Sky History 2 TV Guide — Thursday, 15 October 2026

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Browse the full Sky History 2 TV guide for Thursday, 15 October 2026. 30 programmes listed , including 7 tonight. UK listings updated daily — scroll down to tonight's highlights or use the day tabs above to browse the weekly schedule.

  1. 00:00 30m

    Alien Files: Unsealed

    S3 · E9 · Signs of Abduction
    Examining the hidden signs of alien abduction
    Examining the hidden signs of alien abduction, from loss of time and bizarre hazy memories to terrifying accounts of alien surgery
  2. 00:30 30m

    Alien Files: Unsealed

    S3 · E10 · Antigravity
    Experts discuss the possibility of advanced alien technology
    Experts discuss the possibility of advanced alien technology that could allow UFOs to fly at blinding speed or hover effortlessly a few feet above the ground
  3. 01:00 1h

    UFOs Declassified

    S1 · E6 · UFOs v Airliners
    Investigating the sighting of a UFO by a pilot in 1957
    The documentary concludes with a look at the sighting of a UFO by pilot Milton Torres in 1957, when he was sent to shoot down an unidentified aircraft over the UK. However, the object disappeared from his radar, and he was sworn to secrecy about the incident. Plus, other examples of fighter pilots encountering UFOs
  4. 02:00 1h

    UFO Encounters UK

    S1 · E1 · High Strangeness
    Part one of two. Sixty years on, Tony's close encounter has become an obsession
    Part one of two. Sixty years on, Tony's close encounter has become an obsession. Pilot David presents photographic evidence of the UFO he almost crashed into while flying near Area 51
  5. 03:00 30m

    Close Encounters

    S2 · E7 · Alien Assault
    Police in Texas investigate an unusual flying object
    Texas police receive several calls about an unusual flying object, and a property inspector is knocked unconscious when he comes in contact with a strange metallic object
  6. 03:30 30m

    Close Encounters

    S1 · E7 · Triangles in the Forest
    Strange lights occur near a US Air Force base on England's east coast
    In 1980, security officers near the East Gate of RAF Woodbridg encountered a luminous craft and dancing red lights in Suffolk. Plus, the report of a metallic UFO hovering over water then crashing in Nova Scotia in 1967
  7. 04:00 1h

    Weird Britain

    S1 · E12 · London
    Andy McGrath visits Britain's oldest shop
    In London, Andy McGrath visits Britain's oldest shop and the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter, drinks coffee with a corpse at a Macabre Museum, uncovers a sacrificial altar in an ancient chalk mine, and discovers a 19th-century time machine hidden in an urban cemetery
  8. 05:00 1h

    Secrets of Great British Castles

    S2 · E6 · Arundel Castle
    Dan Jones explores Arundel Castle, in West Sussex
    Arundel Castle, in West Sussex, has been the seat of the Dukes of Norfolk and their ancestors for over 850 years, with its fortunes rising and falling with those of the Howard family. A particularly low point occured when Thomas Howard, the fourth Duke of Norfolk, was executed by Elizabeth I for allegedly plotting to marry her rival Mary Queen of Scots. Dan Jones meets a weapons expert, who shows him how Richard FitzAlan, the third Earl of Arundel, would have fought in the 100 Years War. He also meets a social historian, who gives an insight into how Arundel would have prepared for Queen Victoria's visit in 1846

  1. 06:00 1h

    Mysteries from Above

    S2 · E3 · Expect the Unexpected
    A long-forgotten network of Native American earthworks
    Cameras capture the world from fresh perspectives. This episode features a long-forgotten network of Native American earthworks, a baffling battlefield mystery in Belgium, a mysterious blood red lake on a remote Greek island, and an eerie pink glow emulating from the middle of the Pacific Ocean
  2. 07:00 1h

    Mystery Places

    S1 · E13
    Visits to worldwide regions that boast something worthy of note
  3. 08:00 1h

    Weird or What? With William Shatner

    S2 · E5 · Parallel Worlds
    A woman who claims to have encountered shadow people
    A woman who claims to have encountered shadow people and a man who claims to have used teleportation, travelling from New Jersey to New Mexico in the blink of an eye
  4. 09:00 30m

    World's Most Unexplained

    S1 · E5 · Moving Statues
    The trend of people seeing moving religious statues in Ireland in the 1980s
    A bizarre trend happened in Ireland in the 1980s when thousands of people started seeing religious statues move. Some residents of a village reported seeing a statue of the Virgin Mary move. Others believed the phenomenon was just an optical illusion or a prank
  5. 09:30 30m

    World's Most Unexplained

    S1 · E9 · Past Lives
    Theories about living the lives of others after death
    People reveal details from their past lives as celebrities, while experts investigate evidence that suggests death may not be the end of one's existence
  6. 10:00 30m

    Alien Files: Unsealed

    S3 · E11 · The UFO Metal
    Investigating the alleged wreckages of otherworldly crafts
    Nations all over the world are rumoured to have found metal debris from UFO crashes. This edition investigates these alleged wreckages
  7. 10:30 30m

    Alien Files: Unsealed

    S3 · E12 · Triangle Terror
    The flying saucer
    Reported accounts of genuine alien encounters, with specific regard to the so-called flying saucer, which has become synonymous with UFO terror
  8. 11:00 1h

    UFOs Declassified

    S1 · E5 · Shoot 'Em Down
    Instances in which military pilots have spotted unusual aircraft in the sky
    An insight into instances in which fighter pilots have been sent to investigate what were thought to be enemy aircraft, only to encounter something entirely unexpected

  1. 12:00 1h

    UFO Encounters UK

    S1 · E2 · Lights in the Sky
    Part two of two. Adam, Gwen and Julie recall personal encounters with UFOs
    Part two of two. Adam, Gwen and Julie recall personal encounters with UFOs, before experts' theories are put in doubt when it is revealed that each individual has time missing from their plotted recollections
  2. 13:00 30m

    Close Encounters

    S2 · E8 · Alien Vampires
    Three men in Brazil find their close encounter has lasting repercussions
    Three men in Brazil escape what they believed to be a close encounter with aliens, only to realise their ordeal may not be over. Plus, a boy investigates a strange object in Canada
  3. 13:30 30m

    Close Encounters

    S1 · E8 · Nuclear Reaction and Ghost Rocket
    Sightings of an orange football-shaped object
    A silent, orange football-shaped object is spotted across two nights near the nuclear weapons storage site at Loring Air Force Base in Maine
  4. 14:00 1h

    Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets

    S1 · E1
    Scientists attempt to piece together the lives behind discovered bones
    Tori Herridge and a team of scientists attempt to piece together the lives behind discovered bones, and find out what happened to these people and how they died. In the first edition, five bodies dating from the Bronze Age are found in a deep pit on the Isle of Thanet in Kent. One of them is an old woman, who has been manipulated into a position where she is pointing at something. But at what? And why?
  5. 15:00 1h

    Instruments of Death

    S1 · E1 · The English Civil War - The Battle of Naseby
    The development of weapons and body armour
    Karl Ude-Martinez and Kevin Hicks explore how weapons and body armour were developed, beginning with a look at the impact of the 1645 Battle of Naseby during the English Civil War
  6. 16:00 1h

    What on Earth?

    S7 · E13
    Documentary series exploring anomalies appearing on satellite images
    Documentary series exploring anomalies appearing on satellite images to try and get a better understanding of unexplained phenomena
  7. 17:00 1h

    Mysteries from Above

    S2 · E3 · Expect the Unexpected
    A long-forgotten network of Native American earthworks
    Cameras capture the world from fresh perspectives. This episode features a long-forgotten network of Native American earthworks, a baffling battlefield mystery in Belgium, a mysterious blood red lake on a remote Greek island, and an eerie pink glow emulating from the middle of the Pacific Ocean

  1. 18:00 1h

    Mystery Places

    S1 · E13
    Visits to worldwide regions that boast something worthy of note
  2. 19:00 1h

    Weird or What? With William Shatner

    S2 · E5 · Parallel Worlds
    A woman who claims to have encountered shadow people
    A woman who claims to have encountered shadow people and a man who claims to have used teleportation, travelling from New Jersey to New Mexico in the blink of an eye
  3. 20:00 30m

    World's Most Unexplained

    S1 · E5 · Moving Statues
    The trend of people seeing moving religious statues in Ireland in the 1980s
    A bizarre trend happened in Ireland in the 1980s when thousands of people started seeing religious statues move. Some residents of a village reported seeing a statue of the Virgin Mary move. Others believed the phenomenon was just an optical illusion or a prank
  4. 20:30 30m

    World's Most Unexplained

    S1 · E9 · Past Lives
    Theories about living the lives of others after death
    People reveal details from their past lives as celebrities, while experts investigate evidence that suggests death may not be the end of one's existence
  5. 21:00 1h

    What on Earth?

    S7 · E13
    Documentary series exploring anomalies appearing on satellite images
    Documentary series exploring anomalies appearing on satellite images to try and get a better understanding of unexplained phenomena
  6. 22:00 1h

    Nazi Murder Mysteries

    S1 · E5 · Hermann Goering
    The theories surrounding the death of Hermann Goering
    The theories surrounding the death of Hermann Goering, who managed to cheat the hangman by taking a cyanide capsule on the day before his scheduled death
  7. 23:00 1h

    Nazi Murder Mysteries

    S1 · E6 · Rudolf Hess
    The theories, conspiracies and facts relating to Rudolf Hess's flight to Scotland
    The theories, conspiracies and facts relating to Rudolf Hess's dramatic flight to Scotland in 1941 and his subsequent death in Spandau prison