In Search Of Season 1, Episode 1: Aliens

Superhumans

Zach wants to understand how one can be Superhuman. He meets a man who bent the metal frame of car door with his bare hands in a moment of crisis and a man who can feel no pain. Zach also meets with a Shaolin warrior monk who shows him some of the secrets to his training as he demonstrates breaking a wood staff over his own head. Zach learns to harness Superhuman powers of his own through demonstrations by the Monk who in turn teaches Zach how to break the staff as well.

42 min

Monsters of the Deep

Zach sets out to research the strangest creatures dug up from the depths of the ocean and to see how much they lend to the Monsters that are depicted in myth and legend. Starting in Australia, he meets with a teenager who was savagely attacked by a swarm of mysterious flesh-eating monsters, only to jump into the water himself the next day amongst highly venomous sea creatures. From the carnivorous fish of American rivers to the eyeless monsters of the Atlantic ocean, Zach finds some merit in these old monster stories and is starting to understand just what we mean when we say that we know less than 1% of what waits in the depths below.

42 min

Artificial Intelligence

Zach embarks on a terrifying journey to understand how the future of Artificial Intelligence may already be a threat to humanity. He visits Facebook headquarters where he learns about a failed AI experiment that went terribly wrong when two chat boxes created a language that only they could understand. Zach also gets a firsthand look at the world’s latest technology–including life-like dolls programmed with advanced AI, robots that learn and communicate telepathically, highly intelligent drones of war, and Uber self-driving cars.

42 min

Time Travel

Zach charts a journey to determine whether time travel is possible. He meets a man who claims to have traveled back in time due to a secret government program and a group of people living in Liverpool known as “time slippers.” Zach then makes an visit to the CERN headquarters in Geneva, where he attempts to understand the origins of the universe and the dimension of time. Equipped with this new knowledge, Zach tests his own perception of time with an elaborate skydiving experiment to see if he can slow down time itself.

42 min

Sinkholes

Zach visits a Florida man whose brother was killed when their family home was literally swallowed whole by the Earth as well as a series of sinkholes that are forming a series of caves right below the houses of a quaint suburban neighborhood.

42 min

Mind Control

Zach explores the dark world of psychological mind control; he meets with a victim who was surgically implanted with an electronic harassment device in his head and neck, proving that this is a very real and terrifying phenomenon.

42 min

Life After Death

Zach tackles the ultimate existential question as he explores what happens when we die and whether or not we can have life after death; he meets with a Texas man who actually died and came back to life after a horrific kayaking accident.

42 min

Atlantis (1)

42 min

Atlantis (2)

Zach continues his journey to find the lost civilization of Atlantis and proof that it was a real and thriving empire; on the island of Sardinia, he uncovers compelling evidence of an advanced civilization matching Plato’s description of Atlantis.

42 min