William Shatner's Weird or What? - Season 1 - Eps 3: Cocaine Mummies
Before a major San Francisco earthquake, thousands of sea lions disappear from the harbour. Did they sense the impending disaster? A century after its discovery, experts remain baffled by a mysterious medieval manuscript written in a secret code. What secrets does it contain? And, while testing ancient mummies, forensic scientists find evidence of cocaine — a Peruvian product not found in Egypt until thousands of years later. Was there trans-Atlantic travel long before Columbus?
About William Shatner's Weird or What?
Title: William Shatner's Weird or What?
First Air Date: 2010-04-21
Last Air Date: 2012-08-14
Status: Ended
Rating: 6.9/10 (from 11 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 5
Total Episodes: 32
Network: Unknown
Genres: Documentary, Drama, Talk
Production Companies: Discovery Channel Canada, Syfy
Synopsis
Weird or What? is a series on the Discovery Channel and History hosted by William Shatner. Each episode contains three separate stories of the bizarre and unexplained. As the show unfolds, it weighs various supernatural and scientific theories that attempt to explain the story, and sometimes features tests conducted as proof of a theory's plausibility. The show features strange occurrences such as ghosts, aliens, monsters, medical oddities and natural disasters.
Cast
William Shatner
