7.9/1011 votesLoading...#1 - Exodus of the Templars
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 7/30/2019
Scott Wolter crisscrosses the Atlantic as he investigates cryptic carvings allegedly left behind by the Knights Templar. He runs scientific tests to prove his long-held belief that the Templars hid treasure in North America.
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7.8/1018 votesLoading...#2 - Egyptian Secrets of NYC
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/10/2015
Thousands of people walk through Central Park every day unknowingly passing by a crumbling relic that connects the Big Apple to ancient Egypt. Scott ventures to New York City after learning that an ancient Egyptian obelisk located in Central Park is undergoing restorations. The obelisk's hieroglyphs tell a unique story of the pharaoh that built it. But when researchers discover Freemasonic symbols under the 3,500 year old monument, a wrench is thrown into the timeline of History. Scott ventures into busy NYC searching for the truth behind the symbols and in doing so uncovers a secret message on the ceiling of Grand Central Station that points to an ancient alignment in the heart of America.
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7.6/1015 votesLoading...#3 - The Blood Stone
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1/3/2015
Scott Wolter investigates a 3000-pound boulder hidden inside the Chicago History Museum's secret storage location. The Waubansee Stone used to be even bigger when it sat along the Chicago River outside Fort Dearborn. Known as the city's oldest piece of art, the stone features the face of a man with closed eyes, parted lips and a chin beard. Some think it was an homage to a local Native American chief, but others believe the stone may have had a more sinister use hundred of years earlier. Scott's search for the truth about the Waubansee stone results in a wild romp through important events in the history of Chicago--from ancient to modern times--in which the Waubansee Stone always seems to have played a role.
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7.6/1018 votesLoading...#4 - The Templars' Deadliest Secret: The Chase
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/24/2015
In an epic, two-part season finale, Forensic Geologist Scott Wolter returns to his roots, gathering new evidence to support the theory that started him down the path of investigating mysterious artifacts and sites in the United States. That theory? That some members of the Knights Templar came to America after escaping death on Friday, October 13th, 1307. He uncovers shocking new secrets and sites, both stateside and abroad, linking the Knights Templar to cryptic symbols he believes represent one thing--a connection to Jesus's rumored bloodline.
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7.6/1016 votesLoading...#5 - The Spy Who Saved America
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 7/2/2019
Scott Wolter leaves no stone unturned in his quest to discover the true identity of Agent 355, a mysterious female operative who was a crucial member of General George Washington's Culper Spy Ring.
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7.2/1016 votesLoading...#6 - Vikings in the Desert
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 5/28/2019
Scott Wolter travels to Arizona to verify the origin of alleged Viking artifacts found in the desert. If proven authentic the pieces could substantiate claims that the Vikings made it all the way down to the American Southwest.
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7.2/1014 votesLoading...#7 - Cave of Secrets
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 6/11/2019
Scott Wolter travels to Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, to check out a mysterious cave that may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.
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7.1/1024 votesLoading...#8 - Secrets from the Alamo
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 11/8/2014
Davy Crockett was an American legend immortalized in frontier folklore for being the last one standing at the Alamo during the fight against Mexico. It was there Crockett is said to have met his heroic end. However, new evidence suggests that's not the case. An Alabama man contacts Scott Wolter about a land claim allegedly signed by Crockett--nearly 20 years after his death! As Scott investigates, he learns more about Crockett's life, membership in a secret society and involvement in the Texas Revolution at the Alamo. There, Scott discovers that the history books may be wrong when it comes to Crockett's fate and that the frontiersman's enemy, General Santa Anna, may have saved Crockett's life in a stunning twist of fate.
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7.1/1016 votesLoading...#9 - The Templars' Deadliest Secret: Evidence Exposed
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/31/2015
In the conclusion of the two-part season finale, Forensic Geologist Scott Wolter uncovers shocking new secrets and sites, both stateside and abroad, linking the Knights Templar to cryptic symbols he believes represent one thing--a connection to Jesus's rumored bloodline. The finale plays out like a real-life Da Vinci Code drama that will have viewers on the edges of their seats!
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7.0/1040 votesLoading...#10 - Great Lakes Copper Heist
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/4/2013
Scientific testing connects a prehistoric Bronze Age civilization with the mysterious disappearance of vast amounts of copper from Lake Superior.
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7.0/1016 votesLoading...#11 - Alien Artifacts
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 6/4/2019
Scott Wolter bushwhacks his way through the jungles of Veracruz, Mexico, as he investigates ancient artifacts that could shatter the archaeological record forever and change everything we know about our place in the universe.
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6.9/1018 votesLoading...#12 - Swamp Mammoth
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 2/8/2014
In Florida, Scott Wolter is called in to investigate a mystery surrounding a group of early inhabitants of the Sunshine State known as the Windover Bog People. As Scott learns about the perfectly preserved specimens, he discovers they have some unique features that could suggest they are European. And if they were, it would mean European travelers made it to America some 7,000 years ago. It's a shocking revelation--but not as shocking as what Scott learns next--that group of Europeans known as the Solutreans may have been here thousands of years before that, and actually predated Clovis people, who have long been thought to have crossed the Bering Strait land bridge and been America's very first settlers. The key to solving the mystery of just how long ago Europeans were here could be a single artifact--a small stone carving of a mammoth discovered by a man near Vero Beach, Florida that dating suggests is 13,000 years old.
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6.9/1011 votesLoading...#13 - Chicago's Mystery Bomber
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 7/23/2019
Forensic geologist Scott Wolter turns detective to crack one of Chicago's oldest cold cases -- the 1886 bombing of Haymarket Square. A recent dig for a buried time capsule may yield new clues about the identity of the bomber.
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6.8/1015 votesLoading...#14 - The Spearhead Conspiracy
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/22/2014
In 1200 AD at the same time the Vikings were discovering North America along the East Coast, new evidence suggests another group of intrepid voyagers may have been discovering the New World on the opposite end of the globe. When an obsidian spear point of mysterious origins is discovered by a group of hikers on the island of Maui, Scott Wolter is called in to investigate. Delving into it's origins, he discovers the artifact may have come all the way from Mexico--and is just one more clue in a mounting pile of evidence suggesting Polynesian voyagers made it there and back. What Scott wants to know is if they made it to Central and South America, could they have made it all the way to North America?
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6.8/1013 votesLoading...#15 - Phoenicians in America
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 6/25/2019
Scott Wolter inspects mysterious carvings on a stone that may prove the ancient Phoenicians made it to America over 1,000 years before Christopher Columbus.
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6.7/1010 votesLoading...#16 - Drake's Lost Treasure
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 7/16/2019
Scott Wolter travels up and down the Pacific coast in search of the long-lost treasure of ruthless privateer Sir Francis Drake.
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6.6/1042 votesLoading...#17 - American Maya Secrets
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/21/2012
Geologist and adventurer Scott Wolter explores a government-restricted site, and makes a startling discovery connecting the ancient Mayans with rural Georgia.
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6.6/1021 votesLoading...#18 - Guardians of Superstition Mountain
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 11/15/2014
The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine is the most famous lost mine in American history. It was supposedly discovered and kept secret by a German immigrant named Jacob Waltz in the 19th century, hence the "Dutchman" name. Is a true story or tall tale? The mine is rumored to lie somewhere near the Superstition Mountains in Arizona, and treasure hunters have been trying to find this mine of untold riches for more than a century. Scott Wolter decides to team up with some of these folks and offer his assistance after realizing the key to solving the mystery of the mine may lie in understanding a mysterious map carved into a series of stones called the Peralta stones. In the end, what will they find?
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6.6/1018 votesLoading...#19 - Montezuma's Gold
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 11/29/2014
Scott receives a strange package that points to a legendary treasure hidden in Southern Utah. When a journalist explains that the entire treasure of the Aztec empire may in fact be hidden in a man made tunnel system, Scott ventures out to separate truth from fiction. Through the investigation, Scott learns about the Aztec king Montezuma, cryptic symbols possibly used for navigation, and a deadly curse that may be all too real. In the end, Scott preps to dive on a haunted underwater chamber that may hold not only the gold, but also the ultimate secrets of the Aztecs.
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6.5/1036 votesLoading...#20 - A Deadly Sacrifice
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/18/2013
A man shows up at Scott Wolter's lab with a 500-pound discovery. In the flatbed of his truck is a large boulder he pulled from the Arkansas River, inscribed with a mysterious bull symbol. Wolter's investigation into who carved the stone and for what ritualistic purpose ultimately reveals a connection between the ancient Egyptian cult of the Apis bull, the mysterious religion known as Mithraism and a party of pre-Columbian explorers to Oklahoma's panhandle. In the end, carvings in a cave in America's Heartland shed light on an ancient connection that could prove a group of religious outcasts made it to America in pre-Columbian times.
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6.5/1015 votesLoading...#21 - Bigfoot of the Bayou
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 7/9/2019
Scott Wolter heads down to the land of gumbo and grits to search for the Honey Island Swamp Monster. He spends a solitary night in the Louisiana bayou to collect evidence of the elusive creature's existence.
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6.4/1034 votesLoading...#22 - Stonehenge in America
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/25/2013
Geologist Scott Wolter has reason to believe America has its very own Stonehenge in New Hampshire. With the help of a young man who discovered an amazing connection between America's Stonehenge and Stonehenge in England, Wolter explores the possibility that the ancient Phoenicians are connected to both of these megalithic sites. At America's Stonehenge, he uncovers many clues, including a sacrificial table and a mysterious message carved on a stone in ancient script that helps advance this provocative theory. He also discovers both sites are accurate astronomical calendars and that alignments with the heavens are incorporated into their design.
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6.4/1017 votesLoading...#23 - Marco Polo Discovers America
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 12/20/2014
Just east of the San Francisco Bay Area are the Berkeley Hills Walls--remnants of a massive, stone wall that stretches a distance of over fifty miles. The wall segments are up to six feet high in some places and are constructed of tightly fit limestone boulders. Scott is in intrigued by the fact that nobody knows who built the wall or even what purpose it serves. The only historical precedent for a miles-long, manmade, ancient wall is the Great Wall of China. Could ancient Asiatic explorers have made it all the way to the North American West Coast? In investigating the theory, Scott uncovers other evidence that could suggest the Chinese with their massive maritime fleet made it to the New World, using maps that were in the possession of Kublai Khan. He also discovers evidence that European explorers knew about China's epic voyages, including Italian explorer Marco Polo.
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6.3/1017 votesLoading...#24 - The Appalachian Giant
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/22/2014
The Appalachian Mountains are a region of incredible beauty and amazing legends. One such legend tells of a terrifying giant with a 7-clawed hand who left his mark on a massive rock. This incredible rock is sacred to Cherokee people who revere the artifact for its intriguing symbols and cultural significance. Others say the symbols aren't Native, but may be connected to visitors from afar--perhaps from over the ocean or from another world. Trying to set the record straight on this controversial stone, Scott Wolter heads to Appalachia. As Scott tries to determine the age of the carvings, he discovers the stone may have strange and mystical powers. He also learns that this isn't the only massive artifact in the region--the connection between the two may lead to a "giant" conclusion.
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6.2/1038 votesLoading...#25 - Medieval Desert Mystery
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/28/2012
Scott Wolter investigates a burial site in the mountains of Arizona, only to discover it may belong to a medieval Englishman.
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The Best Episodes of America Unearthed
Every episode of America Unearthed ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of America Unearthed!
Forensic geologist Scott Wolter explores mysteries, artifacts and relics to reveal a history of the North American continent not taught in school.
Genre:Documentary
Best Episodes Summary
"Exodus of the Templars" is the best rated episode of "America Unearthed". It scored 7.9/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/30/2019. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Egyptian Secrets of NYC".