Mysteries from Above - Season 1

First aired: 3/27/2022 10 episodes

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.

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Episodes

1. Accidental Discoveries

Aired: 3/27/2022

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

Aired: 4/3/2022

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

Aired: 4/10/2022

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

Aired: 4/17/2022

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

Aired: 4/24/2022

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

Aired: 5/1/2022

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

Aired: 5/8/2022

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

Aired: 5/15/2022

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

Aired: 5/22/2022

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

Aired: 5/29/2022

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.