William Shatner's Weird or What? (2010)
Weird or What? is a series on the Discovery Channel and History hosted by William Shatner. Each episode contains three separate stories of the bizarre and unexplained. As the show unfolds, it weighs various supernatural and scientific theories that attempt to explain the story, and sometimes features tests conducted as proof of a theory's plausibility. The show features strange occurrences such as ghosts, aliens, monsters, medical oddities and natural disasters.
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Episode 1 - Alien Encounters
Release Date: 2011-09-12All over the planet, strange events suggest that aliens are among us: In Colorado, a farmer discovers a cow mysteriously mutilated by unknown forces, and it’s a phenomenon that’s been reported by farmers around the globe; a Texas man is repeatedly abducted from his bed and, like thousands of people worldwide, claims he is the subject of extraterrestrial experiments; and, in Ohio, an astronomer’s powerful telescope intercepts a mysterious message from outer space that could be the most important broadcast in history.
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Episode 2 - Life After Death
Release Date: 2011-09-19Three eerie stories that suggest there is indeed life after death: An emotional visit to a Civil War battlefield and a series of bizarre circumstances lead a Connecticut man to believe he is the reincarnation of a dead general; hoping to communicate with spirits and uncover genuine proof of the afterlife, scientists in England conduct a series of groundbreaking séances and what they find defies logic; and, in Haiti, a man dies after a sudden and mysterious illness but returns from the grave 20 years later!
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Episode 3 - Monsters
Release Date: 2011-09-26Three bizarre stories about monsters: A West Virginia town is terrorized by the ‘mothman’, a seven-foot winged demon with glowing red eyes; in Newfoundland, a fisherman discovers the remains of an unidentified sea creature on a local beach sparking theories of the monsters that lurk in the oceans’ unexplored depths; and, there’s panic in the streets of New Delhi when thousands report being attacked by the ‘monkey man’, a sinister hairy creature with metallic claws!
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Episode 4 - End of the World
Release Date: 2011-10-03Three incredible stories that could spell the end of human life on Earth: Decoding ancient Mayan texts, a physicist predicts a huge cataclysm will destroy the world in 2012 and believes the culprit is a deadly super-volcano lurking beneath Yellowstone National Park; a NASA scientist makes an incredible alien discovery and believes a solar storm could destroy the planet; and, one of the world’s greatest minds makes a startling prediction about a sinister robot takeover — man and machine will merge by 2050.
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Episode 5 - Parallel Worlds
Release Date: 2011-10-17Three incredible stories about the parallel dimensions that may exist alongside our own: While hiking in a New York state park, a woman has a terrifying encounter with a mysterious human-shaped shadow she believes is an entity from another world; in a New Jersey suburb, a weird machine transports a six-year-old boy and his father hundreds of miles in a split second; and, discovered in Belize and Mexico, perfectly-carved ancient crystal skulls are thought to be cosmic gateways to another realm.
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Episode 6 - Freaks of Nature
Release Date: 2011-10-24Three mysterious freaks of nature: On the East Coast of Canada, a small community is devastated by an earth-shattering ‘boom’ that leaves scientists scratching their heads; swallowing ships and planes and terrorizing sailors and pilots, a paranormal fog haunts Lake Michigan and seems to alter the very fabric of time; and, a blinding double flash of light over the Indian Ocean sends a nation into panic and forces the US government to ask some serious questions.
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Episode 7 - Paranormal Mysteries
Release Date: 2011-10-31Real-life ghost stories that make the paranormal come alive: Featuring strange lights, apparitions and a penchant for murder, a California woman is terrorized by an invisible attacker who turns her home into a living hell; seemingly possessed, a New England mother undergoes a violent and demonic transformation before turning to an ancient Catholic ritual for help; and, a British teenager is terrified when she is visited by her first ghost and later struggles to understand her ‘gift’.
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Episode 8 - Medical Mysteries
Release Date: 2011-11-07Three incredible stories where the human body reaches beyond the limits of modern medicine: When her parachute fails on her first-ever solo skydive, an Arkansas adrenaline junkie plummets to the earth but somehow she and her unborn baby survive; in upstate New York, a retired firefighter is incinerated as he lies in bed and with no plausible explanation, investigators are left with a terrifying question; seemingly able to harness electrical power, a supercharged British schoolgirl causes havoc when she drains batteries, fries appliances and causes streetlamps to flicker!
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Episode 9 - Power of the Mind
Release Date: 2011-11-14Three incredible stories about the untapped power of the human brain: While hearing about a murder on the radio, a Los Angeles housewife has a strange and sudden vision that eventually helps crack the case; suggesting that total recall is possible, a California man remembers every single moment from every single day of his life; and, several years after a debilitating freak accident leaves her in chronic pain, a woman visits a controversial Ohio faith healer who miraculously cures her symptoms.
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Episode 10 - Ancient Mysteries
Release Date: 2011-11-21Three ancient artifacts that could turn the history of the world upside down: In a Mexican cave, a young girl finds a bizarrely-shaped thousand-year-old skull that may prove aliens once walked the planet; featuring detailed images of dinosaurs, a Peruvian doctor discovers ancient stone carvings that could rewrite the story of evolution; and, excavated from one of Cairo’s oldest pyramids, a 2000-year-old wooden model may be proof that ancient Egyptians invented modern flight.