In Search of..... - Season 3

In Search of..... - Season 3

Season 3

Host: Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy hosts investigations into various mysteries.
Network
DatesSep 14, 1978 - May 17, 1979
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Episodes

UFO Captives
Season 3Episode 130 min

UFO Captives

UFO Captives: Meet people who believe they have been held captive aboard alien spacecraft - close encounters of the fourth kind.

Sep 14, 1978
Tornadoes
Season 3Episode 230 min

Tornadoes

Tornadoes: A terrifying look at one of nature's deadliest forces. Tornadoes can swallow up buildings and people without a trace - can they be stopped?

Sep 21, 1978
Cloning
Season 3Episode 330 min

Cloning

Cloning: An in-depth look at the process which may allow us to "copy" people exactly and produce single-parent human beings.

Sep 28, 1978
Water Seekers (aka Dowsing)
Season 3Episode 430 min

Water Seekers (aka Dowsing)

The ancient art of dowsing is reviewed, specifically the accuracy and reliability of water dowsers. Do they possess a psychic ability to detect water or can successful dowsing be learned? Further, can science prove or disprove dowsing?

Oct 5, 1978
Jack the Ripper
Season 3Episode 530 min

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper: An investigative report on the unsolved mystery of London's notorious serial killer. The episode reveals the killer's connection with contemporary media and the possible involvement with the Ancient Free And Accepted Masons. Various identities are suggested as being that of the killer, including a duke who was second in line to the British throne.

Oct 12, 1978
Cryogenics
Season 3Episode 630 min

Cryogenics

Cryogenics: Scientists are discovering new methods to prolong human life and, in the case of cryogenics, to suspend the possibility of life for centuries.

Oct 19, 1978
Siberian Fireball
Season 3Episode 730 min

Siberian Fireball

Siberian Fireball: Considers the possibility that the unexplained and catastrophic explosion in Siberia in 1908 was an atomic blast occurring 37 years before the development of the A-bomb.

Oct 26, 1978
The Great Lakes Triangle
Season 3Episode 830 min

The Great Lakes Triangle

The Great Lakes Triangle: Investigates efforts by scientists and psychics to discover the mysterious forces around the Great Lakes that have caused more air and sea disasters than the Bermuda Triangle.

Nov 2, 1978
Monster Hunters (aka Sasquatch)
Season 3Episode 930 min

Monster Hunters (aka Sasquatch)

Examines various "monster hunters" including Peter Byrne and Tim Dinsdale as well as the "Bay Area Group". Subjects such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster are covered.

Nov 9, 1978
Bermuda Triangle Pirates
Season 3Episode 1030 min

Bermuda Triangle Pirates

Bermuda Triangle Pirates: Luxurious yachts are disappearing off the coast of Florida. Are pirates trafficking in drugs to blame?

Dec 7, 1978
Indian Astronomers (aka Mayan Legacy)
Season 3Episode 1130 min

Indian Astronomers (aka Mayan Legacy)

Many pre-Columbian cultures possessed a sophisticated understanding of the heavens. Did they share this knowledge, even across great distances? Similar insights of the Cahokia, Ancestral Puebloans, and Mayans appears to confirm they did.

Dec 14, 1978
Sherlock Holmes
Season 3Episode 1230 min

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes: A look at surprising new clues which indicate that the famed super sleuth actually did exist, after a fashion.

Dec 21, 1978
Lost Vikings
Season 3Episode 1330 min

Lost Vikings

What happened to the Vikings, led initially by Erik the Red, who had settled in Greenland? Did they perish due to some unforeseen calamity? Or did they relocate to Newfoundland, thus becoming the first European settlers in the New World?

Dec 28, 1978
Dreams and Nightmares
Season 3Episode 1430 min

Dreams and Nightmares

Dreams and Nightmares: Our dreams provide clues to the dark world of our unconscious mind, but can we learn to control them?

Jan 4, 1979
Animal ESP
Season 3Episode 1530 min

Animal ESP

Do animals, including humans, possess extrasensory perception? If so, are we humans and our companion animals able to communicate on a deeper level? Further, do humans have the ability to converse telepathically with companion animals?

Jan 11, 1979
The Money Pit Mystery (aka Captain Kidd)
Season 3Episode 1630 min

The Money Pit Mystery (aka Captain Kidd)

Was a secret treasure buried on Oak Island off the coast of Nova Scotia? This episode examines the possibilities that it was and also covers some of the searches for it.

Jan 18, 1979
Psychic Sea Hunt
Season 3Episode 1730 min

Psychic Sea Hunt

Various individuals with psychic abilities are given a map of the ocean floor and asked to identify areas that may contain long-forgotten shipwrecks and perhaps even treasure. A submarine travels to the selected spots to gauge the results.

Jan 25, 1979
The Angel of Death (aka Joseph Mengele)
Season 3Episode 1830 min

The Angel of Death (aka Joseph Mengele)

Angel of Death: Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal tracks infamous war criminal Josef Mengele to his hiding place in Paraguay.

Mengele is believed to have died only six days after this episode was broadcast, having drowned as a result of a stroke while swimming. At the time of his death, his identity was not widely known.

Years after this installment was initially transmitted, Mengele's remains were found and identified; he proved to have had to eke out a bare existence as a farm worker, and his punishment for his war crimes was to have lived out the rest of his days in both comparative obscurity and the fear of eventual discovery.

Feb 1, 1979
Noah's Flood
Season 3Episode 1930 min

Noah's Flood

Noah's Flood: A dramatic inquiry into whether or not scientific proof exists for the legend of the Biblical Great Flood.

Feb 8, 1979
The Diamond Curse
Season 3Episode 2030 min

The Diamond Curse

Does the possession of diamonds carry an inherent curse? In particular, how has the Hope Diamond, as well as other significant diamonds, affected its possessors?

Feb 15, 1979
Ghostly Stakeout
Season 3Episode 2130 min

Ghostly Stakeout

California psychics visit two purportedly haunted properties and attempt, with mixed results, to contact and exorcise ghosts located within the structures.

Feb 22, 1979
Brain Power
Season 3Episode 2230 min

Brain Power

Brain Power: A study of the incredible hidden potential of the human mind, including the possibility that average people can become geniuses.

Mar 17, 1979
Sodom & Gomorrah
Season 3Episode 2330 min

Sodom & Gomorrah

Sodom and Gomorrah: Studies evidence developed by archaeologists suggesting that the two wicked cities existed on the site of a crater now filled in by the Dead Sea.

May 10, 1979
King Tut
Season 3Episode 2430 min

King Tut

The brief life and reign of Tutankhamen were mostly unremarkable, yet upon his death he was entombed with a collection of astonishing riches and his decision to restore Egypt's ancient religion may have galvanized monotheistic practice.

May 17, 1979

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