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2,000 year-old buried corpses in Denmark that were not murdered, witness the death rites of a Balinese Prince in a fiery ceremony designed to release his soul to reincarnation, follow the bizarre travels of composer Franz Joseph Hyden's severed head, discover a dream house that sticks out its tongue at convention, and a pealing wall that seems to defy gravity and other unusual architecture, observe the unusual Day of the Dead rituals of grief practiced in New Guinea, probe the bizarre mysteries of nature as time is slowed down, explore the baffling mystery of the world's most famous violin -- the Stratavarious, join us at a festival where the spirits of the dead are welcomed back in one of the most macabre homecomings, Sandra Ilene West buried in her expensive car (1977), the world's worst orchestra, a fashionable cemetery in Paris, and Ripley's birth place. (no trick to end the episode)

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A re-creation on a London Heiriss who put her will int oa bottle and tossed it in the Thames River, only yo turn up ten years later in San Francisco; listen to rhythmic religious chants in Bali in a recreation of a demon kidnapping a Queen, mud throwing in France, see intimate close-ups of a vamprie bat on the prowl for a midnight meal, rituals in Sinapore where people are pieced with multiple needles, watch a blind man run a marathon, see a lizard that actually walks on water, witness a perilous descent own a mountain side as men ride logs in a religious ceremony in Japan, see Alex Jordon's large colelection of dolls and more, go round and round on the biggest and tallest carosel in the world, see a horribly disfigured man who has found peace and acceptance in his own town; learn about animals from across the world: the emo, swans, aligator turtle, Archer fish, monkeys, giant flying squirrel, the Colugo, a lizard with wings of skin, the flying snake of Borneo; Mark O'Brien: a man confined most of the time to an iron lung, suffering from Polio, and lives and sorks alone; a machine that makes music, and finally how Shakespear and the King James Bible are connected.

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NO ENGLISH LOAD FOUND.

October 17, 1982 (1.3)
Composer: Craig Safan

Alternative link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x87l6sc (in Spanish) (no end credits)

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Visit the spectacular castles conceived by the mad King of Bavaria, Ludwig II; explore the quietly violent world of spiders, watch a bizarre courtship ritual in Asia, see the dried blood of a matured Saint Janarious miraculously liquified, be a witness at some of the world's most unusual weddings, meet the real Robinson Caruso: Alexander Selkirk, witness around 30,000 people engaging in a hopping pilgrimage, dancing for religion in Turkey, a religious dance of purification in Java, ceremony to mark conversion to Islam in Japan, re-enactment of an encounter with a witch in Bali, marriage or death for inmates, selling daughters for arranged marriage, and the story of why there is now an extra mile in the Olympic marathon. (no trick to end the episode)

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The story is John Stiles's heart, the survival of fish in the ocean deep, quality food with quality appearance in Fauchon in Paris, blowfish in Japan and years of training in preparation, Pygmies eating caterpillars in Africa, fine furniture made of chocolate, cave swifts in Borneo and bird's nest spittle soup, watch the deadly forces of wind, an artist who build a large fence to capture wind for two weeks, The Roy Rogers/Dale Evans Museum, a 700 year old horse race in Italy, horse riding for harvest outcome in Japan, and the horrors of Vlad the Impaler. (no trick to end the episode)

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Explore the deadly deeds of the real life man Mr. Hyde was modeled after -- William Brodie, discover how a human skull was transformed into Piltdown Man -- one of the greatest frauds in history, fly with dare-devil deer herders in New Zealand, watch six pounds of bees become a beard without stinging the man who wears it, soar threw the air with the pole vaulters of Holland, witness an exhibition of fancy foot work in one of the world's most unusual sports [shuttlecock], meet some bizarre pets and the people who dare to keep them, explore what it means to transform yourself into a living statute, examine a bogus painting still hanging in a place of honor and the astounding story of the man who forged it, watch while deadly snakes become a most peculiar meal, a man's three-year journey to paint a desert blue [Jean Verame], art that proves people are stupid and don't pay attention, the original tennis -- the sport of kings, witness throwing poop for fun in Australia, watch caged buggies kick around a large ball; and a composer so determined to perform Shakespeare but died, has his head removed after death, cleaned, and sent to the Royal Shakespeare company.

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A city in Spain where two people died from love in the same day, see the onslaught of a raging volcano on an island facing destruction, watch the ingenuity of man as he attempts to stop a lava river from hell, stroll through a butterfly zoo in London, learn about various kinds of butterflies, see the annual Butterfly Day parade, explore one of history's greatest military follies -- the Maginot Line, learn the inside story of one of America's greatest automotive blunders: the Edsel, marvel at different kinds of robots, witness a robot that looks like Marilyn Monroe and sings, a robot that walks the dog and takes out the trash, a table top robotic arm to help the disabled, and finally a trick showing you how to cut to a piece of paper in a way that makes a hole bigger enough to step threw.

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Grave robbers of the late 1800's known as the Resurrectionists and William Burke, mount up on a gantlet of unusual rides from a clash of spears to a sword in the throat, from a Paris foot race of waiters to Italian cheese throwing competitions, banging heads against walls in Sardinia for a prize, be an eye witness to virgin birth in the wild, see the deadly mating habits of the Black Widow spider, the violent struggle of a wasp and a tarantula, the price of procreation paid by the Praying Mantis, see exciting cars of the future, and travel backward in the past to see older forms of transportation, ride in horseless carriages, thrill to flaming crashes, low comedy at high speed, walk the land where the world measures times, see time set to music and measured by water, live the longest second, and see how short a football game really is, deadly Chinese martial arts, watch a contest of home-made flying contraptions in Portsmyth, England and one in Japan; snail hermaphrodites breeding, witness the unusual birthing habits of the water flea, the true story of the first recorded automobile accident, and listen to the bizarre story of what medieval doctors did to keep King Charles II alive for five more days.

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The mystery of the murderous Jack the Ripper, take a tour of the Paris underground to visit the Empire of the Dead, witness an extraordinary costume in Japan in which a Holyman allows himself to be buried alive, join a precession on Bali to celebrate a ritual that occurs only once a century, visit some of the world's most unusual houses, roll along with the world's [then] largest ball of string by Francis A. Johnson in Darwin, Minnesota; examine the graphically accurate human body forms of art in a museum in Florence, measure up to the [then] tallest woman in the world, review the life of an unusual giant who astounded medical science, see the world's [then] tallest woman Sandy Allen, view a drive-in funeral home in Atlanta, GA; a miniature palace burial tomb, view a super large collection of pencils, the annual appraisal day at the Museum of Natural History, witness a Texas-based group of plane collectors who re-create World War II, learn about King Ferdinand's collection of enemies, the largest known representation of a human figure in the world, the Tip Toppers club in California: A club only for the tall, and a well known cowboy who turned out to be a woman.

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Kali: the Hindu goddess of death, go prospecting for gold in a field along the Amazon so rich that claims are measured in inches, see a giant condor rides a bull in an ancient rite still practiced in Peru, explore the life and accomplishments of a forgotten genius -- Nicola Tesla, witness a struggle to the death, penetrate the mysteries of a dangerous snake-handling religion, observe the ways of the world in self-adornment, witness the Japanese quest to transcend death in the Buddhist ritual pilgrimage of a Thousand Days lasting eight years, learn about various snakes, punk rock delusional ideas of "beauty", the geisha of Japan, witness a religious rite in Bali where teenage boys and girls have their teeth filed down, watch paid vandals at work known as tattoo artists ruin human bodies, and Ring Around the Rosies: the Black Death plague of London.

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The real man the story The Man in the Iron Mask Was based off of, join a exhibition to rescue a fabled treasure of Egypt, and pay to view what could be the last view of the famous painting The Last Supper -- now in danger of deterioration, take wing on a flight of a Falcon as it seeks out its prey, explore the icy waters of the South Atlantic as a marauding sealion creates panic in colony of penguins, tour a miniature city in Denmark in Lego Land, take a look pa patient artistry transforms matchsticks into masterpieces, witness the moment a diamond in the rough is transformed into a million-dollar jewel or shattered into fragments, see the art of ancient cavemen before its lost forever, watch as Japanese scientists transform chunks of carbon into diamonds, the story of the deadly Hope Diamond, a weaver bird at work, view the birth of a Cuckoo bird, see the Gooney bird: the mascot of Midway, the slow fate of Venice, a twenty-four hundred year-old Parthenon in Athens, toy railroad, a miniature full-scale war; and watch of Palance builds a tower if dominos that seems to defy gravity, supported by just three upright dominos.

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Hear the tale of the ghostly passengers of the Great Eastern, witness the Hungarian Rhapsody performed by slapping people's faces, listen to the world's longest instrument, witness an invasion in Venice by saxophone players, share a natural hot tub with the amazing snow monkeys of Japan, see a ferocious battle for survive between honey bees and a giant wasp, fly the newest machines in the sky, take a look at planes invented before the Wright Brothers flew at Kittyhawk, and a few devices that almost made it into the air, watch Happy Stokes: the one-man seven piece band, rubbing wine glasses with water to make music, and finally learn about the sultan who would behead smokers.

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The murder of Richard Parker in 1884 was foretold by Edgar Allan Poe in 1837 in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, learn about the other Statue of Liberty -- in Manhattan, see the narrowest house in New York with only half a street address, the unsuspecting tree of death in New York which pre-dates New York, a wheat field art projects in Manhattan, see the smallest private property lot in New York City (owned by the Hess family estate), take a gander at a failed Abraham Lincoln statue that had the head removed and another put on to re-purpose it, view a large elaborate miniature model of New York City, fish that live above water in Japan, the Ridley turtle mating and life saga, a frog that incubated her young in her stomach, learn about various rare coins, see workers at the Federal Reserve Bank working with money, watch nearly naked men in Japan chant like morons for pieces of wood deemed lucky charms, gold finger nails in New York, a cake coated with 24-carat gold edible leaves in Paris, a gold bathtub in Japan*, a short history on fortune cookies, a soccer ball water retriever, bullfighting blindfolded, part-time deities in India who are little boys, and finally two of ten Goddesses in Napal.

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The hoax of the Cardiff Man, go underwater as a diver puts his life on the line to test a shark-proof suit, see a stone-throwing contest in Switzerland, a deadly business some Texans call a 'sport': rattlesnake sacking, go to the mat with the fantastic wrestlers if Senegal, take a terrifying look at torture devices actually used during a violent age, examine some of the medical practices of a native healer, witness the burning cure for bodily ills practiced in a Japanese temple, see the astounding replacement of a human tendon with carbon fiber, learn trivia about various shark species, watch a shark hunter capture and kill a shark for a religious ritual, hear one of Australia's greatest unresolved murder mysteries in which a human arm is found inside a shark, a small blurb on miniature golf, take a walk through an underground subway car museum, be a guest at Dr. James Smith's collection at Bruce Museum in Connecticut of animatronic toys and displays, see bandages that stick to your skin and transfer medicine into the body, backwards mystical healing in other countries, watch a portable sterile operating device in action, watch a blind man walk using sound as his only guide, and finally hear about a Scottish doctor who could have won the gold medal in speed and style in amputation: Robert Liston.

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