User Reviews

Into the Unknown is an interesting take on the supernatural investigation genre that foregrounds the survivalist skills of host, Cliff Simon, over the ghosts and creatures that are the subject of each episode. As such, the journey to the remote locales is of great interest, as are the technological aspects of the search for ghost marchers, mysterious lights in the sky, the Jersey Devil, or the Sandman of the Mojave desert. That said spectral entities are never conclusively captured on film or witnessed might frustrate some viewers, but I like the objective approach, as the show never attempts to claim that some sound in the night is categorical proof of the phenomenon.

First of all, I like the variety of material. The guy Cliff does a good job. But there are some things that were strange, especially the shows on Hawaii and Mt Shasta.

On the Big Island, I'm not aware of any caves at Ka Lae, the South Point of the Big Island, that you can walk into. Maybe there are. Kula Kai Caverns are closer to the main road, so maybe he filmed that segment there.

I'm not sure where he went for the waterfall and pond portion of the Pololu Valley, but his last segment where he was camping was on the main trail down. Best spot to get pics of the black sand beach. Just head to the north part of the Big Island on the Kona side. It's about 7-8 miles past Hawi. Dead end's there. Get there early. Limited parking!

Cliff also says he is at a grave or burial site in Holualoa. But I swear he's at Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park 20 miles south of there. Same wall. Same backstory.

Finally, they went into Pluto's cave (which is a real location close to Mt. Shasta) and he said there were areas that kept going. My daughter and I just went there last year. It dead ends at an opening that you can't climb out of, so you have to walk through the cave system again to get back out. Creepy place, but it's no more than a mile. The coolest part of the cave's are the writings on the wall by people that were apparently living in the cave around the 1900s (they wrote the date but I can't remember the exact year) and a word in a Native American language that meant flesh eater.

Anyway, I like the show, but when you have been to these places, and know that the storyline is skewed, it is hard to keeping watching it. I just like to see the places he is going.

This show is kind of rubbish. It's clearly an exaggerated actor's version of a docu-style show trying to make paranormal claims sound like a survival hunt. I often find myself laughing. Its so stereotypical and outlandish. In-shape older ex-military guy roughing the wild trying to find Bigfoot. Oh...and lets make him British to make it seem more exciting cause we already have Don Wildman doing the same show under a different title. And everything is like rushed like at any minute the creature is gonna attack. Just eliminates any kind of credibility to the investigations. There might be sightings of a bigfoot creature in the Mojave Desert. Thats fine. But investigate that instead of leaving oranges in a trap. Just absurd.