Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe

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Snake Charmers, Wolf Children and Holy Men
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Indian mystics have long impressed with their snake-charming and rope tricks : but are they illusions or real magic?
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On the Trail of the Big Cats
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The search for hard evidence to back up sightings of big cats in unlikely locations
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Where Giants Walked
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Theories explaining the enormous carved heads on Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island
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Relics of the Saints
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Scientists investigate the Turin Shroud and other myths surrounding religious relics
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Mysteries of the Sea
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The intriguing Marie Celeste mystery, and an exploration of a Sri Lankan shipwreck
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The Psychic Detectives
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Can psychic visions really aid police murder investigations?
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Keys to the Past
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The mystery of giant stone jars discovered on an Indo-Chinese plain
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The Burning Question
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Theories which attempt to explain the phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion
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A Crop of Circles
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Are crop circles messages from extraterrestrial forces or clever hoaxes?
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At Death's Door
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Myths and beliefs surrounding the final frontier : death
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Callers from the Cosmos
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Investigation into whether extraterrestrials are trying to contact man, and alleged alien abductions
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The Evil Eye
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Tales of curses and omens which defy logical explanation
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Secrets of the Pyramids
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What recent evidence reveals about the mystery of the pyramids
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Mysteries of the Maya
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The sci-fi writer talks to archaeologists trying to uncover the truth about the Mayan civilization
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Squaring the Bermuda Triangle
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Scientific theories surrounding the bizarre disappearances within the Bermuda Triangle
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Doom of the Dinosaurs
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Possible reasons for the dinosaurs' extinction, including a meteorite impact which could have caused a nuclear winter
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Cracking Codes: Writings, Runes and Other Riddles
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Unravelling the mystery surrounding the Vinland map and the Kensington Runestone
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Zombies, The Living Dead?
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Are tales of the living dead simply superstition, or is there a medical explanation?
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The Strange Powers of Animals
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Claims that some animals have extra-ordinary psychic abilities are investigates including the story of a cow that traveled 7 miles in search of her calf that was sold at the market
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Into Thin Air
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This episode details the stories of people who supposedly saw buildings and other structures only for them to disappear afterwords.
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Baffling Bombardments
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Weird tales of objects falling from clear skies are examined. Apples, fish, frogs and coke raining down are just one of the few strange occurrences in this episode.
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Meeting Mary: Visions Of The Virgin
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Clarke investigates modern day apparitions of Virgin Mary in three distinct locations.
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Secrets of Ancient Worlds
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Pre-historic archaeological phenomenon such as the lost city of Atlantis has long been the subject of interest for scientists and most creative writers.
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Spirits of Place: Hauntings & Spectres
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Spirits, ghosts, phantoms and the various places they haunt are examined by Clarke in this episode.
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True or False: More Than Meets the Eye?
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Some of the most revered historic treasures lying in various museums around the world may have hoaxes. Clarke investigates a few cases where a conclusive authenticity is almost impossible to determine.
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Mysteries of the North
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This episode explores mysteries of northern regions where the mercury is at sub-zero levels. One of them is the doomed fate of the Norse Settlements in Greenland.

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