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Intrigued by the simple title of "Strange Evidence" I bit. I guess the short synopsis of unexplained phenomenon captured on video didn't hurt. We have to admit that on occasion we've witnessed video which often by chance captured something quite extraordinary, the jet crashing into the North WTC tower certainly comes to mind. With so many public and private cameras in various places this premise is definitely interesting.

This is not a in-depth type review as it is only based on my first watch of one episode of this series. The episode was entitled "When Bigfoot Attacks". Who doesn't want to have some newer video than the famous Gimlin film? Well...the show starts off with a bang. A mobile phone video from what we are told is a professional logger seems to have the requisite hairy beast and this time he's not walking and glancing. Oh no, the creature is hurling a tree. Not so fast. The video is terrible quality and the clean-up, though much better, doesn't really give us a glimpse of what exactly the creature looks like. The producers attempts at some science really doesn't impress. While interesting this could be a manufactured hoax so unless this is substantiated by more hard evidence such as footprints and eye-witness accounts this feels carnivalesque at best and a blatant hoax at worst. Not the start I'd hoped for though it does have some entertainment value I suppose.

Let's go on. Next is the strange occurrence of an Edmond OK strip center. It's night and in the large well lit parking lot of this shopping center all of the overhead lights are strobing, or flashing, on and off with alarming frequency. Of note is the event seems isolated as lighting further away from the parking lot remains on as usual. In another attempt at some explanation we get the producer's best guess, it could be copper thieves plying their criminal activity. Seems a bit lame and, again, we get no more evidence. I would suspect the owners of the strip center would like to know and would hire electricians to investigate. Heck, even the local electrical utility should be interested. Nothing more is revealed. Now I'm getting less entertained and more manipulated.

Not finished yet with unusual video in India a farmer finds a live rat with a plant growing out of his head. Ok, seeds have germinated before in even humans and if you watch a lot of nature documentary shows you may have been introduced to parasitic entities that sometimes invade animals and humans. Instead of telling us the exact plant ( the farmer is growing soybeans) we get no closure as to if this is a soy sapling or what conditions may have been at play in the invasion of the rat. Interesting but, again, lacking in closure.

The next startling video comes from rural Southern China. It may be rural but mobile phones with cameras are in use and a video is captured of some projectile falling and exploding in a fireball. This time we actually get reasonable closure in the form of a Chinese rocket boaster. How can a regime put their own at risk to test rockets? Well, it's China and all bets are off the table. This is good evidence of a brashness of a powerful and dangerous government. This is a telling video of some importance. OK, I've been rewarded a little here so let's finish this episode.

And it's a quick finish. Italy in a very small area in the town of Palermo, and I'm talking maybe an area less than the diameter of, say 100-feet, there is an intense isolated rain shower. No rain clouds exist and no surrounding areas receive rainfall. In fact the area is having a bit of a drought. We don't get a concrete explanation but there is some interesting history revealed of a British phenomenon to seed rain clouds resulting in a tragedy. I guess this is as good a finish as we can expect. This show is all over the place and spotty in science. It's for pure entertainment masquerading as unexplainable phenomenon somehow fortunately caught on video. I'd like it to get it's more "serious pants" on with real science and better research. As such light and expendable entertainment at best.

This documentation series shows "unexplainable" footage with experts trying to explain it. Could be interesting, but... it's not.

The first "case" is a man bursting into flames out of nowhere. His pants' front pocket to be exactly. The footage gets shown at least 20 times (I think that's even a huge understatement) with the usual "watch what happens next" blabla. My first thought was that the man must've had some electronic device in his pants and the battery just had an electrical short. After eternities of experts talking about how baffled they are and being clueless what could have caused this, trying out different scenarios with experiments, they FINALLY come to the conclusion that it most likely was a battery that exploded in his pants. All this time the same securitycam footage gets shown again and again and again and again aaaand... again. THEN they finally bother to reveal that he had some kind of vapor/e-cig in his pocket... Well, thank you.

So instead of making a 10 seconds clip like "A vapor had a short and exploded in someones pocket" they decided to waste everybody's time and fill 10 whole minutes with exactly nothing. Not. Worth. Your. Time. SCIENCE Channel?? LOL!

This is literally click bait television with excruciatingly stupid "science experiments" used to "solve" completely commonplace events that the show pretends are mysterious.

I've watched 5 episodes and immediately knew or guessed EVERY SINGLE "mystery" as soon as I saw them but then had to spend a painstaking amount of time watching "experts" come up with every ridiculous conclusion under the sun before revealing the very ordinary cause.

The exploding battery, the "levitating cars", the "ufo" trail cam, and so many others were just mind-numbingly stupid to watch.

Science Channel, you are actually making people DUMBER with this click bait garbage of a show. Be very, very, very ashamed of yourselves for this crap.

The best part of the show is the strange things they talk about. They are strange when you see it at face value. The problem with the show is that they either never reveal what is really happening after their investigation or they withhold a key piece of evidence that explains what happened until the end which makes it really aggravating to watch. In between, there is a lot of hyperbole, hypothesizing, and conspiracy theorizing all based on limited evidence until the big reveal if there actually is one. When you try to explain something, you try to gather all the facts and then put it together, not leave key pieces out. The fire tornado in Kentucky is a great example of this. While the fire tornado on a lake was interesting in itself, not revealing that the lake was a down plane holding lake for a bourbon distillery that was hit by a lightning bolt and started on fire until the end after taking up 10+ minutes on the topic doesn't really make the whole thing strange at all. It makes it rather inevitable.

They take 3-4 video clips, pretend that the "mysteries" haven't already been solved by the people that recorded it, the police, or local governments. Then add in their own "experts" with stupid commentary. One of them is a redneck professor with a stupid looking mullet.

Most of the theories are always aliens, ghosts, or secret military experiments. Anyone with average intelligence would be able to see right through them and figure them out in seconds

A prime example was a video shot in Thailand of a metal silo roof that got blown off the top of a building by wind, hit a power line and landed in the road. What did their experts say? One said space debris, one blamed explosive concrete.

Such a waste. Some of the videos are actually interesting, or at least warrant an explanation. Too bad we have to circle the airport of sensationalism, over-hyped, over-dramatization. Every single segment seems to carry on and on with "Is it aliens? Witchcraft? Monsters? Paranormal? Ghosts?" "Are we in danger? Is it sinister? Evil? Threatening?" "Is it a portent of the apocalypse? An invasion from beyond? Science gone mad?". Good lord just get to the point, you are not fooling anyone into believing that you are seriously going to announce at the end of the segment that it really was proof positive of aliens/or the paranormal. I feel sorry for the "experts" that have to pull out the most ridiculous theories or say the most baffling things "Have we just nuked space?!". From the speck of floating dust caught on camera that could "Maybe be the beginnings of an alien invasion, or alien virus....that have apparently set around for decades waiting to make its move" to the "Whoops did we forget to mention there was a whiskey plant nearby?". As someone else pointed out...all this drama really is unnecessary, you could show the video, then have a discussion purely on the science aspect of it...showing how science can be used to explain strange things...instead of conjecturing about the paranormal every 3 seconds. Could have easily just shown the re-creation experiments in the lab and had a Mythbusters style concept..not something you see on The Simpsons..."The mythological two-headed hound!!! ....Born with only one head!"