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Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997)

May. 25,1997
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Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, 1997, 4 Seasons

Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each episode. It is up to the viewer to decide which stories actually happened and which were completely fabricated by the show’s writers. The answer is revealed by Jonathan Frakes at the conclusion of each episode.

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Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

1997  / TV-PG
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Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each episode. It is up to the viewer to decide which stories actually happened and which were completely fabricated by the show’s writers. The answer is revealed by Jonathan Frakes at the conclusion of each episode.

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Seasons 4 : 2002

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Episode 1 - The Devil's Autograph, Mail Order Degree, The News Stand, The Murder of Roy Hennessey & Mysterious Strangers
June. 27,2002

"The Devil's 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 didn't want anything of his, and he would get the devil's 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 man's 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 man's 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 man's dead body, it was nowhere to be found. The police had Jerry Fletcher in the police car, because Jerry had ended up robbing someone's 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 old's lady named Zorelda's 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 husband's 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 Zorelda's house the night before and revealed themselves as Frank and Jesse James.

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Episode 4 - Second Sight, The Fine Line, The Wrong Turn, Who Was I & You Are Next
July. 04,2002

"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 can't 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 couldn't 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 couldn't remember where to make his delivery. He was shocked because he couldn't 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 life's 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 "you're 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.

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Episode 5 - House of Shadows, One Hand in the Till, Teasdale's Motor Car, The Vision & The Grave
July. 11,2002

"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 son's car breaking down and going into a convenient store to rob the clerk to pay off the debt. "Teasdale's Motor Car" - A passion for a man's car ends up driving him crazy and the car ends up in a cemetery with it's first owner. "The Vision" - A man has a dream that a bridge will collapse, and if he doesn't 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 woman's husband to make him go to prison, but before he died he said "grass won't 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.

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Episode 6 - The Dorm, The Child Artist, The Weatherman, Sit-Down Comic & Room 245
July. 18,2002

"The Dorm" - A College student moves into her new dorm and gets a strange feeling when ever she's inside it she learns that a there's 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 room's 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 Joey's 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 don't recognize her she suspects that the doctor and her manager have something else going on when she discovers her mother missing.

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Episode 9 - The Wealthy Widow, The Witness, The Accident, Bad Dreams & Mental
August. 08,2002

"The Wealthy Widow" - When Dirk tried to marry a set-for-life farm lady (Cassie), he tried to find her dead husband's 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 Cassie's 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 Dirk's 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 "I'm 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 who's 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 didn't want him to lite one because she saw a fire in her dream, and then the car alarm outside started alarming. She didn't 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 didn't 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.

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Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each episode. It is up to the viewer to decide which stories actually happened and which were completely fabricated by the show’s writers. The answer is revealed by Jonathan Frakes at the conclusion of each episode.

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