Buried Secrets

In November 1873, a party of 21 prospectors left Salt Lake City and headed toward the mountains. Two months later, they arrived at the Ute Indian encampment where they were urged to wait out the winter. After two weeks, 6 men including 23-year-old Alferd Packer who acted as their guide, decided to try to make it to an Indian agency 75 miles away.

Guatemala for nearly 36 years was also a country ripped apart by a brutal civil war between the military government and the rural Mayan population. In 1996, the United Nations brokered the final cease-fire. Mass graves now mar the countryside and efforts sanctioned by the present government have been underway to uncover, identify and properly rebury the dead.

It was a flood of biblical proportions rampaging for two months, cutting a swath across 9 Midwestern states killing 50 people and destroying or damaging 55,000 homes. Hardin, Missouri, with a population of a little over 600, was a small, close-knit farming community. Residents watched over each other and their history by taking exceptional care of the local cemetery where their ancestors rested.

From as early as 1876, there were rumors of ghosts inhabiting the building that now houses the Cincinnati Symphony, so when a night watchman would tell of his sightings nearly 100 years later, many thought he was just adding to the lore.

A team of forensic experts races against time, fighting the elements, to find the dead before they're lost forever. When the dead are disturbed, anthropologists turn to science to restore peace to the living and put to rest the ghosts of the past.