About this season
Unsolved History is an American documentary television series that aired from 2002 to 2005. The program was produced by MorningStar Entertainment, Termite Art Productions, Lions Gate Television, and Discovery Communications for the Discovery Channel. The series lasted over three seasons and had a total of 47 episodes, in which a team of people, each with different skills, try to solve historical mysteries. As of 2007, the series airs on Investigation Discovery and occasionally on the Science Channel. However, episodes regarding the military are sometimes aired on the Military Channel.
Episodes (21)
1. Death of Marilyn Monroe
Aired 1 October 2003 • 60 min
In 1962, Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her California home. While the coroner ruled her death a probable suicide, there was minimal investigation and rumors of conspiracy and cover-up persist to this day. Find out how Marilyn Monroe really died.
2. Roswell: Flying Saucers Over America
Aired 15 October 2003 • 60 min
3. Salem Witch Trials
Aired 22 October 2003 • 60 min
The Salem Witch trials of 1692 were one of the darkest periods in early American history. Over 100 people were imprisoned and 37 were killed because of their purported involvement with witchcraft. Find out what caused the hysteria.
4. JFK: The Conspiracy Myths
Aired 19 November 2003 • 60 min
After 40 years, the assassination of President Kennedy remains unsolved. Government investigations have provided the American public with few answers. Dramatic demonstrations of the events in Dealey Plaza shed new light on the web of conspiracy theories.
5. The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
Aired 10 February 2004 • 60 min
On February 14, 1929, four men armed with submachine guns cut down seven mobsters in Chicago. Ironically, this famous mob event spawned the Chicago crime lab, introducing ballistics, polygraph, chemical analysis and forensic pathology to police work.
6. Aztec Temple of Blood
Aired 21 January 2004 • 60 min
An Aztec sacrifice of 20,000 people over a period of four days in 1411 is examined. The sacrifice consisted of a sacrificial priest cutting the person's skin beneath the rib cage, reaching up and cutting the arteries and veins attached to their heart and pulling it out. Then the body was pushed down the stairs of the altar. After an examination, it is proven that this many people could be sacrificed in such a small amount of time.
7. Myths of Pearl Harbor
Aired 7 December 2003 • 60 min
8. The Plots to Kill Lincoln
Aired 4 February 2004 • 60 min
Before he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln was the target of at least five other assassination conspiracies. Using forensic analysis and reenactments, each of these forgotten plots are examined.
9. Nostradamus
Aired 7 January 2004 • 60 min
Experts use forensic techniques to translate and verify what Nostradamus ""really"" predicted. Fact is separated from fiction as it relates to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
10. The Great Chicago Fire
Aired 26 November 2003 • 60 min
11. Jack the Ripper
Aired 12 February 2004 • 60 min
12. Killing Hitler
Aired 24 February 2004 • 60 min
On July 20, 1944, members of Hitler's General Staff detonated a bomb designed to kill their leader and his henchman. The bombing was to lead to the overthrow of Nazi Germany and an early end to the war. Find out why this famous coup failed.
13. Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
Aired 7 April 2004 • 60 min
In 1968 as Senator Robert F. Kennedy left a political rally in a Los Angeles hotel, shots rang out leaving him mortally wounded. Who really fired the fatal shot that killed Senator Kennedy? Was it a lone gunman, a young Palestinian, named Sirhan Sirhan?
14. Hunting Nazis
Aired 5 May 2004 • 60 min
After World War II almost 30,000 war criminals escaped from Europe. Was Dr. Mengele part of a Fourth Reich dedicated to evil plots to restore Nazi power? The truth is that Mengele, like many ex-Nazis, led a pathetic hunted animal existence after the war.
15. The Trojan Horse
Aired 12 May 2004 • 60 min
An ancient story tells us that a mighty Greek armada of a thousand ships sailed across the Mediterranean Sea to wage war on Troy. Bent on vengeance for the abduction of the beautiful Helen by the Trojan prince Paris, the Greeks lay siege to the great city.
16. Suicide Bombers
Aired 19 May 2004 • 60 min
19. Ninjas
Aired 2 June 2004 • 60 min
The myths surrounding the Ninja, the mysterious elite fighting force of feudal Japan, are explored
20. Flight KAL-007
7.0Aired 15 July 2004 • 60 min
The Korean Airlines 747 shot down in 1983 is investigated using 21st century technology and science.
21. In Search of D.B. Cooper
Aired 7 August 2004 • 60 min
Forensic techniques are used to examine the disappearance of D.B. Cooper, who parachuted from an airplane in 1971 with a stolen $200,000.
22. Butch and Sundance
Aired 15 August 2004 • 60 min
The rumored survival of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid from their famous 1908 shootout in Bolivia is investigated.
23. The Bermuda Triangle
Aired 16 September 2004 • 60 min
The mysterious disappearances of boats and planes in the Bermuda Triangle are investigated.