About

The Dossier Project is a working field journal of the places Josh Gates visits on Expedition Unknown and Expedition X— the tombs, the wrecks, the remote ruins, the expeditions that didn't quite find what they went looking for (and the ones that did). Each page is organized the way I'd actually want to use it if I were going there myself: what's on the ground now, what Josh and his team found, what's still open question.

The voice is deliberately field-journal, not encyclopedia. Coordinates, access notes, what season matters, what didn't make it into the episode. If you've ever watched a cold-open and thought wait, where is that, exactly?— that's who this site is for.

Meet Doug

I'm Doug Mayeux. I build and write this site in between actual expeditions of my own — my family and I have spent the last several years on the road in a Sprinter van, visiting National Parks and, whenever we can route through them, the sites Josh has covered on his shows. Some I've stood on. Many I haven't yet. The pages say which is which.

The Dossier Project is part of Wayfind Adventures, a small network of independent travel and mystery sites I run with my family. Each one covers its own beat:

• SprinterFam — my wife Bridget's site, van life with kids and the National Parks from the family-travel angle.
• Ancient Origins Project — the sites featured on Ancient Aliens, approached with a curious-skeptic eye.
• The Cryptid Project — Bigfoot sighting history from Finding Bigfoot and Expedition Bigfoot, in a cautious-believer voice.

If a site Josh has covered also shows up on one of the sister projects (and many do), that's exactly the point — the network is built around the overlap.

Corrections, tips, a site I've missed or gotten wrong? doug@wayfindadventures.com.