Sky History 2 Wednesday

A look at some outlandish inventions, including a full-body gas mask for babies, Smell-o-Vision, a robot powered by slugs and inflatable airplanes

Stories concerning so-called superhumans, such as a blind man who uses echolocation to navigate his surroundings and a Samurai with reflexes faster than a speeding bullet

Aerial views offer a fresh perspective on massive concrete arrows scattered across America. Plus, a mysterious hole in the middle of a lake in Southern California

Stories of espionage at sea, including deadly U-boat cat-and-mouse games, the sinking of the Lusitania, a gun-smuggling private yacht and liners-turned-troopships

How revolutionary ship design helped Sir John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake lead England to defeat the Spanish Armada and become a world power

Experts make surprising discoveries as they explore the ancient past for evidence of alien overseers

Examining the notion that the forces of inspiration the ancients attributed to the gods actually emanated from an otherworldly source

Experts question whether the facts of Earth's alien past could be buried in areas that - thanks to warfare or instability - are presently off-limits to exploration

Alice Roberts explores the history of Oxford during the Civil War, when the city became a power base for the royalist forces and a rival capital for nine years of conflict

Alice Roberts explores the Plantagenet era through the history of Canterbury, joining a modern-day pilgrimage and uncovering the lasting impact of the Black Death

A look at some outlandish inventions, including a full-body gas mask for babies, Smell-o-Vision, a robot powered by slugs and inflatable airplanes

Stories concerning so-called superhumans, such as a blind man who uses echolocation to navigate his surroundings and a Samurai with reflexes faster than a speeding bullet

Aerial views offer a fresh perspective on massive concrete arrows scattered across America. Plus, a mysterious hole in the middle of a lake in Southern California

Stories of espionage at sea, including deadly U-boat cat-and-mouse games, the sinking of the Lusitania, a gun-smuggling private yacht and liners-turned-troopships

How revolutionary ship design helped Sir John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake lead England to defeat the Spanish Armada and become a world power

How, after five years' reign, Ramses II - also known as Ramses the Great - had already earned the distinction of being the most feared and respected among the martial pharaohs

Professional salvage diver Tony Sampson and his team dive in search of SS Clare Lilley, which rests off Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia

Experts make surprising discoveries as they explore the ancient past for evidence of alien overseers

Examining the notion that the forces of inspiration the ancients attributed to the gods actually emanated from an otherworldly source

Experts question whether the facts of Earth's alien past could be buried in areas that - thanks to warfare or instability - are presently off-limits to exploration

Alice Roberts explores the history of Oxford during the Civil War, when the city became a power base for the royalist forces and a rival capital for nine years of conflict

Alice Roberts explores the Plantagenet era through the history of Canterbury, joining a modern-day pilgrimage and uncovering the lasting impact of the Black Death

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, which has be one regarded as one of the most important aircraft of the Cold War era

Part two of two. As the auto shops of Rust Valley battle it out at the high-impact Hit to Pass drag race, an accusation of cheating causes chaos to erupt

The host investigates strange events, including a 25ft molasses tidal wave in Boston, a dancing plague, the 1814 London beer flood and spontaneous human combustion