In Search Of

[Johnny Pneumatic]

It's a tv show from the late 70s;very woo-woo. I watched it before I became a skeptic. The show's "music" scares the brown stuff out of me.

[Yahweh]

Its on the SciFi channel on weekends, it usually comes on after Scare Tactics...

Dont expect high quality programming to come out of SciFi too often...

[Nyarlathotep]

Hey, anything that has Mr. Spock narrating has to be true, honest-to-god, science stuff. Mr. Spock wouldn't shill a bunch of woo-woo carp, would he?

[Agammamon]

That's because it's not really Spock. He was replaced by a pod person.

[Mr Manifesto]

Originally posted by bewareofdogmas
It's a tv show from the late 70s;very woo-woo. I watched it before I became a skeptic. The show's "music" scares the brown stuff out of me.

I loved that music. And the way Nimoy said, "unexplained phenomena..." Actually, I became scared of aliens after watching that show (being only about seven or so). Fortunately they haven't found Earth yet, but I've got my tin foil ready to cover my head for when they do.

[Ipecac]

I gotta say, the lost of "In Search Of" is one of my biggest disappointments in becoming a skeptic. I loved that show as a kid. Now, I understand that it was totally ridiculous. Kinda makes me sad.

[Flaherty]

Originally posted by Nyarlathotep
Hey, anything that has Mr. Spock narrating has to be true, honest-to-god, science stuff. Mr. Spock wouldn't shill a bunch of woo-woo carp, would he?

Nimoy made up for it in a guest appearance on the Simpsons. He sat behind a desk, used his In Search Of tone, and said, "The story you are about to see is true. Which is to say, it is false." This was the episode where Homer thought he met an alien. David Duchovny also guest starred.

[Starrman]

Mulder: Mr. Simpson, we want you to recreate your every move the night you saw the alien.
Homer: The evening began at the gentlemen's club, where we were discussing Wittgenstein over a game of backgammon.
Scully: Mr. Simpson, it's a felony to lie to the FBI.
Homer: We were sitting in Barney's car eating packets of mustard. Happy?

[Nyarlathotep]

Originally posted by Agammamon
That's because it's not really Spock. He was replaced by a pod person.

I thought so. Darned Pod People, they're everywhere.

Hey, you're not a Pod Person are you?

[Mr Manifesto]

Originally posted by Nyarlathotep


I thought so. Darned Pod People, they're everywhere.

Hey, you're not a Pod Person are you?

No, he isn't. And I'm not either.

[Brown]

"In Search Of," when discussing the Shroud of Turin, had Joe Nickell demonstrate how to fake the shroud.

Basically, Nickell just blasted apart one of the main arguments of the Shroud proponents, namely, that it is impossible for an artist to paint a negative image. Nickell demonstrated how easy it is to do.

[Checkmite]

I loved In Search Of... when I was a kid, also. The show was originally produced by A&E, not the SciFi channel.

[Nyarlathotep]

Originally posted by Joshua Korosi
I loved In Search Of... when I was a kid, also. The show was originally produced by A&E, not the SciFi channel.

Nope, I used to watch In Search of... back when it was new and it predates A&E by quite a few years.

[Renfield]

Originally posted by Brown
"In Search Of," when discussing the Shroud of Turin, had Joe Nickell demonstrate how to fake the shroud.

Basically, Nickell just blasted apart one of the main arguments of the Shroud proponents, namely, that it is impossible for an artist to paint a negative image. Nickell demonstrated how easy it is to do.

Actually, it could be done using a technique that was fairly common back then. If I recall correctly, all it involved was making a rubbing of a 3 dimensional object, like a statue or a body. Raised areas end up being darker, depressed areas lighter. Very simple.

[Renfield]

Originally posted by Nyarlathotep


Nope, I used to watch In Search of... back when it was new and it predates A&E by quite a few years.

Doesn't it go all the way back to the seventy's? Sure looks like it anyway. I remember watching it back when I was but a wee lad.

[Nyarlathotep]

Originally posted by Renfield


Doesn't it go all the way back to the seventy's? Sure looks like it anyway. I remember watching it back when I was but a wee lad.

Yep, that's when I used to watch it.

[Brown]

Originally posted by Renfield
Actually, it could be done using a technique that was fairly common back then. If I recall correctly, all it involved was making a rubbing of a 3 dimensional object, like a statue or a body. Raised areas end up being darker, depressed areas lighter. Very simple. Yup, that was basically it. Nickell used a three-dimensional relief of Bing Crosby (if I remember right), placed a wet cloth against the relief, and molded the cloth to the relief. After the cloth dried, he daubed it with a brownish substance. The cloth was removed from the relief and was stretched taut, and the brownish image on the cloth was photographed. The negative of the brownish image was a "positive" image of Bing Crosby.

[peptoabysmal]

I just caught the last half of a program the other night. It reminded me of "In Search Of". It may have even been called that. The program seemed to be made relatively recently.

Anyway, it was about crop circles, cattle mutililations, close encounters and the giant drawings in Peru. The program kept running a teaser about how they were going to tie it all together, and, of course, never did.

The only decent piece of logic in the show was about the two fellows who admitted to having hoaxed the crop circles and how these two guys couldn't have made all of the thousands of crop circles that have been reported. They kept playing this point over and over.

They also tried to link all of this to some incident in Jerusalem that supposedly had all three elements. Five women supposedly had crop circles drawn outside their house, saw an alien and one of them woke up to find all of her livestock dead and mutilated.

I thought all of this stuff had been debunked long ago.

[Agammamon]

Originally posted by Nyarlathotep


I thought so. Darned Pod People, they're everywhere.

Hey, you're not a Pod Person are you?

Of course not, now just lie back, close your eyes and go to sleep. You'll feel much better in the morning.

[Psi Baba]

Originally posted by Nyarlathotep


Nope, I used to watch In Search of... back when it was new and it predates A&E by quite a few years.
That's right. The original "In Search Of..." with Leonard Nimoy aired from 1976 to 1982. The A&E channel came along with a wave of new cable channels sometime between 1981 and 1985. In Search Of was produced by Alan Landsberg who was also responsible for a number of specials about the Bermuda Triangle, Von Daniken's nonsense, and similar stuff. None of his shows were very skeptical in nature, but didn't we enjoy it all the same!