Mysteries at the Monument
| Mysteries at the Monument | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Monumental Mysteries |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Presented by | Don Wildman |
| Narrated by | Don Wildman |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 39 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Dominic Stobart Nicola Moody |
| Producers | Edward Hambleton Eve Rodrick |
| Cinematography | Justin Lee Stanley |
| Editors | Ed Kaz Michael Wei Margaret Noble Mario Gonzalez Michelle Kim Rose Margolis Athena Lemakis |
| Camera setup | Multiple-camera |
| Running time | 43 minutes |
| Production company | Optomen Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | Travel Channel |
| Release | May 9, 2013 – February 11, 2016 |
| Related | |
| Mysteries at the Museum Mysteries at the Castle Mysteries at the Hotel Mysteries at the National Parks | |
Mysteries at the Monument (formerly Monumental Mysteries) is an American
reality television series hosted by Don Wildman and airing on the Travel Channel. The show uncovers stories of history and unsolved mysteries behind America's national monuments. The series premiered on May 9, 2013, at 9:00 p.m. EST
. The second season aired on June 13, 2014, at 9:00 p.m. EST. For Season 3, which premiered July 3, 2015, the series was renamed.
Premise
Host Don Wildman travels the country for America's most amazing and unusual national monuments, uncovering the histories and mysteries hidden within. Each episode features a monument, historical marker, landmark, sculpture, or statue that has a special story or unique secret about them.
Opening Introduction: (narrated by Don Wildman):
Season 1-2:
Sometimes the greatest secrets lie in plain sight. These are "Monumental Mysteries".
Season 3:
Sometimes the greatest secrets lie in plain sight. These are "Mysteries at the Monument".
Special (2012)
Note: Monumental Mysteries: A Mystery at the Museum Special aired on July 17, 2012, as a special episode as part of the related Travel Channel Mysteries at the Museum series. The special also served as a spin-off episode for the first-season premiere of Monumental Mysteries in 2013. It's also called Mysteries at the Museum: Monumental Mysteries Special.
| Sp. # | Title | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Monumental Mysteries: A Mystery at the Museum Special" | July 17, 2012 | |
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Don investigates the tragic history of the Black Tom Island; examines the Georgia Guidestones in Elbert County, Georgia, a controversial monument of six granite stones etched with cryptic messages; learns the story behind a macabre memorial called "Black Aggie", a statue of a mournful veiled woman in a Washington, D.C. courtyard that was once believed to be possessed by an evil spirit that caused pregnant women to miscarry; discovers that when construction began in 1848, some viewed the Egyptian obelisk design of the Washington Monument as an emblem of evil of the New World Order; uncovers the mystery of a secret "Hall of Records" vault carved inside Mount Rushmore in South Dakota's Black Hills . | |||
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | DVD and Blu-ray release date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | Region 1 | Region 2 | |||
| 1 | 13 | May 9, 2013 | August 8, 2013 | — | — | |
| 2 | 13 | June 13, 2014 | September 5, 2014 | — | — | |
| 3 | 13 | July 3, 2015 | September 25, 2015 | — | — | |
Episodes
Season 1 (2013)
| Ep. # | Title | Original air date | |
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| 1.1 | "Teen Vampire; King of Cons; First Escape From Alcatraz" | May 9, 2013 | |
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In the series premiere, host Don Wildman examines a tombstone linked to the Washington's Mount Rainier; and explores the theory that John Wilkes Booth escaped Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln . | |||
| 1.2 | "Sickness of the Brooklyn Bridge; Day the Sky Fell Down; Gram Parsons Coffin Heist" | May 16, 2013 | |
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Don discovers the illness " spiral staircase, the "Miraculous Stair" in Santa Fe, New Mexico that was built by a mysterious carpenter. | |||
| 1.3 | "Smoky the Yorkie; Golden Gate Bridge; Oakville Blobs" | May 23, 2013 | |
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Don examines the mysterious substance of "clear blobs" raining from the skies at The Cowboys" leader Johnny Ringo wasn't killed by Wyatt Earp after he was found dead outside town after fleeing the shootout. | |||
| 1.4 | "Grand Central Occult; Superhero Surfer; Charleston Jail" | May 30, 2013 | |
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Don uncovers sinister symbolism in the a train wreck in 1918; learns that London Bridge is really located in Lake Havasu City, Arizona; and explores Scotty's Castle in California's Death Valley National Park , once a token of an unusual friendship between a con man and a businessman. | |||
| 1.5 | "Chrysler Building; Stanford Mausoleum; Hedy Lamarr" | June 6, 2013 | |
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Don uncovers the Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey; learns how actress Hedy Lamarr earned her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame when she came up with a secret commutation system for torpedoes to hit their mark during the Cold War; and visits the Grand Staircase in Escalante, Utah, where artist Everett Ruess disappeared. | |||
| 1.6 | "Ellis Island; Sailing Stones; Alamo Treasure" | June 13, 2013 | |
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Don examines the role that San Antonio, Texas is possibly the reason why Jim Bowie and his militia defended the fortress; and investigates moving rocks called "sailing stones" on the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park . | |||
| 1.7 | "The Real Rocky; Dr. Burdell; Kissing Sailor" | June 20, 2013 | |
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Don visits the St. Louis Arch 's base. | |||
| 1.8 | "Sleeping Prophet; Mysterious Death of Mozart; the Real Poltergeist" | June 27, 2013 | |
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Don visits the grave site of Space Walk of Fame in Titusville, Florida that pays tribute to Gemini 8's emergency landing after a thruster malfunction; uncovers the role Niagara Falls played as a gateway to freedom for escaping slaves on the Underground Railroad; and learns about how woodsman Galen Clark saved California's Yosemite National Park from mining developers. | |||
| 1.9 | "American Venus; Alien Abduction; Buffalo Wings" | July 11, 2013 | |
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Don unveils the story of "American Venus" buffalo wings at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York where a carved statue of its inventor, Teressa Bellissimo is located; explores South Dakota's Shadehill State Recreation Area, where a plague tells the tale of fur trapper Hugh Glass' survival from a grizzly bear attack; investigates the ghostly "face in the courthouse window" of a freed slave who was lynched at Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton, Alabama; and uncovers the hoax of the Lake George Monster first discovered by Colonel William d'Alton Mann at Lake George in New York's Adirondack Park . | |||
| 1.10 | "Devil's Music; Fisherman's Wharf; Alaska Triangle Hale Boggs" | July 18, 2013 | |
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Don looks into the story behind Teddy Bear" during a hunting trip with Holt Collier . | |||
| 1.11 | "First Circus Elephant; Greenbrier Ghost; Death of Captain Cook" | July 25, 2013 | |
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Don visits a memorial in Queens, New York where the elaborate tombstone of daredevil Steve Brodie, the first person to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge and survive; and investigates the survival story of Air Force Lt. David Steeves after his T-33 Trainer Jet exploded over California's Kings Canyon National Park . | |||
| 1.12 | "Eureka Springs Cancer Hotel; Female Paul Revere; Frozen Grandpa" | August 1, 2013 | |
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Don visits the Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, home of a memorial dedicated to the USS Scorpion disappearance. | |||
| 1.13 | "Ames Pyramid; Straus Titanic; Cracking the Zodiac" | August 9, 2013 | |
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Don learns the story behind the Constitution Hall, African-American vocalist Marian Anderson broke the racial barrier by performing in front of an integrated crowd in 1939; explores Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida, where lovers met their death after having an affair behind the fort commander's back; and visits Marfa, Texas, where a terra cotta viewing platform showcases the mysterious Marfa lights . | |||
Season 2 (2014)
| Ep. # | Title | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | "Lucy the Elephant; Capitol Bomber; Hitler in Hollywood" | June 13, 2014 | |
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Don Wildman visits Nazi sympathizer cult; and discovers Dr. Charles Norris of the Manhattan Municipal Building in New York City is linked to Standard Oil's scandal involving Tetraethyllead poisoning. | |||
| 2.2 | "St. Urho; Mystery Castle; Bat Bombs" | June 20, 2014 | |
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Don learns about the truth behind a 14-foot statue of the fictitious patron saint of Finland, bats into bombs during the Pacific War . | |||
| 2.3 | "Mike the Headless Chicken; the Mystery of Boon Island; Sister Aimee's Scandal" | June 27, 2014 | |
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Don examines a sculpture of a strange creature called "Mike the Headless Chicken" in San Diego, California; and learns about the very first president of the United States, John Hanson at the county courthouse in Frederick, Maryland . | |||
| 2.4 | "Kidnapping the Sacred Cod; Baseball's Forgotten Hero; the Artichoke War" | July 4, 2014 | |
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Don investigates the New Orleans, Louisiana of jazz musician Buddy Bolden, a cornet player who descended into madness; and explores the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes in Southern California, where the lost Egyptian set from Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments is buried under sand. | |||
| 2.5 | "The Mystery of Captain Thunderbolt; Newsboy's Versus the World; the Rocket Man" | July 11, 2014 | |
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Don investigates the mysterious past of a UFO sighting was connected to a horse mutilation. | |||
| 2.6 | "Kecksburg Space Acorn; Skyscraper Swindle; Emperor of the U.S." | July 18, 2014 | |
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Don examines an acorn-shaped sculpture that commemorates the Joshua Norton; and uncovers the story behind a statue of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles , California. | |||
| 2.7 | "The King and the Spanish Dancer; a Communist Comes to America; Filth Party" | July 25, 2014 | |
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Don investigates the cottage of Sierra Nevada, where sightings of a 17-foot serpentine creature called "Tahoe Tessie " have been reported since the 1950s. | |||
| 2.8 | "Superman vs. the KKK; Who Killed Huey Long?; Marches to Montgomery" | August 1, 2014 | |
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Don learns how author Dallas, Texas dedicated to Longhorns having the cure of Texas cattle fever . | |||
| 2.9 | "The Reanimator; Florida Three Toes; the Man Who Invented Martians" | August 9, 2014 | |
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Don discovers the story of real-life sleepy sickness"; and visits the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, named after astronomer Percival Lowell who claimed there are Martian canals on Mars . | |||
| 2.10 | "Blind Tom; Invention of the Tommy Gun; Granddaddy of Snowboarding" | August 15, 2014 | |
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Don visits slave-turned-pianist Sherm Poppen invents the "snurfer", giving way for Jake Burton Carpenter's redesign—the snowboard; and learns the legend of teenage lawman Elfego Baca through his sculpture in Reserve, New Mexico . | |||
| 2.11 | "Escape From Slavery; A Witch on Hatteras Island; The Horn That Made a Big Bang" | August 22, 2014 | |
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Don visits the horned toad that survived 31 years sealed in Eastland County Courthouse's cornerstone in Eastland, Texas; and explores Mount Lemmon in Tucson, Arizona, where Wilhelm Reich claims the site has cosmic forces he calls "orgone energy" and experiments with his rain-inducing device, "Cloudbuster ". | |||
| 2.12 | "The House That Sugar Built; Kill Dozer; Rocking Chair Riots" | August 29, 2014 | |
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Don learns about local welder moonlight towers in Austin, Texas are linked to a crime spree of the Servant Girl Annihilator, a Malay cook/serial killer who only murdered women . | |||
| 2.13 | "Roosevelt's Moroccan Mission; The Last Bare Knuckle Boxer; America's First Spy Ring" | September 5, 2014 | |
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Don explores the link between Philadelphia's Lyric Opera/Madison Street Bridge; visits the house of Major Benjamin Tallmadge in Litchfield, Connecticut, the master of America's first spy ring that changed the course of the Revolutionary War; and investigates a UFO hoax from a memorial plaque that replaced a stolen "alien" tombstone in Aurora Cemetery in Aurora, Texas . | |||
Season 3 (2015)
| Ep. # | Title | Original air date | Original U.S. viewers | |
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| 3.1 | "Destiny Stone; Niagara Falls; Madness of Mary Todd" | July 3, 2015 | 534,000[1] | |
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Don visits the famous George Crum cooked up the first batch for Cornelius Vanderbilt at Moon's Lake House in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1853. | ||||
| 3.2 | "Freedom Balloon; First Film Star; Freud's Therapy Dog" | July 10, 2015 | 520,000[2] | |
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Don visits the Anarchist Mario Buda in 1920. | ||||
| 3.3 | "Harlem Hellfighters; Resurrected Jockey; Invention of Braille" | July 17, 2015 | 596,000[3] | |
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Don visits the Meuse-Argonne Offensive with the French Army; and investigates the Thread City Crossing (a.k.a. "The Frog Bridge") in Windham, Connecticut adorned with 8-foot bronze frogs atop concrete thread spools, dedicated to the battling bullfrogs' nocturnal noise fight for the only water source in a mill pond during a drought in 1754. | ||||
| 3.4 | "Savior of the Squalus; Man Who Saved Pisa; Candy Bomber" | July 24, 2015 | 610,000[4] | |
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Don uncovers the history of the cat burglar Bill Mason . | ||||
| 3.5 | "Pretender Prince; The Lunch That Changed America; The Lie Factory" | July 31, 2015 | 474,000[5] | |
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Don tours the Napoleon 's army and was living under the false name Peter Stuart Ney as the town's schoolteacher. | ||||
| 3.6 | "The Real Q; Alibi Clock; Sasquatch in a Shell" | August 7, 2015 | 490,000[6] | |
| Don uncovers movement. | ||||
| 3.7 | "Piggy Bank; All the Kings Horses; Funeral to Freedom" | August 14, 2015 | N/A | |
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Don examines a plaque that pays tribute to a boy named Wilbur Chapman who raised enough money for Colchester, England, the scene of a siege during the Second English Civil War, allegedly inspiring a beloved children's verse from the nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty . | ||||
| 3.8 | "Pickles Saves the World Cup; Strowder Switch; Rebel Hope" | August 21, 2015 | N/A | |
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Don learns the story behind the Champions statue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a memorial built on the city's first Executive Mansion that pays tribute to George Washington's enslaved servant, Oney Judge , who escaped the president for freedom. | ||||
| 3.9 | "Black Magic Rocket Scientist; Broadway Baby and the Tobacco Heir; Disaster on Everest" | August 28, 2015 | N/A | |
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Don explores bloomers . | ||||
| 3.10 | "Stockholm Syndrome; Soviet Who Saved the World; Barbara Rose" | September 4, 2015 | N/A | |
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Don discovers Bradford Lee Gilbert's Tower Building, the first skyscraper; looks at a plaque in Nevada City, Montana, recalling the George Ives trial/hanging and how Montana Vigilantes stopped the 1863 stagecoach robberies of sheriff-turned-outlaw Henry Plummer and his bandit gang. | ||||
| 3.11 | "Gunpowder Plot; Lost in Yellowstone; Cops Are Robbers" | September 11, 2015 | N/A | |
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Don tours the Washburn Expedition inspired Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming . | ||||
| 3.12 | "The Disaster That Saved London; The Man in the Green Hat; The Viking Mailman" | September 18, 2015 | N/A | |
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Don visits the Hokulea . | ||||
| 3.13 | "Lady Godiva & the Peeping Tom; Bishop's Brain; Birds of a Feather" | September 25, 2015 | N/A | |
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Don discovers the truth behind Warsaw, Poland, once a part of the largest Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe and a freedom portal when social worker Irena Sendler aided them in their escape. | ||||
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