Episodes

• Himmler's Haunted Castle

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  Robert Joe (RJ), an urban explorer and Historian Dr Sam Willis are on a mission to uncover the secrets behind Heinrich Himmlers Wewelsburg Castle in Germany. On March 31, 1945, Himmler had ordered a member of his staff on a suicide mission to blow the castle up before it fell into American hands as US troops closed in on it, but Himmlers staff was not equipped with enough dynamite to successfully destroy the castle. It survived. When the American troops reached the castle two days later, they found a room with a strange symbol now called the "Black Sun" and a crypt below it with pipes connected to centre of the room believed to be for an eternal...

• Hitler's Meth Heads

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  On May 10, 1940, German soldiers pulled off one of the most astonishing military operations of World War II. Thanks to the lightning war military strategy, aka blitzkrieg, the Nazis captured Belgium's most gigantic and impregnable fortress, Fort Eben Emael, in less than 15 minutes. Historian Sam Willis and Urban Explorer Robert Joe (RJ) investigate the truth behind the Nazi army's victory. Behind the brilliant military tactics, Sam and RJ discover that a performance-enhancing drug called Pervitin, an earlier version of today's crystal meth, might have been the secret weapon fueling the Wehrmacht in their march over Europe in 1940. They relive...

• Secret Art Fortress

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  As the chaos of World War II engulfs Italy, a British officer makes a shocking find: at a 900-year-old castle near the front line lies a vast collection of priceless artworks by some of Italy's greatest Renaissance masters. Hosts Sam and RJ are on site of Montegufoni Castle to get to the bottom of the weird tale. Who put the masterpieces there? Why? And just how did the works survive as battle raged less than 2500 yards away and the castle fell to Nazi occupiers? While bombs, artillery and fire destroyed galleries, museums and estates all over Italy, another looming threat was plunder-Hitler's nightmarish vision for the purging of Europe encompassed...

• Crocodile Massacre

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  The Burma Front, February 1945. After a six-week battle for control of Ramree Island, a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army is on the run from Allied Forces. Desperate for an escape to the mainland, a thousand men take to crocodile infested waters... and perish at the jaws of the hungry beasts. Seventy years on, the event still stands as the world's worst crocodile disaster in the Guinness World Records. But is all as it seems? Historian Sam Willis and urban explorer Robert Joe head to modern-day Myanmar to dig into the circumstances behind the incident. From coastal mangroves to mountain jungles, their search takes them across the country to reveal...

• Hitler's Lost Gold

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  1945 - the final months of World War 2, Nazi Germany crumbles under assaults from Russian and American troops, but Hitler refuses to surrender. Rumors swirls throughout Europe that Nazi trains full of gold looted from innocent victims and Nazi occupied state banks were lost while criss-crossing the continent. 70 years later, these rumors resurfaced again when two treasure hunters claimed to the world that they have found one of the missing Nazi gold trains in Poland. Until these days, no one can prove or disprove the existense of the train. Robert Joe (RJ), an urban explorer, and Historian Dr Sam Willis are on a mission to uncover the truth behind...

• Secret Flea Bomb

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  Two years after it began, Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor finally draws America into the fray of World War II. As their troops mobilize, the nation is gripped by the fear of another assault-this time against civilians on their own home soil. But did Imperial Japan really have a weapon that could turn their nightmare into a reality? In their hunt to uncover the extent of Japan's wartime plans, historian Sam Willis and urban explorer Robert Joe dig deep into the work of an secret research unit of the Imperial Japanese Army and their dark research into the workings of a deadly weapon that would assure them world domination. The story gets...