All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Snake Charmers, Wolf Children and Holy Men

    • July 15, 1994
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    Indian mystics have long impressed with their snake-charming and rope tricks : but are they illusions or real magic?

  • S01E02 On the Trail of the Big Cats

    • July 22, 1994
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    The search for hard evidence to back up sightings of big cats in unlikely locations

  • S01E03 Where Giants Walked

    • July 29, 1994
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    Theories explaining the enormous carved heads on Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island

  • S01E04 Relics of the Saints

    • August 5, 1994
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    Scientists investigate the Turin Shroud and other myths surrounding religious relics

  • S01E05 Mysteries of the Sea

    • August 12, 1994
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    The intriguing Marie Celeste mystery, and an exploration of a Sri Lankan shipwreck

  • S01E06 The Psychic Detectives

    • August 19, 1994
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    Can psychic visions really aid police murder investigations?

  • S01E07 Keys to the Past

    • August 26, 1994
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    The mystery of giant stone jars discovered on an Indo-Chinese plain

  • S01E08 The Burning Question

    • September 2, 1994
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    Theories which attempt to explain the phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion

  • S01E09 A Crop of Circles

    • September 9, 1994
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    Are crop circles messages from extraterrestrial forces or clever hoaxes?

  • S01E10 At Death's Door

    • September 16, 1994
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    Myths and beliefs surrounding the final frontier : death

  • S01E11 Callers from the Cosmos

    • September 23, 1994
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    Investigation into whether extraterrestrials are trying to contact man, and alleged alien abductions

  • S01E12 The Evil Eye

    • September 30, 1994
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    Tales of curses and omens which defy logical explanation

  • S01E13 Secrets of the Pyramids

    • October 7, 1994
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    What recent evidence reveals about the mystery of the pyramids

  • S01E14 Mysteries of the Maya

    • October 14, 1994
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    The sci-fi writer talks to archaeologists trying to uncover the truth about the Mayan civilization

  • S01E15 Squaring the Bermuda Triangle

    • October 21, 1994
    • ITV1

    Scientific theories surrounding the bizarre disappearances within the Bermuda Triangle

  • S01E16 Doom of the Dinosaurs

    • October 28, 1994
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    Possible reasons for the dinosaurs' extinction, including a meteorite impact which could have caused a nuclear winter

  • S01E17 Cracking Codes: Writings, Runes and Other Riddles

    • November 4, 1994
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    Unravelling the mystery surrounding the Vinland map and the Kensington Runestone

  • S01E18 Zombies, The Living Dead?

    • November 11, 1994
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    Are tales of the living dead simply superstition, or is there a medical explanation?

  • S01E19 The Strange Powers of Animals

    • November 18, 1994
    • ITV1

    Claims that some animals have extra-ordinary psychic abilities are investigates including the story of a cow that traveled 7 miles in search of her calf that was sold at the market

  • S01E20 Into Thin Air

    • November 25, 1994
    • ITV1

    This episode details the stories of people who supposedly saw buildings and other structures only for them to disappear afterwords.

  • S01E21 Baffling Bombardments

    • December 2, 1994
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    Weird tales of objects falling from clear skies are examined. Apples, fish, frogs and coke raining down are just one of the few strange occurrences in this episode.

  • S01E22 Meeting Mary: Visions Of The Virgin

    • December 9, 1994
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    Clarke investigates modern day apparitions of Virgin Mary in three distinct locations.

  • S01E23 Secrets of Ancient Worlds

    • December 16, 1994
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    Pre-historic archaeological phenomenon such as the lost city of Atlantis has long been the subject of interest for scientists and most creative writers.

  • S01E24 Spirits of Place: Hauntings & Spectres

    • December 23, 1994
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    Spirits, ghosts, phantoms and the various places they haunt are examined by Clarke in this episode.

  • S01E25 True or False: More Than Meets the Eye?

    • December 30, 1994
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    Some of the most revered historic treasures lying in various museums around the world may have hoaxes. Clarke investigates a few cases where a conclusive authenticity is almost impossible to determine.

  • S01E26 Mysteries of the North

    • January 6, 1995
    • ITV1

    This episode explores mysteries of northern regions where the mercury is at sub-zero levels. One of them is the doomed fate of the Norse Settlements in Greenland.