‘Tesla’s Death Ray: A Murder Declassified’ Makes You Appreciate the Genius of Nikola Tesla Even More

There’s something romantic when a figure forgotten by history for a spell rises back into prominence off the strength of their work. Nikola Tesla’s name is synonymous with this occurrence. As an inventor ahead of his time he’s experienced a resurgence in pop culture which then lead to his story being (in a sense) rediscovered. Tesla has been showing up on the big screen (The Prestige), TV (Venture Bros.), comic books (Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D.), and hip hop (Black Thought’s Hot 97 Freestyle), There’s even a movie based on The Current Wars focusing on the beef between Tesla’s AC current vs Thomas Edison’s DC Current. Where we now know more about Tesla’s life, there’s still a mystery surrounding how he died. We got to see behind that mystery’s curtain in September 2016 when the FBI, declassified some 250+ files on the death of Nikola Tesla. Tesla died in a New York hotel and had his safe raided, his journals and files snatched up. The FBI files reveal that Tesla had an invention he was working on was called the Death Ray. Yeah, I said Death Ray. Tesla wasn’t playin with yall I feel like the name ‘Death Ray’ is pretty self-explanatory, right? The question then becomes could someone have 86’d Tesla in order to steal the plans for his Death Ray? I don’t have those answers but Discovery Channel got their Nancy Drew on and put a team together to find out in Tesla’s Death Ray: A Murder Declassified. That team consists of a historian, Cameron Prince, Military Investigator and Analyst, …