Strangest Things

Wednesday 8pm

Show Trailer

Season 3
00:30

Next trasmissions on tv

  1. Friday 7 November 4pm

    Tutankhamun's Mask?, Terror Balloon, Witch Bottle

  2. Sunday 9 November 11pm

    Tutankhamun's Mask?, Terror Balloon, Witch Bottle

  3. Wednesday 12 November 12am

    Tutankhamun's Mask?, Terror Balloon, Witch Bottle

Synopsis

Locked away in the vaults of museums, laboratories and storage rooms are the most remarkable and mysterious objects on Earth. Until now, the public has never had such access to these rare finds. Using the latest 3D imaging, we can pull them apart, zero in on small details, and rebuild lost or damaged features to uncover their mind-boggling, ancient and bizarre secrets. Scientists and historians reveal the most up-to-date understanding of these oddities and ponder the unanswered questions that remain. From the rarest artifacts found in buried tombs to the weirdest inventions of military engineers and mad scientists to the most beautiful and feared relics of cults and lost societies, these are the world’s strangest things.

Clips

Episodes

Season 3
  • Tutankhamun's Mask?, Terror Balloon, Witch Bottle

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    Are tiny marks on Tutankhamun’s mask the erased hieroglyphics which reveal the name of the person it was originally made for? Was North America actually bombed in a WW2 terror campaign by incendiary balloons? Does an innocuous clay bottle found buried in East London really contain a defence against the dark arts?

    Next Showing
    Friday 7 November 4pm
    On National Geographic
    Next Showing
    Sunday 9 November 11pm
    On National Geographic
  • Tukuturi, Avrocar, Mesmer Tub

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    Easter Island’s famous tall stone moai are mostly similar in appearance. Why is only one kneeling and wearing a beard? The US military has developed plenty of top-secret gizmos, but did they really build a flying saucer in the 1950s? In the 1700s, did physician Franz Anton Mesmer really cure all ills, as he claimed, with a giant wooden bucket?

    Next Showing
    Wednesday 12 November 8pm
    On National Geographic
    Next Showing
    Friday 14 November 4pm
    On National Geographic
  • Bog Body, Abrams Machine, Bust of Nefertiti

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    Is a body found perfectly preserved in a Danish bog a 2,400-year-old cold case? Or is this something else entirely? Can discoveries about the fundamental nature of the universe allow a strange machine to identify disease? The bust of Nefertiti reveals a woman with iconic beauty, but beneath the flawless surface, was she really quite so perfect?

    Next Showing
    Wednesday 19 November 8pm
    On National Geographic
    Next Showing
    Friday 21 November 4pm
    On National Geographic
  • Roanoke, Acoustic Horn, Sphinx Beard

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    Could a rock covered with Elizabethan writing solve one of the great mysteries of colonial America or is it just a clever fake? Could a strange thing that looks like a set of giant metal ears really repel attacks from early warplanes? Is a large carved stone found near the Great Sphinx evidence that it once wore a false beard?