The BEST episodes of In Search of... season 5
Every episode of In Search of... season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of In Search of... season 5!
Leonard Nimoy hosts this documentary television show devoted to mysterious phenomena, legends, conspiracy theories, as well as other curiosities and intrigues.
#1 - Acupuncture
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1980
A study of the healing technique which may cure incurable diseases. Leonard Nimoy investigates the power of the ancient Chinese healing art.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Laugh Therapy
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1980
Can laughter combat disease? A Nobel-prize winner says he cured himself after doctors gave up hope.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - The Lusitania
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/16/1981
An in-depth examination into the sinking of the British liner by a German submarine in 1915, killing over 1,000 passengers, including 114 Americans. Was it really all part of a plot to involve the U.S. in World War I?
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - UFO Coverups
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1980
Examines charges that the U.S. Air Force is hiding alien corpses and the remains of crashed space craft in Hangar 18 of Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Moon Madness
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1980
Violence and passion are commonplace when the moon is full. Is there any truth to the Werewolf legends? Leonard Nimoy hosts this historical look at lunacy.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Salem Witches
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1980
Are the witches of Salem still casting spells in Massachusetts?
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - Chinese Explorers
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/21/1981
Did the Chinese discover America 1,000 years before Columbus? Leonard Nimoy explores evidence that a Buddhist monk named Hu-Shen arrived on the American continent in 458 AD.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - Dangerous Volcanoes
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1980
Scientists wonder whether California's Mount Shasta, Washington's Mount St. Helens, and other American volcanoes will soon erupt again.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - The Death of Marilyn Monroe
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1981
The Death of Marilyn Monroe: Examines evidence that suggests that the Hollywood star may not have committed suicide.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Lee Harvey Oswald
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1980
The assassination of John F. Kennedy: was there visual proof of two guns in Dallas and possibly two Oswalds?
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - The Lindbergh Kidnapping
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1980
Digs for the facts behind the controversy that still rages today, the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby. Was the wrong man executed for the crime?
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - The Great Wall of China
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1981
The Great Wall of China: The story of the one of the world's greatest wonders - who built it and why?
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - Daredevil Death Wish
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1980
A look at some of the impossible stunts daredevils attempt, and why they keep trying even after suffering near-fatal injuries
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Faith Healing
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1980
Is faith healing hoax or holistic medicine?
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - Jimmy Hoffa
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1980
Jimmy Hoffa was the president of the powerful Teamsters' Union. He only cared about himself. He fought to the top, but eventually got killed, although his body was never found.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - The Hindenburg Mystery
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1981
A probe into the theory that the famed Nazi "lighter-than-air" ship, which exploded while landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, in 1937, was destroyed by political saboteurs.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - Sun Worshippers
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/19/1981
Will solar energy free us from dependence on foreign oil? Leonard Nimoy analyzes how solar energy stacks up against fossil fuel and nuclear energy.
Watch Now:Amazon#19 - Super Children
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/27/1980
Super Children: Investigates scientific efforts to produce a generation of child prodigies; are they born or made?
Watch Now:Apple TV#20 - Life After Life
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1980
The stories of people who claim they have had after-life experiences and say they no longer fear death.
#21 - The Castle of Secrets (aka Coral Castle)
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/24/1981
The saga of the Coral Castle, said to have been built by Edward Leedskalnin, a frail hermit who allegedly carved and lifted 1,100 tons of solid stone blocks weighing up to 30 tons each using the secrets of Atlantis.
#22 - The End of the World
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/30/1981
Will an asteroid or comet on a collision course with earth end it all?
#23 - Great Lovers
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1981
A look at some of history's famous lovers. What drove certain men to pursue sensual pleasure above all else? The program compares the legends of Don Juan and Casanova. Host Leonard Nimoy wrote this installment.
#24 - Fountain of Youth
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1980
A look at the various scientific ways people use to stay young for years longer.