In mid February 2013, the Cecil hotel of Los Angeles received complaints of a peculiar dark tinge to the hotels drinking water. People described how it had a funny taste and a strange odour. One guest even detailed how "the shower was was awful, when you turned the tap on the water was coming black first for two seconds". A maintenance worker was sent to investigate the tanks located on the roo
In this film we see television presenter Dan Snow travel to a remote corner of Southern Poland, near Walbrzych, in an effort to unravel one of the last great mysteries of the Second World War. It is a tale which seems to have attracted the worlds media and it has captured the imagination of many who live there even members of the Polish government. Snow is hunting for a secret tunnel that local
The Samurai were considered to be the hero's of ancient Japan and still to this day their legend continues to live on and the Samurai sword is one of the greatest fighting weapons of all time. A perfectly engineered piece of hardware for close combat, renowned for it's deadly cutting edge. With the use of modern science we can now reveal just how technically excellent the ancient craft of manuf
In 1888, in Provence, France, an event occurred that was so bizarre it would enter modern legend. In the red light district on the edge of town a foreigner arrived at the door of a brothel, he was baring a package which he handed to one of the girls, the package contained a bloody piece of his own flesh. The man's name was Vincent van Gogh and at the time of the incident in question he was an unkn
In The Valley of The Pharaoh is a short documentary directed by Irish filmmaker Tommy Flavin (www.tommyflavin.ie), the film itself takes us to the edge of a small Irish town known as Arklow. Whilst here we happen to stumble upon an ancient graveyard which is home to a mysterious pyramid, quite the rare sight for rural Ireland. Through the use of some beautifully scenic footage and at times haun
From the earliest days man has believed that dreams and the supernatural are in some way real and all over the world psychics demonstrate powers that their followers accept as modern day miracles. In Moscow we see psychic healers treat the sick with chants and incantations, psychic surgeons can be found in the Philippines, were they seem to preform operations without any equipment and in Britain m
The Annecy shootings, also the French Alps shootings or the Chevaline killings, were the shootings that took place on the 5th of September 2012. They saw a family from Britain who were on holiday brutally murdered, a father, mother and grandmother all of whom were shot at point blank range whilst in their car. In addition to this a 7 year old girl was shot and a cyclist was killed but one man mana
There has been a lot of speculation lately surrounding the concept of there being a serial killer on the loose in the city Manchester in the United Kingdom. This hypothetical serial killer has been dubbed "The Pusher" by the media on account of there having been over 60 cases of people drowning in the canals of Manchester since February 2008 and because this number is so incredibly high many have
Located high in the Peruvian Andes there is an ancient city known as Machu Picchu, it is a ruin that appears to defy explanation. Who were the mysterious people that built this extraordinary place and for what reason did they build it in this particular location? With no defensive wall it doesn't look like a fortress, instead there are fountains and small pools, temples and strange alters cut f