Encounters With the Unexplained — Season 1, Episode 16: What Happened at Mesa Verde?

Episode synopsis

Ancient Anasazis: What Really Happened at Mesa Verde? What could have motivated a large, apparently sophisticated culture to just suddenly pick up and walk away from their homes leaving everything, utensils, pottery, toys, even food, still in place? Who were these ancient people that lived in well made, modern for the time, stone structures? And what happened to them? Are the spectacular dwellings, lying silent for centuries, now shouting a warning to us across the centuries? Could the same thing happen to us?

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Historians and scientists explore myths, legends and mysterious phenomena.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1What's Behind the Door in the Pyramid?
• E2Is It Really Noah's Ark?
• E3What Really Happened at Roswell?
• E4Is It the Burial Cloth of Jesus? [The Shroud of Turin]
• E5Secret Messages from Space? [Crop Circles]
• E6Is There Really Power in Prayer?
• E7America's Hidden Spaceport? [Area 51]
• E8Are End Time Warnings True?
• E9What Is So Mysterious About Easter Island?
• E10Golden Ark With Incredible Power? [Ark of the Covenant]
• E11The Mystery of Oak Island [Oak Island Treasure]
• E12Adam & Eve: Fact or Fiction?