Out of the Appalachian hills arose America's most famous family feud, which purportedly began in 1878 with the theft of a hog. We sort fact from fiction about this feud that landed in the U.S. Supreme Court, and finally ended in a legal hanging after an 1889 trial. Historians and descendants from both families, now friendly, weigh in.

The whaler Essex sailed from Nantucket in 1819 and met its doom in the middle of the Pacific in 1820, when a sperm whale attacked, causing the ship to sink. Adrift in small whaleboats, the crew faced storms, thirst, illness, and starvation. Reduced to cannibalism, but succeeding in one of history's great open-boat journeys, the few survivors were picked up off South America. Here is the true story of the adventures of the Essex, which provided inspiration for Herman Melville's novel "Moby-Dick.

The first recorded U.S. extrasensory event occurred in 1848, when two girls from New York communicated with spirits behind their bed. We'll reveal America's preternatural past--from White House seances to the CIA's testing of telepathy in espionage to Nancy Reagan's use of psychic consultants--and review "New Age" paranormal phenomena.

In the 1930s, some 300 pro-Nazi and right wing groups were active in America, as well as a secret organization called the Black Legion that terrorized the Midwest for nearly a decade. With membership rumored to exceed 130,000, the sinister group claimed guardianship of white Christian values and was responsible for 57 killings.

In 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina, while TV news cameras captured members of the Communist Worker's Party preparing for a "Death to the Klan" rally, a caravan of Klansmen and American Nazis drove into the center of the protestors. Insults escalated into physical confrontation and the Klansmen and Nazis fired into the crowd, killing 5 and wounding 11. Even more shocking--an all-white jury looked past the videotape evidence and found the shooters not guilty.

What do Abbot and Costello, John Lennon, psychic Jean Dixon, George Carlin, Frank Sinatra, and Jacques Cousteau have in common? Each had an FBI file with his or her name on it--not because they were criminals, but due to J. Edgar Hoover's hefty appetite for gossip and inflexible moral and political code that put celebrities who didn't subscribe to it at the mercy of America's most powerful investigative organization. We take a look at the secret files of celebrities and at the man who kept them.

In March 2000, the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list turned 50. Shortly after a reporter wrote an article on fugitives, the FBI received such public response that they created the roster. We examine the most interesting cases, from the famous to the odd, and show how changes in the type of outlaw on the list reflect shifts in our society.

They aren't police, yet they can break down your door and yank you off to jail...if you're a bail jumper. Meet the elusive agents who track nature's cleverest animal--man! We trace centuries of legal history supporting bounty hunters, from medieval tradition to English common law, from slave catchers to lawmen of the Wild West.