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The UnBelievable With Dan Aykroyd
The UnBelievable With Dan Aykroyd

The UnBelievable With Dan Aykroyd

—Host Dan Aykroyd uncovers some of the most mysterious and bizarre inventions, creatures, people and things throughout history, by using dynamic visuals, archival images, and expert interviews.
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Season 110 of 10 Episodes

  • Exploring the Lake Michigan Triangle and many other wild and weird places, including a doll-filled island with a dark past, deadly gas-filled explosive lakes, caves that harbor deadly viruses and a haunted place in the United States.

  • In Boston, a 25-foot tidal wave of molasses; a dancing plague that kills 100 people; a surgery with a 300% mortality rate; searching the globe for the strangest and most bizarre deaths on record.

  • From a headless chicken that lives over one year, to an out-of-this-world "celestial body" where it rains molten glass, the team explores the most astonishing bodies through these truly unbelievable stories.

  • A million bats with tiny bombs strapped to their chests, inflatable tanks, robot assassins, bazooka Vespas, and war dolphins; these weapons, and others, pushed the boundaries of "possible" in the weirdest ways ever.

  • Looking at outlandish inventions; a full-body gas mask for babies; Smell-o-Vision; a robot powered by eating slugs; inflatable airplanes; hidden cameras in contact lenses; coffin security systems.

  • A blind man who uses bat-like powers of echolocation to navigate his surroundings; a samurai with reflexes faster than a speeding bullet; a man who's immune to electrocution.

  • Human bones as a "miracle cure" for gout; living mummies buried alive; a truly bizarre Victorian way to lose weight -- with tapeworms; from daily rites to once-in-a-lifetime rituals, the stranger side of human nature is revealed in these rituals.

  • Monkey glands for immortality, hypnotized assassins and a brain-linked cyborg couple; investigating some of the strangest experiments on record.

  • A look at tales of strange things below Earth's surface, including sea beasts, hidden cities, and tunnels carved by giant sloths.

  • Imagining free-falling 30,000 feet without a parachute, or being buried alive and living to tell the tale; these are improbable yet true-life tales of surviving the most extraordinary conditions.

Record to Watch Later

14 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Sweet Revenge
    Strange Games
    Strange Afflictions
    Spectacular Cons
    Peculiar Punishments
    Outrageous Experiments
    Odd Origins
    Strange Places
    Bizarre Deaths
    Astonishing Bodies
  • Sweet Revenge

    Studying stories of revenge, such as the one about a man in Colorado that uses a Killdozer to settle a zoning dispute or another about an emperor who pickles his wife's lover; exploring vengeance seekers who take things too far.
    Upcoming
  • Strange Games

    Toe wrestling; a competition between ugly pets; the origins of some schoolyard face-offs; exploring the world of strange games.
    Upcoming
  • Strange Afflictions

    A trip to the doctor is sure to cure any afflicted individual, but what happens when even the doctors are stunned by what they see?; from a family cursed with blue skin, to a girl allergic to the world's most unlimited resource and more.
    Upcoming
  • Spectacular Cons

    History is full of miracle cures, far-fetched products, and astonishing feats, but not all of them are legitimate; a miracle snake oil that cures all? A piece of the Brooklyn Bridge for sale? A marathon-winner who crosses the finish line without hardly breaking a sweat? These are the stories of some of history's most spectacular cons, each deception more unbelievable than the last.
    Upcoming
  • Peculiar Punishments

    One-of-a-kind crimes are often met with one-of-a-kind punishments; like a pig whose bloody rampage lands itself in the courtroom, or a music enthusiast whose wall-rattling beats subject them to hours of classical symphonies.
    Upcoming
  • Outrageous Experiments

    It is hard to believe that the beginnings of modern endoscopy are really all thanks to one professional sword-swallower; or that lack of sleep has some strange upsides; these are some unthinkable experiments.
    Upcoming
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Host Dan Aykroyd uncovers some of the most mysterious and bizarre inventions, creatures, people and things throughout history, by using dynamic visuals, archival images, and expert interviews.

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Dan Aykroyd, Adam Richman, Hakeem Oluseyi, Mitch Horowitz, Don Wildman, Martin Morgan

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