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Our homes are meant to be sanctuaries - places where nothing can harm us. But sometimes, that sense of safety is shattered by something sinister. From "The Grassman" in rural Ohio, to the Spotsville Monster in Kentucky, to the haunted house of Amityville fame, the "Fouke Monster" in Indiana and a young girl's bizarre timeslip, these witnesses have their sense of security smashed by the unexplained

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As the Cold War ramps up, a well-dressed man is found dead within miles of a nuclear testing site on a tranquil Australian beach; there are no clues to his identity or what could have happened.

An infamous Cold War cold case involving nine hikers found mutilated on a remote mountain slope; for over 60 years, authorities and amateurs alike have been trying to figure out what happened in a place that's been called "Russia's Area 51.".

One of World War II's greatest unsolved mysteries: an incomparable work of art worth half a billion dollars, lost without a trace; perhaps the single most valuable object the Nazis ever stole, the quest for this treasure has lasted over 75 years.

A medieval manuscript, which is filled with unidentifiable drawings and written in a secret language so complex that even the world's best code breakers can't crack, it has obsessed everyone from scholars to conspiracy theorists.

The Valentine's Day Massacre, a shocking event in Chicago's history, occurred on February 14th, 1929; it's an unsolved mystery.

Isolated, deadly, and unforgettable; places like Iwo Jima, Devil's Island, and Snake Island are home to some of history's darkest stories.

One spark is all it takes; from the Hindenburg disaster to Krakatoa's violent volcanic eruption in 1883, these explosions are among history's deadliest.

From killer hurricanes and tsunamis to earthquakes, floods and fires, these are the deadliest natural disasters ever recorded.

From the depths submarine divers have plunged to tap a secret Soviet communication line to the Special Ops team of suicidal soldiers sent to hand-deploy A-bombs in enemy territory, when is "Mission: Impossible" more than just a movie?

Teetering between the apocalyptic and absurd, declassified records will unveil the top secret weapons programs that attempted to bring down the world, uncovering the Soviet atomic test that shook the Earth with a force 1,500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, the CIA's creation of a gun that fired a shellfish-harvested toxin, and the Allies' bizarre secret plan to end World War II by fem

Undercover smokescreens driven by daring agents in service of executing a greater purpose.

Stalin's gruesome trials to create a hybrid human-ape super army; the eerie reason East Germany's Stasi collected the scents of dissidents in airtight jars; how the CIA uncovered a secret Soviet island devoted to developing deadly bioweapons.

From the CIA's decades-long pursuit of the perfect truth serum to the U.S. Army's secret PsyOps in Vietnam, mind games have long been at play among countries, its enemies and even its own citizens; every one a more alarming deception than the next.

Uncovering a plane crash in North Carolina that almost triggered nuclear Armageddon; the story of a UFO attack on a U.S. missile base that was suppressed for decades; a daring Israeli heist to steal a cutting-edge fighter jet.

Discovering a deadly poison lab operated by the Soviet Union's infamous "Doctor Death," a vast nuclear missile site buried beneath the Greenland ice sheet, and the U.S. government's doomsday bunker concealed inside a hollowed-out mountain.

From the seemingly innocuous children's toy engineered to save an informant, to hirsute-inspired movie disguises, the government's most clandestine inventions are never what one would suspect, and that's exactly why no one never saw them coming.

When governments strike dark deals with cults, mobs and even sworn enemies, frosty relationships and mounting tensions are tested head on.

Uncovering a plane crash in North Carolina that almost triggered nuclear Armageddon; the story of a UFO attack on a U.S. missile base that was suppressed for decades; a daring Israeli heist to steal a cutting-edge fighter jet.