Unsolved Mysteries Season 7

A seventh season opens with reports on the origins of the bizarre Ice Man creature, once exhibited at the 1968 Chicago Stock Fair; coincidences linking adoptees with their birth families; the probe into a biochemist's mysterious death in 1953.

Segments include a real-life team of ghostbusters who track paranormal evidence in top-secret cases of hauntings; information suggesting that an alleged international drug kingpin may have faked his own death; treasure hunters who claim that a Southern California park may be a burial ground for treasures.

Reports include efforts calling for the beatification of an ordained priest (born in 1904) who, some say, performed miraculous cures prior to his death in 1957. Also: evidence suggesting that Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth was not shot by Union soldiers, but instead lived under aliases until 1903.

Reports on a man's search for his son, who disappeared in 1991 from an adult-care facility; the arrest of a fugitive outside of a Boise truck stop; studies of twins separated at birth; and a family's search for a wife and mother who disappeared some 14 years ago.

""Mysteries of the Afterlife"" are explored in reports on a man who was struck by lightning and recovered with new-found psychic powers; a woman who, according to loved ones, ""came back"" to them after her death; and members of a family who claim that their neighborhood is haunted.

Reports include video footage of alleged UFO sightings that occured over Mexico City in 1991 during a solar eclipse; a fugitive's arrest in Cobb County, Ga.; the 1992 murder of a man who was asleep in his vehicle; and the search for a missing Rhode Island couple.

This expanded edition celebrates the reunion of a GI and the comrade who saved his life in Vietnam. Other segments include anonymous letters threatening residents of central Ohio; the brief 1926 disappearance of mystery novelist Agatha Christie; a 1988 prison escape.

The disappearance of an American sea captain and his crew from a Europe-bound ship found abandoned in the middle of the Atlantic; a viewer tip leading to the reunion of a woman and her birth mother; a woman's career as a police psychic.

Reports include evidence that a U.S. soldier, missing in action in Vietnam, may still be alive and in hiding. Also: a viewer tip that helps a woman search for the family that found her as an infant; a woman's claim that she was visited by her late father.

Segments include the 1991 murder of a teenage girl in Ramsey, Ill.; a private investigator's tip leading to the reunion of two sisters; a so-called ""walking apparition"" reportedly seen in southwest Arkansas.

Holiday segments include a Christmas Eve miracle for a couple and their gravely ill baby. Also: repeat segments on efforts calling for the beatification of a priest who some say performed miraculous cures; the search by a Hungarian refugee family for the U.S. serviceman who aided them after World War II; and a family's reunion with missing siblings.

Included: new evidence uncovered by a forensic pathologist in the death of a college student; the search for a suspect accused of bilking senior citizens; a man's search for his younger brother.

Reports include a planned salvaging expedition in the San Francisco Bay area to find a World War II enemy submarine; a woman's search for the family who found her as an infant; a man's search for justice in the 1991 murder of his daughter and son-in-law; the work of forensic scientists and police psychics.

An Italian priest thought to have supernatural powers; the 1988 death of a Cook County sheriff's captain whose family and co-workers believe he was targeted for murder.

An episode about the paranormal includes a story about a woman's electrical psychokinetic powers; a ""psychic vision"" surrounding the 1980 disappearance and murder of a young nurse in Pacoima (Cal.); and a man who claims proof of life after death.

Reports include the search for suspects in a 1988 Kansas City, Mo., construction-site fire that killed six firefighters; the manhunt for a fugitive who may be hiding out in Florida or the Caribbean; an Army lieutenant's search for his double, whom he first encountered in 1994.

Reports include a woman's search for information about the 15 American flyers she aided in Czechoslovakia during World War II; the search for a missing Ft. Bragg, Cal., woman; the police manhunt surrounding a nurse's 1993 murder; an Arizona woman's reunion with her birth mother.

Segments include a profile of a self-proclaimed ""spirit channeler"" in Sao Paulo, Brazil, who attempts to spread the message of life after death in his paintings. Also: a man's war experience as a youngster in 1944; a hospital escape.

Reports on the origins of the bizarre Ice Man exhibit at the 1968 Chicago Stock Fair; the investigation into a biochemist's mysterious death in 1953. (Repeat)

A new report on a 1994 prison escape and the same-day disappearance of a warden's wife; and repeat segments on three inmates who escaped from Alcatraz 33 years ago and may still be alive.

Reports include a self-proclaimed ""spirit channeler"" in Sao Paulo, Brazil, who spreads the message of life-after-death in his paintings; the 1994 apprehension of a fugitive in Cobb County, Ga.; a boy's experiences during World War II; the 1992 disappearance of a waitress.

""Mysteries of Alien Beings"" reports on four men who say they were abducted by aliens while on a fishing trip in Maine, and includes research by psychiatrist John Mack. Also: a physicist's claim that he worked on a captured extraterrestrial spacecraft at a top-secret U.S. Air Force testing center. (Repeat)

A new report details the FBI's search for suspected arsonists. Also: repeat segments on the search for a Redwood City, Cal., woman whose husband was poisoned; a fraud scam on a retired judge.

A new report examines puzzling circumstances surrounding a couple's death. Also: repeat segments include video footage of reported UFO sightings over Mexico City in 1991.

Mysteries of the afterlife are explored in reports on a man who was struck by lightning and recovered with new-found psychic powers; a woman who, according to loved ones, ""came back"" to them after her death. (Repeat)

A psychic helps track a couple's killer; the high-tech crime unit of the San Jose Police Department probes computer-related thefts. Also: the disappearance of a young mother and her 6-year-old son.

An examination of healing and the mind; and an update on a brother and sister's search for their four other siblings. Also, reports on a missing 5-year-old boy; computer technology that enhances video images.

A psychic mystery involving a St. Louis woman's experience with a Ouija board, through which the works of a 17th-century writer were channeled. Also: a family's search for a Houston couple who rescued them from a car accident in 1983; the manhunt for a Delaware woman's killer.

Reports include theories about a mysterious sonic phenomenon that baffles scientists; the case of a man who reportedly drowned in 1987 during a fishing trip.

A study of adoptees who link up with biological relatives; the 1992 murder of a man who was sleeping in his vehicle; a father's search for his son, who disappeared in 1991 from an adult-care facility. (Repeat)

Reports focus on new evidence uncovered by a forensic pathologist in the death of a student; claims by genealogist Henry Jones of a paranormal connection to his ancestors; a 1994 prison escape. (Repeat)

Reports include the FBI's search for an Ohio couple; a woman's claim that she was visited by her late father; evidence that a U.S. soldier once missing in action, may still be alive and in hiding; and the continuing search for the killer of a South Carolina state trooper. (Repeat)

Reports include the discovery of a human skeleton buried near a San Marino (Cal.) home; a planned salvaging expedition in the San Francisco Bay area to find a World War II enemy submarine. (Repeat)

Included segments focusing on a so-called ""walking apparition,"" reportedly seen in southwest Arkansas; anonymous letters threatening residents of central Ohio. (Repeat)

A psychic mystery involving an experience with a Ouija board, through which the works of an early 20th-century writer were ""channeled."" Also: a soldier's disappearance. (Repeat)

The search for suspects in a 1988 Kansas City, Mo., construction-site fire that killed six firefighters; the manhunt for a fugitive who may be hiding out in Florida on the Caribbean; an Army lieutenant's search for his double, whom he first encountered in 1944. (Repeat)

An episode about the paranormal includes a story about a woman's electrical psychokinetic powers; another woman's ""psychic vision"" surrounding the 1980 disappearance and murder of a young nurse. (Repeat)

Segments include a prisoner's hospital escape; the search for treasure reportedly buried on the grounds of the Alamo; a man's efforts to solve the 1991 murders of his daughter and son-in-law. (Repeat)

A psychic helps track a couple's killer; the high-tech crime unit of the San Jose Police Department probes computer-related thefts. also: the disappearance of a young mother and her 6-year-old son. (Repeat)

A new report examines the case of a Chicago teacher who vanished in 1987. Repeat segments include the work of a ""spirit channeler"" in Sao Paulo, Brazil; the 1994 arrest of a fugitive outside of Boise, Idaho, truck stop; a former runaway's search for three good Samaritans.