Encounters With the Unexplained — Season 1, Episode 9: What Is So Mysterious About Easter Island?
Documentary • 60 min • 2 seasons, 53 episodes • ★ 9.5/10
Episode synopsis
Easter Island: Mystery of Easter Island Isolated on a tiny volcanic island in the midst of the Pacific Ocean, without advanced engineering skills or construction machinery, a mysterious people managed to populate their island with huge, monolithic stone statues. These 80-ton carvings, with 12-ton ""top knots,"" were somehow transported several miles across the island and arranged in rows on raised platforms. How were they moved? How were they raised? And most puzzling of all, why?
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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?
- E10Golden Ark With Incredible Power? [Ark of the Covenant]
- E11The Mystery of Oak Island [Oak Island Treasure]
- E12Adam & Eve: Fact or Fiction?
- E13What Really Happened at Kecksburg? [Kecksburg UFO Crash]