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Episode Guide

REAL MAFIA UNDERGROUND

Sunday, November 9 at 9pm ET/PT

The mafia instills fear around the world, and in Sicily, its presence can't be ignored. With the help of the underground, this is where the mob got its start. Don Wildman travels to Sicily to trace the mafia's roots back to a vigilante secret society in an underground network that was created to hold trials against corrupt city officials and execute the accused. Don tracks the escape route of a most-wanted mob boss through ancient subterranean waterways, and discovers a bone-crypt that holds the key to Sicily's violent past. He'll even expose how the mafia teamed up with the Allies during WWII, undermining the Axis' line of bunkers deep within the hillside& and embedding themselves into Sicilian society for good.

SECRET SIN CITY

Sunday, November 16 at 9pm ET/PT

Welcome to Las Vegas, America's Sin City, where billions of dollars are lost and made every year on our national vices. In order to protect their cash, casinos have made security the highest priority. From underground vaults to secret surveillance nerve centers, Don Wildman uncovers how the latest technology beats the cheaters. But Vegas wasn't always this high-tech. Don shows how a massive engineering feat transformed the city from a barren desert into a mobster metropolis where thieves ran the show from underground tunnels dating back to Prohibition. And just when it looked like all the thugs were behind bars and the city would fall off the map for good, Vegas became the comeback kid. It's the only city in the world where you can be in Egypt one moment and Italy the next, thanks to a secret underground that allows the show to get bigger and better every time.

HITLER'S TRENCHES

Sunday, November 23 at 9pm ET/PT

World War I was the bloodiest war the world had ever seen. It toppled empires, redefined warfare, slaughtered over 20 million&and set the stage for the world's most hated dictator, Adolf Hitler. Here, along Belgium's Western Front, Hitler's twisted philosophies and mad ideology began to take root...as a young soldier in the blood-soaked trenches and tunnels of the underground. From the subterranean web where 24,000 Allied soldiers waited to ambush the enemy, to the indestructible fortress that endured thousands of bombs daily, Don Wildman explores the underground that made World War I one of the most brutal wars in history& and Hitler into the terrifying madman of World War II.

BARBARIANS' LAIR

Sunday, November 30 at 9pm ET/PT

From the swords of barbarian hordes to the guns of the Spanish Empire, Europe's darkest days lasted 1,000 years. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe was plunged into chaos for centuries, with mass bloodshed, rampant disease, and vicious carnage regularly raging through the streets. But below them, another world was carved out to keep the people alive...and enemies on their toes. From the immense quarries of a secret society to Templar torture chambers and the tunnels of medieval "ghost knights," Don Wildman tracks down the darkest secrets of the Dark Continent, buried deep below Europe's streets.

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