- 1 Outcasts
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Social pariahs are observed in a variety of cultures, including a village in Ghana where all the residents are witches banished from their home villages; lepers in Bangalore; gypsies in Romania; and a man who has undergone extreme plastic surgery.
Air Date: 2004-06-14
- 2 Extreme Living
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Included: a priest in India and his wife who live with thousands of rats in a temple. Also: Christmas is celebrated in a Florida nudist resort; Filipinos sleep in graveyards and share their homes with corpses.
Air Date: 2004-06-30
- 3 Spirit Worlds
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A look at the spirit world, and how it's represented in different cultures. Included: The Hindu festival of Thaipusam in Malaysia, where participants pierce themselves with steel skewers and hooks. Also: an exorcism in India; Santeria rituals in Cuba.
Air Date: 2004-07-07
- 4 Extreme Cuisine
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Unusual cuisine includes live octopus; bat with sago grubs; boiled and pickled duck fetus in the egg; tarantula tempura with crackling cockroach.
Air Date: 2004-07-14
- 5 Extreme Childhood
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An 8-year-old trains as a boxer in Thailand; a 4-year-old becomes a virgin goddess in Nepal; a 13-year-old plants dynamite in Bolivian mines.
Air Date: 2004-07-21
- 6 Body Cutters
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Body modifications include metal chest implants, tongue splitting, scarification and suspension on fishing hooks.
Air Date: 2004-07-28
- 7 Body Art
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Tattooing around the world. Included: a tattoo festival in Thailand; a young girl undergoes a painful full facial tattoo in Papua New Guinea; criminal record tattoos in Russia.
Air Date: 2004-08-04
- 8 Gross Grub
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A look at unusual eats around the world, including rotten fish heads; grilled guinea pig; and cheese with maggots.
Air Date: 2004-09-13
- 9 Rites of Manhood
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Tests of manhood, including a scarification ritual, are examined.
Air Date: 2004-09-20
- 10 Possessed
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"Possessed" profiles trance dancers in Indonesia; a witch-hunting exorcist in Nepal; and Pentecostal Christians in the Appalachian region of the U.S.
Air Date: 2004-10-04
- 11 Altered States
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The use of mind-altering drugs is examined.
Air Date: 2004-10-04
- 11 Altered States
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The use of mind-altering drugs is examined.
Air Date: 2004-10-04
- 12 Gender Benders
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People who push gender boundaries are profiled, including transvestites and eunuchs.
Air Date: 2004-10-18
- 12 Gender Benders
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People who push gender boundaries are profiled, including transvestites and eunuchs.
Air Date: 2004-10-18
- 13 Blood Rites
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Initiation rites and religious ceremonies involving blood include Muslims who flail themselves and a ritual of male adulthood in New Guinea. Also: vampirism in America.
Air Date: 2004-11-08
- 14 Crime Scene
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Included: a medical examiner autopsies human corpses. Also: a professional crime-scene cleaner in the Baltimore/Washington area; the Body Farm in Knoxville, where trainees observe human decomposition.
Air Date: 2005-01-27
- 15 Gross Work
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Jobs involving death, disease and pestilence.
Air Date: 2005-01-27
- 16 Extreme Cuisine
- 17 Extreme Childhood
- 18 Body Cutters
- 19 Body Art
- 20 Gender Benders
- 21 Gross Grub
- 22 Rites of Manhood
- 23 Possessed
- 24 Altered States
- 25 Crime Scene
- 26 Initiation Rituals