This "Travel Channel" series called "Beyond the Unknown" is interesting and informative as it's a showcase and display of the strange and weird of the world! Each episode is narrated and features interviews with experts and witnesses and stories and footage featured as you guessed it involves plenty about ghosts, monsters, Bigfoot, aliens and the typical paranormal. Also shown are displays and strange discoveries that are on display in actual museums of the weird as the series has a little bit of a "Ripley's Believe It or Not" feel. Good quality series that provides answers and continues thought with the viewer the info is mind numbing and this series celebrates and honors the strange and weird in fine fashion.
9 Reviews
Unintentionally Hilarious
kelani16 August 2022
The show was apparently created by a guy that liked telling little kids that there was a Santa Claus, since that's basically what it is: The backstory of a legend followed by revealing a mundane explanation. That's OK, though. It beats the 'push a conspiracy theory with no rational thought attached' crap out there. So, that alone makes it watchable.
Where it becomes unintentionally hilarious is at the end of every segment, they show some object from a museum that you would think would be part of the story. But most of the time, it's an item "reminiscent of the actual item". It just seems incredibly lazy and pointless, especially since actual artifacts from many of the stories actually exist...in museums!
My favorite was the segment on Lake Nyos in Cameroon that suffered a linnie carbon dioxide) eruption. The issue was fixed by sticking a few pipes deep in the lake. What do they show us? A plain old PVC pipe from a plumbing museum in Massachusetts. Why?
As others have said, there are also plenty of fact and costuming inaccuracies, but these don't bother me as much as they apparently bother some people. Geez.
Where it becomes unintentionally hilarious is at the end of every segment, they show some object from a museum that you would think would be part of the story. But most of the time, it's an item "reminiscent of the actual item". It just seems incredibly lazy and pointless, especially since actual artifacts from many of the stories actually exist...in museums!
My favorite was the segment on Lake Nyos in Cameroon that suffered a linnie carbon dioxide) eruption. The issue was fixed by sticking a few pipes deep in the lake. What do they show us? A plain old PVC pipe from a plumbing museum in Massachusetts. Why?
As others have said, there are also plenty of fact and costuming inaccuracies, but these don't bother me as much as they apparently bother some people. Geez.
Don Wildman's narrative style and the cinematographer's gorgeous lighting make this one another must watch!
imdb-252884 February 2020
Has Mysteries At the Museum been canceled? I can't find it on my TV (guide), and I have LOOKED extensively! This is the same format as Mysteries at the Museum with the ever excellent (and ruggedly handsome) Don Wildman providing the informative narration. The same style of reenactments by actors illustrate the stories but there seems to be more of still photography than scene reenacted, and more of people sitting in a chair being interviewed. However, and the main reason why I started watching this (with no offense meant to Wildman) is the gorgeous cinematography lighting the actors. It really drew me in as it provides excellence in photography, very rare since we hit the 2000's. Yep, for the past 20 years, there has been a drought of beauty on TV, particularly when it comes to lighting, I have no idea who the cinematographer is, but my thanks to them for creating this gorgeous look here.
As Mysteries at the Museum sadly seems to have disappeared from the Travel Channel in favor of miscellaneous moronic ghost-hunting shows for brain-dead pot-smokers without an ounce of discernment, this rare educational program, intended exclusively for intelligent audiences with a thirst for knowledge, appears to be the next best replacement show. It is unclear if the original show has been canceled. I miss the early Sunday mornings, way before the crack of dawn, watching those MATM marathons. I ho;pe they will make more. I just found this, it's almost 3 am, and there's a few back to back. I'll try to stay awake as long as I can. I love Halloween as much as the next guy, but it's truly a pity that the Travel Channel has gone the route of History Channel: they are obsessed with such nonsense as UFOs and the Travel Channel is hellbent on giving them a run for their money with ghosts galore and Big Foot idiotic TV shows. Oh well. We'll always have Don WIlman and the gorgeous cinematography of these 2 educational TV shows, the only series I watch faithfully since the end of the Golden Age of Television. (read: 80's). I wouldn't mind if Wildman lingered a bit longer onscreen as he's very easy on the eyes. My thanks to the unknown cinematographer and Don Wildman for creating this rare quality television, and Travel Channel? Boo to you, for catering to dumb millennials with your mind-numbing and never-ending ghost-fest!
As Mysteries at the Museum sadly seems to have disappeared from the Travel Channel in favor of miscellaneous moronic ghost-hunting shows for brain-dead pot-smokers without an ounce of discernment, this rare educational program, intended exclusively for intelligent audiences with a thirst for knowledge, appears to be the next best replacement show. It is unclear if the original show has been canceled. I miss the early Sunday mornings, way before the crack of dawn, watching those MATM marathons. I ho;pe they will make more. I just found this, it's almost 3 am, and there's a few back to back. I'll try to stay awake as long as I can. I love Halloween as much as the next guy, but it's truly a pity that the Travel Channel has gone the route of History Channel: they are obsessed with such nonsense as UFOs and the Travel Channel is hellbent on giving them a run for their money with ghosts galore and Big Foot idiotic TV shows. Oh well. We'll always have Don WIlman and the gorgeous cinematography of these 2 educational TV shows, the only series I watch faithfully since the end of the Golden Age of Television. (read: 80's). I wouldn't mind if Wildman lingered a bit longer onscreen as he's very easy on the eyes. My thanks to the unknown cinematographer and Don Wildman for creating this rare quality television, and Travel Channel? Boo to you, for catering to dumb millennials with your mind-numbing and never-ending ghost-fest!
Not New Stories - Reruns
kwacked14 March 2019
laughable
That_1_guy24 January 2019
Not a New Series
emskware-0429331 May 2020
Could be improved
Indarys17 April 2021
It's an enjoyable show, but they need to fact check their research before airing. In almost every episode there are multiple inconsistencies or incorrect parts. Ie; in S3-Ep10, the mystery of Ambrose Small - he (and his theatre) was from London Ontario, not Toronto Ontario. So when they say they dredged the lake in Toronto, that makes no sense.
Be sure the info is correct!
myhonestreviews-8211418 October 2023
I love history & history programs.
I hate being informed wrong though. Evenmore, when it is aired.
The very first episode. There is a part about a men from Germany.
The narrator says German, sometimes named Deutschland. Surprise for you here... the Germans call their country Deutschland! It is the name of their country.
Then it goes on... Naming the person from Germany Dutch!
Dutch are not the people living in Germany. You might want to call them Deutsch, but not Dutch.
Dutch are the people who live in the Netherlands.
Please be sure your data is correct. You give wrong info and people probably believe this.
I hate being informed wrong though. Evenmore, when it is aired.
The very first episode. There is a part about a men from Germany.
The narrator says German, sometimes named Deutschland. Surprise for you here... the Germans call their country Deutschland! It is the name of their country.
Then it goes on... Naming the person from Germany Dutch!
Dutch are not the people living in Germany. You might want to call them Deutsch, but not Dutch.
Dutch are the people who live in the Netherlands.
Please be sure your data is correct. You give wrong info and people probably believe this.
Not bad, but mistakes
ritastott4 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I don't know where they get their facts at, but far from accurate. Tonight, they said Albequerque was the highest metropolitan are in the country. What happened to Colorado Springs and Denver.
And someone needs to work on their costuming department. Since when do 19th century navy personnel wear Vietnam campaign ribbons? And an article in england, but the cop has an NYPD patch on his sleeve. Heaven knows that when they show military officers, they are always missing proper insignia or have them mixed with enlisted brass.
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