Mysteries at the Museum: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Mysteries at the Museum Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Edison’s Electric Pen, Vanishing Carroll Deering, Lizard Man
Aug 15, 2013 · 60 min
Don Wildman examines a failed invention that helped create a multi-billion dollar industry, the bell of a ship whose crew vanished at sea, and a footprint of a lizard-like creature
Boston Strangler, Operation Pastorius, Nellie Bly
Aug 22, 2013 · 60 min
Don Wildman examines a weapon that belonged to a secret network of spies, a bag that belonged to a pioneering journalist, and a switchblade that belonged to a man some believed was
Squeaky Fromme, Hodag, Typhoid Mary
Aug 29, 2013 · 60 min
Don Wildman examines a weapon involved in a twisted plot to assassinate a US president, a beast that some believed terrorized people in Wisconsin, and a file that speaks of a notor
The Dance That Seduced a City, Vanishing Lake, Mysterious Death of Bugsy Siegel
Sep 5, 2013 · 60 min
At the Chicago History Museum, a pair of ostrich-feather fans tells of a risque dancer who scandalized the Chicago's World Fair. At the Joseph Jefferson Mansion and Gardens on Lake
Don Bolles' Quest for the Truth, Stanley's Miraculous Snake Oil
Sep 12, 2013 · 60 min
Don Wildman examines a mangled car which tells of an intrepid journalist's quest for the truth, a vile of liquid containing what was believed to be a miracle cure and an iron safe
The Infamous Jersey Devil, Tank Rampage
Sep 19, 2013 · 60 min
Don Wildman explores a plaster cast of hoof prints made by a mythic beast, a colossal war machine that once laid waste to an American city, and a presidential train car that remain
Margery the Medium, Everest Ascent, The Pastor and the Choir Singer
Sep 26, 2013 · 60 min
Don Wildman investigates a strange wooden box used in a ritual, a weather beaten oxygen tank which tells of a daring ascent and the torn hat of a local pastor found at the scene of
Jack the Ripper in New York, Jim the Penman
Oct 3, 2013 · 60 min
Don Wildman investigates an aged dossier which may be linked to one of the world’s most notorious killers, a century-old $20 bill which was once wielded by a brilliant and elusive
East River Blowout and The Day It Rained Meat
Oct 10, 2013 · 60 min
Don Wildman examines a piece of industrial machinery from the early 1900s, a glass medical jar containing a strange substance and a tattered shirt that is one of the last vestiges
The Death William Wood, Hacker Spy, Skunk Ape
Oct 24, 2013 · 60 min
Don Wildman investigates a set of tattered and chipped ventriloquist dummies, a rudimentary electronic device and a plaster cast that may prove the existence of a creature thought
Prison Experiment, The Real Noah’s Ark
Nov 14, 2013 · 60 min
Don Wildman investigates a tattered briefcase belonging to an eccentric doctor who went to gruesome lengths in search of the fountain of youth, a massive chunk of stone which some
Asylum Poisoning, Naked Joe, The Mad Bomber
Nov 21, 2013 · 60 min
Don Wildman investigates a pair of timeworn, everyday dining implements that were at the center of an event that shocked and terrified a psychiatric ward, a charcoal portrait of a