Here is the summary for Mysteries at the Museum Season 2 Episode 8: LA Raid, Bioterror, Automaton:
Don unveils the real-life story behind an impressive work of art. He examines a simple tire cover connected to a bizarre religious cult. He visits the robot that may have saved thousands of human lives in the worst nuclear disaster in American history.
Host Don Wildman introduces us to a wide variety of museums from across the United States, each filled with extraordinary, often bizarre artifacts with amazing tales to be told -- and secrets to be revealed.
From Washington, DC’s Spy Museum where an unassuming black umbrella conceals a Russian assassin’s poison pellets to a collection at the University of New Hampshire Library where a tattered purple dress provides alleged evidence of America’s first alien abduction, strange and mysterious relics offer an inside look into the places that speak to our country’s diverse history.
With compelling interviews, rich archival footage and dramatic reenactments, Mysteries at the Museum brings to life the stories behind these remarkable artifacts that sit at the center of the scandals, the controversies and, quite simply, the most intriguing events of our time.