Bizarre practices to cure illness such as bleeding, branding, and drugging a 
patient have been employed for centuries. In he jungles of New Guinea, a 
tribal woman  wears the mummified foot of her dead husband to ward off 
evil spirits. On the streets of Malaysia, a flamboyant, sword-wielding shaman 
slices his tongue and sells the blood to locals as an elixir or cure-all. In the 
Middle East a man plies his unconventional "healing" trade in a public bazaar: 
Called venesection,  the healer opens a vein in his customer's skull as a 
curing method. Finally, the Beyond Bizarre cameras follow ethnobotanist 
Wade Davis down a wild river and into a Peruvian jungle in search of rare 
medicinal plants that may have unique healing properties.

Within the earth, below the steaming jungles of the Yucatan, are extensive 
cave systems flooded with crystal clear water. Beyond Bizarre underwater 
cameraman Bill Macdonald films the incredible stalactite formations that 
were formed over 10,000 years ago when the cave was above sea level. 
Beyond Bizarre then interviews a researcher who has solved the mystery 
of muddy water patches, or "Whitings," on the Great Bahama Bank. The 
muddy water is caused by microscopic algae that absorb large quantities 
of carbon dioxide and fix the CO2 in crystals, which ultimately create the 
cloudy water. Is it possible to use these microorganisms in a future system 
to sequester excess CO2 from our atmosphere? 

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