Mysteries at the Museum - Season 5

First aired: 8/14/2013 12 episodes
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Episodes

1. Edison’s Electric Pen, Vanishing Carroll Deering, Lizard Man

Aired: 8/15/2013

Don Wildman examines a failed invention that helped create a multi-billion dollar industry, the bell of a ship whose crew vanished at sea, and a footprint of a lizard-like creature that roams the swamps of South Carolina.

2. Boston Strangler, Operation Pastorius, Nellie Bly

Aired: 8/22/2013

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.

3. Squeaky Fromme, Hodag, Typhoid Mary

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.

4. The Dance That Seduced a City, Vanishing Lake, Mysterious Death of Bugsy Siegel

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.

6. Don Bolles' Quest for the Truth, Stanley's Miraculous Snake Oil

Aired: 9/12/2013

Don Wildman examines a mangled car which tells of an intrepid journalist's quest for the truth, a vile of liquid containing what was believed to be a miracle cure and an iron safe which played a key role in a heist.

7. The Infamous Jersey Devil, Tank Rampage

Aired: 9/19/2013

Don Wildman explores a plaster cast of hoof prints made by a mythic beast, a colossal war machine that once laid waste to an American city, and a presidential train car that remains shrouded in mystery.

8. Margery the Medium, Everest Ascent, The Pastor and the Choir Singer

Aired: 9/26/2013

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.

9. Jack the Ripper in New York, Jim the Penman

Aired: 10/3/2013

Don Wildman investigates an aged dossier which may be linked to one of the world’s most notorious killers, a century-old $20 bill which was once wielded by a brilliant and elusive criminal and an insect specimen which once wreaked havoc on America’s Heartland.

10. East River Blowout and The Day It Rained Meat

Aired: 10/10/2013

Don Wildman examines a piece of industrial machinery from the early 1900s, a glass medical jar containing a strange substance and a tattered shirt that is one of the last vestiges of a aviation anomaly.

11. The Death William Wood, Hacker Spy, Skunk Ape

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.

12. Prison Experiment, The Real Noah’s Ark

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.

13. Asylum Poisoning, Naked Joe, The Mad Bomber

Aired: 11/21/2013

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.