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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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