What a cool, creepy show this was!  I always loved the stories about UFO's and ghosts.  There were too many cool ones to list, but I remember one in particular that really caught my attention.  It was a story of a Virgin Mary statue in a church that was crying.  I don't remember a lot of details, but I remember being totally intrigued by that as a kid.

Which series was this, the one by Arthur C. Clarke or Patrick Macnee?

Sorry, it was the TV show that aired in the US, hosted by Robert Stack

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Which series was this, the one by Arthur C. Clarke or Patrick Macnee?


It was Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World (I think).  It had a crystal skull at the beginning didn't it?

You can get DVD best of sets that focus on psychics and miracles

I used to LOVE this series.  I'd watch it every week (and when they started showing the reruns on the Lifetime channel several years later, I'd watch then too.)  The ones I liked best were the missing people/crime investigation.

Here is a few examples of the show on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2gFhMdgAsw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOq2pD1yTGU

This was a great show, but it totally creeped me out, especially Robert Stack's voice. I used to love the ones about paranormal activity. It would always scare me when they would show a police drawing composite of a criminal..I don't know why but it was something about their scary mug staring at me through the TV screen..that kind of put me off.

I liked how they reenacted a lot of the crimes...that helped you understand what was going on concerning the mystery/crime.

I liked pretty much all the different kinds of stories, but especially the Wanted and Missing Persons...the Lost Loves and stuff from old decades were interesting too. Like when they'd interview a senior citizen in the (then) present, talking about something from when they were younger. Robert Stack was the man too, it's so sad he died. :(

Has anyone also noticed that the earlier shows up to 1994ish tended to be more dramatic and scarier? Something about the grainier film quality and the deeper stories. I also liked Stack's involvement on those. They changed it up and made it more "modernish" in the mid '90s, like with more casual stories (like Dolly the cloned sheep), more correspondants and the stories tended to not be quite as disturbing.

I loved the feel of Unsolved Mysteries, and Robert Stack was the perfect host for this show. I watched this show nearly every week when it was on NBC and even when Lifetime showed the reruns.

It was Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World (I think).  It had a crystal skull at the beginning didn't it?
When I said Patrick MacNee, it was Robert Stack I meant.

I really did love that show and watched it religiously.  I dig all that stuff about ghosts and ufos....but wasn't almost every episode about the Bermuda Triangle?

... wasn't almost every episode about the Bermuda Triangle?
Of which the Bermuda Triangle has been totally discounted now?

Of which the Bermuda Triangle has been totally discounted now?


unsure...you don't hear much lately.  but in the late 70s EVERYTHING was blamed on the triangle.

unsure...you don't hear much lately.  but in the late 70s EVERYTHING was blamed on the triangle.


I think I blamed it for my gaining weight one year back then.  ;D

unsure...you don't hear much lately.  but in the late 70s EVERYTHING was blamed on the triangle.
From Wikipedia Bermuda Triangle:

"Lawrence David Kusche, a research librarian from Arizona State University and author of The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved (1975) has challenged this trend. Kusche's research revealed a number of inaccuracies and inconsistencies between Berlitz's accounts and statements from eyewitnesses, participants, and others involved in the initial incidents. He noted cases where pertinent information went unreported, such as the disappearance of round-the-world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst, which Berlitz had presented as a mystery, despite clear evidence to the contrary. Another example was the ore-carrier Berlitz recounted as lost without trace three days out of an Atlantic port when it had been lost three days out of a port with the same name in the Pacific Ocean. Kusche also argued that a large percentage of the incidents which have sparked the Triangle's mysterious influence actually occurred well outside it. Often his research was surprisingly simple: he would go over period newspapers and see items like weather reports that were never mentioned in the stories.

Kusche came to several conclusions:

The number of ships and aircraft reported missing in the area was not significantly greater, proportionally speaking, than in any other part of the ocean.
In an area frequented by tropical storms, the number of disappearances that did occur were, for the most part, neither disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious; furthermore, Berlitz and other writers would often fail to mention such storms.
The numbers themselves had been exaggerated by sloppy research. A boat listed as missing would be reported, but its eventual (if belated) return to port may not be reported.
Some disappearances had in fact, never happened. One plane crash was said to have taken place in 1937 off Daytona Beach, Florida, in front of hundreds of witnesses; a check of the local papers revealed nothing.
Kusche concluded that:

The Legend of the Bermuda Triangle is a manufactured mystery… perpetuated by writers who either purposely or unknowingly made use of misconceptions, faulty reasoning, and sensationalism."