Mysteries from Above

Synopsis

Mysteries from Above takes to the skies to offer audiences a chance to see the world from fresh and exhilarating perspectives. The series explores remote, hard-to-reach locations as drones explore strange geological occurrences, unique man-made structures, curious creatures and lost civilizations, revealing fascinating insights and never-before-seen footage to the viewers. Each episode follows four unique storylines from developed and isolated aerial vantage points, with in-depth analysis and narration from world leading experts including Dr. Karen Bellinger, Anthropologist and Historical Archaeologist; Dr. Cylita Guy, Ecologist and Data Scientist; Dr. Dan Riskin, Evolutionary Biologist; Anthony Morgan, Science Communicator; Dr. Jean Li, Archaeologist; George Kourounis, Explorer-in-Residence for the Royal Canadian Geographical Society; and many more.

First Air Date: 2022-03-27

Last Air Date: 2024-05-12

Number of Seasons: 4

Number of Episodes: 30

Networks: Sky History, Cottage Life

Top Cast

Natasha Billson as Herself
Torri Yates-Orr as Herself
Karen Bellinger as Herseld

Seasons

Season 1 (2022) - (10 Episodes)

Season 2 (2023) - (10 Episodes)

Season 3 (2024) - (10 Episodes)

Season 4 (2025) - (6 Episodes)

Season 1 (2022)

Fly over sites around the globe to get a unique understanding of their historical significance and modern legacy. View these locations via drone, satellite, and aerial photography and see how a change in perspective opens up a new world of meaning.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Accidental Discoveries (2022-03-27)

Accidental Discoveries. Using the view from above, drone pilots and satellite imagery specialists are uncovering a vanished Neolithic structure in an Irish farmer's field, an ancient oasis in the far reaches of the Chinese desert, centuries-old buried treasure in Britain and a fearsome predator roaming the Pacific Ocean has made cozy and all just by accident.
Ep. 2: Military Mysteries (2022-04-03)

Military Mysteries: Discover an array of mysterious phenomena seen from above, including a Nazi weapon in Northern France and a Russian military tower near Chernobyl
Ep. 3: In Plain Sight (2022-04-10)

In Plain Sight: Discover over a hundred massive concrete arrows scattered across America, a giant chalk figure with an oversized phallus on an English hillside and a mysterious hole in the middle of a lake in Southern California
Ep. 4: Submerged (2022-04-17)

Submerged: A Turkish drought reveals a long-lost ancient Basilica and its secrets, a church spire punches through the surface of a toxic sludge in Romania and the hull of a massive ship in the North Sea answers decades old questions
Ep. 5: Ancient Civilizations (2022-04-24)

Ancient Civilisations: Nubian pyramids reveal the rise of female power in Ancient Kush and a shocking satellite image uncovers secrets of an ancient ancestral Puebloan site in New Mexico
Ep. 6: Unreachable Places (2022-05-01)

Strange markings in the remote region of Northern Finland; drones find a Manhattan-size mystery in the depths of a Vietnamese cave; secrets are no longer hidden in the Antarctic; a lost sky-high world in Mozambique gets a visit from above.
Ep. 7: Ghost Towns (2022-05-08)

Drones reveal what's left of Henry Ford's American suburb in the Brazilian jungle; clues to what killed a once-vibrant Pennsylvania mining town; an aerial glimpse of New York's forgotten ghost town; an Italian Renaissance reduced to dust.
Ep. 8: Natural Mysteries (2022-05-15)

From above, a constant inferno in Turkmenistan, mysterious circles in the Namibian desert, slithering stones across Death Valley, and the secret of Utah's electric blue ponds.
Ep. 9: Lost at Sea (2022-05-22)

A remote island linked to one of the world's most famous aviation mysteries; thousands of shipwrecks in the Bermuda triangle; a history lost and found in the South Pacific.
Ep. 10: New Technologies (2022-05-29)

Viewed from above, the world-famous Pyramids of Giza could be a kind of star map. It also shows how first responders gave hope to survivors of Hurricane Katrina from the sky. Also very impressive is an Indonesian volcano that burns in a bright blue. And this time, a bird's eye view also reveals certain forgotten joys of America's recent past.