Expedition Files

Josh Gates explores American history, including a shocking theory that John Wilkes Booth escaped justice -- only to meet a far stranger fate. Learn myth-busting truths behind Paul Revere's midnight ride and a U.S. Navy sub that vanished in the Cold War.

Josh Gates explores mysteries shaped by extreme weather: the fate of the Donner Party, a group of pioneers trapped in a Sierra Nevada blizzard; a secret Cold War missile base entombed in Arctic ice; and the ghost ship Mary Celeste, adrift in the Atlantic.