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- Professor Carroll is a political theorist who nonetheless has a neutral stance when it comes to radical involvement. However he becomes strangely political after sniffing a rare Latin American flower, unaware that it was stained with the blood of a famous revolutionary.
- A recovering alcoholic returns to his family from an extended stay in rehabilitation. His sobriety is put to the test, as are his beliefs in the supernatural, when his son is trapped in a cave-in.
- In 1883, a Boston newspaperman writes a detailed eyewitness account of a natural disaster -- a full day before it happens. Working in his office late one night, Henry Soames finds his concentration rocked by four momentous explosions. When he emerges from his trance, he files a sensational report about the eruption of Krakatoa, a volcano in the Dutch East Indies. The paper's editors run the story across the front page and the following morning the paper sells like hotcakes. Eager to promote his new ace reporter, the publisher is puzzled when Soames denies responsibility for the scoop -- he can't even remember where he was the night before. Word leaks out to the public, and Soames soon finds himself in the reluctant position of town seer.
- A man confesses to murdering a child, but the members of his church swear that at the time of the killing the man was asleep in a pew.
- A young Englishwoman is suddenly wracked by dreams of drowning in the ocean. She is stunned when her fiancée tells her that he has prepared a surprise honeymoon trip for them--they're sailing to New York on the passenger liner Titanic.
- A troubled painter is obsessed with painting a young lady he's never met before. He determines to find her in real life before the obsession drives him crazy.
- In 1941 two sailors from HMS Hood, Watson and Breed, hear a strange radio broadcast stating that the ship has been sunk with heavy loss of life. Their shipmate Robin Hughes, however, hears that he will live to a ripe old age. When it is time for the ship to sail Hughes is reassigned at the last minute. The radio message proves to be a tragic omen for Breed and Watson whilst the real Hughes appears in the studio to talk about his belief in the supernatural.
- During the Second World war a Nazi general invites locals, whom he later plans to send to death camps, to a château for a celebration which, in its detail, copies one held there a hundred and fifty years earlier. However the ghosts of the original celebrants return to stop his plan,
- Standing on a soap-box, Harvey Lawrence proclaims that he killed a man. A flashback reveals that when he was an up-and-coming lawyer prosecuting a man for murder he deliberately allowed the man to hang even though Sarah, the supposed victim came to see Lawrence. When Sarah reappears after many years Lawrence's past catches up with him.
- From early childhood Stephen Bolt has frightening dreams of a man's ominous face. Later he sees that the man's hand threatens him with a knife. Stephen knows the dreams are a premonition of his death, but his family are unsympathetic. When he grows up, Stephen goes to sea to escape his tormentor.
- Ruth Goldman, a survivor of the Nazi death camps, receives a visitor, Hessler, a German officer who oversaw her cruel treatment during her imprisonment and she kills him. However when she confesses and a doctor examines the body it turns out that Hessler has been dead for several years previously.
- Will and Esther Hollis, a childless American couple, rent an old house in London. Esther is convinced she can hear a child crying though nobody else can. She locates the cries to an upstairs room, which she enters. There is indeed a little girl in the room but Esther has somehow travelled back into the previous century by her actions.
- In World War One German officer Reitliger enlists the help of Karnak, a man with supposed psychic powers, to find out how his girlfriend Elsa is faring back in Germany. Seeing a vision of her infidelity he gets Karnak to will him back home where he kills Elsa but no one will believe him as the murder was down to an out of body experience and nobody can be in two places at once. Ultimately Reitlinger decides on a way to ensure he is punished.
- Three years after the death of artist Pedro Castera, his painting The Storm is unveiled as being recently completed. His college contemporary Adelle Bernheim and her husband travel to Pedro's native village where, after meeting with initial hostility, they are told how the ghost of Pedro enabled one of the villagers to complete the work.
- Following an earthquake in Asia Minor three living people are dug out of the rubble. They claim that a fourth man, who has died, was the driving force who sustained their battle for survival, but finger prints reveal him to be a prisoner who died some time before the quake.
- Miss Cartwright is hired to be the new governess to young Pamela. Cartwright immediately dismisses Pamela's beloved nanny, Mrs. Murphy, and finds a punishment room for the child in the basement. Pamela's favorite toy is a stuffed tiger, which becomes the focus of Pamela's revenge against the dictatorial governess. Strange and ominous things begin to happen that can only be explained as psychic phenomena.
- A British couple attending a dinner party, at an Italian villa, where young medical student Tony Hudson studies the effects of a strobe light on the wife, Mary Low, who volunteered. While in a trance Mary becomes hysterical, claiming that she can sense a man trapped in a lift, at an unknown villa.
- A look behind the scenes of Heathrow Airport's Animal Reception Centre, where staff deal with an angry cat, an agitated alpaca and five bear cuscuses. Last in the series.