William Shatner
Weird or What? (2010)
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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.
Released April 21, 2010
Episode 45 min
10+
Genres: Documentary, Drama, Talk
Keywords: imdb.paranormal-phenomenon, imdb.psychotronic-series, imdb.supernatural-power, imdb.reenactment, imdb.urban-legend, mdblist.certified-fresh
Watch Providers: The Roku Channel, fuboTV, Pluto TV, Plex, Plex ChannelXive TV Documentaries Amazon Channel
Production Companies: Discovery Channel Canada, Syfy
Network: Discovery
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S0E1 - Strange Survival (International-version)
A man miraculously survives a fall from a 50-story building. Killer ice balls fall from the sky.
S0E2 - Ghost Ship (International-version)
US Air Force planes in hot pursuit of UFOs One of the loudest sounds in the natural world from the depths of the ocean. ("The Bloop") A fishing trawler vanishes in calm waters.
S0E3 - Cocaine Mummies (International-version)
Thousands of sea lions disappear before a major San Francisco earthquake. A mysterious medieval manuscript written in a secret code (Voynich Manuscript) Evidence of cocaine in mummies - a substance not found in Egypt until thousands of years later.
S0E4 - Grim Reapers (International-version)
A surfer is saved by dolphins from a shark attack. Pets identifying people about to die. A teen lifts a car to free a man trapped underneath.
Sept. 22, 2010, midnight
S0E5 - 105 (International-version)
Rocks appear to be moving around on their own in Death Valley. (Sailing stones) Mysterious lights at North Carolina’s Brown Mountain. Tribe members in the mountains of Northern Mexico run 18 times further than a marathon.
Sept. 29, 2010, midnight
S0E6 - 106 (International-version)
A mysterious woman suddenly materializes out of thin air. Human sacrifice in New Hampshire. Plants seem to possess strange powers to detect human thought.
S0E7 - Human Popsicle (International-version)
A man is struck by lightning six times and survives.
Oct. 13, 2010, midnight
S0E8 - 108 (International-version)
A woman survives a shot in the chest. A young man saves the life of a woman and discovers she had saved his life seven years ago. Most of the world’s cows are facing the same direction.
S0E9 - Personality Transplant (International-version)
A patient assumes the personality of his heart donor. Perfect circles of ice are appearing in lakes and rivers. A mother undergoes a DNA test that reveals she is genetically unrelated to her children.
S0E10 - Mind Control War (International-version)
The US Army investigates paranormal mind control. A boy loses his thumb and it grows back thanks to a mysterious powder. Archaeologists find clues that suggest that a race of ‘hobbits’ lived on Earth.
Network: Discovery
Episode Runtime: 45 min.
Season Runtime: 1440 min.
Released: April 21, 2010
Last Air Date: Aug. 14, 2012, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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