Bestselling author Brad Meltzer scours secret clues, symbols and conspiracy theories to unravel the most provocative enigmas from our history.
The team travels to Fort Knox, Kentucky to investigate the legendary vault. Is the is really empty, and is the privacy in place to protect a different secret altogether?
Could America’s founding document contain hidden messages from our nation's forefathers intended to be discovered years later?
Does one of America's greatest icons of democracy have a more sinister meaning? The team travels to Big Sky country to decode the intended message possibly hidden within this great American symbol.
Was General Patton, America's most revered four-star general, murdered? Explore the mysterious circumstances behind the military icon's controversial death.
Did the lance that pierced Jesus’ side during the crucifixion pass through the hands of Napoleon and Hitler? Did the Spear really exist, and has it been lost forever?
Was Billy the Kid killed by Pat Garrett in 1881, or did he survive and escape to live a long life and does the history of the American West need to be rewritten?
Finally, members of top military and aviation organizations break their silence to reveal exactly what the government knows about alien life, and what they stand to gain by lying about it.
Was an obscure sketch stolen and hidden by the Catholic Church part of Da Vinci’s cryptic prophecies? What was he predicting, and why did it need to be hidden from the world?
What did Mayan astronomer list as the end of time, and why do predictions from Mayan texts and the King James Bible appear to come true with eerie accuracy?
From Capone’s Chicago Outfit and Whitey Bulger’s Irish Mafia to today’s Mexican cartels and the Cyber Mafia, trace the origins of organized crime.
Was the seat of the Catholic Church responsible for the murder of one of its popes, John Paul I, who died of mysterious causes after just 33 days in office?
Was Houdini’s death not an accident, but an act of murder? Famous suspects all had their reasons for wanting the famed magician dead.
The Alaska Triangle claims more bodies than the Bermuda Triangle. Is geological activity behind the disappearances that cause people to vanish off the face of the Earth?
