Encounters with the Unexplained

- Season 1

(2000)

The Great Pyramid is thousands of years old and stands today as the last of the seven wonders of the ancient world, but everything about it is shrouded in mystery. How was it built? Did the ancient Egyptians discover the secrets of complex mathematics, astronomy, geology, and engineering? Why has no mummy ever been found in any pyramid, the supposed burial tombs of the Pharaohs? And what's behind the secret door in the Great Pyramid, which hasn't yet been opened a decade after its discovery?

High on a mountaintop in eastern Turkey is a 5000-year old wooden ship with stalls and cages on board. Could it be Noah's Ark? Did the biblical story of Noah and the flood actually happen? New expeditions and scientific evidence provide amazing answers.

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It is just an ordinary piece of old linen cloth, but it has been subjected to thousands of hours of intense scientific study and is the subject of heated and controversial debate. Is the Shroud of Turin the silent witness to the greatest event in human history? Is the face so hauntingly etched into the fabric the face of Jesus Christ?

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Since the beginning of recorded history, people of all faiths have prayed for help in their lives. Is there any proof that prayer works? There is strong evidence to suggest that prayer has miraculously altered more than a hundred major events in the modern era. Explore this evidence and determine for yourself the power of prayer.

Its existence is officially denied by the US Government, but its buildings and runways have been documented in Russian satellite photos. The perimeter is patrolled by unmarked helicopters and assault vehicle, and signs warn intruders of "Deadly Force Authorized." A scientist that worked there claims it contains captured UFOs. What is going on at Area 51?

Stars falling from the sky, increased earthquake activity; disastrous flooding, famine, pestilence, and war. Are these the signs that ancient writings have warned of? Does our future hold the end of the world? Examine the evidence and decide.

Isolated on a tiny volcanic island in the midst of the Pacific Ocean, without advanced engineering skills or construction machinery, a mysterious people managed to populate their island with huge, monolithic stone statues. These 80-ton carvings, with 12-ton "top knots," were somehow transported several miles across the island and arranged in rows on raised platforms. How were they moved? How were they raised? And most puzzling of all, why?

The fabled Ark of the Covenant was carried before the armies of Israel in their conquest of Canaan. It was the centerpiece of Jewish religious life and was said to be a source of great power. But where is it today? Held by Ethiopian Jews, or hidden in a secret room under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where the Israeli secret service is preparing it for use during Armageddon? The solution to this ancient mystery has implications for all mankind.

On a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia, a mysterious "money" pit has kept treasure hunters digging for 200 years. Designed by an unknown engineer, the pit is a complex hole with timber crosspieces every ten feet deep. At the 100 foot level was found a stone with a cryptic inscription: "Forty feet below two million pounds are buried." But, when diggers go below 100 feet, the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean rush in to fill the pit. Despite the cost of money and lives over the years without the return of a single coin, adventurers keep trying to solve the ...

The story of Adam and Eve as the originators of all mankind is dismissed by evolutionist scientists as myth and legend, but there is mounting evidence that fact might lie behind words in the book of Genesis. Scientists at UC Berkeley believe DNA findings in 1997 suggest all women came from the same female ancestor; an earlier study claims we all have the same father. Satellite imaging has revealed what may have been the Garden of Eden. Where did we come from? The scientists go head to head as the evidence is examined.

In 1965 hundreds of witnesses saw an object descend from the sky and crash into the woods outside the small Pennsylvania town of Kecksburg. The official government report describes it as a meteor, but eyewitnesses claim to have seen the object up close. They describe it as copper-colored, acorn-shaped, and covered with strange writing. Was it a UFO? And if not, why did the military quickly blanket the area and remove it to a secured Air Force base?

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It begins with an amazing pronouncement from the angel Gabriel then continues through a long and difficult journey and finally comes to fruition under a brilliant heavenly light. It is the greatest story of all time...the story of the birth of Christ. But, did it really happen and did it happen the way we've been told it happened? This beautiful story is told and retold in exquisite detail with special emphasis on the truth of the gospels. Explore the reality behind the story. What was the star in the East? Where exactly was Jesus born? When did the wise men visit? ...

What could have motivated a large, apparently sophisticated culture to just suddenly pick up and walk away from their homes leaving everything, utensils, pottery, toys, even food, still in place? Who were these ancient people that lived in well made, modern for the time, stone structures? And what happened to them? Are the spectacular dwellings, lying silent for centuries, now shouting a warning to us across the centuries? Could the same thing happen to us?

The amazing human body is so complex we are only now beginning to understand how it works. Yet the ancients seemed to know how it worked, how to fix it if something went wrong and they did it faster and easier. What is it that ancient medical practitioners knew that we are still trying to figure out? Are there solutions to medical problems that are being kept from the public? Is there a life force so powerful it can teach the body to heal? Do all miracles of modern medicine belong to the last 50 years, or did the ancients discover methods that give a whole new meaning...

The battle of the Little Bighorn, or Custer's Last Stand is familiar to everyone. But, what really happened that tragic day? Was there a government conspiracy designed to get rid of George Armstrong Custer by sending him to certain death? Why was Custer's cavalry provided with inferior weapons? Why weren't they given accurate information about the Indian force they would confront? Why were the Indians chased off the reservation in the first place? Have the facts of what happened to Custer and his men been deliberately concealed for over a century?

For thousands of years historians have recorded the words of men and women called prophets who claimed to be able to see into the future. Today, the notion that some people can see beyond the horizon of time is simply unbelievable. But what of the ancient prophets? Were they writing for their own time or ours? If they could see into the future, the nations of the Earth are facing a bleak future. What evidence suggests we should be listening to their warnings? In this episode we will examine firsthand the frightening events that seem to tell us the Ancient prophets ...

Dolphins have always captured the imagination of humans. Now researchers are coming forward with evidence that dolphins can heal humans. How? When dolphins meet they greet each other with a series of whistles and clicks. Do dolphins have a language? If dolphins can speak, they may have been doing it longer than humans have ever existed. What might dolphins be able to tell us? Why would the U.S. military keep dolphin language breakthrough discoveries a secret?

With all the odds against them, the tiny nation of Israel and its citizen army scored a decisive military victory in the Six-Day War against a major force. How was this victory possible? Where did all those mysterious extra tanks and troops come from? Was this victory foretold by ancient writings thousands of years before the war? Did the Israelis use ancient writings to plan and carry out the war victory? Is this war only one in a series of current events preparing the way for the End Times?

Not even the Bible can tell us what happened to Jesus between the ages of 12 and 30. There is also no mention of his life when his family was forced to flee into Egypt at age two. Ancient Arabic and Egyptian documents and traditions have begun to surface, and scholars have developed surprising theories about what Jesus was doing during most of his life. Did he discover an Oasis in Egypt, start a Church in England or carry the message to China and India?

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Dry riverbeds, ancient oceans, a towering mountain of ice, the largest known volcano in the solar system... and a gigantic, humanoid face sculptured on the plain of Cydonia. All of this and more now appears to have been discovered and photographed on the surface of Mars. And in the same region a huge five-sided pyramid hints at intelligent life and a direct connection to the pyramids of Egypt. The Mars Global Surveyor, the first genuinely successful orbiter since the Viking probes of the 70s, is now sending back to earth, tens of thousands of high resolution images. ...

In 1943 at the height of World War II one of the most bizarre scientific experiments of all time is believed by many to have taken place in a seaport of the Eastern United States. Desperate to protect Allied shipping from Axis U-Boats, the Navy attempted to make a full-sized destroyer escort invisible to radar. But did the Philadelphia Experiment instead, make it disappear entirely? Even more astonishing, it seems to have skipped, like a rock, across the sea of time, appearing 40 years into the future. Still-living participants tell of the horrors that befell the crew...

In virtually every corner of the world someone has reported seeing huge, hairy creatures that walk upright like a man but flee at the first hint of discovery. Enormous footprints found, some say planted, by witnesses here in the United States, have given these Monsters the name Bigfoot. In Tibet they are called Yeti, Native Americans call them Sasquatch, but by whatever name they are a terrifying presence to those who see them. Could there be a race of giant monsters that has survived for thousands of years, unknown and unidentified? Some claim to have photographed, ...

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