UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
STRANGE LEGENDS BOX SET
FEATURING ONE OF TELEVISION’S MOST RESPECTED AND ADMIRED PERSONALITIES: EMMY ® AWARD WINNING, ROBERT STACK.
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Explore the unknown with host Robert Stack in this collection of the best of Unsolved Mysteries: Strange Legends. Elvis, Amelia Earhart, The Bermuda Triangle… Legends are born when the dust settles, and more questions than answers remain. Too many facts, too much coincidence, and not enough motive. And when no trace is found at all - when people just disappear - someone out there must know something… right? Wonder. Amazement. Intrigue. These are the things Legends are made of…
STRANGE LEGENDS BOX SET INCLUDES 27 SEGMENTS
Disc #1
ELVIS’S LAST NIGHT – 12:48 - On August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley's life came to an end. Some say he died of a heart attack. However, his friends reveal that at the end, Elvis was taking three sets of uppers and downers every day. One the day he died, he disappeared into his bathroom at 9:30pm and, it was discovered later, took three sets of his drugs at the same time, including large dosages of codeine and Demerol. Elvis' stepbrother believes he committed suicide.
BRANDON LEE – 12:39- The son of Bruce Lee died in a shooting accident on the set of a movie – Was Brandon a victim of the Lee family curse or just bad luck?
ELIOT NESS – 12:00 - Eliot Ness investigated a series of grotesque murders in Cleveland from 1935 to 1938. Twelve mutilated bodies of transients and prostitutes were dismembered with surgical precision and no suspects were found. This is the only case Ness never solved.
HOLY GRAIL – 10:40 - There exists in present-day England a chalice known as the Nanteos Cup that some believe is the true Holy Grail, the cup from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper.
AMELIA EARHART – 19:47 - We take a look at the disappearance of the famed aviator and examine several theories as to what happened to her. Some eyewitnesses in the South Seas say she was a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp until she was executed for supposedly being a spy.
ALCATRAZ – 26:57 – In 1962, three Alcatraz prisoners escaped from “The Rock” in a homemade raft and were never seen again. Did they die in the icy waters or make it to land? Recently, eyewitnesses came forward to reveal they turned up in Florida. One of them sent a postcard that says: “Gone fishin’” Also, Robert Stack tours the prison and profiles some of its most notorious inmates.
Disc #2
NOAH’S ARK – 13:17 - Recently two research expeditions have combed the mountains of Ararat in Turkey and both believe they have located the remnants of the Noah’s Ark.
MARTIN LUTHER KING – 25:19 - Did James Earl Ray really kill Martin Luther King? He claimed his own attorney had coerced him into a confession. Evidence by independent researchers supports allegations of conspiracy and raises questions of a cover-up by government investigators.
BIGFOOT II – 12:16 – Noted adventurer and explorer Peter Byrne leads an expedition into the Oregon backwoods to prove whether or not the fabled creature exists. Infrared cameras mounted on helicopters search for and find tantalizing evidence.
SONNY LISTON – 11:31 - Boxing great Sonny Liston died 1/5/71 in Las Vegas from what authorities concluded was accidental heroin overdose with several needle marks on his arms. However, both Sonny’s wife and his trainer have said they never knew him to take drugs, and that he was terrified of needles. Many believe he was murdered for refusing to throw a fight.
WHO KILLED SUPERMAN? – 10:43– In the late 50’s, police found the body of George Reeves sprawled across the bed in his Hollywood hills home with a single gunshot would to the right temple. Was the death of the star of the “Superman” television series a murder or a suicide? At the time, he was caught in the middle of a double love triangle that would have shocked his fans. Evidence points in both directions.
BILLY THE KID – 12:42 - Some people believe that Billy the kid wasn’t actually killed by Pat Garrett – that he lived in relative obscurity as “Brushy Bill” Robert. Historian William Tunstill examined the claims and concluded that it was actually Billy’s partner who was shot and killed in 1881.
BC SEA MONSTER – 10:04- Near Cadborro Bay, Canada, fishermen and residents had been sighting Cadborosaurus, or "Caddy" for short, a sea monster that resembled the prehistoric plesiosaurus. Then, butchers found the carcass of a creature resembling a sea serpent in the belly of a gigantic whale.
Disc #3
ELVIS’S TWIN– 8:13 - Few people know that Elvis Presley was haunted his entire life by the specter of his dead twin brother, who died in childbirth. Peter Whitmer has devoted years to studying the psychology of twins, and believes Jesse’s death had a profound effect on Elvis and his family, and was the driving force behind both Elvis’s creative genius and self destructive tendencies.
YETI – 15:03 - After years of leading expeditions to the Himalayas in search of the Yeti, Tom Slick Jr., Texas scientist and businessman, believes he's found conclusive evidence to prove its existence.
DB COOPER – 17:22 – In November, 1971, a non-descript, soft-spoken man in a plain business suit and known only as D.B. Cooper hijacked an airliner, forced it to land, and released the passengers. Claiming his briefcase was a bomb, he forced the crew to take off again and then parachuted from the rear door of a plane over Washington State, along with more than $200,000 he had extorted from authorities. The FBI said he perished in the wilderness, but there is ample evidence suggesting that he survived.
HUEY LONG – 26:04 - Six decades ago, Senator Huey Pierce Long of Louisiana, one of the most powerful politicians in America, was murdered by an assassin’s bullet. Dr. Carl Austin was accused, but new evidence states that he might have been wrongly accused. An examination of the evidence, including the alleged murder weapon, led to the conclusion Huey Long may have been accidentally shot by his own bodyguards.
WHO PLUGGED BUGSY? – 9:06 - Bugsy was celebtrate3d for his matinee idol good looks and his occasionally white-hot temper. After he was assassinated inside his girl friend’s posh Beverly Hills home, several suspects emerged: Meyer Lanksy, Lucky Luciano, and even his gorgeous girl friend, Virginia Hill. However, the case was never solved.
JOHN WILKES BOOTH – 19:50 - Some people believe that John Wilkes Booth was not shot, and someone else was buried in his place. The fugitive, who was killed in a Virginia Tobacco Farm that had been set on fire, had red hair and freckles; however Booth, who had been called “the handsomest man in America” had dark brown hair. He also had a scar on his neck that was not found on the body in the barn. Some believe Lincoln’s assassin had escaped and lived until 1903.
MONA LISA – 7:18 – When Da Vinci died in 1519, the secret of Mona Lisa’s identity went with him to the grave. However, recent computer analysis may have revealed a startling clue to her identity. Could Mona Lisa have been Da Vinci himself?
Disc #4
AGATHA CHRISTIE – 17:18 - Mystery writer Christie is mad at her husband and “disappears”—police look for her and fear she’s been abducted. Three weeks later she’s found at a spa suffering from “amnesia”. Was she kidnapped, or did she have a rendezvous with a secret lover?
SKUNK APE – 8:18 - Tales of the infamous skunk ape creature said to roam the Everglades go back to Indian lore. There have been several sightings, photographs have been taken, and footprints and hair samples have been found. Scientific testing shows the hair samples are not from animals found naturally in the Everglades.
CHAIR OF DEATH – 7:00 - In the tiny village of Thirsk, in the local museum, there sits a valuable antique chair. According to locals, the chair is cursed with an astonishing and lethal power
RFK PIX – 10:00 - Scott Enyart, a photographer, says that at the instant Senator Kennedy was shot in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel, he was there taking pictures. The police confiscated the rolls of film. After winning a lawsuit regain possession, the film mysteriously disappears from the car of the government courier returning the photos to Enyart.
ANASTASIA – 26:20 - Was the Russian czarina actually murdered, or did she miraculously escape? We examine the theories behind the deaths of the Romanovs and whether Anna Anderson really was Anastasia.
BERMUDA TRIANGLE – 14:56 - The mysterious Bermuda Triangle legend began with disappearance of 5 Navy bombers & 14 crewmembers that vanished 12/5/45 off the Atlantic coast of Florida. One investigator has located one of the WWII fighter-bombers submerged 30 miles off Cape Canaveral.
MOTHMAN – 9:30 - A mysterious creature plagues a small town in West Virginia, leaving residents to ponder, is it an alien, a mutant being, or the fulfillment of an ancient curse? This is the true story behind the movie starring Kevin Costner.
