In Search of...
Pyramid Secrets
TV Flash files “Pyramid Secrets” as hour 33 of 152 in the TV Flash guide — In Search of... (1977–1982) on Syndicated, season 2, episode 9, aired 1978-02-04, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E09: listed hour 33 of 152 in the In Search of... guide, hour 9 of 24 in season 2. It aired 1978-02-04 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Ogopogo Monster” (S02E08). Next is “Dead Sea Scrolls” (S02E10).
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Pyramid Secrets: Examines the theory that the pyramids of Egypt were built to provide shelter from a holocaust, not as tombs for the pharaohs.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Pyramid Secrets sit in the In Search of... guide?
S02E09 is listed hour 33 of 152 — hour 9 of 24 in season 2, season 2 episode 9.
When did In Search of... S02E09 air?
Pyramid Secrets aired 1978-02-04 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is this a skeptical documentary?
It investigates with serious tone and does not require a closed answer. Nimoy's calm is the gravitas; the hypothesis can stay open.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Leonard Nimoy narrates Bigfoot, Atlantis, and every late-night rabbit hole with Spock-grade calm. Syndicated paranormal documentary as mass habit, occult-chic 1970s meeting proto-cable mystery television. The voice, the grainy reenactments, and the pleasure of a hypothesis that never has to close.
The voice arrives before the hypothesis. Syndicated, 1977–1982 in the best-known version: Alan Landsburg's In Search of... puts Leonard Nimoy in the host/narrator chair covering UFOs, cryptids, lost civilizations, and conspiracies with serious tone and eerie synths. Spock-grade calm lending gravitas to wild hypotheses. Bigfoot, Atlantis, every late-night rabbit hole. Grainy reenactments. Occult-chic 1970s meeting proto-cable mystery television. Aesthetic ancestor of countless paranormal docuseries. **They were…
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- Leonard Nimoy as Narrator / Host
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