Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

Five mysterious stories are shown in which people meet strange or unexplainable events. The viewer is invited to decide if the stories are fact or fiction.

1997 HD 43min TV-PG United States English

Jonathan Frakes

Fantasy Mystery

S1E1 - The Apparition / The Electric Chair / On the Road / Number One with a Bullet / Dream House 1998-11-04

A frightening image in a mirror turns out to be both a curse and a blessing for a woman; a man, facing the electric chair, gets an unlikely reprieve during his execution; a father and daughter get an improbable invitation to meet at a sentimental place; the best friend of a woman murdered by her philandering husband fires a errant revenge shot which "reappears" years later; a house hunting woman comes across a large house which exactly matches the one in her dreams.

S1E2 - The Viewing / The Subway / Kid in the Closet / Justice is Served / The Tractor 1998-11-11

The son of a funeral owner gets a late night visitor who defies logic; a couples eerie experience on the subway has life changing consequences for an elderly neighbor; a childs irrational fear of the closet leads to tragic consequences; a man on trial for killing his partner is distracted on the stand by the ghost of the deceased; a bitter man, confined to a wheelchair, is put to the test when his granddaughter gets in dangers path.

S1E3 - The Prophecy / Couch Potato / Love Over The Counter / Imaginary Friend / Last Man On Earth 1998-11-18

This episode features the following cases: The Prophecy; Couch Potato; Love Over the Counter; Imaginary Friend; Last Man on Earth.

S1E4 - E-Mail / Cup of Joe / Secret of the Family Tomb / Wheezer / The Unknown Patient 1998-11-25

A paralegal gets an email from the beyond urging her to stop a will from being executed; three women, on their way to a party, are veered off course by a severe storm and a mysterious billboard; a mother and daughter die within weeks of each other and placed together in a nearby tomb which takes on a life of it own; a pet dogs final trick is one that defies rationality; a mysterious obituary draws the relatives of a recently deceased John Doe to the hospital.

S1E5 - Needle Point / Toy to the Rescue / Mystery Lock / The House on Baker Street / The Train 1998-12-02

This episode features the following cases: Needle Point; Toy to the Rescue; Mystery Lock; The House on Baker Street; The Train.

S1E6 - Candlestick / The Diner / From the Agency / The Magic Rose Garden / The Jeep 1998-12-09

A detective suspects that a man murdered his wife but has no evidence until an unlikely witness speaks up; an elderly couple, who runs a diner that puts hopeless patrons out of their misery, takes in someone who is literally close to home; a mysterious woman uses unconventional methods to try and save a child from suffocating inside a bank safe; a rose garden in the backyard becomes both a gift and a curse for an elderly woman; a soldier finds that shrapnel, intended for him, has a familiar imprint on it.

S2E1 - The Plane / The Gun / The Portrait / The Pass / The Caller 1998-01-23

A plane flies itself and saves a man from disaster, a gun that refuses to fire on innocent people, an artist has the power to end suffering, two boys at a hospital decide to visit the morgue and one of them discovers the body of his identical twin brother, a radio psychiatrist gets calls from his deceased son whom he had abandoned years ago.

S2E2 - Firestation 32 / The Computer / The Girl Next Door / The Wallet / The Woods 1998-01-30

Little Stevie Hansen is just dying to become a firefighting hero.

S2E3 - The Wall / The Chalkboard / The Getaway / The Prescription / Summer Camp 1998-02-06

This episode features the following cases: The Wall; The Chalkboard; The Getaway; The Prescription; Summer Camp.

S2E4 - The Wrestler / The Escape / Dead Friday / Ghost Visitor / The Lady in a Black Dress 1998-02-13

This episode features the following cases: The Wrestler; The Escape; Dead Friday; Ghost Visitor; The Lady in a Black Dress.

S2E5 - The Land / Titan / The Diary / Town of Remembrance / The House On Barry Avenue 1998-02-27

The Land: A farmer makes the ultimate bargain to make his land fertile for his family in the future. Titan: A writer creates a short story that parallels the fate of the Titanic. The Diary: A high school girls computer diary seems to predict the future. Town of Remembrance: An amnesiac women on her way to a doctors appointment discovers a town that she finds familiar. The House On Barry Avenue: In a house mysterious fires continue to break out without explanation.

S2E6 - Bright Light / Magic Mightyman / The Student / Scribbles / Count Mystery 1998-03-06

Bright Light: A lost woman turns down a local bar regular. When she continues her travel, she is being tailgated by a truck. Magic Mightyman: While jogging in the park, a comedy writer is mugged. A homeless lady lends him a costume to wear, which gives him super strength. The Student: A frustrated teacher questions her dream of teaching until a student named Rudy inspires her again in an essay he wrote. Scribbles: A widow cannot find the life insurance policy for her late husband to claim the much-needed money. Count Mystery: When a search for a missing little boy yields no results, a local news crew decides to ask a horse with psychic abilities for help.

S2E7 - The Mummy / The Perfect Record / Grave Sitting / Murder on the Second Floor / They Towed My Car 1998-03-20

The Mummy: A Museum displays a rare mummy only to discover a beautiful woman floating off the floor. The Perfect Record: A security guard is working on a perfect record while training a new guard. Grave Sitting: A challenge is put up to spent two hours at the grave site of a serial killer. Murder On The Second Floor: Witnesses see an eighteen-foot tall man murder another man on the second floor balcony. They Towed My Car: A man wanders the town looking for his towed car. No one helps the stranger except a small boy.

S2E8 - Kirby, Dust, Malibu Cop, A Joyful Noise & The Hooded Chair 1998-04-03

"Kirby" - Ted is a special effects expert, experimenting with his favorite creation, a mechanical gorilla named Kirby. However, his cruel boss, Harry, demands he finishes Kirby or Ted is fired. That night, Kirby receives a malfunction and attacks Harry, causing him to fall down the stairs and break his neck. The police and Ted find his body, while Ted finds Kirby had somehow moved across the room. But how could that happen if Ted removed Kirbys Driver Board? "Dust" - Two boys jog and help a young girl enter her home when she forgets to bring the key. One boy is hugely attracted to her. She never has any physical contanct with them, epecially when getting them lemonade. The next day they come the same house and discover it has been abandoned for 20 years since a girl commited suicide. They enter the house with a real estate agent, to find it dusty and full of webs and three sets of footprints and the imprints of three glasses on the table. What frightened them most is that one glass imprint and one trail of footprints disappear. "Malibu Cop" - A detective probes a difficult murder case, after so much stress he uncovers the culprit... himself! He shot a woman in his sleepwalking. "A Joyful Noise" - A family is in a quire for a church and they were never late, the quire instructor told them to not be late tomorrow because it was a special day and they perform for the church. At 7:00 sharp they were supposed to go, all of a sudden, time goes faster than expected and all of a sudden its 7:20 and everyone rushes to church only to find it on fire, an explosion occurred at 7:00 or somewhere around there. The instructor quotes that God had saved their lives. "The Hooded Chair" - Art collector gets a chair that belonged to Napoleon himself. Everyone who sat on that chair died in a short time, including Napoleon, who sat on it before his lost a Waterloo. It had recently taken the lives of his maid and best friend. The night he attempted to destroy the chair, the collector dies of a heart attack.

S2E9 - Rock and Roll Ears, The Bucket, The Bridesmaid, Voice from the Grave & The Chess Game 1998-04-17

"Rock and Roll Ears" - Lionel was a music shop owner, one day, these 2 teenagers come in the shop and suddenly, one of the teens try out a guitar and Lionel tries to out rock-and-roll him, he does. Lionel was nearly deaf so he could barely hear the music he was playing. At night, the two teens come back for revenge, this time, they have an amp about the size of their van. They turn the volume up until the windows break. Lionel suddenly claims that he can hear again and starts laughing while the two teens leave. "The Bucket" - A young farm family receives their weekly milk shipment from Gus, their elderly neighbor. The following week after a storm, the empty milk bucket starts moving on its own and later the lid flies off twice. The husband takes the bucket to Gus Hobs farm and finds him suffering from a stroke "The Bridesmaid" - Lucy Robbins, always a bridesmaid, takes in her sister after the brother-in-law dies in a boat accident. Cory, Lucys new cyber boyfriend turns out to be Alan, her brother-in-law who actually has been suffering memory loss for the previous six months "Voice from the Grave" - A doctors wife starts channeling a nurse friend, who was murdered in the hospital boiler room. The cop and the wife (channeling the decreased Lisa) trick the guilty orderly into confessing. "The Chess Game" - Two friends would always play chess and they would always fuss about everything. One day, one of the friends die. Then the other friend seems bored, his wife asks him to play a chess game, he accepts. All of a sudden, he smells "Old Rum", the same kind of cologne that his friend would use, then as the one friend plays his usual move, the chess piece moves the same way that his old friend was playing. Then after that, everything is back to normal.

S2E10 - The Motorcycle, Blind Man's Dog, Deer Hunters, Tribal Curse & The Card Game 1998-04-24

"The Motorcycle" - Greg Hansen inherits his grandfathers horse ranch which has had all the horses sold off to pay medical bills except for his favorite "Nugget". Nugget helps locate an old motorcycle which Greg plans on selling to pay off some of the bills, but the motorcycle is worth more than a local dealer lends on.. "Blind Mans Dog" - Lloyd Week and his guide dog "Buff" are encouraged to move out after Buff howls each time an hour before a tenet in their apartment building dies. The last howling will signal the end of the clairvoyance. "Deer Hunters" - Jed and a friend havent had luck finding deer to shot with their high-powered bows. Jed decides to trespass on the Indian reservation and finally sees and shots at a deer. The deer runs away and Jed is stopped by his friend from pursuing, due to the sound of drums playing. Driving back, they see the deer in the road and try to run it over, however Jed is killed in the accident and the friend and police officer cant find the deer. "Tribal Curse" - Jason Reed, staying with a Brazilian tribe to write his thesis, falls in love with the chiefs granddaughter against the chiefs restrictions. When the chief dies, Jason violates the funeral practice and a crow chases him off a cliff. "The Card Game" - Lucky runs a crooked card game in an old west theme bar. After Wally, the latest victim is cleaned out, a week goes by and a stranger and his dog come in for a game. The stranger and the dog take turns watching Lucky preventing him from cheating. Lucky loses hand after hand, while it feels like his neck is tightening up. After the old man cleans Lucky out, the camera pans up to reveal a picture of the old man and the dog. The picture is of Roy Bean, the hanging judge, from 1902.

S2E11 - Bon Voyage/Man in the Model T/The Scoop/Angel on Board/Buenos Dias 1998-05-01

A farmer takes drastic measures to create his own field of dreams.

S2E12 - Merry-Go-Round, Red-Eyed Creature, Used Car Salesman, Surveillance Camera & Graffiti 1998-07-17

"Merry-go-round" - Penny and boyfriend George restore a carousel that is cursed in Florida. Ike, the operator who used to run the ride, stops by and insists the couple burn the carousel due to the curse. When the couple ignores him and puts on a promotion to stimulate business, the boyfriend is bitten by a snake hiding in the horses head and dies. "Red-eyed Creature" - A boy sees a creature in the shadows that had glowing red eyes. The parents didnt believe him but the nanny did for some reason. Later, the mother saw the creature as well and was scared. The nanny cheers the boy up and after she left, her eyes started glowing with the color red. "Used Car Salesman"- Sonny Rhodes, a crooked car salesman sells cars to people, which are unsafe, and rips them off. One day, he sells a van with no brakes to Lenny Height, leader of a small four-man group called the Society Kings, who needed to get to Vegas for a show. Sometime later, his co-workers show him a newspaper showing their deaths when their van crashed because of the failed brakes, but he coldly dismisses it. That night, after Sonny is the last salesman left, as he closes up, three cars turn on and surround them. He thinks his co-workers are playing a joke on him. Then a fourth vehicle arrives, the same van he sold the society kings, and it runs Sonny over, killing him "Surveillance Camera" - Alec, an immigrant, takes over a convenience store and is saving up to bring his family to the U.S. Later that day, a robber holds him up and seems to know about Alecs savings in a cashbox. A few minutes later, two teenagers come in and rob him again. When the police review the surveillance tape, the first robber is not on the tape and the cashbox is back where Alec normally stores it, with the cash still in it. Two days later, one of the officers stops in and tells him, they caught the teenagers and they confessed to murdering the previous owner years ago, who was also the first robber. "Graffiti"- In 1941, Harvey Black was a high school principal who loved his car and his school. When he blames a delinquent named Johnny Evans for defacing the school and the principals car with "Remember Pearl Harbor", he has to let the boy go since some of the damage happened while the kid was in the office. Two days later, Pearl Harbor was bombed.

S2E13 - The Warning, Bus Stop, The Cure, The Guardian & The Gift 1998-07-24

"The Warning" - A couple goes into a hotel when the husband sees a man pushing a casket. Rob and his wife split up to look for the seminar room and he instead finds the casket and the casket salesman he saw earlier. The couple leaves and heads to the elevator to go downstairs. The salesman is on the elevator and Rob is afraid of him, not realizing his wife can’t see the man. The husband wants to take the stairs, when all of a sudden the elevator and all it’s passengers fall to their deaths. The salesman had saved the couple’s lives even though he was never found. "Bus Stop" - Jerry Wright stops next to a bus stop and meets Terry and gives her a ride home. The next day he gets enough confidence to look for her to ask her out and meets her younger sister, Laura, who invites him inside. While looking at the pictures on the mantel, Laura recounts when Terry died almost eight years ago and Jerry pays dumb initially. After introducing himself, Laura tells him that Terry promised to send her “Mr. Right” to look after her. Jerry confesses about the previous day and they get married a year later. "The Cure" - Kyle Jarvis, a struggling pre-med student, works part-time as a waiter and is involved with Tammy, the wealthy daughter of a captain of industry. Tammy is afraid of what her parents think of Kyle and he is concerned that Tammy is ashamed to introduce him to her parents. While waiting tables, a man has a heart attack and Kyle gives CPR and saves his life. Soon after the man’s daughter arrives and it is Tammy! "The Guardian" - Mark and Danny, his younger brother, come from a very religious mother. Mark loves basketball and shots hoops and watches “Big Al”, a former high school star play in the afternoon at the Clayton Street Park after school. On night, Mark decides to stay later at the park and is harassed by a couple of gang members. However, Big Al shows up and scares the bullies away. The next day when Mark tries to thank Al, he insists he wasn’t the one who helped. "The Gift" - Mildred Graceson is going to die and has developed a tight friendship with her live in nurse, Beverly. Mildred’s daughters resent their mother’s fondness for sentimental collectables and seem to be looking forward to their inheritances. After Mildred passes on, the daughters immediately ask Beverly to move out quickly but say she can have any mementos that she wants since they consider it all worthless. Beverly picks the figures from Mildred’s old wedding cake and the teakettle. Later that night, the kettle whistled despite not being turned on and the steam melts the base of the figures and revels two diamond earrings worth thousands of dollars.

S3E1 - Morning Sickness, The Curse of Hampton Manor, Wax Executioner, Blood Bank & Ring Toss 2000-01-21

"Morning Sickness" - A girl gets all the symptoms of pregnancy, but the tests say shes not. When they do surgery they find a baby octopuss in her. "The Curse of Hampton Manor" - (true story of Helmsly manor) A greedy woman sells a cursed house to couple. After the husband loses his wife and will to live, the greedy woman gets the house and is electrocuted in the bathtub. "Wax Executioner" - A woman is almost murdered in a wax museum, and the only apparent suspect is the creepy executioner figure, that someone keeps moving, but leaves no footprints. The artist and his brother didnt want to accept the fact the executioner figure was used as the body of an evil spirit. Everytime the guillotine fell, the figures hands were on the rope. "Blood Bank" - A nurse treats a weird patient during a break in at the blood bank. She find empty bags of blood in his bathroom. Was he a vampire? "Ring Toss" - A crooked con artist tricks kids out of money in ring toss, until an old man becomes the only winner and wins everyone toys. He threatens the old man, until he has to fix the haunted house ride. They all hear him scream and found him hung with one of the rings by an electronic dummy who looked like the old man.

S3E2 - One for the Road, The Music Box, Two to One, Damsel & The Horn 2000-05-26

"One For The Road" - A truck driver is in his favorite diner and meets a friend of his. Everyone in the truck stop thinks the truck driver is acting strange. Later the truck driver finds out that the friend he was talking too was killed in an accident earlier in the day. "The Music Box" - Two women were shopping and one woman discovered a special music box that reminded her of a lost love. When she found out it did not work she decided not to buy it. When having second thoughts and returns to buy it only to find out that her lost love was there and bought the item for her birthday and now the music box began to work. "Two to One" - A man pawns his grandfathers watch for extra cash. When borrowing the money from a friend he returns to get the watch back only to find out they sold it the day before. That night the guy had a dream that the pawn shop lied to him and had the watch and a robber was going to steal it. The guy turned to the store to find things happened like his dream to only this time he got his watch back. "Damsel" - A woman looking for that special an in her life goes to a fortune teller to find out that she was looking too hard and that the special man would find her. A few days later the woman spots a good looking hitchhiker and assuming this was her man which turns out to be a killer. During the attack a hikers comes from the woods and saves her and he turns out to be the man that finds her. The man also turns out to the son of the fortune teller. "The Horn" - A mortician visits his friend an antique dealer and discovers a special item called a death horn. The mortician makes a bet with the dealer that he could not sell an item associated with death. The dealer loses the bet and the mortician arrives to collect on the bet and find no one in the shop. At the last minute the mortician hears the death horn and discovers the dealer has a heart attack and saves his life.

S3E3 - The Find, The Golden Cue, The FBI Story, The Gravedigger's Nemesis & Last Rites 2000-06-02

"The Find" - A newlywed couple run across an old motorcycle. The motorcycle is an out of production mint condition classic bike. The man takes a joy ride on the bike and hits a woman that disappears along with the motorcycle. The EMT describes the same accident the man had but it happened 54 years before to a young couple and the man was the only one to ever ride the bike which they believed that they released the spirits. "The Golden Cue" - An older man purchased a pool hall only to lose it to the young pool hustler. The old man stays around sweeping floors. The owner gets mad at the old man for talking about the golden cue while he was shooting. At closing time a strange man enters the pool hall and challenges the owner. The owner keeps running the table until the stranger makes one final bet for the pool hall. The stranger takes down the golden cue, breaks and sinks the 9 ball. The stranger turns out to be a legendary pool hustler that quit pool 15 years before because he went blind. "The FBI Story" - A young local cop had a dream of becoming an FBI agent. The young cop was accepted to the FBI academy and then disappeared on his way to the acedemy with some money. 5 Years later an FBI agent arrives in town to investigate a counterfeit ring. The sheriff starts to suspect the FBI agent and asks him along on a body that was found in the swamp. The body was the young cop and the FBI agent confesses that he killed the young cop. In the attempt to flee the swamp the FBI agent was sucked into the bog and died. "The Gravediggers Nemesis" - Two young boys hire on as grave diggers and work for an evil grounds keeper. The two boys and grounds keeper hear and see an old woman. The old woman haunts the grounds keeper until he dies in the old womans grave. "Last Rites" - A woman is called into an attorneys office because she attended a funeral. The women was there researching the artwork of the cemetery. The woman sees the chapel and decides to enter. While inside she finds out it is a funeral and she stayed because no one else showed up. The lawyer informs the woman that she gets the dead mans estate of 34 million dollars do to the fact she was the only one who showed up for the funeral.

S3E4 - E-Mail, Blood Donor, Epitaph, Stitches in Time & The Soldier 2000-06-16

"E-Mail" - A couple get a used computer from a professor. But when Statler, the man whom they bought it from, becomes trapped in a tomb with no computer. But if that is true...whos sending the e-mail calling for help? "Blood Donor" - After recieving a blood transfusion, a man finds that he can see murders as they happen. So he uses this to help him trap the killer, whose blood he recieved during a transfusion. "Epitaph" - A gravestone craftsman is given orders by a strange man to create an elaborate gravestone for a dead man against the wifes wishes. Later it turns out that the man that ordered the expensive gravestone was the wifes dead husband. "Stitches in Time" - A mother and her daughter are in poverty when the mother has a dream of when she and her own mother stitched a quilt together. When she wakes up, she takes out the quilt, only to discover that hidden inside was lots of $100 bills. "The Soldier" - A soldier from Vietnam recalls what happened to him during a devastating battle. Almost near death, his father, who went missing in action years ago, shows up and carries him to safety. The soldier thinks hes dreaming, until the paramedics find his fathers dog tags in the boys hand.

S3E5 - The Nightmare/The Stalker/The Impossible Car Dream/The Dresser/The Burial 2000-06-23

A woman has a recurring dream that her husband will get stabbed by their grounds keeper; a woman and her daughter use a compact to protect them from a stalker; a teenage boy has a vivid dream about owning a classic car being sold for a dollar; a young fashion designer finds that the mannequins at a department store are possessed; a southern gentleman gets the surprise of his life at his wifes funeral.

S3E6 - Red Line/Two Sisters/Eclipse/The Ice Box/The Gathering 2000-06-30

A race car driver gets veered off course by an unlikely ally; a vindictive woman schemes to marry her late sisters husband; a prisoner believes that he will die if he is exposed to an eclipse; a doctor uncovers a mysterious ice box that holds sentimental memories to him; a trio of old ladies use unorthodox methods to protect them from a burglar.

S3E7 - Connie, Positive I.D., Trucker, Cook-Out & The New House 2000-07-07

"Connie" - Dead womans spirit lives on in her husbands new wife. "Positive I.D." - Man accused of a robbery that he didnt commit. After the real culprit is found, the two learn they are twin brothers separated at birth. "Trucker" - A hitchhiker is trying to get a ride from a trucker, one of them spot him and takes him to a gas station. The hitchhiker then sees that a man is in pain at the station, a car is on top of him. The hitchhiker tries to lift up the car on top of him and cant do it until the trucker comes and helps him. When the police come, the hitchhiker says that the trucker helped him when the police claim that the trucker died 7 years ago. "Cook-out" - Uncle Harrys spirit saves his family for eating poisioned hamburgers during a family reunion cookout. "The New House" - An old painting saves peoples lives.

S3E8 - Creepy Comics, Louie the Dip, The Wailing, The Landlady & Curse 2000-07-14

"Creepy Comics" - A comic book drawer is down on his luck. His boss gives him one more chance to scare him or he is fired. The police show up and report to the boss that the man killed himself. When the boss arrives home he finds a comic from the man outlining the mans death. The boss becomes scared and dies from a heart attack. "Louie The Dip" - A pick pocket had to be careful because he was on his third strike. A man comes in the bar and brags about winning the lottery so Louie picked his pocket. Louie hides the ticket to be safe but then it disappears. Louie has to go back to picking pockets. Louie get pinched by the cops they check his ID and in his wallet was the missing lottery ticket. "The Wailing" - A Mystery writer moves into a spooky house. The house seems to communicate with the writer and he goes to investigate. The writer finds a little girl in a hidden room and gets locked in. When they find the writer in the room they find the body of the little girl. The writer was talking to the little girls ghost. "The Landlady" - An evil landlady hears strange noises that eventually drive her insane. After believing there was an invisible stalker the landlady moved out the next day. "Curse" - A young girl is into evil witchcraft. The young girl puts a curse on her psychologist. The young girl refuses to remove the curse from the psychologist and joins the evil witches. Going through the ceremony the young girl discovers the psychologist has tricked her into joining the good witches.

S3E9 - For the Record/Halloween/Precious/Get Your Kicks at Motel 66/Phantom Drifter 2000-07-21

This episode features the following cases: For the Record; Halloween; Precious; Get Your Kicks at Motel 66; Phantom Drifter.

S3E10 - Devil's Tattoo, Static Man, The Bloody Hand, Where Have All the Heroes Gone & War Surplus 2000-07-28

"Devils Tattoo" - A biker dude takes his girlfriend in to get a tattoo. The biker dude insists it has to be the devils tattoo. As the dude was forcing the girl and tattoo artist into putting on the tattoo the tattoo gun went crazy and killed the dude. "Static Man" - A business man is about to close a big deal and an Indian medicine man puts a curse on him. Items start sticking to the business man and ruins his big deal. The business man agrees to save the trees and the curse was lifted. "The Bloody Hand" - Two detectives solve a murder case where an ex-husband tried to steal from his dead wife before her funeral. The only thing that cant be explained is the cuts on his face. And the fresh blood in the fingers of the woman, who was already dead. "Where Have All The Heroes Gone" - Two young thieves get a shock while robbing the home of a recently deceased cowboy star. A cowboy shows up and scares the boys straight. "War Surplus" - A struggling college student is unnerved by a vision of a man who looks like his father — who died 8 years earlier in the Gulf War. Following his father into a surplus store the student finds his fathers uniform jacket. In the pocket of the jacket the student finds a letter telling that there is an insurance policy worth $100,000 in the his name.

S3E11 - Deadbeat Dad, Ghost Town, The Sewing Machine, The Sleepwalker & Money Laundry 2000-08-04

"Deadbeat Dad" - A cheating gambler at a bar refuses to give his ex-wife financial support for their baby, he beats a mysterious beautiful woman at a game, afterwards kept losing for a while. When he began winning again he still mistreated his ex. The mystery woman returned and beat at a coin flip. She won the bar and gave it to his ex. He committed suicide two days late. "Ghost Town" - A photographer reaches an old ghost town and the date is 1848. His phone is shot, his money is no good and the bartender says the heat plays tricks on him. He later encounters a man who looked like the bartender and says no one has been in the town for hundreds of years. He finds his phone with a gun hole in it "The Sewing Machine" - A young couple try to sell the husbands grandmas sewing machine. That night it comes to life and makes an old dress from Gone With The Wind. "The Sleepwalker" - A man who is said to be cursed sleepwalks every night. He hears one day he will never return but he says he will remain with his daughter forever. One night he vanishes without a trace, the next morning the girl tells his wife her dad is in the dollhouse and will be with her forever. Inside was a doll of him, with 100% accurate details. According to Jonathan Frakes, the author who found this story even saw the doll of the missing man. "Money Laundry" - A Catholic widow prays that her boss and land lord lets her stay. Then a gang comes and use fake coins to get the coins in the machine. The police come and they reveal to be the land lords missing coin collection and he lets her stay.

S3E12 - The Handyman, Anatole, Makeup Magic, Screwdriver & Charlie 2000-08-11

"The Handyman" - Chad, a young carpenter, is married to a wealthy older, Victoria Beau. Chad is cheating on her with young Andrea and when Victoria arrives home early and catches the lovers in bed, Andrea shots Victoria. The wealthy Mrs. Beau vows on her deathbed that Chad will never get the money or leave the apartment. The young couple tries hiding the body in a fake wall, however the tools exact revenge on the couple "Anatole" - An old man, Anatole, is put in a cell with William Pope, a murderer. After lights out, Pope recounts his murdering of a college student named Alan, but Anatole gets angry and strangles Pope. The next morning, Anatole is missing and Pope is dead with a picture of Alan and Anatole (Alan’s father) in Pope’s hand. The detective traces Anatole to Phoenix, where he discovers Anatole catatonic and confined to a wheelchair for the previous six months. "Makeup Magic" - June, a plain-jane, steps up to protect the beautiful Clarence from a pushy guy. Clarence pays her back by doing June’s makeup turning her attractive. June learns the next day that she didn’t have much makeup on and her new look stayed. After several days of looking for Clarence to thank her, June finally find her and discovers Clarence was horrifically burned 2 years ago, but June only sees her as a friend. "Screwdriver" - Lauren is leaving for college but has one serious fault: he is extremely forgetful. One cold winter night, Lauren is returning from a party and his car breaks down. And once again his absent mindlessness has caused him to be without his tools and his jacket. As the weather worsens, Lauren awakes to see a man that looks like his father fixing the car. When he calls his parents, he discovers his father is at home. However, after hanging up the parents find grease and a screwdriver in the bed. "Charlie" - Arty Holdman has been having a lousy year and is hoping his luck will improve with returning to his favorite restaurant. So far he has lost his wife and his job, but Charlie, the men’s room attendant, gives him the encouragement to turn his life around. After winning his wife back and landing a new job, he returns to the restaurant to thank Charlie, only to find out Charlie died six months ago.

S3E13 - The Dealer, Gratuity, The Cake, 1st Time Offender & The Mirror of Truth 2000-01-18

"The Dealer" - A young soldier was winning at the black jack tablewhich turns out to be the son of the parents the dealer ripped off in a telemarketing scam. The soldier sets up the dealer and club owner kills the dealer only to find out later the soldier died 25 years before. "Gratuity" - A college student cab driver installs an insult machine for people who do not tip well. After showing it to his girlfriend she disapproves and give him a medallion to protect him. After picking up a new fare that did not tip he pushes the button only to have the insult machine give out compliments. This saves the cab drivers life since the fare turns out to be a killer and the box did not upset him. "The Cake" - An evil son takes over his fathers bakery and orders the baker to make a special cake for a party the next day. The baker agrees and begins to heat up the oven. The oven starts to make strange noises and after investigation the baker believes he sees the devil in the oven. After telling the son, the baker is fired and when he is at home the baker sees the devils picture which turns out to be a crime boss. When the baker is called back to the bakery he finds the son burning in the oven and finds out the son had killed the crime boss and this was his revenge. "1st Time Offender" - A boy thinking he can never get caught for anything he does robs a store of a watch. In front of the judge his mother makes a plea that she had just purchased that watch for the boy and worked out a deal with the store owner. As the judge was about to let the boy off his lucky charm fell from his neck only to be discovered by the court and turned out to be the medallion stolen from the judges wife. And the boy was sent to prison. "The Mirror of Truth" - A vain woman goes to a beauty shop to have her make-up done. After the shop owner finished the job the woman went crazy saying that the shop owner did a bad job. As the woman was leaving the shop owner put a curse on her. The woman calls in a doctor to repair her face but there is nothing wrong with her face, she only believes there is.

S4E1 - The Devil's Autograph, Mail Order Degree, The News Stand, The Murder of Roy Hennessey & Mysterious Strangers 2002-06-27

"The Devils Autograph" - A man lies about not murdering his wife, and was not guilt in the court of law. The man told his lawyer after the case he murdered his wife, and gave him his $1,500.00 pen. The lawyer chased the man into the elevator and told him he didnt want anything of his, and he would get the devils autograph, but the man just laughed it off. The elevator door shut him in, and he fell to the floor and the pen went through his heart. "Mail Order Degree" - A business man made a lot of money off of cheating people and scams off of his commercials. He had so much money, that he had to hide it behind a hidden door behind his work chair. A few days later, the business man started feeling drastically sick, but one day his secretary found him dead and almost bald in his chair. It ended up that the room he hid his money in was filled with radiation, and died of radiation poisoning. "The News Stand" - One day, a poor fifteen year old teenager found a book of "Mysterious tales" under a garbage can in perfect condition, so he went to a news-stand to trade it in for $20.00 cash, and the news mans sandwich. The man hires him to work at the news-stand, and was really good to the teenager, and he started trusting the teenager so much, that he let him run the stand alone for sometimes days at a time. After not appearing for a week, the teen received his answer by a man in a cloak saying the man was diagnosed with a tumor in his head six months beforehand, and gave the boy a note. The note revealed that the news-stand man was his father that beat him, and he was sorry, so he gave him everything he earned in his life. "The Murder Of Roy Hennessey" - Two girls were doing a project in a cemetery, and see a man run out of the cemetery with a handgun. After his departure, the girls ran to see what he shot, he shot a man and the man was in critical condition - almost to the point of death. The mans last words were "Tell them that Roy Hennessey was killed by Jerry Fletcher. Tell them! Tell them!". The girls told the police the story, but when the police went to investigate the mans dead body, it was nowhere to be found. The police had Jerry Fletcher in the police car, because Jerry had ended up robbing someones house and was in police custody for seventy-two hours. It turns out the girls saw a murder that took place two years beforehand. "Mysterious Strangers" - Two wet men showed up at an olds lady named Zoreldas house one evening. The asked if they could step in near the fire, so she accepted and told them to change out of their wet clothes and into her husbands clothes. She told them about the death of her husband, and how she had to borrow $900.00 to pay her mortgage. The next morning, Zorelda work up and discovered the two men not there, but a note that said "Here is $900.00 in nine $100.00 bills", so when the banker came to her house, she gave him the $900.00 bills. When the banker left her house, two men robbed him and took off their masks, and they ended up being the two wet men that ended at at Zoreldas house the night before and revealed themselves as Frank and Jesse James.

S4E2 - Writer's Agent, Crypt Ghost, The Doll, Hubert's Curse & Shared Vision 2002-06-27

"Writers Agent" - A writing agent promised to give his client, Mary-Jane Layden, a deal to get her book, "Love Tides" published, but he wanted her to give him $2,500.00. She refused, saying she already gave him $12,000.00. They started fighting for a little while, until the writing agent pushed her to the floor and she died. The man hid her body beneath the companys plants, and took off. The...

S4E3 - Out of Service, When I Was Big, The Greedy Investor, Seven Hours of Bad Luck & The Secret of the Coins 2002-07-04

"Out Of Service" - A boyfriend and girlfriend (businessmen) are spending three nights of camping with each other, until the girlfriend tells the man that there was a man missing and a killer on the loose. Naturally, the man wants to leave the woods but she persuades him to stay. The next day, they wake up and take a walk in the woods trying to not remember about the killer, but then they spot...

S4E4 - Second Sight, The Fine Line, The Wrong Turn, Who Was I & You Are Next 2002-07-04

"Second Sight" - A woman is blind, but when another women is murdered, she gets her sight restored and a second chance to see. While eating at a restaurant in the country, she sees a man that she cant stop looking at. The man approaches her and asks demandingly why she is staring at him, and she just said that he was familiar looking and she was sorry. When she went back to her hotel to pack her bags and leave the town, he came up behind her and handcuffed her and threw her on the bed, and he asked her why she was staring at him. She was upset and said she was sorry. He pulled up a chair next to the bed and said that he would sit there all night until he got the real answer out of her. After a little bit of time passed, and he fell asleep in the chair after drinking liquor, so she opened the door and ran to the owner of the hotel. He called the police, and they came and arrested the man. The policeman told the lady that he was wanted for the murder of a women, only to found out that he murdered the person she got her eyes from, and the eyes witnessed the murder and couldnt stop watching him. "The Fine Line" - Two female twins seemingly have an amazing ability to share each others feelings, such as one sister getting poked by a knitting needle, while the other also feels the pain. One night, one of them drives out alone and is involved in an off-road car accident. The sister at home feels strange and senses trouble. A male friend who is with her at the moment witnesses radio music somehow coming from the TV set, which is broadcasting a basketball game. The mysterious radio signals, alongside the twins phenomenal ability leads the sister and her friend to investigate. After pinpointing the exact location of the accident with ease, the other sister is sent to the hospital and saved. "The Wrong Turn" - A man had been living in his hometown for ten years, but couldnt remember where to make his delivery. He was shocked because he couldnt find anything correctly. He saw an old lady in the road waving her arms, so he swiveled out of the way before he hit her and he drove up near a building with his truck and mattress. He suddenly heard a thump on the car and crying. He saw a little boy on the mattress in the back of his truck who looked to be alright. The boy said he fell from the building. Suddenly, a man cleaning up near the street said he knew that the boy lived upstairs, so he and the truck driver went in their room and saw an old lady lying on the floor. When they turned her over, the truck driver was shocked to realize this was the lady that was waving her arms frantically in the street. They revived her, and she said that she had passed out because she forgot to take her medicine. It ended up that the lady left her body to direct the man to her house at the exact time the boy fell. "Who Was I" - A man goes under hypnosis to resolve his fear of closed spaces only to discover a past life. After the session the man starts to draw and remember certain places. These places lead him to his past lifes body buried under a building. "You Are Next" - A heavy gambler husband hires a hit-man to kill his wife after they eat at a Chinese Restaurant, so when she read her fortune cookie at the restaurant, it said "youre next." When they were in a dark alley, a truck pulled up near them, and a man in a trench-coat said "You are next." The husband then said "I canceled the hit!" and then he had a heart attack. Before realizing he was in pain, the man from the truck said "You just won a trip to Hawaii! How do you feel"? The woman was hysterical, but then she saw her husband dead near their house.

S4E5 - House of Shadows, One Hand in the Till, Teasdale's Motor Car, The Vision & The Grave 2002-07-11

"House Of Shadows" - A young girl (Ali) is house sitting and keeps seeing a man burying something in a basement on the television set. Hearing the sound even when the television was off she investigates which leads her to the basement. After a search of the basement Ali finds a video camera playing the video of the man mixing cement only to discover the wife in the ash catcher. "One Hand In The Till" - A boy attempts to call his father about his car that has broken down. After not talking to his father the boy is walking around and finds a gun. The boy believes the best way to get the money is to rob a store. About the time the boy attempts to rob the store he keeps seeing his father. His father has a dream about the sons car breaking down and going into a convenient store to rob the clerk to pay off the debt. "Teasdales Motor Car" - A passion for a mans car ends up driving him crazy and the car ends up in a cemetery with its first owner. "The Vision" - A man has a dream that a bridge will collapse, and if he doesnt stop Bus #29, the bus and the passengers will collapse with the bridge. No one listens to his concerns until he tells the bus driver only to have the bus driver also admit that he had the same dream and the bridge ends up falling. "The Grave" - A man and woman devise a scheme to frame the womans husband to make him go to prison, but before he died he said "grass wont grow on my grave until the truth comes out" but when they visit the grave they get hit by a tractor and die in the grave and the grass starts to grow.

S4E6 - The Dorm, The Child Artist, The Weatherman, Sit-Down Comic & Room 245 2002-07-18

"The Dorm" - A College student moves into her new dorm and gets a strange feeling when ever shes inside it she learns that a theres a killer on the loose one night after she stays up late working on a report she is attacked by a man in a leather jacket then as if by miracle she uses karate to defeat the man she calls the police and they arrest her after the rest the mother of her rooms previous owner comes in and tells her the story about her daughter who always had a talent for karate. "The Child Artist"- A ill woman asks her mother to take care of her 2 year old daughter one day while going to through a yard sale her grand daughter picks out an old chalkboard so the grandma buys it she is discovered that her daughter has written something else besides chicken scratch on the chalkboard are the words save Mommmy she calls her daughter to make sure its not just some embellishment but gets worried when no one answers the phone so she heads down to her house and discovers her body lying on the couch she manages to get her out just in time. "The Weatherman" - Brent Fillie is a southern Californian weatherman who loves the money and fame that come with his job, until the station manager informs him he is about to be let go due to boring weather reports. To save his job, Brent "spices up" his forecasts with false predications. On his way out of work, he encounters an angry woman who states her father died weather proofing the house from a heart attack and blames Brent for it. He dismisses her as a nut and leaves. However, sometime afterwards, Brent is killed in an accident. Eyewitnesses claim a tornado came out of nowhere and sent his car flying to his death. "Sit-Down Comic"- Jimmy always wanted to be a comic on live stage but he had a case of stage fright his rival Joey got a job as a comic instead and Jimmy was his manager one day while in his car Joey accidentally hits Jimmy. Jimmy decides that he has had enough of Joeys mocking and bans Joey from his life. Jimmy as if by miracle does land a job as a comic on live stage and jimmy is no longer a comic because of a bad knee. "Room 245" - A frustrated woman and her sick mother are furious when the hotel they have made reservations for claim to have none. fortunately a room is free to rent her sick mother has a disease and her doctor prescribes a medicine the woman leaves on the managers counter but when she returns she discovers that its missing and the manager and the doctor dont recognize her she suspects that the doctor and her manager have something else going on when she discovers her mother missing.

S4E7 - The Wreath, Terror Night, Tants, The Candidate & The Ring 2002-07-25

"The Wreath" - After a young boy gets killed in a hit-and-run, the parents try to get him a burial plot and stone near the highway he was killed in, and after the major signs the documents (but fails to remember he did), they get the stone. While at the funeral of their son on a nice weather day, suddenly wind picks up and the wreath flies at a car covering up the drivers vision, causing him to crash. It turns out that the driver of the car was the man that hit the young boy in the hit-in-run. "Terror Night" - After the faucet and shower goes awry, the residents at their apartment discover a lady who just had a heart attack and sent them a message to help her from beyond her unconsciousness. "Tants" - After and artist pains a portrait of an old lady named Tants, the artists mother discovers that that Tants is her mother and the artists grandmother. "The Candidate" - While staying at the Lincoln Hotel, Abraham Lincoln makes a candidate in an election tell the truth instead of lies to win the election. "The Ring" - After a love affair with a rich man, Tiffany the Hairdresser tries to kill a lady in the salon with a hair dryer, but accidentally kills herself because the ring responds to the electricity in the machine.

S4E8 - Caitlin's Candle, The Flower Jury, The Mentor, The Old Bike & The Music Teacher 2002-08-01

"Caitlins Candle" - A father and daughter live alone together after their Mom passed away, she was a very good craft maker. One particular craft stuck out in her daughters mind - a candle with an inscription in it. While being robbed in a house robbing, the father struggles to stop the burglary but suffers a stroke in the process. Now he is in a wheelchair going through therapy to recover,...

S4E9 - The Wealthy Widow, The Witness, The Accident, Bad Dreams & Mental 2002-08-08

"The Wealthy Widow" - When Dirk tried to marry a set-for-life farm lady (Cassie), he tried to find her dead husbands one million dollar fortune. While sleeping one night, a ghostly presence appears and tells Dirk to follow him to show him where the fortune is. In the barn, the person reveals himself as Cassies dead husband. After Dirk tried many times shooting the ghost, the ghost appears all over the barn and finally pushed the trunk of money atop Dirks heath off of the bus causing Dirk to die. After Dirks death, Cassie saved the money in a bank. "The Witness" - After a three best-friends lose their other best-friend in a homicide situation, they are desperate to find out who her murderer was. The decide to preform at ritual in finding her spirit to reveal the killer. They go in a circle while holding hands with candles in the center of the circle and repeated words, and the lights started flashing and suddenly "Im here" appeared on a mirror. Soon after that the phone rang and the answering machine picked up a ghostly voice revealing the murderer. The murderer was soon sent to prison. "The Accident" - While on the road of good Samaritan trying to rush to their sick son at home, an man and his nervous wife see another man trapped in a truck in fire. He breaks the window open and pulls the man to safety and recovers him. Five years later, the man that was saved is in his truck with his wife on the good Samaritan road, and they, too, discover a truck engulfed in flames. The man was great-full for his life being saved five years and he wanted to save this persons life also. He quickly broke the window and drag the man out of the truck and recovered him. He then realized that this was the same man that saved his life the same way five years earlier. "Bad Dreams" - A woman whos mother was brutally murdered in her dream at the age of five actually occurred after she dream it, so this dream to her was no different. She had a dream that on her thirtieth birthday that she would die. In her dream she heard a loud noise, saw fire, and heard a pop. On her thirtieth birthday she was very tense and tried to keep as safe as possible. It started storming and the lights in the house went out, so the husband lit a fire. She didnt want him to lite one because she saw a fire in her dream, and then the car alarm outside started alarming. She didnt want him to go outside because all of the things she heard and saw in her dreams were piecing together. After the husband shuts the alarm off, the wife is locked inside. She tried running to the door to unlock the door so her husband could get in, but she tripped and fell. The husband went in the house through a winder and recovered her. She had survived to her thirtieth birthday. When her thirty-first birthday came around, the husband (and a now father) was talking to her grandmother who said she was five when her mother was killed, not six, making this her thirtieth birthday. The husband saw a fire in the candles, a pop from a champagne bottle, and a loud noise so he decided to check on his wife in the other room. She was lying dead on the floor. "Mental" - A cagey woman pretends that she is telekinetic and can move glasses, dishes, etc. on a table even though her boyfriend puts magnets under it. After they show another group of their friends, they leave the house and then go back home. While in their garage, robbers break in. While one robber is upstairs stealing things, another remains on the stairs as a watch guard. While the couple is tied up in the garage, they manage to stand up. The boyfriend tells her to use her telekinetic powers, because he didnt put magnets under the table the last time she moved the dishes. She used her telekinetic powers on the garage alarm and the alarm went off and the watch guard robber had a heart attack.

S4E10 - Moonstruck Beach, Healing Hands, Aspen Sunny Side, Night Walker & Hot Car 2002-08-15

Segment 1: ""Moonstruck Beach"" - A struggling writer, ""Valerie Simms,"" rents a cabin in ""Moonstruck Beach"" in the hopes of getting away from it all and writing the great American novel. She meets the village caretaker, Jerry Corbin, who seems to be a friendly man. While strolling along the beach, she sights what appears to be a dead female body, but when she looks again, its gone. Returning to her cabin, she finds that her printer has printed a page she did not request. The message is backwards, but when she holds it up to the window, she reads the reflection. The name ""DEANNA LINDSAY"" is repeated all over the paper. She asks the caretaker, Jerry, about Deanna Lindsay, who it turned out committed suicide about a year ago. She had been staying in that very same cabin. After another walk, Valerie returns home to find another printer message, which instructs her to get out because ""Jerry killed me!"" She narrowly escapes being killed by Jerry herself, knocking over Jerry with her car. Jerr

S4E11 - The Mystery of Douglas Hibbard, Wheelchair Man, The Vigil, The Mandarin's Bowl & Ghost Writer 2002-08-22

Segment 1: ""The Mystery Of Douglas Hibbard"" - Douglas Hibbard, a business man, is on a buisness trip with a bad case of the flu. He wants to meet his wife the next day for their tenth wedding aniversary, but he is afraide that he wont make the five hour drive home so he and his wife agree that he should stay at a hotel. Douglas tried to get sleep that night, but the flu was so overbearing tha he couldnt get rest. Douglas then went downstairs to the hotel manager to ask for directions to a local drug store. After the manager gives the directions, a little while later Douglas comes in with a wet and d muddy rain coat and a gift bag. He tells the hotel manager to keep the gift bag in the hotel safe, so the manager does so. After the wife and hotel manager cannot reach Douglas, the mager goes into his room to see what happened and the manager didnt see a thing - not Douglas, not even drippy mud. After the hotel manager goes back downstairs, a cop waiting in the lobby reveales that Dougla

S4E12 - Witness to Murder, Roulette Wheel, The Phrenologist's Head, The Bridge & The Cigar Box 2002-08-29

Segment 1: ""Witness To Murder"" - Back in the days, scientists wanted to catch something incredible on tape - ghosts. One scientist, although, was obsessed with capturing one on tape, and he was also running out of time and money. One night, a called a paranormal investigor who could possibly raise the dead spirits of a house. When they went inside, they saw two ghosts and a murder that happened years before. A man choked his wife with a rope, but then when the ghost saw the crew and paranormal investigator, he was mad. The crew left happy because they were the first to get the whole incident on film, but when they went out to the car of the scientists, they found the film wrapped around his neck - he was choked to death. Segment 2: ""Roulette Wheel"" - A man who always goes to casinos never wins, he always spends his whole paycheck on gambling at the Roulette Wheel. After he spends his whole check, he goes into the pathroom to wash his face and dry his hands, but when he goes to dry his

S4E13 - The Hand, The Battered Doll, Poker Justice, Above the Clouds & Screen Saver 2002-09-05

Segment 1: ""The Hand"" - In a bar called the Bloody Hand, named after a brutal murder of a woman whose only remains found were her bloody hand, a drifter finds the hand is pointing at him. Is it a practical joke or is he the killer? Segment 2: ""The Battered Doll"" - A maid kills her employers and claims innocence until one of the prize possessions of the mistress, tells otherwise. The only problem its a doll. Segment 3: ""Poker Justice"" - In the early 1900s, in an Irish bar, three poker players kill another one when hes revealed to be a cheat, and the only way to get back their losings is to enlist the aid of a ""good man"". They give the winnings to a boy found in the church and precede to play poker with him to win their money back. The only problem is that hes good and proceeds to win more of their money! Is he a cheat too? Segment 4: ""Above the Clouds"" - Melanie continues to have a dream where she is trapped in an elevator and it terrifies her. When she must travel in an elevator wit

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