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- Dramatized reconstruction documentaries on juveniles and teens who become killers for different needs or psychopathic urges; alone, duos. or groups; single to serial killings.
- Unusual encounters, strange powers, great murder mysteries and treasures to find, Dossiers Mystère presents the best documented cases in the area of the inexplicable, both in Canada and around the world.
- -Following the footsteps of a Quebec journalist investigating the phenomenon of UFOs, this documentary series takes stock of the state of UFO research. Focusing on objectivity, the series highlights the financial, media and political interests that have been associated with UFOs over the years. For a rare occasion, Canadian specialists share their knowledge on this fascinating subject.
- -Noah's Ark, the Grail and the Ark of the Covenant have given rise to veritable quests. Adventurers and historians have sought them out. Whether real treasures or mere chimeras, these objects have made the fortunes of European and American novelists and filmmakers. Other relics, such as the Shroud of Turin, the Robe of Trier or the Spear of Longinus, continue to arouse controversy. Are the powers and miracles attributed to these pious objects real? What is the verdict of science? What role have these objects, revered by millions of devotees, played in history? Investigator Christian Page sets out to answer these questions and embarks on a mystical quest.
- The Order of the Solar Temple (OTS), first known as the Chivalrous Order of Solar Tradition, is an esoteric group neo-Templar founded in 1984 in Geneva by Luc Jouret and Jo Di Mambro following the Golden Way Foundation of this latest. This false order is mainly known for collective suicides in France, in Switzerland and in Canada having made in all 74 victims in 1994, 1995 and 1997 and for the controversies which followed. The case has been a major factor in the hardening of the fight against sects in France.
- -In Marshfield Massachusetts James Riva Jr. is a troubled young man who imagines himself to be the epitome of a bloodthirsty vampire. Convinced that his grandmother is also a vampire, he kills her with two gold bullets. He drinks his blood and then tries to erase the traces of his crime by burning the house. During the trial his lawyer unsuccessfully pleads madness. In the verdict that is made on Halloween, newspapers say: The vampire is guilty but not crazy. James Riva is sentenced to life imprisonment.
- -In April 1984, a raped nine-year-old girl, beaten, was found hung by a pipe in a boiler room in San Francisco. Two months later, a 70-year-old woman is found murdered in her apartment; She was also raped. On the crime scenes the police found occult symbols, drawn in letters of blood. This is the beginning of the reign of terror of the Rodor of the night who in 16 months will commit at least 13 murders in addition to stealing and raping nearly 200 other victims. This spinner thinks himself the reincarnation of a demon from hell.
- -On Saturday, June 4, 2011, Davy T., an uneventful forty-something who makes alternative rock in his garage, uses a glass of wine at the end of the day, then rapes and murders his wife, smothers his baby, and on the second floor also rapes his second daughter, 6 years old. Then settled on the couch, he uses a whiskey and watches his wife pass from life to death while waiting for the police. He will declare to them: "It's not me, it's him, Beelzebub who whispered in my ear to kill them."
- -On October 13, 1972, a homeless man in Santa Cruz was beaten to death. His attacker showed a real frenzy. Then, in the weeks that followed, other victims were found in the area: a student was cut up, a priest was stabbed in his church, a drug dealer and his wife were shot in their homes. The police are soon convinced that she is dealing with a serial killer. 13 murders later the police finally have a suspect: Herbert William Mullin. According to him each of these killings prevented an earthquake.
- -On Holy Saturday, April 5, 1980, the body of a 71-year-old nun, Margaret Ann Pahl, was found in the sacristy of the Chapel of Mercy Hospital in Toledo. She was strangled and stabbed nine times in the chest forming an inverted cross. The nun, virgin, was raped with a crucifix. His attacker also traced a cross on his forehead with his own blood. The investigators will take more than 20 years to arrest a Toledo priest suspected of being his murderer in addition to being the leader of a satanic sect.
- -In an isolated farm in Wisconsin, a Hermit, who did not accept the death of his mother, began haunting the cemeteries to steal corpses of women to cut their skins and reconstruct a morbid costume reminiscent of his mother. On November 16, 1957, he murdered and dismembered the owner of the general store. A witness will lead the policemen to Ed Gein's farm where a vision of horror awaits them: hung from a beam a decapitated body, disemboweled and emptied of its entrails and corpses mummified by dozens.
- -In January 2002, in London, Ontario, Walter Zepeda, a 19-year-old man, died after an exorcism. An officiant, a friend of the family and the victim's parents are arrested and charged with manslaughter. The family claims that the son was recently possessed by the devil and that for a week they tried to free him with prayers. But things got worse and on the eighth day they found Walter dead, dehydrated. Parents and friend Alex Osegueda will be sentenced to light sentences.
- -In 1891, an adopted daughter, living in Ontario (Canada), started fires from a distance, demonstrating uncontrollable destructive power. In 1932, a mentalist predicted the resolution of a murder by one of the spectators sitting in the room.
- -When history is wrong, tell us about some historical inconsistencies and some very mysterious stories in Canada.
- -In 1958 in Nepal, an Irish man photographs a mysterious artifact that looks like a mummified hand. In 1735, a peasant woman from New Jersey, Deborah Leeds, gives birth to a monstrous creature better known as the Jersey Devil. From 1923 to 1970, several witnesses claim to have seen a hairy, blond headed hominidae in the vicinity of Cobalt, Ontario (Canada).
- -In 1966, a British Columbia painter attempted to reproduce the image of a ghost when she realized that the canvas was changing by itself. Staff at Canada's most popular fair complained of seeing ghosts in the CNE buildings.
- -Can one free a devil-possessed person through exorcism? In 1976, Anneliese Michel died following an exorcism. In 1660 in New France, Barbe Hallé, a maid, had been bewitched while in Connecticut, in 1980, the trial of a man said to be possessed began.
- -In Montreal (Canada), in 1879, the apartment of two prostitutes became the center of attention and a curse concerning it still attracts many curious people, even 150 years later.
- Since the fourteenth century, a long piece of linen has been the object of an ongoing controversy. On it, we can see the image of a man with all the markings of the crucifixion.
- In "The DaVinci Code" the author leads readers on a treasure hunt in search of the mysterious Holy Grail. As a matter of fact, we learn that the word Holy Grail doesn't refer to a cup at all.
- In 2007, Simcha Jacobovici pompously announced, alongside prestigious director James Cameron, that he had found the ossuaries of Jesus.
- Visitors to Hofburg Palace (Vienna) can admire an extraordinary relic; a richly decorated point of a lance. The object is believed to be the point of the lance of Longinus, a Roman legionnaire who pierced the side of Jesus.
- In the Cathedral of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem in Rome, a little piece of wood is preserved in a magnificent silver reliquary. Apparently, it is a fragment of a sign with the word "Nazarene" written in Hebrew, Greek and Latin.
- The great cathedral of San Salvador houses an extraordinary relic. It's a veil, soiled with reddish stains, which seem to be blood. Are the stains that cover the Oviedo veil really made with the blood of Christ?
- At the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral, a pageant of priests walk down the central aisle. Leading the procession is an ecclesiastic holding a golden cushion on which rests a crystal reliquary containing a crown of thorns.
- The Basilica of Santa Maria de Guadalupe in Mexico holds a unique treasure. The tilma of Guadalupe is very special: it displays a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary just as she appeared to Juan Diego, a Mexican peasant, in 1531.
- Is the story of the flood mere myth, as geologists claim, or is it historical reality? And what about the story of Noah? Does material evidence exist to support this extraordinary adventure?
- 201045mTV EpisodeIn 1152, the Benedictine monks of St. Denis undertook major restoration works at the Argenteuil monastery. While piercing one of the surrounding walls, they discovered a passage leading beneath the building to some interesting treasures.
- Few biblical objects have fascinated treasure hunters as much as the Ark of the Covenant. When Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem, the Ark went missing. Some claim it is in a small church, Our Lady Mary of Zion, At Axum, Ethiopia.
- Three times a year, the Naples faithful congregate at the Cathedral of Santa Chiara to see a unique vial. It is supposedly filled with the coagulated blood of St. Januarius, the patron saint of the city, decapitated as a martyr in 305 A.D.
- Without the dedication of some historical figures and also unknown devotees these Holy Treasures may have never made their way into the modern world.
- 14-year-old "Jane Jennie Ewing" kills her 3-year-old foster brother Matthew David Reid her first night in the house. Two 17-year-olds (Panna Krom and Stella Bourdais) conceal their pregnancies, murder and poorly hide their newborn babies.