History's Mysteries

Most people assume that Orville and Wilbur Wright were the first to make and fly an airplane. But other aviation pioneers built planes and flew around the same time.

They aren't police, and yet they can break down your door and yank you off to jail-if you're a bail jumper. Meet the elusive agents who track down those on the run.

Out of the Appalachian hills arose America's most famous family feud, which purportedly began in 1878 with the theft of a hog. We sort fact from fiction about the Hatfields and McCoys.

Did the Biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah exist, or was the story of their destruction crafted for other purposes? Near the Dead Sea, archaeologists uncovered ruins that could yield answers.

Gargantuan creatures rising from ocean depths to wreak havoc on man: Are they figments of the imagination or living relics of prehistoric times?

The Biblical great flood that destroyed the world would probably be dismissed as legend-if not for other ancient evidence suggesting the presence of a once-massive flood.

Join us as we explore and explain some of the most mysterious spots on earth-Devil's Triangles-where an unusual number of unexplainable tragedies occur time and again.

19th-century explorers in the American southwest encountered the ruins of a vanished civilization that spread across Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. Why were these cities abandoned?

From the earliest recorded references of the fighting sports to modern spectacles, we learn why games of combat have always been and will continue to be a vital part of sports.