding four parachutes and $200,000; he jumps out of the plane with the money and is never seen again.
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#8 - Hunting Hitler’s U-Boats
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/2021
An investigation into the unshakable claims of Roger Miklos, one of America's most eccentric, controversial, and accomplished treasure hunters. Decades before his death in 2018, Roger believed he discovered a modified Nazi U-boat loaded with a fortune in artwork, antiquities, and gold off the coast of Turks and Caicos. Before he passed, Roger gave an exclusive interview that revealed clues about the possible position of the U-boat and left behind a trove of documents, maps, and photographs. Now, armed with this evidence, celebrated diver Mike Fletcher and his team will take to the high seas in search of the special U-boat.
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#11 - Endurance: The Hunt for Shackleton's Ice Ship
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/28/2020
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 the frozen seas to hunt down Shackleton's lost ship.
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#14 - The Sodder Children Disappearance
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/18/2022
A cold case that ignites every parent's worst fears: on Christmas morning, 1945, five siblings vanish from their family home in West Virginia during a raging fire. The devastated Sodder family spends the rest of their lives trying to find out what happened. Despite the work of dozens of investigators and thousands of amateur sleuths, the mystery remains: what happened to the Sodder children?
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#15 - The Voynich Manuscript
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/25/2022
It might be the world's most mysterious book: a medieval manuscript filled with unidentifiable drawings, written in a secret language so complex that even the world's best code breakers can't crack it. It's obsessed everyone from scholars to conspiracy theorists. What is the Voynich Manuscript? And who wrote it?
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#16 - Houdini’s Lost Diaries
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/2021
Harry Houdini left behind a diary that had been kept from the public, held under lock and key by a wealthy New York City Family. Now, magician and Houdini expert Bill Kalush has finally secured access to these pages. A team of experts will begin to unveil the diary, using new information gleaned from these personal accounts to form new insights into this enigmatic man's life. But Houdini's humble rise to fame eventually turns into a dark web of mysteries shrouding the truth behind this legend's end. From vindictive competitors to a man driven to failure by his own ambitions, the cause of Houdini's sudden death has remained unsolved, until now.
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#17 - Roswell: The First Witness – The Memo
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/19/2020
A former CIA operative's investigation into the Roswell crash arrives at a critical moment when the mysterious journal found among the possessions of Major Jesse Marcel undergoes a crucial test. As a US Army intelligence officer, Marcel was the first government official at the crash site. Investigator Ben Smith is taken to a secret location believed to be the real resting place of the airborne object, as a local archeologist finds evidence that a military cleanup may have taken place. A leading code-breaker continues his attempt to decipher the journal which may be written in a home-brewed code and contain hidden information about what happened at Roswell. And witnesses describe a series of bizarre events surrounding the now legendary crash, while an incredible new technology attempts to read words on a 70 year old photograph that may hold clues to the mystery: Did an extraterrestrial spaceship crash at Roswell?
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#19 - Blackbeard's Lost Treasure
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/20/2023
One of history's most notorious pirates, Blackbeard, is said to have had a treasure worth millions of dollars. After centuries of searching, the legendary hoard remains missing. As new evidence is unearthed, the mystery endures: what became of Blackbeard's lost treasure?
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#20 - The Escape of John Wilkes Booth
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/5/2020
He was the actor whose most famous role was assassinating a president. But was John Wilkes Booth also an escape artist? Did Booth evade justice and live for decades after killing Abraham Lincoln? For the first time, Booth family members share family lore, and what they believe is evidence of the assassin's escape, passed down through generations.
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#22 - The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/28/2022
A powerful union activist disappears from a Detroit suburb; 45 years later, it remains one of the most notorious missing person cases of all time; the mystery of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance features more twists and turns than a Hollywood movie.
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#23 - Titanic's Lost Evidence
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/21/2020
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.
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#24 - 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.
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#25 - The "Missingest" Man in America
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/13/2023
In 1930, a New York Supreme Court justice with close ties to Tammany Hall, and future president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, steps out of a steakhouse and disappears. For decades, the politically charged case dominates mainstream media and remains unsolved nearly 100 years later. But could a deathbed confession finally tell us what really happened to the notorious Judge Joseph Crater?
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