The BEST episodes of In Search of... season 3

Every episode of In Search of... season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of In Search of... season 3!

Leonard Nimoy hosts this documentary television show devoted to mysterious phenomena, legends, conspiracy theories, as well as other curiosities and intrigues.

Last Updated: 9/6/2024Network: HistoryStatus: Ended
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8.14
7 votes

#1 - The Great Lakes Triangle

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1978

The Great Lakes Triangle: Investigates efforts by scientists and psychics to discover the mysterious forces around the Great Lakes that have caused more air and sea disasters than the Bermuda Triangle.

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8.00
4 votes

#2 - Water Seekers (aka Dowsing)

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1978

Scientists take another look at the divining rod. Does water emit valuable signals?

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8.00
6 votes

#3 - Bermuda Triangle Pirates

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1978

Explores the possibility that modern pirates involved in drug smuggling may be a factor in the disappearances of luxury yachts in the Bermuda Triangle off Florida. Scenes are dramatized involving the takeover of ships by pirates.

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8.00
7 votes

#4 - Lost Vikings

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/28/1978

The story of Viking Erik the Red's descendants, who left Scandinavia and arrived in northern Canada centuries before Columbus.

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7.86
7 votes

#5 - The Money Pit Mystery (aka Captain Kidd)

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/1979

The Money Pit Mystery: A true tale of hidden treasure and mysterious death. Six people have died in the scramble to dig up the Oak Island treasures, supposedly buried by Captain Kidd.

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7.75
4 votes

#6 - Cryogenics

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1978

Scientists are discovering new methods to prolong human life and, in the case of cryogenics, to suspend the possibility of life for centuries.

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7.71
7 votes

#7 - Jack the Ripper

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1978

An investigative report on the unsolved mystery of London's notorious serial killer. The episode reveals the killer's connection with contemporary media and the possible involvement with the Masons. Various identities are suggested as being that of the killer, including a duke who was second in line to the British throne.

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7.67
6 votes

#8 - Monster Hunters (aka Sasquatch)

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1978

Leonard Nimoy investigates what compels scientists and teachers to pursue a man-like beast in Northern California.

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7.60
5 votes

#9 - Sherlock Holmes

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1978

A look at surprising new clues that indicate the famed super sleuth actually did exist, after a fashion.

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7.57
7 votes

#10 - Sodom & Gomorrah

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/10/1979

Sodom and Gomorrah: Studies evidence developed by archaeologists suggesting that the two wicked cities existed on the site of a crater now filled in by the Dead Sea.

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7.50
6 votes

#11 - Dreams and Nightmares

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1979

Our dreams provide clues to the dark world of our unconscious mind, but can we learn to control them?

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7.50
2 votes

#12 - Animal ESP

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1979

Dramatic scenes attempt to demonstrate that close communication between people and their pets may be due to more than emotional bonds.

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7.50
6 votes

#13 - Indian Astronomers (aka Mayan Legacy)

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1978

Indian Astronomers: Recent excavations in southern Illinois provide tantalizing glimpses at Native-American use of astronomy.

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7.40
5 votes

#14 - The Diamond Curse

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1979

Why do mystery and tragedy plague the owners of great gems like the Hope Diamond?

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7.33
3 votes

#15 - Brain Power

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/17/1979

A study of the incredible hidden potential of the human mind, including the possibility that average people can become geniuses.

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7.12
33 votes

#16 - The Angel of Death (aka Joseph Mengele)

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1979

Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal tracks infamous war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele to his hiding place in Paraguay.

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9 votes

#17 - UFO Captives

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1978

Meet people who believe they have been held captive aboard alien spacecraft - close encounters of the fourth kind.

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7.00
5 votes

#18 - Tornadoes

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1978

A terrifying look at one of nature's deadliest forces. Tornadoes can swallow up buildings and people without a trace - can they be stopped?

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7.00
3 votes

#19 - Cloning

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1978

An in-depth look at the process which may allow us to "copy" people exactly and produce single-parent human beings.

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7.00
5 votes

#20 - Ghostly Stakeout

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/1979

In a haunted house, a psychic team contacts troubled spirits that live on after death.

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7.00
10 votes

#21 - King Tut

Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/17/1979

King Tut: Investigates the ancient Egyptian monarch's final days. Was he a beloved leader who died a natural death or did court intrigues lead to his assassination?

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6.63
8 votes

#22 - Noah's Flood

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/1979

A dramatic inquiry into whether or not scientific proof exists for the legend of the Great Flood.

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6.50
2 votes

#23 - Psychic Sea Hunt

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1979

A team of psychics gives scientists the exact description and location of an unknown shipwreck, and a submarine hunt proves them right.