Mysteries at the Castle - Season 2

Mysteries at the Castle - Season 2

Season 2

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Episodes13
DatesJan 2, 2015 - Mar 27, 2015
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Dracula, Queen and the Mistress, King Arthur
Season 2Episode 160 min

Dracula, Queen and the Mistress, King Arthur

After impaling his Turkish enemies at Bran Castle in Bran, Romania, the bloodthirsty prince, Vlad III (aka Vlad the Impaler) inspires Bram Stoker's Dracula, one of the most notorious characters in modern literature. Glastonbury Abbey in Glastonbury, England was once the setting of the mythical tale of King Arthur and the legendary love triangle of Sir Lancelot and Guinevere. When an ailing U.S. Army medic is pronounced dead from meningitis, he makes a miraculous recovery, and doctors use his blood for a cure, inspiring him to live a long life building his dream home, Loveland Castle in Loveland, Ohio.
Jan 2, 2015
Henry 8th, Bannerman's Castle Curse, Mechanical Turk Hoax
Season 2Episode 260 min

Henry 8th, Bannerman's Castle Curse, Mechanical Turk Hoax

King Henry VIII's uncontrollable obsession to retain his reign by producing a male heir with his three wives paves the way for a tale of tragedy taking place at Hampton Court Palace near Surrey, England. Carlisle Castle in Carlisle, England was home to King William II, who's suspicious death led many to believe he was murdered by Walter Tirel, a possible assassin hired by his younger brother Henry I to ascend the throne. Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria becomes the showplace of inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen's creation "The Turk", a chess-playing automaton made for Empress Maria Theresa.
Jan 9, 2015
Faust, Pirate Queen, First Versailles
Season 2Episode 360 min

Faust, Pirate Queen, First Versailles

Alchemist-astrologer Johannes Faust's desire for knowledge leads him into a pact with the devil with his demon Mephistopheles at Waardenburg Castle in Waardenburg, Netherlands. Rockfleet Castle, a strategic stronghold in Newport, County Mayo, Ireland becomes the center of Pirate queen Grace O'Malley and powerful chieftain Richard Burke who clash in a tale of passion, betrayal, and later, love. During the English Civil War, captured King Charles I plans an escape from at Carisbrooke Castle in Carisbrooke on the Isle of Wight, England.
Jan 16, 2015
Green Lady, Count of Monte Cristo, Robin Hood
Season 2Episode 460 min

Green Lady, Count of Monte Cristo, Robin Hood

Trapped in a loveless marriage, Charlotte de Breze seeks affection by having a secret affair, but when her brutal husband Jacques de Breze finds out, it results her vengeful ghost at the Château de Brissac in Loire Valley, France. After toy production is banned for the holidays during World War I, A. C. Gilbert becomes "the man who saved Christmas" with his invention of the Erector Set, inspiring the design of his home, Maraldene Mansion in New Haven, Connecticut.
Jan 23, 2015
House That Saved a King, Joan of Arc, Hamilton Sex Scandal
Season 2Episode 560 min

House That Saved a King, Joan of Arc, Hamilton Sex Scandal

In 1651, Moseley Old Hall near Staffordshire, England,becomes the hiding place of the future King Charles II who escaped Parliamentary forces during the English Civil War. The heroic story of German officer Claus von Stauffenberg, who came up with a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler during World War II started at his birthplace inside Jettingen Castle in Jettingen-Scheppach, Germany.
Jan 30, 2015
Royal Baccarat Scandal, Soleste and Moroello, Franz Ferdinand
Season 2Episode 660 min

Royal Baccarat Scandal, Soleste and Moroello, Franz Ferdinand

Playboy prince, Edward VII was embroiled in a scandal while playing an illegal game of baccarat at Tranby Croft near Hull, England, that almost cost him the throne. The legend of Moroello and Soleste, a heartbreaking tale of ill-fated love and its haunting aftermath plays out behind the walls of Bardi Castle in Bardi, Italy. Artstetten Castle's crypt in Artstetten, Austria becomes the final resting place of Austria-Hungary's, Archduke Franz Ferdinand when his motorcade takes a fateful wrong turn into global disaster, and he and his wife, Sophie are assassinated by Black Hand member, Gavrilo Princip. When longshoreman union leader Harry Bridges starts a city-wide strike in 1934, it makes California Governor's Mansion in Sacramento a reminder of the labor movement.
Feb 6, 2015
Book Chest; Miracle on Anne Greene; Hemingway's Last Cent
Season 2Episode 760 min

Book Chest; Miracle on Anne Greene; Hemingway's Last Cent

The prison at Oxford Castle in Oxford, England, was where lowly servant, Anne Greene overcame a shocking injustice by her employer and returned from the dead after being hanged in 1650. When his young son was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, Italian immigrant Candido Jacuzzi's innovation of the Jacuzzi tub help eased his pain and funded the Jacuzzi Family Home in Sonoma, California. When philosopher Hugo Grotius is imprisoned for life after writing controversial papers on Arminianism, he stages an escape from the Netherlands' Loevestein Castle near Poederoijen.
Feb 13, 2015
Book Thief, Bigamist Duchess, Patent-ly absurd
Season 2Episode 860 min

Book Thief, Bigamist Duchess, Patent-ly absurd

A book thief pulls off an incredible heist that unfolds at the mountaintop retreat of Mont Sainte-Odile Abbey in the Vosges Mountains of France. York Castle in York, England was where infamous highwayman Dick Turpin was incarnated after being caught in a manhunt that ended his long crime spree. After Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston is charged with bigamy by marrying in her youth Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol and then Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, her rags to riches story ends in scandal, exiling her from Thoresby Hall in Nottinghamshire, England.
Feb 20, 2015
Martin Luther Kidnapping; Witches of Belvoir; Secret Queen
Season 2Episode 960 min

Martin Luther Kidnapping; Witches of Belvoir; Secret Queen

After the Earl of Rutland's two sons die at their family estate, Belvoir Castle near Grantham, England, he believes they were cursed by the Witches of Belvoir. When the Catholic Church arrests revolutionary monk Martin Luther, his protestant supporters rescue him and escape to Wartburg Castle in Eisenach, Germany
Feb 27, 2015
The Real Beauty and the Beast; Birdman of Scotland; Master of Disguise
Season 2Episode 1060 min

The Real Beauty and the Beast; Birdman of Scotland; Master of Disguise

The Château de Blois in Blois, France was the boyhood home of a "monster", who with his wife, inspired one of the most famous fairy tales of all time, Beauty and the Beast. As the most wanted man, Confederate States Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin sparks a chase across America, seeking refuge at the Gamble Mansion in Ellenton, Florida.
Mar 6, 2015
Irish Heist; Dickens Affair; Prince of Porcelain
Season 2Episode 1160 min

Irish Heist; Dickens Affair; Prince of Porcelain

Mar 6, 2015
Making of an Artist; Secret Sonar; Fairy Flag
Season 2Episode 1260 min

Making of an Artist; Secret Sonar; Fairy Flag

Wealthy widow Mary Eleanor Bowes falls prey to a scheme by fraudster Andrew Robinson Stoney who plotted marriage to steal her fortune at Glamis Castle in Glamis, Scotland. Lonely outcast-tuned-famous painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec changes the art world forever and it all began at his childhood home, Château du Bosc in Aveyron, France
Mar 20, 2015
Battle to Cross the Channel; Royal Matchmaker; Boettcher Kidnapping
Season 2Episode 1360 min

Battle to Cross the Channel; Royal Matchmaker; Boettcher Kidnapping

Château de Maillebois in Maillebois, France, was the launch pad for a contest between French aviators, Louis Blériot and Hubert Latham to be the first pilot to cross the English Channel. When his beloved Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon refuses his marriage proposals, the lovelorn Prince Albert has a secret cupid in Margaret Greville inside her estate, Polesden Lacey in Great Bookham, England. A kidnapping of a millionaire carried out by Verne Sankey, America's first public enemy #1 is connected to Boettcher Mansion in Golden, Colorado. When mathematician Émilie du Châtelet loses her fortune playing a high-stakes card game at Château de Fontainebleau in Fontainebleau, France, she creates a contract to pay it back.
Mar 27, 2015

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