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Expedition Files
Expedition Files

Expedition Files

—Josh Gates travels through history on a search to uncover new evidence and answers to unexplained mysteries and true stories that defy explanation, offering revelations and new insights.
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Season 412 of 12 Episodes

  • Josh Gates explores American history, including a theory that John Wilkes Booth escaped justice -- only to meet a stranger fate; learn myth-busting truths behind Paul Revere's midnight ride and a U.S. Navy sub that vanished in the Cold War.

  • Josh Gates explores mysteries shaped by extreme weather: the fate of the Donner Party, a group of pioneers trapped in a Sierra Nevada blizzard; a secret Cold War missile base entombed in Arctic ice; and the ghost ship Mary Celeste, adrift in the Atlantic.

  • From a secret World War II unit that deceived Nazis, to the alleged crimes of the Knights Templar and a royal death tied to a scandal, Josh Gates explores mysteries built on coverups; was the truth buried to protect power, reputation and empires?

  • Josh Gates reopens cases where the truth stayed buried -- he exposes new clues, alibis and revelations that challenge everything that we thought we know about Noah's Ark, the terror of anthrax attacks and Bugsy Siegel's murder.

  • Josh Gates investigates three aquatic mysteries: the Kraken, Lake Lanier and Atlantis; from terrifying sailor lore, to a deadly lake's dark past and a lost city beneath the sea, he searches for evidence behind legends shaped by fear, myth and history.

  • Josh Gates investigates Dracula, Cold War psychic spying and Spartacus; from Vlad the Impaler's infamous reign of terror, to secret U.S. mind-control tests and a gladiator who defied Rome, he seeks the truth behind history's legends that refuse to die.

  • Josh Gates investigates sensationalistic stories, seeking the truth behind the unexplained: rock legend Jim Morrison's death, a bizarre, preserved mermaid found in a Japanese temple, and claims of alien abduction from a U.S. Airman.

  • Josh uncovers the culprits behind three of history's most baffling mysteries -- the suspected murder of explorer Meriwether Lewis, a possible U.N. plot around Dag Hammarskjöld's 1961 plane crash and the vanishing of New York judge Joseph Crater.

  • King of Pirates Henry Every's $400M heist and disappearance; the palace harem's conspiracy behind Pharaoh Ramesses III's death; new evidence about the mythical Amazon warriors' existence.

  • Josh Gates explores hidden identities: a 50-year-old cold case about a mysterious woman; new evidence that could rewrite the account of Judas' betrayal of Jesus; and the shocking tale of a teenager claiming to be a lost German prince.

  • Josh Gates explores the supernatural, from Nikola Tesla's mysterious Death Ray to an encoded message from a Sicilian nun believed to be of demonic origin; scientists uncover the real explanation behind the Oracle of Delphi's prophetic visions.

  • Josh Gates explores how new evidence reshapes history's mysteries: a fresh analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's death; a novel take on Ponce de León's quest for the Fountain of Youth; and DNA evidence reviving the murder case of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen's wife.

Record to Watch Later

18 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Family Secrets
    Code Breakers
    Strange but True
    Dark Waters
    History Got It Wrong
    Lost Treasures
    Who Done It?
    The Supernatural
    Mysterious Endings
    Mysteries of American History
  • Family Secrets

    The truth about serial killer H.H. Holmes's death may be exposed by one of his descendants; did the government conspire with the mafia about a mysterious helicopter crash?
    Upcoming
  • Code Breakers

    Josh examines clues left by the Zodiac Killer, the location of Forrest Fenn's million-dollar buried treasure, and the Voynich Manuscript.
    Upcoming
  • Strange but True

    A real-life child whose possession inspired "The Exorcist"; a con artist leaves a trail of deception and perhaps, even murder; an ancient army is defeated by hallucinogenic honey; these three stories prove that truth can outmatch fiction.
    Upcoming
  • Dark Waters

    Josh Gates investigates three aquatic mysteries: the Kraken, Lake Lanier and Atlantis; from terrifying sailor lore, to a deadly lake's dark past and a lost city beneath the sea, he searches for evidence behind legends shaped by fear, myth and history.
    Upcoming
  • History Got It Wrong

    Was the Hindenburg truly destroyed by accident or by sabotage?; could the famous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot footage hold clues that only modern analysis can define?; what really happened when 50,000 Persian soldiers disappeared without a trace in 524 B.C.?
    Upcoming
  • Lost Treasures

    What really became of Königsberg Castle's Amber Room, stolen by the Nazis? Could a lost hard drive in a British landfill hold millions in Bitcoin? Did King Solomon's legendary mines ever exist?
    Upcoming
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Josh Gates travels through history on a search to uncover new evidence and answers to unexplained mysteries and true stories that defy explanation, offering revelations and new insights.

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