Mysteries at the Museum

Part of the fraternity of devilishly interesting world travelers who get their own TV shows, Mysteries of the Museum host Don Wildman has the plum job of unearthing relics from the world’s greatest institutions to reveal incredible secrets and backstories from the past. Historical yarns are unspooled and reexamined by Wildman who examines each artifact

This week on Mysteries at the Museum, Don Wildman heads to Romania where vampire folklore is deeply embedded in the local culture. Legends and stories about vampires might go back as far as the Mayans and Ancient Greeks, but the ones most familiar to us are those stemming from Europe and in particular Transylvania in Romania.

Mysteries at the Museum’s Don Wildman looks into the mysteries of Pompeii, the invention of the telephone and President Hoover’s efforts to save Belgium during World War I. Pompeii in Italy is a large Roman town that was the victim of Mount Vesuvius erupting in 79 AD,  covering the unfortunate town and many of its inhabitants in

This episode of Mysteries at the Museum, Don Wildman looks at the case of the priest who became known as the Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican during WWII. Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty was an Irish Roman Catholic priest who at the time of WWII was based in the Vatican, Rome. O’Flaherty was instrumental in saving thousands of allied

Tonight on Mysteries at the Museum – the story of how Cousteau changed diving forever and why fish sometimes rain from the sky. Host Don Wildman looks at the work of diving pioneer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He had been inspired by the earlier work of Captain Yves Le Prieur, who had made real progress in making