Encounters with the Unexplained

- Season 2

(2001)

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Most Americans agree that John Wilkes Booth fired the bullet that killed President Abraham Lincoln during a play at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. But that is where the agreement ends. For years historians have been troubled by the facts surrounding Lincoln's assassination. New evidence suggests the wrong people were put on trial and hanged for this murderous act. Learn who was really behind the Lincoln assassination. There was a walled city located in a vast grove of palm trees in ancient Canaan. It was also the city that blocked the Israelites' conquest of Canaan...

Is "necessity" really the mother of invention or is it war that sparks an explosion in the creative mind? Is it possible there are vast treasures of knowledge known to our ancestors still lying undiscovered in the hidden vaults of antiquity? Perhaps the future is buried in the past. Come with us as we dig it up. Looking to the future, do we now have a scientific method of literally "reading" what the future will be? According to some scientists, every major event, every major figure in world history, and even ordinary people appear to be encoded in a mysterious cipher...

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They are children who seem to be gifted in ways that most of us can barely imagine. Some even complete college before their peers finish elementary school. Who are these super brain kids whose brilliance puts even our society's most prodigious minds to shame? Are these children the vanguard of a new generation of intelligent human beings or just accidents of nature? Their minds seem to be turbo charged, absorbing information at an accelerated rate, solving complex problems for the sheer joy of it. The Bible is the oldest continuous history of any people on earth today...

The southern end of the Dead Sea is believed to be the ancient land of Canaan, site of the legendary cities of sin - Sodom and Gomorrah. According to the Bible, these cities, along with three others, were destroyed by fire and brimstone. But did these cities even exist? Were there really two cities called Sodom and Gomorrah that were so wicked they were utterly demolished by God? Generations of school children have been taught that it was the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD that brought about the Dark Ages. But new and startling discoveries suggest that Rome may ...

Why was Princess Diana living in fear of the British MI6 secret service operatives? Was this fear finally and irrevocably proven correct? Who killed Princess Diana? Witness a former MI6 agent and the Fayed family tell why they believe it was murder and who orchestrated it! With the dawn of a new millennium, predictions of the apocalypse have reached a fever pitch. Some scholars believe the Bible tells us there will be a marvelous event called the "Rapture," that will separate the faithful from the doubters. The Bible never uses the term BUT - could there be a ...

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President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. After nearly 40 years, no one knows for certain who really killed the President of the United States. The Warren Commission was appointed by Lyndon Johnson to discover the truth, but some feel that what they did was to make sure no one ever gets to the truth. Why were the findings of the commission sealed for 35 years? In 1917, two little girls and one small boy claimed to actually see and hear the Virgin Mary in a meadow near Fatima, Portugal. Did these ...

On the night of March 13, 1997, eyewitnesses reported seeing something out of the ordinary in the skies over Phoenix, Arizona. But what did they see? Did these people catch a glimpse of the military's latest secret weapon? Or are UFO's the source for these strange sightings? Nearly 200 ancient cultures with the capability to keep a written or oral history have a record of an all-encompassing flood with astonishing parallels to the biblical flood account of Noah's ark. Was there a deluge of such enormous proportions that it covered the entire earth?

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In ancient times, dinosaurs ruled the planet earth. Yet today, all that's left are fossilized remains. Or is it? Are we sure all the dinosaurs are gone? If so, what killed them? Was it the impact of a giant asteroid? Did a rash of extreme volcanic activity that plunged the earth into darkness and cold? These are the favorite theories that scientists use to explain the disappearance of the dinosaurs, but the fossil record may point to a different kind of disaster. Imagine finding a 2,000-year-old treasure map that appears to lead to a fortune worth untold millions......

Can we discover what, if anything, is buried under the ancient Sphinx in Egypt? Is there a treasure of untold knowledge from an ancient civilization - or even an alien civilization from another star system? Has it already been found and is it being kept secret from the public? If so, what was the treasure this massive creature was protecting? Is it possible that even today, the Sphinx stands guard over some still undiscovered chamber? Or is the Sphinx merely a massive tribute to a monarch's ego? Archaeologists and geologists square off over the Sphinx as the Egyptian ...

In one of the most horrific air disasters of all time, TWA Flight 800 exploded in mid-air and fell into the Atlantic Ocean just east of Long Island. Could it be that even as TWA Flight 800 left the ground some as yet undiscovered mechanical failure had already planted the seeds of disaster? Or was there something more sinister? Experienced witnesses claim what they saw in the sky was definitely military ordinance. Is it possible that TWA Flight 800 was the victim of a military miscalculation or a covert act of terrorism? In part two of this program we'll examine the ...

On a warm summer night in July of 1999, John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife and her sister took off from a small New Jersey airport in his private plane. But as the trio made their way to Martha's Vineyard for a brief stopover, tragedy struck. At about 9:41 that evening, Kennedy's plane disappeared from radar and plunged into the Atlantic Ocean. Is it possible that Kennedy became disoriented and literally flew his plane into the ocean? Or has the U.S. Coast Guard uncovered evidence that would contradict that finding? And in Part Two of this episode we'll examine a world ...

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Many would argue that the most significant event in the history of the world can be characterized as ' one small step for man... one giant leap for mankind.' A man actually walked on another celestial body in our solar system - but did it really happen? Did the billions of dollars spent on the Apollo project buy nothing but a movie set? Could it be that our Astronauts were trained not as space travelers, but as actors? Critics claim the Apollo missions were all a fraud. But could even the most skillful movie maker have faked mankind's most glorious hour and gotten ...

In the afternoon of July 30, 1975, one of the most powerful and feared men ever associated with the American labor movement, James R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa, vanished without a trace from the face of the earth. Can DNA testing - not available in 1975 - finally provide the answer to exactly what happened to this complicated and enigmatic man with an improbably appropriate middle name - James Riddle Hoffa? And in part two of this episode, new insight from an ages old conflict. The struggle with the Taliban fundamentalists in Afghanistan has given the world a disturbing, even ...

Two hundred miles east of Anchorage, Alaska, a phased array transmitter stands ready to beam more than 3 billion watts of energy into the ionosphere. What is it? Why is this modern-day antennae farm located in this desolate spot? Is it a marvel of technology capable of changing and controlling weather patterns worldwide, or does it have far more sinister applications? If you knew how to get a hold of $3 Million worth of diamonds, and had the ability to do so, would you? But, what if the diamonds were located 2 miles below the surface of the ocean in the cargo hold of ...

Is it possible for a human being to burst into flames without warning? Victims of purported spontaneous human combustion are literally incinerated in a flash. Mysteriously, the intense fires that consume them do not engulf the room - or even burn past the immediate area where the body rested. Could this phenomenon actually happen? Skeptics say no - but over the years there have been hundreds of documented cases that match these strange circumstances. What is the truth behind the baffling mystery known as spontaneous human combustion? In 1922, the richest tomb in ...

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While they may be small, there is no question that insects have had a huge impact on mankind. Why, at the dawn of the 21st century do we seem to be facing a veritable invasion of these tiny creatures? Experts have warned that the surge of insect populations will have a impact on the health of global populations. What has caused the rise of this unexpected peril? For decades, mankind has witnessed the mystery of crop circles the often beautiful but always baffling markings that appear in fields the world over. Previously dismissed by skeptics as the work of clever ...

He was a close friend to both President and Hillary Clinton, and held a prestigious position in the new and highly controversial Clinton administration. Suddenly, Vince Foster was found dead in a park near Washington, D.C., the victim of an apparent suicide. Or was it? Was Vince Foster's death a suicide, or murder? The horrifying events of September 11th, 2001, ironically demonstrated the worst and the best in human nature. Thousands of people lost their lives as a result of a brutal terrorist act. But what lessons were learned from the ashes of despair? Can we ...