Season 12
6 episodes · Oct 23, 2012
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S12E1The Man Who Saved the World
Oct 23, 2012An officer aboard a Soviet submarine refuses to fire a nuclear torpedo during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
S12E2Bugging Hitler's Soldiers
May 1, 2013German POWs reveal inner thoughts about the Third Reich, including military secrets that helped the Allies win World War II.
S12E3Death on the Railroad
May 8, 2013Forensic and scientific analysis help determine how 57 Irish immigrants died less than two months after arriving in Pennsylvania to work on the railroad.
S12E4Cavemen Cold Case
May 15, 2013Scientists say some of the 49,000 year-old Neanderthal bones discovered in El Sidrón, Spain, bear signs of cannibalism.
S12E5Ultimate Tut
Jul 10, 2013New scientific research provides insights into how King Tutankhamen was buried, why his tomb remained intact and how he died.
S12E6Bones of the Buddha
Jul 23, 2013Bones of the Buddha is a 2013 television documentary produced by Icon Films and commissioned by WNET/THIRTEEN and ARTE France for the National Geographic Channels. It concerns a controversial Buddhist reliquary from the Piprahwa Stupa in Uttar Pradesh, India. It was released in May, 2013, and was broadcast in July 2013 in the US on PBS as part of the Secrets of the Dead series.