Secrets of the Dead

Episode 01

Blood Red Roses

Jun 29, 1999

Building work uncovers a mass grave containing the bodies of the fallen in one of the bloodiest battles of the War of the Roses, the Battle of Towton of 1461 in which 28,000 men died in a single day's fighting.

Episode 02

What Happened to the Hindenburg?

Jul 6, 1999

A former NASA scientist tries to solve the mystery of what caused the German airship Hindenburg to go up in flames in New Jersey in 1937 and tests his theory with a laboratory experiment.

Episode 03

The Lost Vikings

Jul 13, 1999

An international team of archaeologists, forensic anthropologists and botanists attempt to discover what caused the Viking colony on Greenland to mysteriously disappear.

Episode 04

Cannibals of the Canyon

Jul 20, 1999

When a palaeoanthropologist presents controversial evidence of cannibalism among the Anasazi culture Native Americans are outraged. The truth behind the evidence may be more complex than first thought.

Episode 05

Catastrophe - The Day the Sun Went Out

Jul 27, 1999

Could an unrecorded massive explosion of the volcano Krakatoa be responsible for the cataclysmic extreme weather events of 535-536 A.D. that resembled a nuclear winter.

Episode 06

Catastrophe - How the World Changed

Aug 3, 1999

How the suspected extreme weather events of 535-536 A.D. brought about world wide famine, helped a plague epidemic hit Asia and Europe and indirectly influenced the fall of Ancient Rome and Arthurian England and the emergence of Islam.