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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Unsolved Mysteries
Unsolved was also one of the few prime-time shows of its era to appeal to fans of the supernatural, and used effective special effects to enhance tales of the unexplained.
Unsolved Mysteries slowly faded, but in 2001, the program regained some popularity with a somewhat new audience, when it was revived on the Lifetime cable television network, where new episodes aired sporadically until 2002.
Unsolved Mysteries slowly faded, but in 2001, the program regained some popularity with a somewhat new audience, when it was revived on the Lifetime cable television network, where new episodes aired sporadically until Robert Stack's death in 2003.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Unsolved-Mysteries   (2892 words)

  
 Unsolved Mysteries TV Show - Unsolved Mysteries Television Show - TV.com
Unsolved Mysteries explores unsolved cases in which you, the viewer, can call in or write and solve them.
Unsolved Mysteries has solved 40% of their featured cases, that is 300 cases solved...
Top Cops was an anthology series (similar to Unsolved Mysteries) from Larry Jacobson and Sonny Grosso, with the music provided by Domenic Troiano for CBS Broadcast International.
www.tv.com /unsolved-mysteries/show/4540/summary.html   (478 words)

  
  Unsolved Mysteries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Unsolved Mysteries was an American TV show starring the late Robert Stack.
Unsolved Mysteries slowly faded, but in 2001, the program regained some popularity with a somewhat new audience, when it was revived on the Lifetime cable television network, where new episodes aired sporadically until Robert Stack's death in 2003.
Due to the notion that Unsolved Mysteries aimed to put forth events with an "unsolved" bias, there are questions surrounding the level of investigative reporting that was put into the program.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unsolved_Mysteries   (816 words)

  
 Unsolved Mysteries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The mystery here being that aluminium was not supposed to have been discovered until 1803 and had certainly not been produced successfully in pure form until 1854.
The mystery of the pillar...is not its age, nor even its immense size...but the fact that a piece of iron manufactured around fifteen hundred years ago and subjected to the Indian monsoon rains, winds and temperatures should have corroded and disappeared long ago.
But it's all speculation and their origins and function remain a mystery: the stone from which they are hewn doesn't even seem to come from the region.
www.marsearthconnection.com /unsolved2.html   (7608 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - Unsolved Mysteries: Psychics
Unsolved Mysteries collections that address a particular theme are now being released on DVD, much to fans' delight.
For Generation X, who grew up on Unsolved Mysteries and were born too late to remember Stack as Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, it is the former for which he will be remembered.
The main reason Unsolved Mysteries has endured over the years, aside from our collective fascination with tales of the unknown, is the fact that it was always a first-rate production.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/unsolvedmysteriespsychics.php   (915 words)

  
 DVD Movie Review For Unsolved Mysteries: Bizarre Murders
In Unsolved Mysteries: Bizarre Murders tales of brutal and senseless killings are explored.
The Unsolved Mysteries: Bizarre Murders set goes on like this with numerous tales of brutal killings, all of which may be considered still open.
Each story presented in Unsolved Mysteries: Psychics is one of regular humans somehow obtaining the ability to see or at least gain knowledge of events they couldn’t possible know about.
www.cheap-dvds-advisor.com /unsolved-mysteries-bizarre-murders.html   (1113 words)

  
 Unsolved Mysteries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Unsolved Mysteries jumped the shark when it stopped covering mysteries and started being a second-rate America's Most Wanted (which is a sucky show anyway).
I was a fan of Unsolved Mysteries from the time it premiered as a series of specials during sweeps months as far back as 1986.
Oh, and to the above: the title "Unsolved Mysteries" is a redundancy; a redundancy in grammar being an unnecessary modifier.
www.jumptheshark.com /u/unsolvedmysteries.htm   (6981 words)

  
 Unsolved Mysteries: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Unsolved Mysteries was an American[For more info, click on this link] television television quick summary:
Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance....
Unsolved Mysteries gave true accounts of abductions, EHandler: no quick summary.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/un/unsolved_mysteries.htm   (1064 words)

  
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She put to sea from Rio de Janeiro 16 February 1918, and after touching at Barbados on 3 March and 4 March, was never heard from again.
Her loss with all 306 crew and passengers, without a trace, is one of the sea's unsolved mysteries, and is often "credited" to the Bermuda Triangle.
Being murdered under mysterious circumstances does not make you notable, not even if you are one of the few female-to-male transsexuals out there, and not even if your murder does get onto Unsolved Mysteries.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/U/Unsolved-Mysteries.htm   (709 words)

  
 Unsolved Mysteries (DVD)
The show with the creepy theme song and cheesy recreations of crimes and other unsettling occurrences was lifted into semi-respectability by its host, award-winning actor Robert Stack, with his unflinching stare, signature trench coat, and steady, matter-of-fact delivery.
Overall, however, Unsolved Mysteries generally presents its topics uncritically, in a way that maximizes credulity and minimizes skeptical investigation.
Unsolved Mysteries holds up as one of the best-produced of the early reality programs, presaging the boom of the late 1990s/early 2000s.
www.scifidimensions.com /Mar05/unsolveddvd.htm   (398 words)

  
 Elonka's List of Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers
A couple of the better-known unsolved ancient historical scripts are also thrown in, since they tend to come up during any discussion of unsolved codes.
According to the pamphlet, the friend spent the next 20 years trying to decrypt the messages, solving only one which detailed the tons of gold, silver and jewels that were buried, along with a general location.
In 1990, a sculpture was installed at CIA Headquarters in Langley Virginia, as a challenge to the employees at the Agency.
www.elonka.com /UnsolvedCodes.html   (2021 words)

  
 Unsolved Mysteries
All Unsolved Mysteries items shown were available at their respective retailers as of 2-1-2005.
Unsolved Mysteries of History: An Eye-Opening Investigation into the Most Baffling Events...
Unsolved Mysteries of Science: A Mind-Expanding Journey through a Universe of Big Bangs,...
www.tbook.com /u/Unsolved_Mysteries/index.html   (263 words)

  
 Unsolved Mysteries: GHOSTS - Review Hollywood North Report
As you may or may not have guessed, this set of the Unsolved Mysteries documentary-style anthology television shows are based around ghost stories and supernatural phenomenon.
The retro Unsolved Mysteries don’t have quite the panache of the slew of documentary television shows one is used to seeing now like City Confidential, American Justice or even Biography.
Unsolved Mysteries is releasing several other (and much better-sounding) DVD sets, including: Psychics; Miracles; Legends; and Bizarre Murders.
www.hollywoodnorthreport.com /review.php?Review=641   (324 words)

  
 In praise of Unsolved Mysteries. - By Torie Bosch - Slate Magazine
When the show aired the story of Penn State student Cindy Song's mysterious disappearance in 2002, Bill Mahon, a university spokesman, told the student paper: "I hope they treat [the case] seriously." But if there's anything Unsolved Mysteries did to a fault, it was take cases seriously.
His trench coat and the dark hallway where he intoned the details of the mysteries perfectly complemented the purple prose used to narrate the tales of woe and intrigue.
Unsolved Mysteries was, in a way, too high-minded for its own good: The show had a narrow focus and wasn't going to step out of its conspiracy mindset.
www.slate.com /id/2153914/fr/rss   (1082 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - Unsolved Mysteries: Bizarre Murders
That is what is so terrifying about Unsolved Mysteries: Bizarre Murders: we get to see the ones that got away nasty—most of them anyway.
Unsolved Mysteries picks a topic and presents it through re-enactments and first-hand accounts.
Ranging from the Boston Strangler to the 101st Airborne Unit plane crash to domestic violence, Unsolved Mysteries: Bizarre Murders is a fascinating compilation of over thirty stories of death on four discs.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/unsolvedmysteriesbizarre.php   (651 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: Unsolved Mysteries: UFO's (2004) - Printable
Unsolved Mysteries, which debuted in 1986, had a whopping 13-year run on three different networks (NBC, CBS, and in syndication on Lifetime), and in that time carved out a pretty unique niche for itself.
Over time, a number of mysteries were actually solved, thanks to viewers, something that elevated the whole guilty pleasure aspect of the show up a notch or two into the realm of legitimacy.
If you've never seen Unsolved Mysteries, there is a cheesy kind of schlock to the show, but for me it's a good kind of cheesy schlock.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showrevpdf.php3?ID=6641   (896 words)

  
 CONTEST: Win the UFO and GHOST Unsolved Mysteries DVD series!
Unsolved Mysteries’ host, Robert Stack, is considered one of television’s most popular personalities, ranking number 6 with such star power as Rosie O’Donnell and Oprah Winfrey in Performer Q’s poll.
Unsolved Mysteries’ distribution in the home entertainment marketplace has been long awaited, and we have been pursuing this deal for quite some time.
Unsolved Mysteries is a collectible series that its fans have been patiently waiting for.
movieweb.com /dvd/news/news.php?id=5427   (943 words)

  
 Digital Journal - Top 10: Unsolved Mysteries
Can you solve any of the mysteries from this post that goes over a top ten list of unsolved mysteries in the world that continue to this day to elude us.
Said to be one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the 20th century has been called the Devil's, where claims have been made that dozens of ships and aircrafts fade into oblivion.
One of the most glamorous, scandalous and riveting unsolved mystery of all-time is the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
www.digitaljournal.com /article/115141/Top_10_Unsolved_Mysteries   (553 words)

  
 Unsolved Mysteries - Goldeneye 007 -- D e t s ta r . c o m
Unsolved Mysteries - Goldeneye 007 -- D e t s ta r.
MYSTERY# 018: The Barriers at the Dam and Runway:
Q mentions something about the civilians running around, and that they may have left their vehicles, and to be on the lookout for keys in the ignition.
goldeneye.detstar.com /mysteries/unsolved.asp   (1990 words)

  
 Unsolved Mysteries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Unsolved Mysteries gives true accounts of abductions suspicious murders ghosts and paranormal activity robberies and miscellaneous unsolved cases.
A UFO obsessed friend of mine recommended this title to me, and now having read it all the way through (twice!) I'm not really sure what all the fuss is actually about.
Ghosts, Ghouls, and Unsolved Mysteries by Citro is without a doubt the best book of its kind I have ever read.
www.freeglossary.com /Unsolved_Mysteries   (591 words)

  
 Unsolved mysteries | TPMCafe
You may see more polls if you wish.
Because D.C.'s political classes are always focussed on the stuff that really matters to voters, today the Capitol is on fire with chatter about Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank's article on yesterday's D.C. luncheon where an anonymous GOP senate candidate was critical of President Bush's handling of the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina.
We think we can rule out Mark Kennedy, too, because he was campaigining in his home state of Minnesota on Monday, accepting an endorsement from the Fraternal Order of Police in Plymouth.
www.tpmcafe.com /election_tags/unsolved_mysteries   (191 words)

  
 Unsolved Mysteries Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Unsolved Mysteries is a American television show, currently shown on the cable television network Lifetime.
It is hosted by Hollywood star Robert Stack, a veteran of over 40 films.
Unsolved Mysteries shows true stories about abductions, suspicious deaths, murders, ghost appearings, robberies and other miscellaneous unsolved cases.
www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/u/un/unsolved_mysteries.html   (179 words)

  
 Kentucky's Unsolved Mysteries
Her identity and the identity of her murderer remain a mystery.
Mystery: On July 4th 1943 three young children who lived near Salyersville KY were walking into town to join in the celabration.
And that he got off with a slap on the wrist, even after a passager in the truck with him had testified that he did it on purpose.
www.usgennet.org /family/baicon/indexkym.html   (408 words)

  
 Unsolved Mysteries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This mystery plate was found on the 16th of July 1985 at the bottom of the Black Sea during a joint Bulgarian-Soviet research dive in the underwater habitable vehicle (UHV) "Argus." This
Strange new noises are emanating from both the archaelogical establishment and the Earth Mysteries movements, sounds that may have their origin in some of the world's most ancient and saced sites.
The origin of that strange monument is shrouded in mystery because no one knows the true identity of the man, or men, who commissioned its construction.
www.marsearthconnection.com /unsolved.html   (4739 words)

  
 Ape Culture - Never Underestimate the Power of a Plaid Bow Tie - Essay on Unsolved Mysteries
Unsolved Mysteries flashed photos of the missing siblings or children, always with heartbreaking smiles, blissful and unaware of devastating separations to come.
Ah, life would be so simple with Stack to handle our unsolved mysteries, the operators to make the connections and Shaye Smith to report.
But life is cruel, even to programs on network TV: Unsolved is no longer in its prime Friday spot, but has moved to CBS as a sometime special.
www.apeculture.com /television/unsolved.htm   (994 words)

  
 Unsolved Mysteries: Unit Plan [English Online]
From the mysteries generated during the brainstorming select one to explore in depth with the class.
The aim is for students, using who, what, where, when, why, how, questions and working in small groups, to read for relevant information, take notes and write a report summarising the information, and finally to share and compare their findings with the class.
The key to students' successful learning and assessment is their ability to plan questions for themselves to answer, to find relevant information through close reading of a book or Web site and write and present a report on their findings.
english.unitecnology.ac.nz /resources/units/unsolved_mysteries/home.html   (513 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Unsolved Mysteries: Strange Legends: DVD: Unsolved Mysteries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
I think Unsolved Mysteries will forever live on as one of the greatest programs to grace television.
Amelia Earhart- story of the disapearance of the famed aviator and Unsolved Mysteries examines several theories on what happened to her.
Mothman- Story of a mysterious creature that plagues a small town in West Virginia, leaving residents to ponder, is it an alien, a mutant being, or the fulfillment of an ancient curse?
www.amazon.com /Unsolved-Mysteries-Strange-Legends/dp/B00068CV0I   (2315 words)

  
 Unsolved Mysteries At The Forefront Of Reality And Paranormal Programming. :: RealityReel.com :: News, Recaps, Gossip, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Unsolved Mysteries’ host, Robert Stack, is considered one of television’s most popular personalities, ranking number 6 with such star power as Rosie O’Donnell and Oprah Winfrey in Performer Q’s poll.
The popular series has tackled many popular mysteries and urban myths such as the existance of UFO’s, the reality of miracles, and the use of psychic power, often combining these explorations of paranormal mysteries with the search for answers to unsolved crimes.
A recent survey conducted by Frank N. Magid Associates (the gold standard for television research) determined that Unsolved Mysteries had 99% recognition by the by the public, and over 75% said the series was excellent or very good.
www.realityreel.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=925&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0   (649 words)

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