The BEST episodes of Mysteries At The Museum season 5

Every episode of Mysteries At The Museum season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Mysteries At The Museum season 5!

Introduces us to a wide variety of museums from across the United States, each filled with extraordinary, often bizarre artifacts with amazing tales to be told -- and secrets to be revealed.

Last Updated: 8/24/2024Network: Travel ChannelStatus: Ended
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Jack the Ripper in New York, Jim the Penman, Locust Swarm
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7.77
48 votes

#1 - Jack the Ripper in New York, Jim the Penman, Locust Swarm

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/3/2013

Don investigates an aged dossier's connection to Jack the Ripper. He also explores the story of a counterfeit $20 bill; and examines a specimen of a locust.

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Evelyn Nesbit Love Triangle, Lizard Man, Seven Sutherland Sisters, Edison's Electric Pen, Henry Box Brown, Carroll A. Deering
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7.68
53 votes

#2 - Evelyn Nesbit Love Triangle, Lizard Man, Seven Sutherland Sisters, Edison's Electric Pen, Henry Box Brown, Carroll A. Deering

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/15/2013

An electric pen invented by Thomas Edison. Don investigates the mysterious disappearance of the captain and crew of the Carroll A. Deering; and explores the legend of a lizard-like creature believed to roam the swamps of South Carolina.

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The Death William Wood, Hacker Spy, Skunk Ape
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7.29
48 votes

#3 - The Death William Wood, Hacker Spy, Skunk Ape

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/24/2013

Don Wildman investigates a set of tattered and chipped ventriloquist dummies, a rudimentary electronic device and a plaster cast that may prove the existence of a creature thought only to exist in myths.

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Margery The Medium, Everest Ascent, The Pastor and The Choir Singer
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7.27
48 votes

#4 - Margery The Medium, Everest Ascent, The Pastor and The Choir Singer

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/26/2013

Host Don Wildman investigates a strange wooden box used in a ritual, a weather beaten oxygen tank which tells of a daring ascent and the torn hat of a local pastor found at the scene of a crime.

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Don Bolles' Quest for the Truth, Stanley's Miraculous Snake Oil, The Infamous Northfield Raid
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7.19
48 votes

#5 - Don Bolles' Quest for the Truth, Stanley's Miraculous Snake Oil, The Infamous Northfield Raid

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/12/2013

Don visits an exhibit devoted to investigative journalist Don Bolles at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.; examines an alleged miracle elixir at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, N.Y.; and learns about the Northfield Raid during a trip to Minnesota.

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East River Blowout, The Day it Rained Meat, The Mysterious Michigan Triangle
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7.18
49 votes

#6 - East River Blowout, The Day it Rained Meat, The Mysterious Michigan Triangle

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/10/2013

Don examines a piece of industrial machinery that played a part in a disaster on New York City's Easter River. Also: a glass medical jar containing a strange substance that fell from the sky; and a tattered shirt recovered from the so-called Lake Michigan Triangle.

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Asylum Poisoning, Naked Joe, The Mad Bomber
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7.16
44 votes

#7 - Asylum Poisoning, Naked Joe, The Mad Bomber

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/21/2013

Host Don Wildman investigates a pair of timeworn, everyday dining implements that were at the center of an event that shocked and terrified a psychiatric ward, a charcoal portrait of a scantily clad man once embroiled in a notorious news expose and an aged dossier from the 1950s whose pages tell of one madman’s reign of terror.

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The Dance That Seduced a City, Vanishing Lake, Mysterious Death of Bugsy Siegel
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7.12
49 votes

#8 - The Dance That Seduced a City, Vanishing Lake, Mysterious Death of Bugsy Siegel

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/5/2013

At the Chicago History Museum, a pair of ostrich-feather fans tells of a risque dancer who scandalized the Chicago's World Fair. At the Joseph Jefferson Mansion and Gardens on Lake Peigneur in Louisiana, an antique urn is one of few relics to survive a terrifying earth-shaking disaster. And at the Los Angeles Police Museum, twisted bullet fragments are all that remain of a notorious gangster's brutal slaying that remains shrouded in mystery.

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Prison Experiment, The Real Noah's Ark, The Informant
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7.09
45 votes

#9 - Prison Experiment, The Real Noah's Ark, The Informant

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/14/2013

Don Wildman investigates a tattered briefcase belonging to an eccentric doctor who went to gruesome lengths in search of the fountain of youth, a massive chunk of stone which some believe is the fossilized remains of a biblical ship, and a reel-to-reel tape recorder used by one of the FBI's most prolific and notorious informants.

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Squeaky Fromme, Hodag, Typhoid Mary
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6.84
55 votes

#10 - Squeaky Fromme, Hodag, Typhoid Mary

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/29/2013

Don Wildman examines a weapon involved in a twisted plot to assassinate a US president, a beast that some believed terrorized people in Wisconsin, and a file that speaks of a notorious woman whose illness brought fear to New York City.

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The Infamous Jersey Devil, Tank Rampage, The Mysterious Death of President Harding
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6.75
52 votes

#11 - The Infamous Jersey Devil, Tank Rampage, The Mysterious Death of President Harding

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/19/2013

Don examines a plaster cast of hoof prints allegedly made by the Jersey Devil. Also: a colossal tank; and a railroad car used by President Harding.

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Operation Pastorius, Nellie Bly, Boston Strangler, Lord Cornbury, Carrie Nation, The Oneida Community
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6.61
56 votes

#12 - Operation Pastorius, Nellie Bly, Boston Strangler, Lord Cornbury, Carrie Nation, The Oneida Community

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/22/2013

Host Don Wildman examines a weapon that belonged to a secret network of spies, a bag that belonged to a pioneering journalist, and a switchblade that belonged to a man some believed was Boston's most notorious killer.

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