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?

Last Updated: 5/4/2024Network: Science ChannelStatus: Continuing
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Gateway to Eden
star
6.93
43 votes

#1 - 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.

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Lair of the Living God
star
6.95
20 votes

#2 - 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.

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Ghost of Zorro
star
6.97
29 votes

#3 - 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.

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The Swastika Conspiracy
star
7.08
37 votes

#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.

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Range of Nazi Evil
star
7.09
23 votes

#5 - 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.

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Legend of Moonshine Forest
star
7.11
18 votes

#6 - 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.

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Mayan Armageddon: The New Evidence
star
7.13
15 votes

#7 - Mayan Armageddon: The New Evidence

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/13/2018

New evidence might reveal how the Mayans vanished; when scientists investigate an abandoned settlement, they discover traces of ritualistic drug binges from the ancient world; a mysterious symbol in the desert points to a sex cult of millionaires.

Bloody Secret of the Lost City
star
7.15
34 votes

#8 - 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.

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Doomsday Lair of Greece
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7.15
20 votes

#9 - 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.

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Curse of Genghis Khan
star
7.15
40 votes

#10 - 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.

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Aliens of the Infinity War
star
7.16
45 votes

#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.

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Viking Warrior Invasion
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7.16
25 votes

#12 - 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.

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Nevada's Mystery Marking
star
7.17
18 votes

#13 - 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.

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Ancient Rome's El Dorado
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7.17
18 votes

#14 - 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.

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The Boneyard of Arizona
star
7.18
22 votes

#15 - 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.

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Nazi Ice Fortress
star
7.19
79 votes

#16 - 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

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Secret Soviet Spacecraft
star
7.21
29 votes

#17 - 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.

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The Cave to Hell
star
7.22
36 votes

#18 - 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.

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Finding Sodom
star
7.23
84 votes

#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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Mystery of the Mummy Desert
star
7.24
34 votes

#20 - Mystery of the Mummy Desert

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/21/2017

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Hunt for El Dorado
star
7.24
38 votes

#21 - Hunt for El Dorado

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/14/2017

Strange images from the jungles of Colombia could lead researchers to the legendary city of El Dorado; Images of a nuclear missile launch silo in Montana are being manipulated; A bright green swirling spiral appears in the seas of the Persian Gulf. A massive complex suddenly appears secretive state of Myanmar.

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Strange Symbols in the Desert
star
7.24
29 votes

#22 - Strange Symbols in the Desert

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/14/2017

An amateur archaeologist stumbles open strange symbols scratched into the Kazakhstan Desert; CIA surveillance photographs show what looks like a giant Star of David on the island of Cuba; and a lake in the Brazilian rain forest that turned bright pink.

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Nazi Doomsday Forest
star
7.24
41 votes

#23 - 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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Treasures of Monster Graveyard
star
7.26
39 votes

#24 - Treasures of Monster Graveyard

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/8/2019

At a mysterious site in the Gobi Desert, experts have discovered a monster graveyard, and this groundbreaking find contains the treasures of the alien beasts that once lived in this strange world.

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Terror of the Ice Snake
star
7.26
35 votes

#25 - Terror of the Ice Snake

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/18/2019

In the white ice of Antarctica, satellites discover a mysterious trail of sinister black objects, and when experts discover that it's moving, they use cutting-edge tech to investigate who or what is behind this strange phenomena.

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