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Season 3
24 episodes
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S03E01 UFO Captives
UFO Captives: Meet people who believe they have been held captive aboard alien spacecraft - close encounters of the fourth kind.
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S03E02 Tornadoes
Tornadoes: A terrifying look at one of nature's deadliest forces. Tornadoes can swallow up buildings and people without a trace - can they be stopped?
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S03E03 Cloning
Cloning: An in-depth look at the process which may allow us to "copy" people exactly and produce single-parent human beings.
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S03E04 Water Seekers (aka Dowsing)
The ancient art of dowsing is reviewed, specifically the accuracy and reliability of water dowsers. Do they possess a psychic ability to detect water or can successful dowsing be learned? Further, can science prove or disprove dowsing?
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S03E05 Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper: An investigative report on the unsolved mystery of London's notorious serial killer. The episode reveals the killer's connection with contemporary media and the possible involvement with the Ancient Free And Accepted Masons. Various identities are suggested as being that of the killer, including a duke who was second in line to the British throne.
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S03E06 Cryogenics
Cryogenics: Scientists are discovering new methods to prolong human life and, in the case of cryogenics, to suspend the possibility of life for centuries.
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S03E07 Siberian Fireball
Siberian Fireball: Considers the possibility that the unexplained and catastrophic explosion in Siberia in 1908 was an atomic blast occurring 37 years before the development of the A-bomb.
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S03E08 The Great Lakes Triangle
The Great Lakes Triangle: Investigates efforts by scientists and psychics to discover the mysterious forces around the Great Lakes that have caused more air and sea disasters than the Bermuda Triangle.
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S03E09 Monster Hunters (aka Sasquatch)
Examines various "monster hunters" including Peter Byrne and Tim Dinsdale as well as the "Bay Area Group". Subjects such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster are covered.
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S03E10 Bermuda Triangle Pirates
Bermuda Triangle Pirates: Luxurious yachts are disappearing off the coast of Florida. Are pirates trafficking in drugs to blame?
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S03E11 Indian Astronomers (aka Mayan Legacy)
Many pre-Columbian cultures possessed a sophisticated understanding of the heavens. Did they share this knowledge, even across great distances? Similar insights of the Cahokia, Ancestral Puebloans, and Mayans appears to confirm they did.
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S03E12 Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes: A look at surprising new clues which indicate that the famed super sleuth actually did exist, after a fashion.
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S03E13 Lost Vikings
What happened to the Vikings, led initially by Erik the Red, who had settled in Greenland? Did they perish due to some unforeseen calamity? Or did they relocate to Newfoundland, thus becoming the first European settlers in the New World?
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S03E14 Dreams and Nightmares
Dreams and Nightmares: Our dreams provide clues to the dark world of our unconscious mind, but can we learn to control them?
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S03E15 Animal ESP
Do animals, including humans, possess extrasensory perception? If so, are we humans and our companion animals able to communicate on a deeper level? Further, do humans have the ability to converse telepathically with companion animals?
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S03E16 The Money Pit Mystery (aka Captain Kidd)
Was a secret treasure buried on Oak Island off the coast of Nova Scotia? This episode examines the possibilities that it was and also covers some of the searches for it.
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S03E17 Psychic Sea Hunt
Various individuals with psychic abilities are given a map of the ocean floor and asked to identify areas that may contain long-forgotten shipwrecks and perhaps even treasure. A submarine travels to the selected spots to gauge the results.
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S03E18 The Angel of Death (aka Joseph Mengele)
Angel of Death: Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal tracks infamous war criminal Josef Mengele to his hiding place in Paraguay. Mengele is believed to have died only six days after this episode was broadcast, having drowned as a result of a stroke while swimming. At the time of his death, his identity was not widely known. Years after this installment was initially transmitted, Mengele's remains were found and identified; he proved to have had to eke out a bare existence as a farm worker, and his punishment for his war crimes was to have lived out the rest of his days in both comparative obscurity and the fear of eventual discovery.
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S03E19 Noah's Flood
Noah's Flood: A dramatic inquiry into whether or not scientific proof exists for the legend of the Biblical Great Flood.
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S03E20 The Diamond Curse
Does the possession of diamonds carry an inherent curse? In particular, how has the Hope Diamond, as well as other significant diamonds, affected its possessors?
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S03E21 Ghostly Stakeout
California psychics visit two purportedly haunted properties and attempt, with mixed results, to contact and exorcise ghosts located within the structures.
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S03E22 Brain Power
Brain Power: A study of the incredible hidden potential of the human mind, including the possibility that average people can become geniuses.
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S03E23 Sodom & Gomorrah
Sodom and Gomorrah: Studies evidence developed by archaeologists suggesting that the two wicked cities existed on the site of a crater now filled in by the Dead Sea.
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S03E24 King Tut
The brief life and reign of Tutankhamen were mostly unremarkable, yet upon his death he was entombed with a collection of astonishing riches and his decision to restore Egypt's ancient religion may have galvanized monotheistic practice.
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