Decoding the Past

Noah's Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Shroud of Turin and messages and codes within the text of the Old Testament.

The Bermuda Triangle, the Great Lakes, ghost ships and the New Jersey shoreline.

Opus Dei encourages Christians to live consistently with their faith.

The University of Chicago maintains the Doomsday Clock.

Prophets and their visions for the future.

The accuracy of past predictions.

Area 51, Lee Harvey Oswald, Marilyn Monroe and Robert Kennedy.

The Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman.

Atlantis, Amazon women, Stonehenge and Easter Island.

The Quran plays a major role in Islamic history.

Explaining the text of the Quran.

The secretive, mystical organization of Freemasons.

A search for the Abominable Snowman, including camera clips.

Ancient prophecy and occult ritual fascinate Nazi Germany.

Vampires in folklore and Vlad the Impaler.

Near the Dead Sea, archaeologists find the ruins of two ancient cities.

The apocalypse.

The number 666 and its effects on society.

Some believe angels carry out God's orders.

The origins of heaven and hell and the symbols that represent them.

The Virgin Mary reveals three prophecies to children in 1917 Portugal.

The agenda of the Antichrist; the Apocalypse. A historical look at the biblical antichrist, what it has meant in the past and references to what it means in the present day. The search for who the antichrist might be, stems according to the documentary, primarily from the US, and includes such past figures as Popes, Hitler, Mussolini, Napoleon, to the more present day figures of Nixon, Bush, Bill Gates.

Sea monsters may be figments of the imagination or living relics of prehistoric times.

Legal, religious and historical scholars reveal ways in which people have viewed the issues the Ten Commandments have raised throughout history.

The prehistoric Gigantopithecus, a real giant ape.

Taboos in human society.

Recent world events lead some to believe that the end is near.

The meanings behind the symbols and numbers on the U.S. dollar bill.

The Commandments translate into modern legal systems.

Freemasonry's effects on America.

Archaeologists, astrologers and historians speculate on the meaning of the 2012 doomsday prophecy.

Playing cards possess mystical properties.

The 18th-century scientist Johann Conrad Dippel.

The "Sorcerer's Stone'' of "Harry Potter'' fame has a basis in history.

Examining the Seven Wonders of the World and explanations on why they were chosen and what is revealed about the builders who left them behind.

The history and philosophy of Kabbalah.

Any of four artifacts may be the Holy Lance.