History's Mysteries

- Season 3

(2001)

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The whaler Essex sailed from Nantucket in 1819 and met its doom in the middle of the Pacific in 1820, when a sperm whale attacked, causing the ship to sink.

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Presidential assassinations alter the course of history-but not all would-be killers get the job done.

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The Black Legion was a secret organization of the 1930s, responsible for hate crimes that terrorized the Midwest. Its demise was dramatized in the 1937 motion picture "The Black Legion" starring Humphrey Bogart.

History's Mysteries looks at the life of Abraham Lincoln by examining the collected papers of his former law partner William Herndon. Troubled by the mythologizing after Lincoln's death, William Herndon collected interviews and letters to compile a detailed biography of the real man Abraham Lincoln. The documents result in a controversial biography and are later placed in the Library of Congress where they are largely forgotten until modern scholars publish them. They offer crucial insights into Lincoln's life especially his early family life with his family.

The first recorded U. S. extrasensory event occurred in 1848, when two girls from New York communicated with spirits behind their bed.

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The race to develop the first atomic bomb during World War II.

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It has been called the most brutal land war in history: the clash in World War II between the armies of Adolf Hitler and Soviet leader Josef Stalin.