Beyond the Unknown

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.

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.

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!

These are not new stories. They are resorted stories from Mysteries at the Museum. If you've watched most of the MATM episodes, don't waste your time watching these.

I'd like to correct a review about Season 3, Ep10, The Disappearance of Ambrose Small. Where the reviewer says there is an inconsistency because Ambrose Small disappeared from the Grand Theatre in London, not Toronto.

I just watched the episode, and they actually reported it correctly. Small was last seen in the Grand Opera House at 11 Adelaide St. West in Toronto which he had sold that very day along with other theatres across the country including one in London. But the Grand Opera House was where Small kept his office, and it is some 3 blocks away from the Toronto Harbour so it does make sense that the Toronto police would dredge the harbour.

Grand Opera House, not to be confused with the Grand Theatre.