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- An odd professor claims he can spot Martians, who masquerade as humans, using a pair of infrared glasses he wears. Only then can you see the third eyeball in the middle of their forehead. He relates his wild theory to a photographer sitting by him in a bar--and the man believes him. While playing around with infrared film, the photographer says he's snapped a shot of a man with three eyes. The two team up to convince authorities of their find
- An odd professor claims he can spot Martians, who masquerade as humans, using a pair of infrared glasses he wears. Only then can you see the third eyeball in the middle of their forehead. He relates his wild theory to a photographer sitting by him in a bar--and the man believes him. While playing around with infrared film, the photographer says he's snapped a shot of a man with three eyes. The two team up to convince authorities of their find.
- By opening the grave of a recently deceased man and putting on his coat, a person will supposedly be granted invisibility. A bitter man with scores to settle decides to put the superstition to the test. He forces his reluctant butler to join him in his scheme of grave-robbing and murder.
- A survey taker makes a startling discovery when she visits the home of two very paranoid, eccentric, elderly collectors of odds and ends.
- A dear old woman is supposed to inherit the fortune of her uncle, Dr. John Rant, as soon as she finds his will. He tells her only that it's in a book and that she probably won't recognize it when she sees it. This cryptic clue results in the inheritance going to another relative, and the late Dr. Rant is not happy about this.
- Cecil Crofton shows up at the backwoods, hillbilly shack of Purdy with a wild proposition on how the two can split a million dollars. Crofton as figured out that a ton gold that once belonged to the Confederacy is buried locally, in the cellar of a house that had burned down and was rebuilt. Purdy figures rightly that it's the old Larro place, but the abandoned house is cursed by the ghosts of Larro ancestors from the Civil War.
- After suffering a concussion in a car accident on the Oregon coast, Stephen Elliott is carried to the home of an old man and his beautiful daughter-in-law to recover. The young woman tells Stephen that her husband, a World War II pilot, had died the year before and left an uncompleted musical composition, a model airplane and a piece of sculpture, as well as a strange will. Years later, Stephen has become famous as a sculptor and he meets two other men who had survived serious crashes near the same lighthouse, recovered in Allison's home and gone on to remarkable careers in music and aircraft design. Stephen decides he must learn if this was merely coincidence or whether Allison's husband's will might have some connection with the three men's subsequent brilliant careers.
- A man makes a deal with a mysterious businessman in order to get rid of his high spending wife.
- Francis Carvel visits a plastic surgeon to erase a lifetime of ugliness from his face. Now handsome, he returns to the French inn where, a year earlier, an lovely woman had spurned his affection. Complicating Carvel's plans is a new traveling companion, a disfigured man in bandages who knows everything about him.
- Maggie, the press agent for actor Henry Crawford, is horrified by his lifeless performances during dress rehearsals for his new play. She comments that he seems dead, to which his wife, Elaine, declares that he is. A year earlier, Elaine's ex-fiancé Balsamo had cursed Henry when he stole her away, promising Henry that he'd be through in one year. In desperation, Maggie goes to confront Balsamo and discovers his black magic efforts to kill Henry on opening night
- In 1890s London, Mrs. Manifold runs a boarding house for sailors on the waterfront. New hire John hears from a customer that her wine-guzzling husband, Ambrose, long ago disappeared and that some say she killed him. The old lady gets jumpy when a strange man reeking of wine signs the register "Ambrose Manifold."
- Steenie, the best piper in all of Scotland, is about to be evicted if he doesn't pay his owed rent. After selling his pipes to raise the money, a mysterious stranger appears, ready with a deal: it involves Steenie's money, bagpipes--and his immortal soul.
- The heir of the old aristocratic Fonceville family takes his bride to the ancestral castle, where a hereditary madness takes over his dreams, one that tries to induce the murder of his new wife.
- A man finds his missing fiancé in a mental hospital. She believes she's possessed a Dullaghan, a spirit of Irish folklore that jumped to her from her late father when she kissed him farewell at his funeral. The finance investigates and learns that her parent had been a famous ventriloquist and his dummy was named Mr. Dullagham.
- A husband rents the same upstairs apartment where he and his late wife once lived. Despite his claims of being married, the elderly landlady feels that something is not quite right. After weeks, she's yet to meet the woman. In fact, she's never heard so much as a sound coming from upstairs floor.
- A man, driven crazy by his wife's constant nagging and the oppressive summer heat, decides to strangle the woman. The murderers dream of a nice, cool place ends with a date with the hangman.
- A mysterious stranger enters a home uninvited, drawn from the street by the haunting music of Beethoven's "Geister (Ghost) Trio" that three musicians are performing. The pianist is immediately smitten with the woman of obvious wealth and status, soon proposing they marry. She says it is impossible, as the man would be forced to choose between her or his music.
- A man stands trial for murdering another man by throwing him out a window.
- Jeff Morgan reads a story in a pulp fiction magazine exactly like one he'd written and filed away years earlier. His meeting with the author, Frank Joyce, is eerie; he already knows everything about the man without having met him before. Convinced Frank is his doppelganger, Jeff panics when he dreams Frank steps onto an elevator that malfunctions and plunges fifteen stories. Frank just scoffs at his frantic warning.
- Former hometown football star George Logan pays an unexpected late night visit on Phyllis and Bob at their country home. Down on his luck, he's obsessed with having never fit in, and holds a grudge against the world. His one talent is weaving a string into a cat's cradle and, he claims, using it to cast spells and murder people who get in his way. A skeptical Bob call it nonsense so an irate George is determined to prove him wrong.
- Carlton Dane, a famous actor coming out of retirement for a new play with his daughter Lydia, suddenly is tormented by the ghost of his late, thought-to-be-a-suicide wife. His daughter is a triumph in her first big stage role, but can Dane take the adulation she receives?
- Bird lover Waldo Bryan leaves behind his big city art career to live in the country. His wife, Adele, has turned hateful, angry that he made her give up the city life. To get even, she lets Waldo's beloved parakeet out of it's cage to be killed by her cat. The birds outside seem to know of Adele's evil deed and turn on her, turning her into the caged one.
- Al March is tortured by his failure to have stopped the bombing of an Army barracks in 1945 Germany. Awaiting surgery, he tells his sister that the two men and a woman he killed the night before were the same ones who had planted the explosives. Even though they had died in the blast, they had been chasing him for the past six years because he lived and they didn't.
- A New York City detective is investigating the disappearance of over 200 people. Before vanishing into thin air, each person has reported a dream involving a fat man with a bizarre watch who convinces them to join him on his planet of Aleria.
- Ambitious defense attorney David Stevenson has high political aspirations and believes his romance with a nobody like Sylvia Willis will only hold him back. Calling in a favor from a murderer he once saved from conviction, he has his bride-to-be shot. Sylvia, however, is not so easily silenced. She demands justice and forces the great attorney to defend himself before a jury of the dead.
- The ghost of Lady Anne continues to walk down the stairs, knife in hand, and into the secret passage where she murdered her domineering husband. She vividly demonstrates her disapproval of Rodney's attempt to conduct an affair with a visiting friend of his wife.
- On their honeymoon, a new husband brings his bride to the ranch he grew up on. The wife is soon traumatized by the antique bedroom mirror once owned by the husband's deceased former love. The dead girlfriend appears in the reflection, wanting to trade places with the newly-married woman.
- Mr. Corbeau wants to turn pristine Beware Island into a gambling destination. His plans for building a connecting bridge to the natural paradise are continually delayed; his engineers all fall from the island's cliffs, led there by by a spirit, the Will-O'-The-Wisp. His greedy daughter, Marina, tries to manipulate her ex-fiancé into designing the bridge. Their visit there also proves fatal.
- A woman experiencing poltergeist activity in her home secures the services of a reluctant, non-believer in the supernatural, scientist to resolve her problem.
- Dede attends the silent supper, a ritual the single Bayou women conduct to foresee their future husbands. Old voodoo woman Miss Watkins had told Dede that she'd meet her husband at the supper that night. Miss Watkins has the misfortune of meeting up with troublemaker Jean Duval, who stabs her and steals her silver. Then, uninvited, he crashes the silent supper.
- The car carrying cultured Geoffrey, brutish Claude and eligible Kay swerves off a cliff and into a mysterious valley. Surprised by the weird vegetation and climate, they come to believe they've traveled back in time 50,000 years. An encounter with an unfriendly caveman results in all three being held captive in the wild man's cave.
- Charlotte is distressed by the letters addressed tor her new husband that mysteriously appear at their door. Kenneth refuses to discuss their contents, but they clearly disturb him. Fearing he's seeing another woman, Charlotte demands to know who's writing them. She's shocked to find they're from his domineering first wife who seems intent on controlling him even in death.
- Songwriter Charlie has suffered with writer's block" since he and his wife moved to the country. Betty wants them to sell the house to pay the bills, but Charlie doesn't want to part with the family estate. His late ancestor, Jasper, isn't thrilled with the idea either.
- Three survivors of an Okinawa platoon gather for a reunion. Their sergeant was accused of turning his back and running from the Japanese enemy.
- The person in possession of a magical Arabic parchment is able to ascertain the thoughts of another. A ruthless businessman uses the document to capitalize on the genius thoughts of the company president, leaving said president with no ideas of his own left to use.
- A psychotic woman imagines her husband is cheating, so she kills the supposed "other woman" with a poisonous rattler. When her husband learns of this, she attempts to kill herself and frame her husband was the murderer.
- An average guy has the misfortune of being a dead ringer for a wax figure that has a curse attached to it.
- A nuclear physicist is pursued by an invisible being described as "a soft, shapeless, mindless lump". The blob falls in love with the scientist and begins caressing and fondling him, even when he's giving lectures.
- A man is framed by a political boss for a murder he didn't commit. His daughter asks for help from an honest judge and they uncover a web of extensive political corruption.
- Paul, an artist, is obsessed with his former love Leda, who has become since their breakup involved with another man, Nelson. Knowing Leda's vanity, Paul paints a magnificent portrait of her and presents it to her at the lavish apartment where she and Nelson live. It adorns the living room of the apartment. Leda eventually notices something strange. When the arm in the portrait gets scratched, Leda's own arm suddenly gets a scratch. Lida rejects Paul's continued overtures and the notion that something supernatural is happening with regards to the portrait. Then she moves the portrait into her bedroom and hangs it over her bed.
- A wife makes a frantic call to a judge on the other side of the country, hoping to save her husband from going to the gallows. The problem is that she has only a half-hour before the execution, and in the background the clock is ticking off the seconds.
- A young man's dream woman, created solely by his imagination, comes to life in the form of a murder victim. She comes back to spite the man responsible for her death.
- A judge expires while having his portrait painted. A pair or art dealers try and convince the artist to finish the project.
- One rainy afternoon, Takashi and Kyoko spot Minori standing alone on the street and call out to her. Later, they make a promise that brings Minori to tears.
- Following a plane crash, an Air Force captain is ignored by everyone he comes into contact with. They act as though he was as invisible as a ghost.
- A television director's conscience begins to bother him after cutting out lines and characters in a writer's script. A pair of those character come to life and demand their missing words.
- A man buys a bottle with an imp inside that grants wishes. However, the bottle is cursed; if the holder dies bearing it, his or her soul is forfeited to hell.
- In a macabre farce, a conniving old widow fakes her own death in a plan to outsmart her crooked attorney. When she unintentionally actually dies, she comes back as a spirit to make sure her estate goes to her niece, not the shady lawyer.
- A heartbroken woman refuses to believe that her sweetheart has passed away.
- What dark secrets are kept in the moldering house of the Usher family?
- A pair of gloves left behind by a murders seem to possess supernatural powers. When a shy little man puts them on his hands, he turns into a smooth-talking operator with a desire to commit crimes.
- Jonathan O'Rourke wills his heart to science so, within an hour of his death, it is removed from his body. The heart surgeon places the organ in a machine to study its beating and is shocked when it continued to throb even when the device is turned off. Even stranger, O'Rourke is still alive!
- A young couple buys a long-abandoned house and discovers why it's been empty for so long: its former occupants from 1939 are still inhabiting the home.
- A group of WWII soldiers are trapped by the Japanese on a mountain top in the Philippines. The spirit of a deceased solder returns to help his friends escape the trap.
- A patient at a mental institution has scientists dumbfounded with his knowledge of atomic bombs and their formulas. As the doctors attempt to "cure" the man, they come to realize he's actually 160 years old.
- Has the doctor murdered his flighty wife? And if he hasn't, will he, sometime soon?
- A ventriloquist slowly begins to take on the personality of his dummy.