Hunting History with Steven Rinella
Watch: History Channel
Release:
History Channel
Season 1
January 28, 2025, 8x42min episodes
Role:
Co-Executive Producer / Co-Showrunner
Synopsis:
Hosted and executive produced by Steven Rinella, a world-renowned outdoorsman, #1 New York Times best-selling author, TV host, podcast host, and founder of the outdoor lifestyle and media brand MeatEater, the new 8-part series dives into some of American history’s greatest and most perplexing mysteries through a bold new lens.
Across eight episodes, Rinella teams up with historians, archaeologists, and a mesmerizing cast of outdoor professionals as he takes viewers on an immersive journey. Throughout the series, Rinella hunts for answers to questions that have long baffled experts, including: what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke? Did skyjacker D.B. Cooper survive his famous jump? And what is causing the disturbing cattle mutilations in the American West?
Other mysteries investigated on the ground include the so-called Alaska Triangle, the doomed Donner Party, the oldest Great Lakes shipwreck and the seeming disappearance of the Ancestral Puebloan People. In each hour-long episode, Rinella heads deep into some of the most unforgiving landscapes in the country in a thrilling quest to better understand some of our most enduring mysteries.