SEASON 2 - 2004
Relive the second season when History Detectives probed into puzzling mysteries across the country.
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EPISODE 12
While on a dig, “The Lost Towns of Anne Arundel County”
Project unearthed a rather surprising discovery...
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Two Boston brothers have heard a rumor
that two large propellers on the grounds of a hotel in Newport originally
came from a German submarine that sank off the coast of Rhode Island
at the end of WWII...
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A children’s golf foundation recently
received a surprising donation, an antique golf club...
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EPISODE 11
A woman owns a beautiful old alto saxophone that belonged to her father and according to family legend was once owned by the legendary jazz musician Charlie "Bird" Parker...
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A History Detectives viewer in Mulvane, Kansas, owns a 200-year-old
schoolbook with a startling secret...
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In the heart of Philadelphia, stands the abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary building...
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EPISODE 10
A man owns an old Continental Army muster roll
issued by the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts in July 1780. Among the 16 men listed
is "Paul Cuffee"...
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Why was a baseball field in Atlantic City, New Jersey, named after an African-American ballplayer in a time of intense racial tension?...
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A man owns a vintage Colt automatic handgun,
which family legend suggests once belonged to the Depression-era desperado,
Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd...
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EPISODE 9
A man in Paris, Kentucky, owns a beautifully
preserved, Western-style saddle, believed to have been used by the
Confederate general, John Hunt Morgan, on his famous raid into Kentucky,
Indiana and Ohio in July 1863...
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Environmentalist Gabriel Scott was working in the Copper River Delta
near Cordova, Alaska, when he came across the wreckage of an old ship...
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A San Francisco woman has heard about a
beautiful old banner owned by a local archive that, rumor has it,
was carried at the head of the famous Delano Grape Boycott march led
by Cesar Chavez in 1966...
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EPISODE 8
Could five .45 caliberbullets owned by a woman in a small Wisconsin town be responsible for the demise of the notorious Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow?...
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Could a portrait passed down through a Frederick, Maryland family actually be an authentic portrait of the nation's first president, George Washington?...
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The History Detectives arrive in Salem, Oregon to look into the story of a Revolutionary War poem found 25 years ago hiding in an antique trunk...
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EPISODE 7
In the first half of the 20th century, nearly 250,000 Chinese immigrants attempted to enter the United States...
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Did "Sam" the
first black ventriloquist dummy, transform how Americans
viewed race in the early 20th century?...
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Could a house in Essex County, Massachusetts, have once belonged to an accused witch?...
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EPISODE 6
Did John Wilkes Booth,
the infamous assassin of Abraham Lincoln, spend
time in this house?...
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A Long Island man owns a beautiful old riding crop he claims was given to an ancestor by the President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis...
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A Boston woman is fascinated by an old cannon, kept in a local national park storage facility...
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EPISODE 5
A San Francisco bank owns two antique pistols, allegedly used in the last great duel on U.S. soil...
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The family home of the famous military hero General Edward Godfrey holds a surprising secret...
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A woman in New Jersey owns a portrait she believes is a lost masterpiece by one of America's greatest illustrators and artists, Howard Chandler Christy...
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EPISODE 4
Lincoln Heights is a quiet neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles located far from the glitz and glamour normally associated with Hollywood...
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A Californian man spends $50 at a flea market on an antique lighter and a piece of Hollywood history...
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A Washington resident owns an old movie camera he believes could have been used to film the original version of 'King Kong'...
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EPISODE 3
What two Michigan brothers believed was an old sheet in a family trunk may have contributed to the end of slavery in America...
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In California, a photograph collector owns four small images of women taken in Chicago in the 1890s...
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In the harbor of Bayfield, Wisconsin a craft used for dredging and hauling rocks could hold a dramatic secret...
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EPISODE 2
A man in Delaware has an old board game that bears a remarkable similarity to Monopoly, but was made 20 years before Parker Brothers patented their creation...
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A San Francisco archive has discovered a set of watercolor paintings of what appears to be a prison camp...
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A Minnesota man has an old wooden cane that has been in his family for as long as he can remember...
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EPISODE 1
In Louisiana's bustling French Quarter sits a surprising remnant of American warfare - a Civil War-era submarine...
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Was this pipe given to a Californian woman's ancestor by the famous warrior Chief Red Cloud?...
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Was this home designed and built by inventor Thomas Edison?...
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