Basic Info

First Air: August 31, 2011

Rating: ⭐ 7.4/10 (16 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 19

Last Episode

Name: Magical Jet Propulsion, Missing Link Mystery, Typhoid Mary

Season: 2, Episode: 13

Air Date: 2012-12-26

Runtime: 43 min

One man combined the occult and rockets to produce the technology that underpinned Mutually Assured Destruction. A skull found in 1912 seems to solve Darwin's puzzle of where we came from. Mary Mallon infects hundreds with typhoid despite being healthy.

Videos

DISCOVERY SCIENCE Dark Matters Twisted But True TRAILERS (YouTube)

Dark Matters with John Noble (YouTube)

Dark Matters: Twisted But True

2011 2 seasons 19 episodes ⭐ 7.4/10 16 votes

Overview

Hosted by actor John Noble of Fringe and Lord of the Rings, the show takes the viewer inside the laboratory to profile strange science and expose some of history's most bizarre experiments. This show uses narration and reenactments to portray the stories in this show. A new season of episodes, under the title Dark Matters: Extra Twisted, premiered on January 23, 2013. The episodes revisit previous stories with "deeper insight and new information."