History Series / InSearchOf

* TheBermudaTriangle: Of course, there's an episode dedicated to this. It had actually already been debunked at the time, so the episode spends some time asserting that debunkers are just trying to sweep the mystery under the rug.

Compare and contrast with the various series hosted by Arthur C. Clarke (''Mysterious World, World of Strange Powers, Mysterious Universe'') that covered many of the same topics but did so in a more scientific manner, usually debunking the various theories or providing scientific explanations for phenomena instead of holding up any and all random explanations as equally valid, legitimate answers.

** Atlantis is now believed to have been the Minoan Empire, which once held great sway over the Mediterranean area until it was fatally damaged by the eruption of their home island, Thera, in one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions recorded by humans, scattering the survivors and causing the Minoans to fade into memory.

In 2018, a reboot began airing, hosted by, funnily enough, Creator/ZacharyQuinto, who played Nimoy’s iconic role of Mr. Spock in the Kelvin Timeline ''Star Trek'' movies.

%%* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: their featured in several episodes relating to AncientAstronauts.

** Noah's Ark and the great flood is explored. Noah's flood being a myth has been the consensus of the geological community since the late Victorian era, so technically history had already marched on when the show was made. The episode acknowledges this and challenges the "nineteenth-century scientists" who disbelieved in the flood with the "twentieth-century scientists" who do. One of the "twentieth-century scientists" interviewed for this show is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M._Morris Henry Morris]], founder of the modern creationist movement who revived literalist claims about the idea (and was also an engineer rather than a scientist). There is a slight zig-zag here though: Since the 1990s, it has been proposed that the flood myth was inspired by a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis deluge that happened when the Black Sea was connected to the Mediterranean and filled to its current levels]]. If this happened, it would have happened in the 8th or 9th millennium BCE, so humans would definitely have been around to observe it; whether it actually ''did'' go down this way is highly controversial, though the hypothesis is still within the range of respectable geological opinion.[[note]]There is little question in modern geology that the water level of the Black Sea rose substantially during the Neolithic; however, how much it rose and how quickly is a matter of great debate.[[/note]] However, this is ''much'' more limited than the "Genesis flood" explored in the episode.

** Noah's Ark and the great flood is explored. Noah's flood being a myth has been the consensus of the geological community since the late Victorian era, so technically history had already marched on when the show was made. The episode acknowledges this and challenges the "nineteenth-century scientists" who disbelieved in the flood with the "twentieth-century scientists" who do. One of the "twentieth-century scientists" interviewed for this show is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M._Morris Henry Morris]], founder of the modern creationist movement who revived literalist claims about the idea (and was also an engineer rather than a scientist).

* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: their featured in several episodes relating to AncientAliens.

* NaziGold: The episode "Nazi Plunder".

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The episode "Future Life" focused on predicting how people would live in the twenty-first-century. The progress of space travel and medical science is wildly overestimated while the phenomenal future predicted for computers is mostly accurate if a bit vague. The only really specific computer prediction is still rather fantastical, however, with its suggestion that NeuralImplanting could lead to a {{Transhuman}}.
* WhoShotJFK: The KGB, and the FBI covered it up because they didn't want to admit the Soviets outsmarted them. The show also alleges that "Oswald" was actually a Soviet lookalike.

%%* EenieMeenieMinyMoai

** And it doesn't just come from the crackpots interviewed on the show; the [[Creator/LeonardNimoy narrator]] uses it in spades. Almost every other sentence he utters consists of "Could this mystery be explained by ghosts/magic/aliens/telepathy?"
** At one point he asks how ancient Native Americans could draw pictures of elephants since they couldn't know what an elephant was, conveniently leaving out the fact that frigging MAMMOTHS lived alongside humans in the Americas until 10,000 years ago, which was common knowledge even at the time of the series.

* AlienAbduction At least one episode on [=UFO=] sightings also discusses stories of abduction by little green men.

* {{Dracula}}: There was an episode dedicated to him, complete with StockFootage from ''{{Film/Nosferatu}}'' being used to illustrate the Creator/BramStoker version of the character. There isn't really a mystery as such, since the episode mostly just relates the history of UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler. Although the episode itself leans towards HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection, it's interesting to note that it was filmed on-location in {{UsefulNotes/Romania}} at a time when that country was ruled by the more modern tyrant of Nicolae Ceaușescu (who admired Vlad the Impaler, no less!).

* BeeAfraid: The episode "Killer Bees" is dedicated to the Africanized honey bees which escaped from a Brazilian laboratory in 1957. Impressively, the episode predicts that Africanized bees would arrive in the United States in about 1990. In fact, it was in October of 1990 that the first Africanized beehives were found in Texas.

** The episode on Eva Braun features David Irving, who is presented as a respectable historian. At the time this episode was made, Irving was already a very controversial writer with a reputation as a Hitler apologist. In later years, he would be exposed as a full-blown Holocaust denier and historical falsifier.

In 2018, a reboot began airing, hosted by, funnily enough, Creator/ZacharyQuinto, who played Spock in the Kelvin Timeline ''Star Trek'' movies.

** There's an episode about [[DidAnastasiaSurvive Anastasia Romanova]], including an interview with an ancient-but-still-living Anna Anderson. In 2007, DNA testing disproved the idea that Anastasia could have survived the Russian Revolution. Anderson's DNA was taken in 1984 after she died and proved already that she wasn't a Romanov.

** For instance, they had an article about Carlos as "The Most Wanted Man in the World." In 1994, the Sudanese government was convinced to give him up and he was arrested in 1994 and now is serving a life sentence in prison.
** Likewise, they did a story on UsefulNotes/JosefMengele. He died in 1979 and his grave was found in 1985. Now that Mengele's identity while living in South America is known, the dramatic tales of Mengele's narrow escapes from {{Nazi Hunter}}s related in the episode have turned out to be bogus.
*** In the same episode, the death toll of Auschwitz is given as five million, which is even higher than the inflated Soviet number of four million. The "four million" figure was, contrary to the claims of Holocaust deniers, never accepted by credible Western historians, although it was used by the Auschwitz State Museum in then-communist Poland at the time the episode aired. Five million ''is'' about the number of Jews who were killed in UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, so it's possible the episode fallaciously conflated Auschwitz with the entire Holocaust.

** Other subjects covered like astrology, dowsing, communicating with the dead, the predictions of Nostradamus, etc have been thoroughly discredited as utter nonsense by modern scientific skeptics. Not that they had any scholarly support in the 70's, either.

** Noah's Ark and the great flood is explored. Noah's flood being a myth has been the consensus of the geological community since the late Victorian era, so technically history had already marched on when the show was made. The episode acknowledges this and challenges the "nineteenth-century scientists" who disbelieved in the flood with the "twentieth-century scientists" who do. One of the "twentieth-century scientists" interviewed for this show is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M._Morris this guy]].
** There's an episode about [[DidAnastasiaSurvive Anastasia Romanova]], including an interview with an ancient-but-still-living Anna Anderson. In 2007, DNA testing disproved the idea that Anastasia could have survived the Russian Revolution.

* InsaneTrollLogic: And it doesn't just come from the crackpots interviewed on the show; the [[Creator/LeonardNimoy narrator]] uses it in spades. Almost every other sentence he utters consists of "Could this mystery be explained by ghosts/magic/aliens/telepathy?"
** At one point he asks how ancient native Americans could draw pictures of elephants since they couldn't know what an elephant was, conveniently leaving out the fact that frigging MAMMOTHS lived alongside humans in the Americas until 10,000 years ago, which was common knowledge even at the time of the series.

* Creator/LeonardNimoy: The narrator.

* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: An episode is devoted to this and includes the perpetually famous Patterson–Gimlin footage which isn't taken seriously anymore.

* ShoutOut: When the subtitle of the third ''StarTrek'' movie was announced, many viewers and reviewers noticed the similarity between it and this series.

** The episode on Eva Braun features David Irving, who is presented as a respectable historian. In later years, Irving would be exposed as a Holocaust denier and historical falsifier. At the time this episode was made, he was already a very controversial writer with a reputation as a Hitler apologist.

The series conducted investigations into the controversial and paranormal (e.g., [=UFOs=], Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster). Additionally, it featured episodes about mysterious historical events and personalities such as [[DidAnastasiaSurvive Anna Anderson/Grand Duchess Anastasia]], the Lincoln Assassination, the Jack the Ripper murders, infamous cults (e.g. Jim Jones), and missing persons, cities, and ships (e.g., UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart, Jimmy Hoffa, D. B. Cooper, the ''Mary Celeste'', the ''Titanic'', the lost Roanoke Colony, the Bermuda Triangle). Because the show often presented offbeat subjects and controversial theories, each episode's opening credits include a verbal disclaimer about the potentially conjecturable nature of the evidence and theories to be presented:

** Likewise, they did a story on UsefulNotes/JosefMengele. He died in 1979 and his grave was found in 1985. Now that Mengele's identity while living in South American is known, the dramatic tales of Mengele's narrow escapes from {{Nazi Hunter}}s related in the episode have turned out to be bogus.

The series conducted investigations into the controversial and paranormal (e.g., [=UFOs=], Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster). Additionally, it featured episodes about mysterious historical events and personalities such as [[DidAnastasiaSurvive Anna Anderson/Grand Duchess Anastasia]], the Lincoln Assassination, the Jack the Ripper murders, infamous cults (e.g. Jim Jones), and missing persons, cities, and ships (e.g., UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart, Jimmy Hoffa, D. B. Cooper, the ''Mary Celeste'', the ''Titanic'', the lost Roanoke Colony). Because the show often presented offbeat subjects and controversial theories, each episode's opening credits include a verbal disclaimer about the potentially conjecturable nature of the evidence and theories to be presented:

The series conducted investigations into the controversial and paranormal (e.g., [=UFOs=], Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster). Additionally, it featured episodes about mysterious historical events and personalities such as [[DidAnastasiaSurvive Anna Anderson/Grand Duchess Anastasia]], the Lincoln Assassination, the Jack the Ripper murders, infamous cults (e.g. Jim Jones), and missing persons, cities, and ships (e.g., UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart, Jimmy Hoffa, D. B. Cooper, the Mary Celeste, the Titanic, the lost Roanoke Colony). Because the show often presented offbeat subjects and controversial theories, each episode's opening credits include a verbal disclaimer about the potentially conjecturable nature of the evidence and theories to be presented:

-->This series presents information based in part on theory and [[WildMassGuessing conjecture]]. The producer's purpose is to suggest some possible explanations, but not necessarily the only ones, to the mysteries we will examine.