So, mom was watching a program on netflix called Dark Secrets by History Channel. She gets excited and makes me watch some episodes with her. The show claims to be about unsolved and unexplained mysteries. Sounds fun!

At first the episode starts out interesting, your usual suspects for a docu-drama. Here is the case and here is why its unexplained. But everything else that happens after that is a complete insult to human intelligence.

Okay, I get it, there are plenty of docu-dramas out there that make wild and crazy claims. But despite those wild and crazy claims, there is always some truth behind it. That's what makes docu-dramas so much fun, because there is something real and tangible behind the speculation. The Roswell incident of 1947 happened. Whether or not you believe it was UFOs or some government test flight, doesn't matter. Some sort of incident occurred in Roswell in 1947 that is fact! And that's why docu-dramas about Roswell are fun, because there IS a reality behind the myth!

Dark Secrets is not a docu-drama. It's a damn Blair Witch experience. There was no disclaimer before or after that these "unexplained mysteries" are not unexplained mysteries at all, but just completely made up BS!

They're using actors in their "interviews". The same people they interview are parading around in the "re-enactment".

But real docu-dramas are not like that. A credible docu-drama makes ZERO effort to confuse their viewer. When a credible docu-drama shows a re-enactment to help the viewer visualize these events, usually the word "re-enactment" flashes on the bottom of the screen. So this is so the viewer can always distinguish the reality, such as interviews or real time investigators on site, to the hollywood version of reality, the re-enactment of what supposedly happened.

That doesn't happen in Dark Secrets the blair witch experience. They make zero effort to distinguish what they are calling reality from fantasy. Obviously because its all damn fake.

Okay, so Dark Secrets is a complete work of fiction. Why does that piss me off? Because there was no disclaimer, at least not on netflix. They pretend its a real docu-drama. For what? What's their motivation? Why can't they just admit its a work of fiction? For ratings? How would that even be legal?



So now I'm gonna rant. Dark Secrets feels more like an experiment on how to brain wash and confuse the public. If you watch the zombie episode, they keep flashing the word HOSPITAL. Just the word "hospital". They don't show video footage of the hospital it supposedly takes place in, they just continuously flash the word HOSPITAL. Maybe by the 50th time they flash that word you'll actually believe this happened in a hospital!!

When the person they were interviewing (who miraculously shows up in the reenactment) says something off the wall crazy, the interviewer interrupts and explains to the viewer "I find this person to be credible". End discussion.

What is this? Practice for hollywood cnn?

Its ridiculously and laughable. And of course its easy to get off your couch and say "it was all fake" and go about your day and not give a damn. But isn't that damaging that we allow a channel positioning itself as the HISTORY channel to completely make shit up? What else are they gonna make up and pretend its reality?

And more, Dark Secrets was the perfect way to smear the truth. Take something true, put it in a ridiculous show, and who will ever take it serious again? There is an episode on Dark Secrets that might be about smearing the truth, it was the episode about human time travel. Already sounds laughable!

The problem is, the subject of time travel is also a part of the most important, the most documented, smocking gun UFO case in history, the Bentwaters Incident. If you don't know about the Bentwaters incident, let me briefly explain why its so important and why it feels like Dark Secrets is already smearing it.



The Bentwaters incident took place in the Uk on an American base. Because of its location it involved two countries and American and British soldiers. The UFO was recorded on radar and tracked into the forest. Soldiers follow it into the forest. They record the event on video. Radar and video. The soldiers that interact with the craft would later suffer from radiation poisoning. After that first contact the UFO takes off.

The British and American soldiers return to the site in the following days and witness the UFO again.

But here is what really made the Bentwaters incident so famous. In 2001 the British Government released its UFO files concerning the Bentwaters incident. America has not.

Either the British government is out right lying that American soldiers were also involved. Or America is out right lying in its lack of involvement. They can't both be right!! Someone is lying! Who do you think? And because the American government refuses to agree with their British cousins, the american soldiers suffering from radiation poisoning are not receiving treatment, because according to America, it didn't happen.

Anyways, whats this gotta do with Dark Secrets? The soldiers who interacted with the UFO were given information by its pilots, the pilots claimed to be human time travelers. OF COURSE IT SOUNDS RIDICULOUS. But that is what our American soldiers testify they were told by the pilots of this UFO that they interacted with. They are literally dying because of that interaction. This event is corroborated by the British government.

So it does upset me that Dark Secrets makes mockery of a real documented event.