Myth Hunters

August Gissler's seventeen year quest to find pirate treasure on Cocos Island. Gissler brought fifty German families to Cocos to help him locate the treasure. But everything went terribly wrong. To some, Gissler's quest was a magnificent passion, but to others, it is a tale of greed and obsession.

According to legend, somewhere in Texas lies buried a vast treasure of Spanish gold. Guided by a cryptic old map, Dave Arnold begins a 7-year quest. One that leads to a mysterious death, financial ruin and an ancient curse.

Uncovering the fraud behind the myth that spawned Dan Brown's book "The Da Vinci Code". For more than 70 years the small French village of Rennes-le-Chateau has lured treasure hunters with a strange tale about a local priest.

Paul Badde goes on a journey to learn about the 'face of God' discovered in Manoppello. This image on a transparent cloth is believed to be the only existing image of the living face of Jesus, and could potentially revolutionise Christian beliefs.

In 1911, Yale professor Hiram Bingham hears tales of two lost Incan strongholds deep in the Andes and leads an expedition determined to find them in the unexplored peaks of the Andes range.

The legend of Yamashita's Gold is the greatest stories of war loot in history. Roger's quest would lead him to cross one of the most brutal dictators of the 20th century. Looking for Yamashita's Gold had devastating consequences for Roger, changing his life in ways he could have never imagined.

In 1947, Mexican War Veteran Charlie Clusker traveled to the new territory of California. There he hears a story from Native Americans which send him on a quest for the most unlikely of relics--a lost ship in the Mojave Desert.

It was the biggest bank heist in history. The Nazis stole $500M of foreign gold. Most of the gold was sent to Switzerland, but as the war turned, the Nazis knew they had to hide it wherever they could, and most was sent South. What Lohde found was evidence of something even more extraordinary.

Brothers Clayton and George Hart try to crack the ciphers left by Beale that allegedly hide the location of hidden treasure.

According to legend, he was Britain's greatest King - King Arthur. He led his Knights of the Round Table from Camelot, a vast, spectacular castle built on a hill, and was supposed to have bravely fought Anglo-Saxon invaders and united the country. But there's very little evidence he really existed.

This is the amazing story of how a two amateur explorers discovered one of the world's greatest civilisations, the Maya.

According to legend, a fortune in gold bullion lies buried in America's Rocky Mountains. The only clue is a cryptic map, drawn by the sole survivor of a doomed French expedition. Folklore states just when it appears to be within an adventurer's grasp, The Curse of Treasure Mountain strikes.

American writer and historian Janice Bennett goes on a quest to prove the Holy Chalice of Valencia - a relic displayed within its cathedral for over 500n years - is the original cup of Christ used at the Last Supper.