6.8 /10 1 Votes
6.7/10 TV Country of origin United States No. of seasons 1 Running time 45 minutes Final episode date 9 December 2009 Language English | 6.7/10 IMDb Narrated by Stan Bernard Original language(s) English No. of episodes 10 First episode date 16 September 2009 Genre Paranormal television | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Similar MonsterQuest, Ancient Aliens, Ancients Behaving Badly, Nostradamus Effect, Decoding the Past | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MysteryQuest is an American Paranormal television series that premiered on September 16, 2009 on the History channel. Produced by KPI Productions, the program is a spin-off of MonsterQuest. The tagline of the show is: "What if everything you believe is wrong?"
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Overview
The purpose of the show is best described by the narrator in the introduction:
The series examines various persistent mysteries (dubbed "case files") around the world, following teams of investigators who travel abroad to collect and examine evidence and study both popularly accepted explanations and alternate viewpoints regarding a particular case file.
Reviews
"MysteryQuest delivers on its promise to attempt to unlock new answers to unsolved mysteries." ~ Season one DVD review, Zach Freeman, TV Rage
"...it sometimes seems like the writers go into a particular mystery with a preconceived idea of what happened and only look at evidence that supports that idea." ~ Common Sense Media
Notable case findings
The episode titled "Hitler's Escape" made news after the forensic exam performed by Nick Bellantoni and DNA testing by Linda Strausbaugh, Craig O'Connor, and Heather Nelson concluded that the skull that the Russian government possesses and purports to be Adolf Hitler's is actually from a woman between 20 and 40 years of age.
In "Rise of the Fourth Reich", investigators uncovered documentary evidence that the organization called ODESSA was known to authorities well before being "exposed" by Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
In "Jack the Ripper", forensic handwriting analysis expert Michelle Dresbold and psychological profiling expert Brent Turvey identified "quack" medicine purveyor Francis Tumblety as the most likely identity of the infamous serial killer.