History's Great Mysteries – Details, episodes & analysis

A mysterious man is found dead on Somerton Beach in Australia, 1948. No one recognizes him, has no belongings, and no known cause of death. As investigators try to piece together the puzzle, it quickly becomes clear that secrets are everywhere. Secret motives, secret identities, secret messages, secret codes, and perhaps secret love.  Exciting recent developments have brought us closer than ever to finally uncovering these secrets, that could one day soon give us answers in the world famous, Somerton Man case. 

Is there any way that the greatest anomalies of history, from the ancient pyramids of Egypt, to Stonehenge, the Nazca Lines of Peru, and multiple out-of-place artifacts, could be linked under one explanation? Is it possible that our history books have missed something huge? What would this mean for human history, and what would it mean for our understanding of human nature?

You've all heard his name, probably the most famous serial killer to ever live, and even through all the attention, the killer has yet to be unmasked. He terrorized East London in 1888, and still to this day slinks around in nightmares. Follow me through his grisly murders and come to your own conclusions on who could possibly be, Jack the Ripper. 

In the late 1800's an infamous, supposedly cursed, ghost ship sailed the 7 seas, claiming lives and possibly souls in its path. The tragic true history of the Mary Celeste cannot be overlooked or dismissed, and in fact must be investigated to discover if it was all just a coincidence, or perhaps there really were evil and mysterious forces at play.

In the late 1500's, 115 of the first English colonists in North America vanished off the face of the Earth. They had been settling an island off the coast of North Carolina called Roanoke Island, but when Englishmen returned to offer more supplies for the colonists, they discovered that everyone was gone. Leaving behind only a few cryptic clues to generate wild theories, the modern world still has no idea what happened to these lost settlers. 

Thousands of years ago, a secret society was formed by powerful and influential men that called themselves, Freemasons.  Throughout history, the hidden knowledge that the Freemasons posses has brought on a plethora of conspiracies and speculations. What could they really be up to? What is their hidden agenda? Even if there is  no grand conspiracy, one cannot ignore the pure amount of power Freemason members have had in the world. If there really are plans for a new world order, the one thing we can't say is that there weren't any signs...

The life and mind of Nikola Tesla was simply extraordinary. This week, I take a journey through his greatest inventions, some of which changed the world, and others that never saw the light of day. The strange circumstances of his death only compound the legendary mystery that is, Nikola Tesla.

Throughout human history, brilliant inventions have shaped our world, but what if I told you some inventions of our past became hopelessly lost through the ages. This week, I take a look at several instances of lost inventions and technologies that could have changed the very fabric of human progression but instead, we are left wondering what could have been.  

For over 600 years, a mysterious and cryptic medieval book has been baffling experts with its contents. Inside, there are over 240 pages of unreadable text along with out of this world illustrations. Despite our best efforts, no one really knows what it says or perhaps even more importantly, why it was written in the first place. One things for sure though, theories are limitless when it comes to the infamous Voynich Manuscript.

In 2004, the USS Nimitz Naval Strike Group witnessed one of the most compelling and credible UFO incidents in American history. What's more, the footage and information we have from the event were released by the US government itself. In 2017, the case was officially labeled as real unidentified phenomena. Listen in and decide for yourself what really happened out off the coast of Baja California over 15 years ago.