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| Jay Thomas | Self - Narrator | |
| Alex Ursino | Marine | |
| Ilana Seagull | Houdini's Wife | |
| Justin Gillman | Marine | |
| Sarah Fay Preddy | Houdini's Assistant | |
| Joseph Stalin | Self | |
| Patricia Hearst | Self | |
| V.I. Lenin | Self | |
| James Gill | Eliot Ness | |
| Scott Cassell | Self | |
| Natalie Johnson | Patty Hearst | |
| Alan B. Carr | Self - Bradbury Museum | |
| Leon Theremin | Self | |
| Catherine Hearst | Self | |
| Randolph Hearst | Self |
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| Producer | Elizabeth Browde
Eve Rodrick |
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| Musician | Bob Christianson
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Host Don Wildman 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. |
| 43 mins 11/2/2010 1. Alcatraz; Enigma Machine; Real Mona Lisa | |
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Artifacts include Alcatraz escape dummy heads, WWII Enigma code machine, Fiji Mermaid art relic, Apollo 13 air filter, Dymaxion pre-fabricated house, and Mona Lisa painting copy.
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| 11/9/2010 2. Prehistoric Monster; 60 Year Old Government Coverup | |
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Artifacts include fossilized saber-tooth cat skull, "BOCKSCAR" B-29 Bomber aircraft, Cardiff Giant sculpture, Pullman train car light bracket, Air Force high-altitude parachute test dummy, and President George Washington's dentures.
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| 43 mins 11/16/2010 3. San Francisco Quake; Mastodon Story | |
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A San Francisco fire truck and ancient mastodon reveal scandalous stories.
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| 43 mins 11/23/2010 4. Japanese WMD's; Houdini Statue | |
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Simple objects reveal a complex, haunted past for Don Wildman.
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| 43 mins 5. Bonnie & Clyde Rifle; Deep Sea Fish | |
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Bonnie and Clyde's Gun - The Iwo Jima Flag - The Aerotrain 1955 - The Deep Sea Anglar Fish - Who reach the North Pole First - 1960 100,000 feet parachute Trial.
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| 43 mins 12/7/2010 6. T Rex Skeleton; Slinky & McKinley Nightshirt | |
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Artifacts include the "Spruce Goose" aircraft, a T-Rex skeleton, President William McKinley's torn nightshirt, empty picture frames from an art heist, a watch from the Johnstown flood, and the invention of the Slinky.
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| 42 mins 12/14/2010 7. Greensboro Lunch; Radithor; WWII U-Boat | |
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In the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, there's a small vial that once contained a wildly popular drug called Radithor. Don Wildman discovers how this doctor-approved "cure-all" end up destroying countless lives.
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| 43 mins 12/21/2010 8. Rosa Parks; Elliott Ness; Bigfoot | |
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An early episode of the series from before host Don Wildman joined the show, this episode narrated by actor Jay Thomas includes artifacts relating to the attempted assassination of Teddy Roosevelt, the Cleveland, OH torso murder serial killer, the capture of the land speed record by the U.S. from the British, the sinking of the Titanic, the civil rights movement, and Bigfoot. Some of these segments later had new narration recorded by Wildman and were re-cut into newer episodes of the series.
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| 43 mins 12/28/2010 9. Theremin; Silly Putty; Tacoma Narrows Bridge | |
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An electronic instrument in the Philly archives played into spy scandals.
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| 1/4/2011 10. Dillingers Death Mask; Frisbee; Shipwreck | |
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A New York City museum displays an artifact from an airplane which brought dread and destruction to the city; a metal staircase from the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam is on display at the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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| 1/11/2011 11. USS Intrepid; Seattle Glue Pot; Wing Walkers | |
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An old letter is discovered in the Yale archives; 120 year-old pot transforms Seattle; four mysterious objects are found on the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
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| 43 mins 1/11/2011 12. Concorde; Robert the Doll; Unabombers Shack | |
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A crisis in space; how the first supersonic commercial jet became an artifact; an antique doll's little secret.
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