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Explorer, adventurer and self-proclaimed expert Leigh Hart is on
a quest to seek the truth behind the world's greatest mysteries.
Armed only with his internet-based knowledge, his Kiwi back-up
team, and a credit card, he attempts to solve once and for all, the
world's top six greatest mysteries, in as many weeks.
He embarks on a journey that will take him to the most challenging,
dangerous and remote environments on the planet, and he will dig
deeper for answers than anybody has dared dig before. Mysterious
creatures, are they real?
He tackles Bigfoot head-on in the United States, and while he is
there attends the annual Bigfoot conference and gets off on the
wrong foot with the 'Bigfooters' or Bigfoot enthusiasts.
Later he plunges to new depths in Scotland in search of the Loch
Ness Monster. Though most of the research is done in taverns, the
team eventually get out onto the Loch where they can unleash their
state of the art technology.
Using this state of the art technology throughout the series, Hart
demands answers and confronts the so called experts, challenging
not only their beliefs but his own, as he puts it: "I am the devils
advocates' devil's advocate, I must challenge what I myself
believe, prove it, and then disprove it again, or vice versa
whatever the case may be."
Risking his own life and the lives of this crew he ventures into
the unknown, often into lost worlds.
In Peru they follow in the forgotten footsteps of a mysterious Nazi
archaelogist in search of Inca gold. They encounter deadly
creatures at every turn and interact with 'lost tribes' unseen on
television for many hundreds of years. "This programme is extreme
and makes Intrepid Journeys look like Tamati's weather reports in
the TVNZ car-park", says the producer Leigh Hart
In the deserts of Egypt the Mysterious Planet team are involved
with unearthing an ancient mummy, and in the process rewrite much
of the accepted Egyptian history as we know it. In the deserts of
New Mexico they will use all their expertise and the remaining
high-tech equipment to solve the mystery of the Roswell UFO crash,
and still have time to touch on alien abduction.
Finally they attempt to solve one of the greatest and most daunting
mysteries of all, the Bermuda Triangle.
Never has one man attempted so much, in so little time and with so
few credentials, but as Leigh says: "Everybody else has failed, I
am sick of seeing all these open ended documentaries that never
seem to achieve anything. It's time to give the Kiwis a go."
"This programme is appointment viewing and is likely to go down in
history as perhaps the greatest and most ambitious television
project/experience ever to come out of New Zealand, and you can
quote me on that."
