The crew of the Betsey didn't realize that not all of them would make it home to Maine from Cuba ... What happened to the 1845 Expedition to the Arctic? Did Captain Franklin and his men perish in the cold, or did they resort to horrible measures to stay alive? ... Mary Read didn't let being a woman keep her from becoming one of the most feared crew members aboard a pirate ship ... Two ships wreck on the same small island at the same time. Can the...

Facing lifelong separation, William and Ellen Craft fled north in disguise, risking detection at every turn, all for the sake of freedom from slavery ... Douglas Mawson battled a power greater than any human villain when Mother Nature trapped him in her icy Antarctic jaws ... In 1943, Nazi guards packed hundreds of Belgian Jews into train cars headed for Auschwitz. Simon Gronowski, 11 years old, was determined to escape ... Three inmates vanished...

Where did Virginia Dare and the rest of the colonists of Roanoke go? What happened to aviator Amelia Earhart during her flight around the world? Did Anastasia Romanov escape being murdered by revolutionaries? Did Percy Fawcett find the fabled lost city of the Amazon? What became of escaped slave Solomon Northup after he published his memoirs?