Season 16
Episodes • 2017

1. Alone in the Arctic, Space Shuttle MacGyver and Angelic Organ
60 minDon Wildman examines a pocket calendar that belonged to a woman stranded in the Arctic, a space shuttle that was at the center of a harrowing ordeal more than 200 miles above Earth and a musical instrument which produced heavenly sounds.
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2. Transatlantic Zeppelin, Potato Pool and the Lost Inca City
60 minDon Wildman examines an engineer's daring mission to save a high-flying zeppelin, a pint-sized prodigy's plan to play pool and an explorers life-long quest to uncover an ancient lost Inca City.
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3. Miss Unsinkable, Crop Circles and Detective Goodwi
60 minDon Wildman investigates a Titanic survivor plagued by disaster, the cause of mysterious crop circles in England and the case that created the first NYPD female detective.
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4. Project Vortex, Diamond Heist and Tinseltown, NJ
60 minDon Wildman investigates a scientist's attempt to document the life cycle of a tornado, a record-breaking $100 million heist and a pioneering filmmaker who went head-to-head against Thomas Edison.
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5. Mystery of Silence, Fearless Flyer and Fifty Stars
60 minDon Wildman examines a printing press connected to a founding father's secret identity, a model plane with the propeller in the back flown by a record-setting aviatrix and an American flag designed by a high school kid.
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6. Eisenhower's Crazy Convoy, Criminal Measures and Canyon Adventure
60 minDon Wildman investigates a president's cross-country road trip, a detective's plan to cut down on crime and an explorers dangerous quest to be the first to uncover the secrets of the Grand Canyon.
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7. Dewey Defeats Truman, the Real Jekyll and Hyde and Sunken Steamship Treasure
60 minDon Wildman examines how an iconic headline came to be, the real-life inspiration for a literary villain and the search for millions of dollars of sunken treasure.
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8. Winnie the Bear, Frozen Miracle and Whiskey Galore
60 minDon Wildman examines a stuffed bear that inspired one of the greatest children's books of all time, a fireman's pike used in a icy rescue mission and a bottle of whiskey that was once at the center of an illegal escapade.
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9. Rikers Island Rescue, She Sells Sea Shells and Weathering the War
60 minDon Wildman examines a well-worn fire hose connected to an astonishing tale of unlikely heroes, fossilized remains found by a young paleontologist who inspired an iconic tongue twister and an unusual vehicle used in the D-Day invasion.
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10. Beethoven's Mysterious Malady, the Great Raid and Planet X
60 minDon examines the mysterious illness behind a composer's untimely death, investigates a daring wartime rescue of 500 POWs and recalls an out-of-this-world discovery that changed what scientists knew about the universe.
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11. Channel Champion, the Forger and Harper Method
60 minDon Wildman investigates a record-breaking long-distance swimmer, a teenage war hero on Nazi-occupied France and the transformative tonic that lead to a franchise of salons.
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12. Stagecoach Mary, Alaska Firestarter and Mummy Mystery
60 minDon investigates a harrowing escape by stagecoach in the Wild West, an Alaskan town plagued by a mysterious arsonist and the tale of a missing mummy.
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13. Undercover Informant, the Black Beetle and Unexpected Artist
60 minDon Wildman examines the insider who took down Al Capone, a jet engine that was used in a daring railroad experiment and a portrait painted by a woman who overcame insurmountable odds to ...
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