About this season
History's Mysteries was an American documentary television series on the History Channel.
Episodes (16)
1. Drake's Secret Voyage
2. The True Story of Mutiny on the Bounty
3. Alamo Scouts
4. The Mysteries of King Tut
5. Salem Witch Trials
Aired 10 November 2011 • 60 min
Exploring the Salem Witch Trials, which took place in 17th-century Massachusetts. The hour looks at recorded accounts of accusation, imprisonment, trial and execution.
6. The True Story of the Philadelphia Experiment
The rumors have persisted for over fifty years. They have all the trappings of fiction, yet there are those who persist on believing that the U.S. Navy actually rendered a warship invisible and teleported it to and from the Philadelphia Naval Yards in a top-secret project. The True Story of the Philadelphia Experiment chronicles the origins and spread of this tallest of all sailor’s tall tales, revealing how research into anti-submarine technology likely provided the catalyst for the accounts and documenting stages in the story’s development in the pages of pulp fiction.