SciFi Investigates

Sci Fi Investigates is a six episode reality television series featuring skeptic Rob Mariano, forensic specialist Deborah Dobrydney, archaeologist Bill Doleman, and paranormal investigator Richard Dolan, as they look at paranormal and supernatural phenomenon and try to explain them. The show debuted in October 2006 on the American Sci-Fi Channel following Ghost Hunters. There have also been two webisodes. The series documents a team of four paranormal investigators who travel to various locations around the United States and investigate various urban legends. The team uses various research methods to gather as much information as they can about the particular legend or phenomena an episode focuses on. They meet with local residents, listen to eye-witness reports, study documentation, conduct forensic experiments on physical evidence, and conduct on-location archaeological studies. At the end they review and discuss their findings and each investigator gives their opinions from different points-of-view. Each episode is an hour long, including commercials.

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Voodoo

There is more to Voodoo than tales of dolls and pins. To learn the truth about this religion, the SCI FI Investigates team heads to New Orleans to experience its practices firsthand. The team — skeptic Rob Mariano, paranormal investigator Rich Dolan, archaeologist Bill Doleman and crime scene investigator Deborah Dobrydney — travels to New Orleans right before the city's most important voodoo ritual, St. John's Eve. Bloody Mary, a voodoo priestess, meets the team at St. Louis Cemetery and escorts them to the grave of Marie Laveau, the most famous figure in New Orleans voodoo. Bloody Mary advises them that their gifts for the spirit — a Laveau doll, a mojo bag, a candle and a stick — are inappropriate, so Rob leaves his Red Sox hat instead. In the cemetery, three team members receive messages from Marie Laveau, though Bill says he has no way of measuring if the messages are really from Laveau and the group leaves unsure if Bloody Mary really has a connection to the supernatural. They do concede, however, that she touched on personal details she could not have known about.

Bigfoot

New sightings are making news and SCI FI Investigates does whatever it takes to secure legitimate evidence of the legendary creature's existence. The team goes in search of Bigfoot in the wilds of Oregon. They meet Dr. Henner Fahrenbach, a Bigfoot researcher who says that he possesses hair samples that came from "no known primate." He shows them tree branches in his lab that appear to have been twisted by a creature with greater-than-human strength. The team inspects different casts of footprints, some up to 21 inches long. Bill believes that a morphological feature in the middle of the two largest footprints constitutes evidence of a metatarsal hinge, a clear indication they are not from a human. The team watches two amateur films of alleged Bigfoot sightings, which Rob thinks would be easy to fake.

Mothman

It was a real-life nightmare that made headlines around the world. Recent sightings of the terrifying winged apparition known as the Mothman take SCI FI Investigates deep into the mountains of West Virginia. The Mothman investigation begins at the Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant, W.Va. The museum's creator shows the team the original handwritten statements that the first three Mothman eyewitnesses gave to the local police department. The team also learns that during the time of the Mothman sightings in 1966-67, more than 100 U.F.O. sightings were reported. In addition, a news article on display states that the Lowe Inn, where the team is staying, is haunted.

After Life

What happens at the moment of death? Evidence suggests that human consciousness can function independent of the body. Our team members explore altered states (sensory deprivation, past-life regression, etc.) in an effort to find the ultimate truth. The team searches for signs of the afterlife in New York City. At the Belasco Theatre in SoHo, they attempt to contact the founder of the theater, David Belasco, whose ghost actors have seen on stage and in dressing rooms, wearing his trademark clerical collar. With help from researchers from Paranormal NYC, the team employs various instruments throughout the theater: Deborah uses an electromagnetic field monitor, Bill carries a temperature monitor, Rich tries his luck with a dowsing rod, and Rob looks around with a thermal camera. Bill notices a severe drop in temperature in the mezzanine and then again in a basement doorway, but the group realizes the instrument is faulty. The dowsing rod moves while Rich holds it on a catwalk, but he is not sure what it means.

Roswell

With the approach of the 60th anniversary of the alleged crash of an alien spacecraft in Roswell, N.M., SCI FI Investigates revisits this controversial location where startling new evidence has recently surfaced. The team digs for clues about U.F.O.s in the New Mexico desert, with forensic specialist Lisa Van Camp filling in for Deborah Dobrydney. With a head start on the rest of the team, Bill marks off the area believed to be the place where, in July 1947, rancher W.W. "Mack" Brazel found metallic debris scattered across the desert. Eyewitness accounts stated that something left a gouge in the ground. Doleman directs a crew to dig holes in the ground and sift the earth, looking for evidence.

(From: SciFi.com)


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