Episode list

Secrets of the Dead

Vampire Legend

Mon, Oct 26, 2015
Information gathered about aberrant, unorthodox burial practices from medieval times shed some light on how today's myths about vampires may have started.
6.6 /10
Jamestown's Dark Winter
Forensic anthropologists investigate the recently found remains of a young girl in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia, which may prove the rumors of cannibalism in the colony during the time of great hunger around 1610.
7.9 /10
The Alcatraz Escape
Scientists investigate the case of bank robbers, Frank Morris and Clarence and John Anglin, who in 1962 tried to escape from Alcatraz only to vanish in the stormy waters surrounding the prison island. Could they have survived?
7.5 /10
Cleopatra's Lost Tomb
Dr. Kathleen Martinez searches for Cleopatra's lost tomb in a 35-meter deep underground shaft within a temple complex dating from the time of Cleopatra that's dedicated to the ancient Egyptian god Osiris and his wife the goddess Isis.
7.6 /10
Teotihuacan's Lost Kings
Despite many decades of research, not much is known about the long-lost Teotihuacán society. But when archaeologists enter the newly discovered burial chambers, they find the clues that may finally tell us who these mysterious people were.
7.3 /10
Graveyard of the Giant Beasts
A mining operation in Cerrejon, Northern Colombia, opened a window onto a previously unknown period of the earth's history and a world teeming with giant creatures emerged.
7.3 /10

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