Secrets in the Ice

43min

Mystery

Documentary

Mysterious frozen lakes filled with bones, mummified bodies hanging from inside a glacier, and a 30,000-year-old virus frozen in ice brought back to life in a laboratory. In an all new Science Channel series, SECRETS IN THE ICE, experts and scientists are exposing dark secrets, forgotten treasures and lost relics from some of the coldest places on Earth. Using state of the art archaeological technologies and cutting-edge CGI animation, SECRETS IN THE ICE spotlights the mysteries that have been locked away in icy tombs all over the world for centuries. At the base of a massive glacier in Southern Greenland, Danish archeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient stone hut. Was this site the home to a Viking seer practicing black magic? In Siberia, archeologists have excavated a mummy with fantastical tattoos against the many warnings of locals. Have they uncovered buried treasure, or unleashed an ancient curse?

Episodes

Cast

Revenge of the Zombie Killer

1. Revenge of the Zombie Killer

43min

27th Aug 2020

Experts make a chilling new discovery when they unearth a 30,000-year-old zombie virus from an icy grave. If this ancient disease is successfully resuscitated back to life, it could cause a catastrophic global calamity.

Alien Ice Towers

2. Alien Ice Towers

43min

3rd Sep 2020

When strange towers of ice are found growing from in a barren, water-starved desert, experts speculate why these structures have uncanny similarities to extraterrestrial formations recently discovered on Pluto's alien landscape.

Curse of the Ice Princess

3. Curse of the Ice Princess

43min

10th Sep 2020

After a 2,500-year-old mummy with fantastical tattoos is discovered in Siberia, locals report strange, cataclysmic events that point to an ancient curse. Using cutting-edge archaeology, experts reveal who this person was and if they've unleashed something sinister. Also, the remains of a rare infant woolly rhino.

Island of Arctic Cannibals

4. Island of Arctic Cannibals

43min

17th Sep 2020

Three graves are discovered on the frozen beach of an uninhabited Arctic island, and the mummified corpses inside may answer a centuries-old mystery of an expedition that was literally consumed by the cannibalistic insanity of its mutinous crew.

Mystery of Skeleton Lake

5. Mystery of Skeleton Lake

43min

24th Sep 2020

A frozen lake deep in the Himalayas melts once a year to expose hundreds of human bones and a centuries-old mystery of astonishing carnage, leaving experts to speculate if it was a single catastrophic event or something much more sinister.

Arctic Doomsday Device

6. Arctic Doomsday Device

43min

1st Oct 2020

A top-secret military base hidden deep in the ice beyond the Arctic Circle is one of the Cold War's most elaborate cover-ups, and recently declassified documents reveal its deadly purpose, and the threat it might still pose to all humankind.

First air date

27th Aug 2020

Last air date

14th Apr 2025

Status

Returning Series

Type

Documentary

Original language

en

Networks