Mysteries from Above
Season 1
Overview
Fly over sites around the globe to get a unique understanding of their historical significance and modern legacy. View these locations via drone, satellite, and aerial photography and see how a change in perspective opens up a new world of meaning.
Episodes
1. Accidental Discoveries
Accidental Discoveries. Using the view from above, drone pilots and satellite imagery specialists are uncovering a vanished Neolithic structure in an Irish farmer's field, an ancient oasis in the far reaches of the Chinese desert, centuries-old buried treasure in Britain and a fearsome predator roaming the Pacific Ocean has made cozy and all just by accident.
2. Military Mysteries
Military Mysteries: Discover an array of mysterious phenomena seen from above, including a Nazi weapon in Northern France and a Russian military tower near Chernobyl
3. In Plain Sight
In Plain Sight: Discover over a hundred massive concrete arrows scattered across America, a giant chalk figure with an oversized phallus on an English hillside and a mysterious hole in the middle of a lake in Southern California
4. Submerged
Submerged: A Turkish drought reveals a long-lost ancient Basilica and its secrets, a church spire punches through the surface of a toxic sludge in Romania and the hull of a massive ship in the North Sea answers decades old questions
5. Ancient Civilizations
Ancient Civilisations: Nubian pyramids reveal the rise of female power in Ancient Kush and a shocking satellite image uncovers secrets of an ancient ancestral Puebloan site in New Mexico
6. Unreachable Places
Strange markings in the remote region of Northern Finland; drones find a Manhattan-size mystery in the depths of a Vietnamese cave; secrets are no longer hidden in the Antarctic; a lost sky-high world in Mozambique gets a visit from above.
7. Ghost Towns
Drones reveal what's left of Henry Ford's American suburb in the Brazilian jungle; clues to what killed a once-vibrant Pennsylvania mining town; an aerial glimpse of New York's forgotten ghost town; an Italian Renaissance reduced to dust.
8. Natural Mysteries
From above, a constant inferno in Turkmenistan, mysterious circles in the Namibian desert, slithering stones across Death Valley, and the secret of Utah's electric blue ponds.
9. Lost at Sea
A remote island linked to one of the world's most famous aviation mysteries; thousands of shipwrecks in the Bermuda triangle; a history lost and found in the South Pacific.
10. New Technologies
Viewed from above, the world-famous Pyramids of Giza could be a kind of star map. It also shows how first responders gave hope to survivors of Hurricane Katrina from the sky. Also very impressive is an Indonesian volcano that burns in a bright blue. And this time, a bird's eye view also reveals certain forgotten joys of America's recent past.
