About this season
Mysterious frozen lakes filled with bones, mummified bodies hanging from inside a glacier, and a 30,000-year-old virus frozen in ice brought back to life in a laboratory. In an all new Science Channel series, SECRETS IN THE ICE, experts and scientists are exposing dark secrets, forgotten treasures and lost relics from some of the coldest places on Earth. Using state of the art archaeological technologies and cutting-edge CGI animation, SECRETS IN THE ICE spotlights the mysteries that have been locked away in icy tombs all over the world for centuries. At the base of a massive glacier in Southern Greenland, Danish archeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient stone hut. Was this site the home to a Viking seer practicing black magic? In Siberia, archeologists have excavated a mummy with fantastical tattoos against the many warnings of locals. Have they uncovered buried treasure, or unleashed an ancient curse?
Episodes (10)
1. Finger of Death
Aired 8 January 2023 • 41 min
A grim discovery in a Swedish lake reveals shocking ancient practices. Meanwhile, in the Canadian Arctic, the fossil of a previously unknown mammal is found.
2. Ancient Warrior Sacrifice
Aired 15 January 2023 • 41 min
In a Danish bog, hundreds of mutilated ancient bones are found, while a mysterious deserted island belonging to Russia is explored.
3. Mysterious Mongol Massacre
Aired 22 January 2023 • 41 min
Archaeologists in Russia find several mass graves, a World War II plane sits on a Canadian mountain, and cosmic rays in Antarctica stump experts.
4. Ecuador's Mountain Mystery
Aired 29 January 2023 • 41 min
Human remains are discovered high in the Ecuadorian Andes, while a strange earthquake-like event is investigated in Canada.
5. Iceland's Glacier Tomb
Aired 5 February 2023 • 41 min
In Russia, 34,000-year-old graves are discovered. Meanwhile, a team attempts to locate a British World War II aeroplane that went missing in Iceland.
6. Antarctic Island Mysteries
Aired 12 February 2023 • 41 min
A mysterious volcanic island off the coast of Antarctica is explored, while the mummified remains of a teenage girl are found in the Peruvian Andes.
7. Forgotten Greenland Ghost Town
Aired 19 February 2023 • 41 min
Mysterious industrial waste is discovered in an uninhabited part of Greenland. Meanwhile, strange mounds are found deep within the Arctic Circile.
8. Abandoned Alpine Fortress
Aired 26 February 2023 • 41 min
A Kazakh farmer discovers ancient burial sites that may determine whether or not the legend of the Amazon women warriors is myth or reality. In the Italian Alps, a group of hikers explore long forgotten military infrastructure that points to the region's complicated and violent history. A shrine in the Indian Himalayas has long been said to be protected by supernatural powers, but strange markings on the temple reveal it was subject to an almost equally as powerful force. Palaeontologists discover a fossilized species unknown to science embedded in a rock hundreds of millions of years old.
9. Long Lost Arctic Army Base
Aired 5 March 2023 • 41 min
A secret military base is discovered a few hundred miles from the North Pole. A man-made, ancient stone formation is found 120 feet below the surface of Lake Huron. A 1500 year old burial ground is discovered on the shores of the Baltic Sea. And in Russia's far east, a life-form that scientists think can live for thousands of years is discovered in the permafrost.
10. WWII Warship Wreckage
Aired 2 June 2023 • 42 min
A giant naval vessel is located on the bottom of the Norwegian Sea. An ancient reptile-like creature unknown to science is found in the permafrost of Canada's Arctic. In Scotland, archaeologists are drawn to a strange, figure-eight shaped ditch. An Antarctic research base finds itself suddenly surrounded by blood soaked snow.