The WORST episodes of What on Earth?
Every episode of What on Earth? ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of What on Earth?!
Eyes in the sky. Watching us from space. Hundreds of satellites showing us the world like we've never seen it before. Capturing images which are breathtaking but bizarre. Objects and phenomena which defy explanation. Baffling phenomena seen from space, what on Earth are they?
#1 - Lair of the Living God
Season 10 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/19/2021
Satellite images capture a bizarre, cone-like structure perched on the summit of a mountain range in Turkey; experts uncover one of the most extraordinary engineering projects of the ancient world linked to the legacy of a living deity.
#2 - Gateway to Eden
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/20/2016
A buried monument sheds light on a Bible mystery; an ominous shadow engulfs the Pacific Ocean; and a lake that's shaped like a perfect circle hosts otherworldly life.
#3 - Range of Nazi Evil
Season 11 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/29/2022
Satellite images capture dozens of perfectly straight parallel lines hidden in the dense Polish woodlands; experts investigate and uncover a massive WWII military complex once used as a notorious and deadly Nazi weapons training facility.
#4 - The Swastika Conspiracy
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/17/2017
A giant swastika in a German forest; a strange pattern etched into the desert near the famous Nazca lines; and mysterious markings in an isolated corner of Antarctica.
#5 - Ancient Rome's El Dorado
Season 11 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/24/2022
Aerial archaeologists capture bizarre, spider-like markings etched deep into the mountains of Northern Spain; experts investigate an ancient site that contained one of the largest and most important gold mining operations of the Roman Empire.
#6 - Ghost of Zorro
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/31/2017
A giant letter Z is carved into a Mexican hillside, evoking the mark of a legendary outlaw; a strange sighting in Germany points to secrets from the Cold War; and massive, blood-red marks in China prompt fears of a violent government crackdown.
#7 - Doomsday Lair of Greece
Season 11 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/6/2022
Satellite images capture bizarre structures fenced within a remote mountaintop complex on the Greek island of Kefalonia; experts investigate and discover a network of massive satellites linked to a hidden NATO doomsday communications bunker.
#8 - Legend of Moonshine Forest
Season 10 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/12/2021
Satellite images capture a gigantic oval among a bizarre grid pattern that's carved into the dense forests of New Jersey; experts investigate and reveal a landscape linked to infamous prohibition activity and a prolific WWI munitions factory.
#9 - Secret Soviet Spacecraft
Season 11 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/22/2022
Satellite images capture a bizarre industrial complex in the remote desert expanse of Kazakhstan. Experts investigate and uncover a massive hangar containing a Buran or Soviet space shuttle, the most expensive spacecraft in the history of Soviet-era space exploration.
#10 - Viking Warrior Invasion
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/31/2021
Satellite images capture bizarre groups of circular structures in the remote forests of Derbyshire, England; experts investigate and uncover ancient burial mounds linked to a Viking invasion that changed the course of English history.
#11 - Aliens of the Infinity War
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/27/2019
When a strange pattern appears in a field, experts wonder if its an extraterrestrial response to a message sent to an alien star cluster in 1974, and using cutting-edge science, they uncover its true origin.
#12 - Nevada's Mystery Marking
Season 12 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/23/2023
Satellite images capture an enormous X shape mysteriously carved with precision in the remote Nevada desert; experts investigate a military emergency landing field linked to one of the most astonishing test programs in aviation history.
#13 - The Boneyard of Arizona
Season 12 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/16/2023
Satellite images capture miles of aircraft precisely arranged in the vast Arizona desert; experts investigate the largest aircraft storage facility on Earth and the rotting remains of a defining moment in Cold War history.
#14 - Nazi Ice Fortress
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/17/2015
Night images of Western Australia show lights in areas where there shouldn't be any, even more light is seen in the desert than in the big cities on the coast; images seem to show a big steel door on an entrance to a cave or underground base in Antarctica, could this be the remains of a Nazi base; Space Shuttle Endeavor takes pictures of a chain of 8 craters stretching 450 miles along the 38th parallel covering Kansas, Missouri and Illinois; radar images of the empty quarter of Oman show tracks or roads that may lead to Ubar, the mythical 'Atlantis of the Sands'; a series of hexagon shaped clouds appear over the Bahamas at the western edge of the Bermuda triangle; in the Gobi Desert of northern China a grid is seen 1-mile long and 0.5-mile wide with a strange line pattern
#15 - Bloody Secret of the Lost City
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/21/2017
A vast structure buried in the sands near the legendary city of Petra points to a bloody past; when terrorists kidnap more that 200 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria, rescuers use satellites to track them down.
#16 - The Cave to Hell
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/11/2019
When a sinister cave is discovered in a remote corner of Iceland, experts uncover a secret underworld tunneling to unknown depths, and using cutting-edge tech, they investigate if this strange place could hold secrets of alien worlds.
#17 - Code of the Viking Witch
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/21/2021
Satellite images capture a bizarre pattern of rocks in the shape of a large fingerprint on a remote Swedish island. Experts investigate and uncover a mysterious labyrinth with links to ancient Viking black magic and dark, mystical rituals.
#18 - Curse of Genghis Khan
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/25/2019
When an strange structure is discovered in the Gobi Desert, experts investigate if this mysterious site could reveal the whereabouts of lost treasure, which might change everything we know about Genghis Khan and the Mongol warriors who once lived here.
#19 - Finding Sodom
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/3/2015
Satellite photos of the region north of the Dead Sea leads archeologist Dr. Collins to believe he has found the biblical city of Sodom; a three mile wide ring is seen in the ice of Lake Baikal, the oldest freshwater lake in the world; a 35 mile wide cloud shaped plume appears out of nowhere over New Mexico; a new pyramid is found in Egypt surrounded by geometric shapes making it unlike any ancient pyramid ever discovered; a small island close to Japan is covered in apartment buildings but is devoid of human life today; a strange triangle is seen in photos over the western Australian outback
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#20 - Mystery of the Cursed Forest
Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/28/2021
Satellite images capture a bizarre pattern of large concentric circles formed in a remote English forest; experts investigate and uncover a top secret experimental bomb testing site critical to WWII British weapons development.
#21 - Did We Find Flight 370?
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/13/2016
A new clue about what happened to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370; an astronaut's sighting of something strange in the Sahara Desert; and a remote village in Alaska invaded by orange sludge.
#22 - Nuclear Ghost Towns
Season 10 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/19/2021
Satellite images capture a mysterious collection of sprawling towns that appear to be completely unoccupied in Belarus; experts investigate and uncover a horrendous state-sanctioned cover-up responsible for claiming thousands of innocent lives.
#23 - Secrets of the Roman Occult
Season 10 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/5/2021
Aerial drone imaging captures a sophisticated complex of lost, ancient Roman buildings in Yorkshire, England.
#24 - Nazi Doomsday Forest
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/2020
When mysterious structures are discovered deep in a remote forest, experts investigate if this strange site was the long-lost birthplace of a top-secret Nazi project that produced some of the deadliest weapons the world had ever seen.
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#25 - Stonehenge of the Holy Land
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/6/2016
Legends of ancient giants surround a mysterious monument in the Holy Land. A bright pink lake could point to a strange, undiscovered new species. When a young boy disappears in a sand dune, satellite images help with the investigation.