Secrets of the Dead

- Season 3

(2001)

Historical accounts of witchcraft are re-examined in the light of modern forensics. Scientific theories are advanced to explain the events surrounding the Salem Witch Trials. Could a poisonous fungus be responsible?

Archaeologist Mike Pitts investigates the cause of death of a person, whose 3,000-year-old remains were found in a shallow grave at Stonehenge.

Scientists investigate what led to the demise of the British colony of Jamestown, VA around 1610. Were the starvation and outbreaks they faced caused by a string of unfortunate events or did Spain have something to do with it as well?

The battlefield and weapons of the famous Battle of Isandlwana are examined to determined what really happened on 22 January 1879 when the Anglo-Zulu War began with the forces of Zulu Kingdom beating the unstoppable British Empire.

Researchers Martin Biddle and his wife Birthe investigate whether or not the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem holds the tomb of the Jesus of Nazareth.

Where did syphilis actually come from? An old theory suggests that indigenous people of South America may have given it to the first European colonists who followed Columbus, but is there another explanation?