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Weird or What?

Season 1 2010
TV-PG

  • 2010-04-22T00:00:00Z on Discovery
  • 1h
  • 7h 30m (10 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary, Drama, Talk Show
From paranormal phenomenon to weird and wonderful creatures, from medical oddities to mysterious disappearances - William Shatner investigates them all. Presiding over a series of eye-opening, hands-on experiments, the cult sci-fi legend attempts to separate science fiction from science fact. We're all fascinated by mysteries, but is the unexplained really unexplainable? In this irresistible series, we investigate all that's weird in the world and ask - is it really inexplicable, or is there a logical explanation? Covering weird and wonderful stories from America, Europe and beyond, Weird or What? combines fun, populist stories with real scientific depth. Episodes: * Missing Feet * Cocaine Mummies * Directional Cows * Vanishing Sea Lions * Super Strength * Disappearing Acts * Space Rocks * Unique UFOs

10 episodes

Series Premiere

2010-04-22T00:00:00Z

1x01 Strange Survival

Series Premiere

1x01 Strange Survival

  • 2010-04-22T00:00:00Z45m

Following a catastrophic malfunction in New York City, a highrise window washer’s platform plummets nearly 50 stories and miraculously, he survives. In Death Valley, rocks and boulders appear to be moving around on their own. Can this strange and seemingly impossible phenomenon be explained? And, seven dismembered human feet wearing trainers wash up on the beaches of Vancouver. Can science determine the sinister force behind this macabre mystery?

2010-04-29T00:00:00Z

1x02 Ghost Ship

1x02 Ghost Ship

  • 2010-04-29T00:00:00Z45m

Residents of a Texas town report strange lights in the night sky and claim to have seen US Air Force planes in hot pursuit of UFOs. Did they witness an alien visitation? From the depths of the ocean, scientists record one of the loudest sounds in the natural world. Can they determine its mysterious source? And, a fishing trawler vanishes in perfectly calm waters off the Northern California coast only to be found mysteriously undamaged on the ocean floor. What happened?

2010-05-06T00:00:00Z

1x03 Cocaine Mummies

1x03 Cocaine Mummies

  • 2010-05-06T00:00:00Z45m

Before a major San Francisco earthquake, thousands of sea lions disappear from the harbour. Did they sense the impending disaster? A century after its discovery, experts remain baffled by a mysterious medieval manuscript written in a secret code. What secrets does it contain? And, while testing ancient mummies, forensic scientists find evidence of cocaine — a Peruvian product not found in Egypt until thousands of years later. Was there trans-Atlantic travel long before Columbus?

2010-05-13T00:00:00Z

1x04 Grim Reapers

1x04 Grim Reapers

  • 2010-05-13T00:00:00Z45m

A surfer in Monterey Bay, California, is attacked by a Great White shark but is miraculously saved by dolphins. Did they intentionally risk their lives to save him? Across America, domestic pets are accurately identifying people about to die. Can they smell death? And, in Missouri, a skinny teen lifts a car to free the man trapped underneath. Just how is that possible?

2010-05-20T00:00:00Z

1x05 Moving Rocks

1x05 Moving Rocks

  • 2010-05-20T00:00:00Z45m

In Death Valley, rocks and boulders appear to be cruising around on their own. Can this strange and seemingly impossible phenomenon be explained? North Carolina’s Brown Mountain is home to a strange and unexplained light show. But with so many competing theories, can science reveal the source of the mysterious dancing lights? And, tribe members in the remote mountains of Northern Mexico are known to run 18 times further than a marathon in one session – barefoot! Can science reveal the secret to this super human ability?

2010-06-03T00:00:00Z

1x06 Time Travel

1x06 Time Travel

  • 2010-06-03T00:00:00Z45m

A mysterious woman suddenly materializes in a California bathroom. Is she a traveller from another time? And could a gargantuan experiment in Switzerland actually make time travel possible? An ancient American stone structure suggests the incredible. Did pagan worshippers practice human sacrifice in New Hampshire? And, amazingly, plants seem to possess strange powers allowing them to detect human thought. Is that weird – or what?

2010-06-10T00:00:00Z

1x07 Human Popsicle

1x07 Human Popsicle

  • 2010-06-10T00:00:00Z45m

Beating incredible odds, a man is struck by lightning six times and survives! Is he a human lightning rod? After wandering into the eye of a winter storm, a toddler is literally frozen solid and is then thawed again without injury. How is that possible? Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, the discovery of mysterious anchor-like stones threatens the foundations of American history. Did Chinese explorers reach American shores thousands of years before Columbus?

2010-09-17T00:00:00Z

1x08 Fate Or Coincidence

1x08 Fate Or Coincidence

  • 2010-09-17T00:00:00Z45m

A dental receptionist is shot in the chest at point blank range and amazingly, she survives. Did her breast implants save her life? In a bizarre twist of fate, a young man saves the life of a woman only to discover she saved his life seven years earlier. Is it a random coincidence, or are mysterious universal forces at work? And, around the globe, most of the world’s 1.3 billion cows are literally facing the same direction. Are they aligning themselves with the Earth’s magnetic fields?

2010-09-24T00:00:00Z

1x09 Personality Transplant

1x09 Personality Transplant

  • 2010-09-24T00:00:00Z45m

After receiving a heart transplant, a patient undergoes an uncanny transformation and assumes the personality of his donor. Do human organs store memory and our very ‘essence’? Across the planet, perfect circles of ice are appearing in lakes and rivers, some so big they’re even visible from space. Can the amazing phenomenon be explained? And, a Philadelphia mum undergoes a routine DNA test that reveals she’s somehow genetically unrelated to her four children. How is that possible?

Season Finale

2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

1x10 Mind Control War

Season Finale

1x10 Mind Control War

  • 2010-10-01T00:00:00Z45m

The US Army investigates the paranormal to see if future conflicts could be fought using mind control. Do these invisible powers truly exist? A boy loses his thumb in a horrific accident only to have it grow back thanks to a mysterious magical powder. Do humans really have the power to regenerate our limbs? And, on a remote Indonesian island inhabited by Komodo dragons, archaeologists make an incredible discovery that could rewrite the history of human evolution. Did humans once share the Earth with a race of ‘hobbits’?

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