I Was There

Theo Wilson travels back in time to 1937, finding himself aboard the world's most luxurious airship, the Hindenburg, where he must solve the mystery of what leads to its fiery fall from the sky.

Theo Wilson visits the river shores of Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1889, where the biggest flood in U.S. history is about to be unleashed.

Theo Wilson journeys to Russia on April 26, 1986, as workers at the Chernobyl nuclear plant are in the throes of a disaster.

Theo Wilson travels back in time to Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, where the village is self-destructing over allegations of witchcraft amongst dozens of its citizens.

Theo Wilson time-travels to the mid-1800s where he finds a young man named Jesse James on the path toward becoming America's most infamous outlaw.

Theo Wilson time-travels to 1893 Chicago, finding himself in the lair of America's first famous serial killer, H.H. Holmes. How did Holmes become such a prolific murderer?

Theo Wilson immerses himself in the events that led John Wilkes Booth to hatch a plan to kill President Abraham Lincoln.

With red flags raised in the days before liftoff and multiple chances to stop the ill-fated launch, Theo Wilson is inside the moments that make you wonder, why did Challenger take off?

Theo Wilson time travels to the tension-filled '60s to see how civil rights hero John Lewis came to lead a historic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday.

It's 1929 and inside a garage in downtown Chicago, host Theo Wilson witnesses the bloodiest execution in gangland history--the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

Theo Wilson travels back in time to April 19, 1995, when Oklahoma City is rocked by a two-ton fertilizer bomb, the result of years of planning by domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh.

Theo Wilson time-travels to the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, where the underdog Russian Army is about to pull off a victory that will turn the tide of World War II in favor of Allied forces.