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History's Greatest Mysteries, The Final Flight Of Amelia Earhart

Season 6, Episode 5

Amelia Earhart, the world's most famous female pilot, takes off on the final leg of a record-breaking flight.

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Roswell
S6 E1 • 39m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

It's one of America's most mythic UFO incidents. Some believe it was aliens, others that it was a government experiment. So what crashed in 1947?

The Franklin Expedition
S6 E2 • 40m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

The quest for the elusive Northwest Passage ends in mystery as the Franklin Expedition vanishes into a labyrinth of ice. What really happened?

The Valentine's Day Massacre
S6 E3 • 40m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

On February 14th 1929, one of the most shocking murders in mob history goes down in Chicago and becomes known as the Valentine's Day Massacre.

What Is The Yeti?
S6 E4 • 41m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

Yeti sightings have been reported for centuries in the Himalayas. Could this seven-foot, shaggy grey creature be hiding in plain sight?

The Final Flight Of Amelia Earhart
S6 E5 • 40m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

Amelia Earhart, the world's most famous female pilot, takes off on the final leg of a record-breaking flight.

The Death And Fortune Of Pablo Escobar
S6 E6 • 40m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

Discover the life of Pablo Escobar, the influential drug lord whose impact spanned the globe in the 1980s.

The Lost Loot Of Jesse James
S6 E7 • 40m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

Cash, jewels, and two million dollars in gold bars. Jesse James and his gang robbed trains, stagecoaches and banks, and buried the spoils but only a fraction of the millions has actually been found.

The Rendlesham Forest Incident
S6 E8 • 40m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

A surreal event outside a US Air Force base near the Rendlesham Forest in England becomes an international legend, and one of history's strangest unidentified encounters.

The Amazing Events Of The Book Of Exodus
S6 E9 • 40m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

The burning bush, the ten plagues and the parting of the Red Sea. These biblical events in the Book of Exodus have shaped Judeo-Christian beliefs for centuries.

The Search For Atlantis
S6 E10 • 40m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

It's history's most famous lost city: Atlantis, the island kingdom that's baffled explorers for centuries. Some say Atlantis is a myth, while others insist it was a very real place wiped out thousands of years ago.

The Death Of Dillinger
S6 E11 • 40m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

He was the first Public Enemy Number One, the legendary outlaw John Dillinger. His life consisted of brazen bank robberies across the country, but his death remains shrouded in mystery. What really happened to John Dillinger?

The Missing Riches Of Genghis Khan
S6 E12 • 41m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

The ancient ruler who amassed a fortune estimated to be worth 120 trillion in today's dollars. Genghis Khan hides his riches so well that to this day no one has unearthed them. 800 years later the fate of his treasure remains a mystery.

The Missing Tesla Papers
S6 E13 • 38m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

Nicola Tesla had revolutionary ideas. When he died, Tesla allegedly had hidden papers that have never been found. But do these really exist?

Secrets Of The Copper Scroll
S6 E14 • 40m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

This is the most mysterious of the Dead Sea Scrolls. An ancient treasure map, recorded on a rare Copper Scroll, could lead to billions of dollars of buried treasure in gold, in silver, in jewels, hidden away thousands of years ago from Roman invader.

The Killing Of Bugsy Siegel
S6 E15 • 40m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

It's one of the most infamous and unsolved mob murders. Notorious mobster Bugsy Siegel is gunned down in his Beverly Hills living room. Although Siegel's killing becomes front-page news, no arrest is ever made.

Percy Fawcett And The Lost City Of Z
S6 E16 • 39m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

One of the most famous explorers in the world, Percy Fawcett, becomes obsessed with a lost city deep in the Amazon jungle.

Secrets Of The Sphinx
S6 E17 • 40m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

Rising from the sands of the Egyptian desert is one of the ancient world's greatest wonders, the mighty Sphinx.

The Lost Pirate Treasure Of Jean Lafitte
S6 E18 • 38m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

Known as "The Terror of the Gulf," the whereabouts of Jean Lafitte's treasure remain unknown. The swamps and bayous were his base and likely also his hiding place, treasure hunters have found very little of Lafitte's stash.

The Secrets Of Easter Island
S6 E19 • 40m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

How did an ancient civilization, with only primitive tools, carve and then move thousands of these rock monuments around the island and why?

Lost Places Of The Old Testament
S6 E20 • 39m • HDClosed Captioned Alt TextU

The Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah and Mount Sinai have seemingly vanished from the map, where are the Old Testament's legendary lost places and what might they reveal?

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  • About this episode
  • Laurence Fishburne takes a look at historically important mysteries, well-known myths, and modern legends using new evidence.
  • CastRobert R. Cargill, Caroline Cory, Michael Dennin
  • GenreFeatures
  • Seasons2
  • StudioSky History