November 21, 2017, 6:40 pm
SPOILER ALERT! This week’s episode of The Curse of Oak Island sees Rick and Marty Lagina and the team agree to bring in archaeologist Laird Niven to oversee future digs on the island. But the letter that the team receive from Nova Scotia’s department of Communities, Culture and Heritage is not the first time there have been calls for them to have a full-time archaeologist involved in their treasure hunting exploits. Back in 2014, local MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) Denise Paterson-Rafuse said legislation to safeguard artifacts on the island wasn’t strong enough and the team should have an
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November 22, 2017, 5:30 am
This week on Expedition Unknown, Josh and the team are bound for the far north as they head into the Arctic Circle in search for woolly mammoth DNA. The woolly mammoths went extinct about 4000 years ago, when the last isolated population on Wrangel island died out. Though mammoths disappeared from the mainland around 10,000 years ago, probably due to a combination of climate change and human hunting. Mammoths were about the same size as modern day African elephants, with males about 3 m at the shoulder and weighing in around six metric tons. They had thick fur made up
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November 22, 2017, 6:46 am
This week on Black Ink Crew: Chicago, Charmaine’s dreams of movie stardom get a reality check when she arrives on the set for her part. She knows Waka Flocka Flame is part of the movie, called Mollywood, which is being directed by Morocco Vaughn and hopes her own role will be significant as Vaughn invited personally. Though things don’t get off to a good start when she interrupts filming by shouting out “your star has arrived!” The movie industry is a tough nut to crack and her role as a barmaid is really not far above that of an extra and in fact is
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November 22, 2017, 7:41 am
The latest episode of The Curse of Oak Island proved more than intriguing — if not for the reasons we may have been expecting. While a voiceover at the end of Episode 2 pointed to something sinister happening later this season, that didn’t occur in Episode 3 which suggests it’s still to come. But with hard evidence of a British presence on the island long before the discovery of the Money Pit materalizing in the form of two historic coins, and with the introduction of new archaeological protocols, we were left with plenty to chew on. Here are 10 questions we
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November 22, 2017, 9:17 am
On this week’s episode of Homestead Rescue on Discovery, meet the Crownover family — who decided enough was enough with urban crime in Phoenix and used their life savings of $98,000 to purchase 40 acres in the arid Arizona desert. The family of four decided to up sticks after daughter Michaela Crownover nearly got caught up in random gunfire in the city. Once settled in their new desert oasis they outfitted it with solar power and a water well and stocked it with goats, chickens, and pigs. But despite parents Paul and Danielle’s education and street smarts, they need help
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November 23, 2017, 6:50 am
Thanksgiving Evil spotlights the tragic case of a young bartender who was killed on his way home in a botched attempt to steal his holiday tips. Thanksgiving in Waldorf, Md., 2004, and 23-year-old barman Christopher Mader was driving home at about 2.30 a.m. after his shift at Benningan’s. He was just minutes from his home in Hampshire when he was shot dead, his car crashing into a signpost. An off-duty cop lived close to the scene and hearing the gunshot he was the first to find the wrecked car with Mader inside, he’d been shot once in the head. Initially investigators thought
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November 23, 2017, 8:28 am
The Nightmare Before Thanksgiving spotlights the brutal murder of Narleen Campton the night before Thanksgiving, in a murder that shocked the small Washington community where she lived. The night before Thanksgiving 2011 in the close-knit town Northport, Washington, and 62-year-old Narleen Campton was killed in her own home. Her body was found on November 24 and she had been killed by blunt force trauma, though disturbingly cuts on her face and evidence of strangulation indicated she’d probably been tortured. The case shocked the small community and detectives were under pressure to solve the murder quickly. Luckily they caught a break
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November 23, 2017, 9:08 am
Ever wondered what the first ever Barbie doll looked like? Here’s a near-perfect example, courtesy of History’s Pawn Stars. This newly released clip taken from one of the show’s Season 14 episodes features a Vintage Barbie Ponytail Doll #1 from 1959, including a box signed by the famous toy’s inventor Ruth Handler. The episode, titled Mini Miles, aired back in July and saw Rick Harrison of the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop snap up the original doll for $5,500 after being advised he’d be able to fetch between $7,500 to $8,000 for it if he sold it on.
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November 24, 2017, 8:36 am
This week Josh Gates’ Destination Truth has the team searching abandoned mines in Chile and searching for a watery monster in New Zealand. Chile has many abandoned mining towns but the two that Josh visits have been the sight of some rather strange activity. Locals have reported seeing shadowy shapes moving about the empty towns and also hearing strange and disturbing sounds. Some ghost towns, like Humberstone, are so well preserved that they are now United Nations World Heritage Sites, but are some of them home to more than interesting history? The stories are also quite similar to the ones
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November 24, 2017, 8:42 am
Alaskan Bush People star Rain Brown has thanked fans for their support as she celebrated her 15th birthday. The teenager, who this year celebrated her big day on the same day as Thanksgiving, posted a string of messages on her Instagram while spending the day with her family. One picture showed her yesterday next to a picture of her on Alaskan Bush People when she was younger, with the caption: “Anybody else feeling old today?” Another throwback photo showed her eating an ice cream with her “bestest friend” Tyler, with whom she shares the same birthday. Meanwhile, in a third
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November 24, 2017, 10:16 am
Bring It! is back on Lifetime with the whirlwind of energy that is Dianna “Miss D” Williams once again at the helm. But did you know her amazing backstory? Coach D, from Jackson, MS, has been dancing since the age of four and when she was younger studied at the Angie Luke School of Dance in everything from tap to ballet, jazz and modern dance. In the early 80s she went on to join the Eye of the Tiger Drill Team (1982 to 1988) before joining the Dancing Dolls Drill Team (1989 to 1991). Several years later she became the
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November 24, 2017, 10:37 am
On tonight’s Gold Rush, the Hoffman crew have a nightmare episode following a string of setbacks — including washplant Rusty Red breaking down and a truck slamming into a boulder. Todd and his crew now have three plants in operation, with Freddy Dodge’s Rusty Red in Fairplay, Colorado, running full of paydirt laced with gold, as we learned last week. But legal issues and now equipment problems are plaguing the team and especially Dodge, who has sunk all of his savings into this one mining site betting on a huge payday. Dodge is merrily pushing over 200 yards of gold-rich
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November 24, 2017, 11:09 am
Former cartel drug and money runner Mickey Munday reveals on tonight’s Finding Escobar’s Millions how he sprayed liquid cocaine on to “hundreds of millions of dollars”, mostly $100 bills. Munday — the “get” for former CIA operatives Doug Laux and Ben Smith on tonight’s truth-is-stranger-than-fiction edition of the Discovery show — explains he did it because he wanted “everybody” to test positive for cocaine. Speaking to Laux and Smith over some tequila, he tells them: “I would take the money to my hangar, bust it out and spread it all over the floor of the hangar. “I would put plastic bags
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November 24, 2017, 11:30 am
Warning, the teeth you are about to see may cause violent nausea and an extremely unpleasant reaction. Tonight on Investigation Discovery’s gruesome three-part series Deadly Dentists, we see how one dentist deals with a hardened drug dealer whose mouth is a horror show. “Local Fracture” is the first episode and the tale of small-town dentist Dr. John Yelenic. When a neighbor finds him deceased, it is soon realized that Dr. Yelenic was murdered and, subsequently, his secret life is exposed. Detectives unspool many unsavory people in Dr. Yelenic’s world that might have has possible motives. He had a devious soon-to-be
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November 24, 2017, 12:07 pm
A serious accident which took place during the filming of Season 5 of The Curse of Oak Island will be aired on the next episode. Footage of the incident sees a member of the drilling team being blasted by an out-of-control high-pressure hose, with his safety helmet seen flying through the air as a huge cloud of dust billows up around him. Other members of the team, including Rick Lagina, are seen rushing to his aid as he lies on the ground. A previously released episode description suggested the accident happened after the drill hit an underground void — something which
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November 24, 2017, 2:25 pm
This week in a two-hour special 20/20 examines the murder of Christa Worthington in a tranquil town on Cape Cod. Jan. 6, 2002, in Truro, Massachusetts, and 46-year-old single mom and fashion writer Worthington was found dead in her cottage by the sea. She’d been stabbed to death and her two-year-old daughter was found alive next to her body. The whole community was shocked and yet despite a large investigation and many suspects, the case went cold. Then almost three years after the murder and in a somewhat unusual move the investigation put out a request for voluntary DNA samples
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November 25, 2017, 8:43 am
This week Killer Women with Piers Morgan talks to Amber Wright, who was just a teenager when she conspired to murder her ex-boyfriend in gruesome fashion. 15-year-olds Seath Jackson and Amber Wright had been all loved up just a month or so before his murder. He’d been posting on Facebook how much he loved her, but a month later he was calling her a slut. This breakdown in their relationship went way beyond the usual teenage tiffs and soon Amber’s new boyfriend, Michael Bargo, decided he wanted to kill Jackson. Together with Wright and two other friends, Bargo worked out
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November 25, 2017, 9:32 am
Zak Bagans goes back in time on Ghost Adventures this week as he investigates reports of hauntings at the famous Titanic Museum in Branson, Missouri. Several employees say they have witnessed ghosts first-hand while inside the giant attraction, which is modelled to look like the famous ship. Around 1,500 people lost their lives in the tragedy when the vessel sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg on April 14, 1912. Staff believe it is the spirits of dead passengers who now haunt the museum erected in their memory. During the episode Zak hears from several employees about
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November 25, 2017, 11:18 am
This week Murder Made Me Famous turns the spotlight on cult leader David Koresh. David Koresh was born Vernon Wayne Howell in 1959 in Texas, where he was brought up by his 14-year-old single mother for several years before being taken to his grandmother’s place for three years. His mother returned and married, but despite being in a fairly stable family and having a half-brother he described his childhood as lonely. He later dropped out of High School and when he was 22 Koresh got a 15-year-old girl pregnant. After this he found god and became a born-again Christian with his
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November 26, 2017, 9:40 am
On tonight’s penultimate episode of Berlin Station, titled The Righteous One, our exclusive preview clip reveals an anxious April Lewis (Keke Palmer) trying to usher Lena Ganz (Emilia Schüle) safely through the subway and out of Berlin. In the clip, a frantic April is seen trying to get a scared and confused Lena out of the city limits after the death of her father and the confusion with a possible attempt on Katerina Gerhardt’s (Natalia Wörner) life. But in their efforts, they appear to be on the run which alerts the German Polizei who see them running. Director Giuseppe Capotondi’s
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