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22 Episodes 2000 - 2000
Episode 1
Wed, Jan 12, 2000
Cannabalism in Varanasi, India: The neighboring Aghori tribe attempts to eat the remains of the deceased; A Chicago Minister has one million volts go through his body in his sermon; Maggot therapy for diseased tissue; Woman with sacral agenesis; Etch-a-Sketch artist; The Human Owl; Human mobile made from suspension artists.
Episode 2
Wed, Jan 19, 2000
A man born without lower legs runs with the aide of Flexfoot; The Lizard Man; Students at Iowa State University Etymology Club prepare various insect recipes; 1950s: From France, Indian Yogis; A pool trick shot artist teaches his dog to shoot pool; A man who has lost an eye to cancer does stunts with his empty eye socket; A woman wants to undergo foot binding; 1948: Mirin Dajo allows himself to be stabbed; A man attempts cut-away bungee jumping; A meteorite from Mars.
Episode 3
Wed, Jan 26, 2000
A man volunteers to be a test subject for high tech weapons; Divers go to Shark Alley, South Africa, for their honeymoon; Tourists are invited to tickle sharks; A man has a microchip implanted in his skin; A man makes musical instruments out of junk; A barber makes clothes out of cut hair; The man who was the inspiration for the movie 'Rain Man'; A suit that shoots fireworks; Tibetan prayer bowl made from a human skull.
Episode 4
Wed, Feb 2, 2000
Geoff Smith, whose mother stayed buried alive for 101 days, attempts to stay buried for 147 days; A man writes the Lord's Prayer on a grain of rice twice; The World's Fastest Gun; 1934: Tiny Kline hangs by her teeth over TImes Square; A dog is reputed to be able to sniff cancer; The rifle fish spits water to knock bugs into the water; Komodo dragon researcher studies their immune systems; 3D performance artist; 1940: Lavardo, the Voodoo Torture King; A martial artist knocks people out with the "death touch;" Chastity belt.
Episode 5
Wed, Feb 9, 2000
A man falls in his parents' flower garden and impales his neck on a spike supporting a plant; The Lightning Stalker; A man searches for the Ark of the Covenant; A woman undergoes numerous surgeries to resemble Nefertiti; 1936: Mr. Skeets gets married at age 90 to a 20-year-old; A tattoo artist makes postage-stamp sized tattoos of classic paintings; A collection of musical instruments made from matchsticks; A woman teaches parrots to identify objects by name; A man attempts to pull two fire trucks; 19th mask from Cameroon made from human skin.
Episode 6
Wed, Feb 16, 2000
Snake venom milker; 1939: Sword swallower Edna Price swallows a neon tube; Toast art; Seven-year-old artist; The Torture King lies on a bed of nails with a car on top of him; The world's smartest dog; 18th century poacher trap.
Episode 7
Wed, Feb 23, 2000
Body modification artist; Underground city in Australia; Bee venom therapy; A sheep thinks it's a dog; A man rides the world's smallest bicycle; In Nepal, Kumaris are revered until puberty; A man has a cannonball dropped on him and his hit by a wrecking ball; Cafe Noir serves customers in total darkness; A cook at a diner picks up a table with his teeth; Palau islanders eat bats at a restaurant; A restaurant in China that serves rats.
Episode 8
Wed, Mar 1, 2000
A martial arts instructor teaches his students to absorb powerful blows; Practioners of Thaipusam endure piercings as a show of faith; A three-year-old can identify cars by make and model; Psychiatric museum; 1957: An Indian man lies on crushed glass under a steam roller; A man makes a bear-proof suit; Blind bowler; A man who has eaten an airplane; Tibetan flute made from a femur.
Episode 9
Wed, Mar 8, 2000
The Rollerman of Paris; Sewage diver; Leech therapy; An anthropologist has four-inch toenails; Honoré Fragonard's art; The Big Texan restaurant food challenge: Eat a 4½ pound steak in one hour; 1931: Bertie Tillman walks a tightrope 300 feet above the street; A man attempts to stack 10 bowling balls; A man with a three-story train set; A woman free dives over 100 feet; Fiji Mermaid.
Episode 10
Wed, Mar 15, 2000
A man sleeps with his snakes to tame them; A bull rider is hung up on a bull for 90 seconds; A woman suffering from hyper-trophic cardiomyopathy undergoes induced heart attacks as therapy; Toilet seat art; Toddlers use sign language to communicate; Memory expert; Firebreathers and sword swallowers; Corsets;
Episode 11
Wed, Mar 22, 2000
A man has root canal surgery with only hypnosis as anesthesia; A man who can turn his feet around backwards; Seeing-eye horse; 2000-lb. rubber-band ball; Microscopic sculptures; A blind golfer; A woman pulls six tons; Piranha expert; A Chilean actress lives in a glass house for two weeks; A man rummages through trash to save money; Cave jumping in Mexico; Alferd Packer's head.
Episode 12
Wed, Mar 29, 2000
A man swims 150 feet under freezing water; Body farm; Spanish Inquisition spiked torture chair; Rat temple in India; Blind Jack Russell terrier has its own seeing eye dog; An artist carves tiny sheep and leaves them around the world; A performance artist swallows a chair leg; A woman with an incredible memory; A woman videotapes herself being hit by lightning; A Londoner does not use right turns when driving; A man with stretchy skin; Ivory Coast fertility statues.
Episode 13
Wed, Apr 5, 200024 mins
A child in a Ugandan village is reputed to have been raised by monkeys; Ice Hotel; A man has open heart surgery by a doctor operating a robotic system; A 1200-foot gum wrapper chain; A skier falls over 800 feet down a mountain; Two women run a crime clean-up service; Sand Hogs worked 800 feet below the street level; A disabled veteran has a dog that helps him around; Volcano explorers; 1920s: A motorcycle is reputed to get 1000 miles on one tank of gas; A Qi-Jong master displays its healing powers; Trepanation device.
Episode 14
Wed, Aug 2, 2000
Seven-year-old body builder; a man balances atop two chairs near the edge of a cliff; A counting dog;Phillipino villagers undergo crucifixion as as show of faith; A man marries a Barbie Doll, which he thinks is inhabited by his former fiancée; Frank 'Cannonball' Richards; the edge of a cliff; metal objects stick to a man's body; Bryan Ferguson, master arch; velociraptor skeleton.
Episode 15
Wed, Aug 9, 2000
Enigma and Katzen; Blind man drives bicycle using echolocation; free diver dives into a sunken ship; water skier Banana George; remote village in Colombia travels across valley on zip line; participants in a Phuket,Thailand Taoist ritual endure piercings; poison dart frogs; Skydiving tennis; Contortionist couple attempt to squeeze into a 30" x 20" x 31" box; convicted murderer Joseph Paul Jernigan's body is donated to science; couple raise horse in a log cabin; in 1949, Charley Lupica stays on a pole for 117 days, waiting for the Cleveland Indians to get into first place; Buell Frazier's car, who have Lee Harvey Oswald a ride to the School Book Depository
Episode 16
Wed, Aug 16, 2000
An escape artist attempts an escape from a cage dropped from an airplane; The Museum of Mummies in Guanajuato, Mexico; Fire chaser; A Chinese grocer store with coaster carts; A kidney patient finds a donor on the Internet, whom she later marries; A dog rescues abandoned cats; 1958: A hula-hooping dog; A family of stilt-walkers; A woman paints with her breasts; Matt 'The Tube' Crowley; Mongolian torture box.
Episode 17
Wed, Aug 23, 2000
A powerboat racer is trapped under water for four minutes; Clothing made from grass; Home on top of a bulldozer; Motorcycle accident; Villagers dine with deceased relatives; Trash can fashion; Pot-bellied pig saves owner suffering heart attack; Teen-aged Top Gun; Kayaking over a waterfall; 1962: The "Amphi," an amphibious car from Germany; An escape artist suspended beneath a crane attempts to escape from two straitjackets with a boa constrictor around his neck;
Episode 18
Wed, Sep 6, 2000
Vanuatu vine jumpers; 1932: Bea Kyle dives into a pool of flaming water; The von Hoffman Brothers have a fireworks duel; Anaconda researchers; World's fastest talker; Extreme unicyclist; Men with very long hair in China; Men who use homing pigeons to carry film to be processed; A Chinese man can throw needles through a class; 1938: The White family of West Virginia have 17 children; A man from the UK who has lost his sight in a car accident drives a race car; A couple attempt to drive up and down 70º hill; A camel bladder used to transport perfume.
Episode 19
Wed, Aug 30, 2000
A young girl is impaled in the neck by a houndfish; A sharpshooter draws artwork by shooting bullet holes; Boys in a Toyakawa, Japan, set off fireworks as a rite of passage; World's loudest snorer; Sauna competition; A man walks across a wire in the Three Gorges area of China; A beetle collector eats his prized collection when he becomes lost in the Amazon jungle; A woman paints models' bodies so that they blend into artwork; An execution sword from Zaire.
Episode 20
Wed, Sep 13, 2000
Traditional Samoan tattoos; Hissing cockroaches; 55-seat bicycle; An artificial indoor beach in Japan; A man attempts to limbo dance under a six-inch bar; The 'Invisibles,' panhandlers in India, put curses on people who do not donate; An entomologist analyzes bug splats on windshields; Chip art collector; A Dutchman becomes king of a village in Ghana; 1932: an 82-year-old sharpshooter; A snake charmer puts snakes in his nose and lets them come out his mouth; Phrenology machine.
Episode 21
Wed, Sep 20, 2000
Two-legged dog; Civilian builds and launches a rocket 12 miles high; Pill-sized camera; Stainless steel hair; Double great white attack; Once a year, women villagers get to beat their husbands; Art with plastic explosives; North Korean basketball player; World's tallest man; Suitcase car; Robot chauffeur; Self-propelled lawnmower; Hight-tech batting helmet; Bear died by eating garbage
Episode 22
Wed, Sep 27, 2000
A six-year-old golfer shoots holes-in-one; Teenage boys in an Amazon River tribe get bitten by fire ants as a rite of passage; Emperor and desert hairy scorpions; A man who can unscramble long words in his head; Robotic bartender in London; 1936: A letter from 11-year-old Charles Schultz about his dog; A car powered by french fry grease; A man builds a house of cards that supports 1200 pounds; 1951: Australian schoolchildren learn to use a bull whip; Verdun residents continue to find unexploded ordnance; A Vienna, Austria, clothing retailer holds a streaking contest; A suspension artist is carried by helicopter over the Hollywood sign; Peter Kurten's head.