Stranger Than Fiction

Documentary following the investigation of a 500 year old Tibetan mummy, and the team of experts who analyse it and try and establish whether the mummification was self-induced or down to natural causes. Looks at the levels of bodily control some Tibetan monks can produce through meditation, and at the meditation practices.

Documentary looking at the phenomena of megalightning or "sprites", massive bolts and flashes of lightening that usually occur above the clouds, some being twenty times higher than a mountain, or even the size of a country.

Documentary examining the conspiracy theory that the moon landings never happened and were staged. Looks at why this is believed and includes experts from either side making their arguments. Includes conspiracy theorist Bill Kaysing and former aerospace engineer Jay Windley putting opposing views.

Documentary considering incest, and particularly Genetic Sexual Attraction, which can happen when two adults from the same family are separated at birth and reunited later. Looks at three relationships; one between a mother and son; one between a brother and sister who were separated as children and met up again as adults; and one between Spanish siblings.

Documentary looking into how rumours of flying saucers and aliens were actually instigated by the military of various countries to try and cover up top-secret military experiments on saucer-shaped flying weapons development.

Documentary looking at the work and experiments done by scientists between 1950 and 1970 in both the USA and USSR with the aim of transplanting a human head from one person's body to another.

Looks at the Apollo 11 space mission and how behind-the-scenes there were several instances of technology and human failure and errors that nearly led to disaster. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin and flight director Gene Kranz give their accounts of the first manned moon landing in 1969.

Investigation into cryonics, whereby people pay to have their bodies frozen when they die in the hope of future scientists finding a way of regenerating them back to life. Looks at the technqiues involved in preservation and interviews some of those who run cryonic centres and wish to be frozen themselves. Other scientists express doubts about the reality.

Documentary looking into the Overtoun Bridge, near Dumbarton, Scotland, from which fifty dogs since the 1950s have jumped to their deaths. Investigates some of the possible reasons for this, from the mystical and psychic to the possible accumulation of factors affecting the dogs' senses.

Documentary looking into the navigational abilities of pigeons and other creatures over thousands of miles.

Looks at an incident in 1993 when a UFO flew over several sensitive military establishments in Britain and sparked a lifetime investigation by Nick Pope, who worked in Secretariat Air Staff 2A for the Ministry of Defence.

Documentary looking at the events on board Apollo 13, when an explosion occurred in April 1970 in space, leaving the crew running low on oxygen and having to utilise the lunar module on board and use it as a liferaft.