What’s the difference between a minotaur and a cyclops? Science Channel just announced their new TV show, Mythical Beasts, will premiere in October.
The docuseries “will look at the history, archaeology and truths behind legendary creatures” such as vampires, cyclops, sea monsters, and dragons.
Mythical Beasts premieres on Science Channel on October 14th at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
Read more info below:
(New York) – They are the stuff of legend, popularized in movies and television and described in detail in fantasy literature. For thousands of years, humankind has believed in mythical creatures, from dragons and cyclops, to vampires and sea monsters. Where did the stories of these fabled beasts come? Science Channel will reveal the origin stories of popular monster mysteries, in MYTHICAL BEASTS, a new eight-episode series premiering Sunday, October 14 at 10pm ET/PT.
Each episode will look at the history, archaeology and truths behind legendary creatures. Scientists dig up elephant skeletons to investigate how they inspired the myths about the Cyclops. They hunt through old maritime logs to see why people believed the mighty Kraken was to blame for sinking ships, follow clues to the island of Crete where the menacing Grecian Minotaur was said to have lived, and unravel why the Chinese feared that dragons lived among them.
“While we think of the idea of these beasts as pure legend, the mindblowing stories about how they came to be have their roots in reality,” said Marc Etkind, General Manager, Science Channel. “Mythical Beasts reveals truths about the monsters of old and why the myths surrounding their existence endure today.”
Experts including anatomist Joy Reidenberg of New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh sociologist Margee Kerr, Kean University’s Brian Regal, and mythological consultant Richard Schwab, help unpack some of history’s most deep-seeded mysteries.
MYTHICAL BEASTS is produced for Science Channel by Windfall Films. Executive producer for Windfall is Carlo Massarella. Neil Laird serves as executive producer for Science Channel.”
What do you think? Are you interested in mythical creatures? Will you watch Mythical Beasts?
What’s the name of the middle age expert from Devil’s demons show ?
I like the show but in the Cyclops episode they missed something that would explain were the stories came from. They came from the Giants before the flood. In the book of Enoch it says they eat people and taught blacksmithing to the people. That’s probably the first record of giants and it wasn’t even used.
I’m very confused and disturbed by the advertisements about the upcoming episode concerning the Mezoamerican deity ‘the Feathered Serpent’…. First, it is very Eurocentric and offensive to describe this deity as a ‘mythical beast’. I don’t think the Science channel would allow a show discussing the MYTH of a ‘virgin birth’! Also, according to your advertisement, it appears that Quetzalcoatl is being portrayed as “the God of rain”. This is not accurate. He was the God of wind, the sunrise & knowledge. He was closely allied with Tlaloc, the actual God of rain, butQuetzalcoatl most definitely did not “demand human… Read more »
The recent story about the extra large bear on a remote island in Alaska was interesting, but
at the end when they actually filmed the bear walking through the forest, it was totally amazing… I love watching this series on tv, because there isn’t too much else that is interesting these days.
We have been watching this series and found most of the episodes really interesting.
Most recently we watched the one about the bear that was extra large up on a remote island
in Alaska and seeing the bear wandering around was amazing!!!!
When making the vampire episode, and of course have to show a bat at some point, why show a fruit bat in the beginning? Did give some good vamp facts etc later.
Should have shown a vampire bat?