Inexplicable, yet a Fact
Inexplicable, yet a Fact (Russian: Необъяснимо, но факт, often abbreviated as ННФ and has also been translated as Inexplicable, but Factual) was a popular TV show on TNT (Russian TV channel). "Inexplicable, yet a Fact" is among the earliest pseudo-documentary projects on the Russian television and has influenced several similar projects on other Russian TV channels: "Fantastical Stories" (REN TV), "Cannot Be!" (STS (TV channel)), "X Files" (DTV), and others. The series has begun shortly after Syfy's "Ghost Hunters", possibly influenced by the success of the series, and before Discovery Channel's "A  Haunting". "Inexplicable, yet a Fact", as well as the aforementioned pseudo-documentaries, root in "Chariots of the Gods (film)", with "Inexplicable, yet a Fact" heavily using the footage and ideas from the film in several episodes. Format. Video. Videographically, the TV show features a roughly even blend of footage recorded originally and short sequences of shots from motion pictures. For this reason, "Inexplicable, yet a Fact" has featured an exceedingly rich array of films from experimental (notably, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "The Bunker of the Last Gunshots") to mainstream (notably, "Bram Stoker's Dracula"), with the heavier inclusion of the  Qatsi trilogy, "Mondo cane", and BBC documentaries (notably "The Planets", "The Human Body"). Stills showcasing themes of narration (such as images of books, people, and phenomena mentioned) are also present. Audio. "Inexplicable, yet a Fact" features a bed of a roughly even blend of popular music (notably, soundtracks to the Matrix trilogy and "", Depeche Mode's album Playing the Angel, Skunk Anansie's popular single Charlie Big Potato, and tracks from Café del Mar's music compilations) and tracks from production music libraries: VideoHelper (heavy inclusion of tracks by Chris Jones, "Serious Matters" and "Lo-Fi Groove", as well as  Joseph Saba's and Stewart Winter's "Enya's Head Trauma", notable for being remixed four times in VideoHelper's collections), Koka (notably, Jean Paul Niquin-Merkel's and Philippe Lhommet's track "Millennium" and the album "KOK2095 Space"), Omnimusic, Atmosphere, NYB, and others. Criticism. The TV show has spread irrational, superstitious, and pseudoscientific belief in alien abductions, extrasensory perception, astrology, spiritism, numerology, palmistry, and related areas of human activity to the TNT viewers (mostly, the adolescent demographic). Comicality. The active fan-community of the program exists on VK (social network), titled "We are laughing at Inexplicable, yet a Fact  (originally, Угарающие по "Необъяснимо, но факт""), which, together with TNT's mostly comic content (notably Comedy Club) and comic promotional videos, suggests that "Inexplicable, yet a Fact" is a parody of related television projects about mysticism, although the show presents itself in a grave, serious manner.