20 years ago a half-frozen boy was rescuded in the mountains after his parents apparent sucide. He gets released from a mental institution and his girlfriend notices him talking about a dark mountain shadow. Meanwhile a murder happens in a residential area in Tokyo. Assistant Inspector Goda Yuichiro takes on the investigation. Soon an official of the Ministery of Justice gets murdered in a similar fashion pointing towards a serial killer. Yet, Goda receives a strange order from above: he's not to further investigate in this direction. He senses a huge mystery behind the case and starts chasing after the psychopath killer called Marks. Somehow a journalist's research about a corrupt construction magnate and another unsolved murder that happend in the mountains 13 years ago are also linked to the case.
Rookie DNA analyst Xu Ziqi joins the Xinnuo Paternity Testing Center, where she trains under director Mo Li and teams up with the passionate Zhu Xinchen. As they take on one case after another, their investigations uncover hidden secrets and the complicated truths behind people’s lives.
Zhang Chao, a quiet and withdrawn student, finds himself at odds with a school bully while seeking the truth behind his roommate’s mysterious death. As he digs deeper, he unravels a hidden secret about his past, embarking on a transformative journey of friendship, redemption, and self-discovery.
In their youth, investigator Ekaterina Mazurova and operative Sergei Polyakov witnessed the tragic events that took place in their native village of Zamayachny, which then received the unflattering nickname Yama. In 1990, a maniac appeared there. His victims were several girls, among whom was Valya, Katya's sister and Sergei's fiancee. Then the murders stopped, as suddenly as they had begun. For eleven long years. And all this time Sergey was living with a thirst for revenge, and Katya, in order not to go crazy, simply erased that terrible summer from her memory. But the maniac is back again. And now Katya and Sergey have to meet again to deal once and for all with the past, which, as it turned out, never let them go.
Strange things are happening in an old mansion on Chistye Prudy, which has not been listed in any documents for some time. On a Saturday morning in March, two friends living in this ghost house, Lipa and Lucinda, fall... the corpse of a neighbor. Moreover, the body is wrapped with explosive wires. The residents of the ill-fated house gathered at the scene, neutralizing the blast wave, are saved from death by a new neighbor Pavel Dobrovolsky.
Upon starting his post as a hotel receptionist, Gamal hears the rumors about the mysterious Room 207 and finds himself obsessed with discovering the truth.
Aiba Tsubasa has astounding mathematical powers. He has two younger brothers: Riku, a naive but kind-hearted university student, and Umi, who was born with a weak heart and can only be saved by an organ transplant. Their mother Takako, a gifted surgeon, abandoned Tsubasa and Riku when they were young to join a secretive medical research facility that studies people with extraordinary abilities and conducts unethical experiments to create superior humans. Umi eventually receives a successful transplant, but the donor possessed an exceptional memory and could never forget anything. As a result, Umi begins to inherit the donor’s memories, gradually being taken over by the donor’s personality. When Umi escapes the facility and seeks out his brothers, Tsubasa and Riku try desperately to protect him as the organization’s agents close in.
Newly arrived constable Wei Tao is thrust into a baffling poison case when eight elders from a local charity die under mysterious circumstances. His investigation leads him to widow-physician Jiao Yu, where buried secrets and deadly traps begin to surface.
Paris, 2001. The State secretly enlists LYNX to stop a terrorist attack involving two barrels of neurotoxic gas. Behind LYNX, terrorist bodies accumulate. KARIM, infiltrated among Islamists, loses his cover. Journalist AMEL gets a little too close to the case. And the State is ready to eliminate those who know too much.
San-lang operates the “Memory Storage Agency,” where he and runaway girl Shao Jan impersonate loved ones to create comforting illusions for clients. Using makeup and voice mimicry, they sell beautiful lies, but as hidden truths emerge, they must face the consequences of blurring reality and illusion.
This five-part docuseries explores the facts and fiction behind the world's most creepy, strange and inexplicable legends, mysteries, and creatures. From Japanese horror to tales of Cryptids and the supernatural, Spectral Shadows delves deep for answers.