One Step Beyond (TV-1960) WHERE ARE THEY S3E12

[@wellrose17]

Anyone else binge watching these? Thanks PizzaFlix! I would of never of known about this . This episode make me want to research these.

[@upthedownescalator630]

I am

[@yb0647]

I think you will find (sadly) all of these stories are urban myths or have no real basis in fact...used to enjoy them as a kid though.

[@donnaabrams2570]

Yeah I never heard of the series before but they’re entertaining me during the pandemic.

[@shane013a]

@@yb0647 Wrong, sorry to burst your bubble but I've tracked down a lot of stuff and I suggest you check out a man called Charles Fort, I think he'll be someone you will like.

[@maxi6542]

Yes. They’re fun. But no Hitchcock hour

[@rosaliemerkel]

I Love This Show !!! Still do in 2020 !! i'm 72yrs old .

[@geezermann7865]

Hello. I'm going on 70 this year, and didn't get to watch this show as a kid, but I did get to watch some Twilight Zones. I'm really enjoying these episodes, especially ones like this about unexplained phenomena and people.

[@johnedwards4394]

Ditto.

[@tracy-dg3qq]

@@geezermann7865 still watching in 2021 i love these

[@Sctronic209]

Me too

[@kaygee3994]

You guys had it great! I love the old radio shows and TV like this. Entertaining without being extra. Didnt need explosions to keep you interested.

[@rhammond1963]

In my personal opinion these old 1950s and 60s television shows are better than the modern day shows.

[@jscottupton]

John Newland is as important to this show as Rod Sterling was to Zone. No remake can match it.

[@Mjg503]

Or like Robert Stack to unsolved mysteries.

[@Thomas.3698]

What about Alfred Hitchcock to his show? Does he fit this category?

[@christystaples8271]

But it was Great when John brought it back years later, and he was still the Host. Awesome!

[@latinforever]

Serling.

[@homegown1234]

I believe you are right - both are talented and have incredible charisma as well great voice to make you listen to their prelude of the episodes. Love them both! The only time, as a kid I would get annoyed, when they put on the boxing show instead of Twilight Zone. I would be so mad because they put that damn fight show on tv - on Friday. They did that back in the 50s, which was upsetting to me or the National Election too. LOL

[@richardblayneamerican8149]

I didn't really care if they were 'true' stories or not; they were just good stories! This is one episode I remember well because it was so bizarre! John Newland's great openings and closings always enhanced the chilling effect of the tales.

[@DerickCrooks]

this story has reality to it but the guy is dead look for it on the web its intresting

[@jmark7390]

This is a true story. I am a 84 year old lesbian and that alien tried to convert me. It didn't work so he went back home. I devastated him.

[@l.5832]

Well, they certainly weren't true. I live in Canada and they had an episode described as being quite close to where I live but in reality the town mentioned exists on the other side of the country. And the stereotypical depiction of Canada was quite hilarious, and quite untrue.

[@MollydogRadar]

As a kid, this show scared the BeJeebers out of me. But after watching it now I realize, accept for a couple of episodes, the outcome was always for the good. And yes, the music still sends chills up my spine. Some things never change.

[@Thomas.3698]

I used to be terrified by Twilight Zone & Outer Limits. They were all so real to me as a 6-7-8 yr old. I didn't let my kids watch scary things til they were older. But I loved these shows & still do

[@James-ll3jb]

​@@Thomas.3698We were kucky to have seen them when we did at the age we did. It afforded the culture a degree of artistic and metaphysical curiosity that made a realizable future possible😊

[@one-eyed-jaxbehind-the-duc9720]

As a young kid, this program scared the hell out of me. I wasn’t allowed to watch it at first, but the intro, the music, Yikes!

[@karlschwinbarger105]

I was 9 or 10 when I saw this. And maybe I saw it once in a summer rerun but I could remember it well after 60 years! I had been intrigued by this episode and I have to say when you are older you are not as easily intrigued but the sound track still works for it.

[@FRANKSNAKE71]

I recall watching this at age 6 in 1958. Scared me witless. After that parents wouldn't let me watch again for quite a while🤣🤣

[@paulirish972]

Same here, especially the music.

[@MoorenaEl]

scared of real life? lol

[@ArmenianBishop]

The falling rocks incident is archived in a San Francisco Chronicle article (March, 1922); and, the falling fish incident is archived in a New York Times article (September, 1878).

[@iflarnted]

I've been watching a lot of these episodes and I've come to the conclusion that Stephen King got quite a few of his book ideas from this series.

[@williamshelton4150]

King plaigerized every source he could find. What would he have written had it not been for the work of Lovecraft?

[@vodkanockers5098]

George R. R. Martin once asked Stephen King how wrote his books so fast. Lol that explains a lot

[@NYC1927]

Of course he did! =)

[@ingerrogers1131]

Stephen King has a vivid imagination. If you pull up some of his old interviews, he tells us most of his ideas came from his dreams and nightmares. As I do. I write my bad dreams down and turn them into short stories. Can't get more original than that.

[@lilymarianna8776]

“Good writers borrow, great writers steal.” There’s no author in existence who hasn’t been heavily influenced by their peers and predecessors. No idea is 100% original, as we are all shaped by the things we see and hear as we grow up.

[@Bildgesmythe]

I loved this series. There were so many great and well acted shows in the past. I also loved Twilight Zone, Thriller, Chiller and Outer Limits.

[@whatwillbem6825]

Yes..I remember all these shows also…great walk down memory lane 😁

[@nancyking]

The raining rocks reminds me of a story I heard on Wild West Tech. One time, I can't remember when, fish, oysters, and small rocks rained down. Come to find out, it was a weather phenomenon called a "water spout". A tornado blows up over water and forms a big straw, sucking up everything in its path, then raining it down over a section of town.

[@musicurio]

True, but this would not go on for a long time though, surely?

[@roseterry2744]

I heard that too, but back then it wasn't heard of.

[@melanies.6030]

Exactly at 3pm for several days? 😂

[@Zichronot]

"I'll write the truth" such fantasy today! ! That news worried about being truthful to the public. Amazing.

[@jondory9378]

Today that would be, "I'll spin the truth".

[@frankcabanski9409]

Never. News has always been biased.

[@donnyrover1]

60 years old and better than all the "paranormal" stuff on tv today

[@johnraymond4322]

I remember watching these program when they first came out in 1959. After the first episode my wife refused to watch anymore. Therefore I watched all of these by myself and enjoyed them. Thank you for showing these fine entertaining programs.

[@walterglowacki2185]

I'm 68 years old and remember the show about George Washington with the Indian spirit and 60 years later I fine that show here WOW!

[@upthedownescalator630]

Moment of Decision

[@richardaaronringquist3316]

I'm 71 and remember most of these...always great to watch them again

[@me2ontube]

@@richardaaronringquist3316 are these true stories are just tv entertainment

[@deborahwallace9801]

Ya that blows my mind too to hear his beautiful calming voice, amazing and thrilling to watch,yes

[@deborahwallace9801]

I find it to be phenomenal bet the old people in the nursing homes would love the music in the cartoons as well remember SEA HUNT,Lloyd Bridges I was ijn love his soft voice so calming wish that one came on haha good morning!

[@Mutlap]

the reporter said, "I'll write the truth" what a novel idea

[@SoloPilot6]

That was a long time ago.

[@christrinder1255]

😅😂🤣

[@glennmartin5857]

When did they start doing that ??

[@stormwatcher59]

@@glennmartin5857 - not recently

[@jerryleroy9187]

Those 2 guys from the big city as reporters, must have been sent by CNN.

[@locadisa]

I used to watch this show when I was just a child. The music used to scare me and the face of Newland plagued me even in my adulthood. 10 years ago I was able to find several cd's of the episodes and was fortunate to collect them not realizing that I could see most of them on line. I needed to see every one of them in order to face my fears. 55 yrs later I still feel a little haunted when I hear the theme song. Good thing is that I can now skip through it. Amazing what goes on in the mind of a child that can effect you all through life.

[@sylvia4312]

locadisa this episode scared me when I first saw it as a kid. as remember having to go to bed after. The music was creepy and I put the covers over my head whenever I heard it on later episodes.

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

outer limits type theme. in fact, it was the same composer as the 2nd season of the outer limits harry lubin,known for his haunting theme.

[@patstokes3615]

@@sylvia4312 I know we always had to go to bed after this program. I one that scared me the most and never forgot, and I'm 70 now, is the one with the stain on the wall of a women that was murdered.. I saw it the other day and had forgotten how terrible the face was. No wonder I never forgot it, just blocked that face from my mind.

[@rmanney100]

It was the X files theme song for me 😂😂😂😂

[@songbirdy]

Yoncé Knowles Unsolved Mysteries theme song always made me feel uneasy and I was in my 30s then.

[@DerangedLeftWingers]

to bad John Newland and Rod Sterling didn't team up and make more create shows

[@lovingmayberry307]

PorkyPrucklyPants Serling not Sterling.

[@barbaravick5634]

PorkyPricklyPants Newland was the narrator and sometime director.

[@ninamaldonado2285]

His name was Serling not Sterling, Rod Serling..The studio treated him badly..He was beyond his years in his writing of the stories..They didn't get him and he wrote and smoked himself to death in his early years of a heart attack..he smoked four packs of cigs a day, imagine without a filter..Serling was a genius, Newland was a good host

[@Heart2HeartBooks]

If I am not mistaken ...didn't they both die young of lung cancer?

[@freddietommie1904]

w/ Vincent Price, Robert Stack, & Karl Malden

[@poohbearrichie72]

I remember back in the early 1980s news reports of stones and rocks coming from nowhere and hitting and smashing the windows in Thornton Road Birmingham (where I live) the police were called on several occasions thinking it was children playing the neighbours up but the police sat and watched in trees and bushes for nights and watched the stones and rocks appear from nowhere hitting the windows but could find no explanation for them. The householders had to put wire netting over the windows to stop them from being smashed every night. It stopped as suddenly as it started with no explanation after months of being terrorised every night. To this day there remains no explanation for this paranormal activity. A KZbin video of the account can be searched for under Thornton Road haunting.

[@agriperma]

Some 45 years ago, when I was young, I experienced raining rocks, but different than the ones in this series, these were smaller, I was very skeptic , and obviously thought it was kids with a sling shot, for one, they didn't rain down like a shower, they would come down one or two at a time. from this description, anyone would think it was just someone playing a prank, until give more details, it didn't matter when you went out into the area, and the rocks would come from different directions, there are no rocks in the areas, it was just farmland and empty fields, and the rocks would fall all over this area, I took many friends and family out there, and they witnessed it, some never visited me again, I was never afraid of this, I snuck out of my house at 11 at night once, and yep they fell, never hitting me or anyone, but they would land nearby. anyway, months later we moved away, and years later I returned to the area, the rock did not fall. that's basically it for my personal weird phenomena experiences, no aliens, no bigfoots, or ghost stories, just rocks from the sky, so obviously i was interested in the Chico, and your story in Birmingham.

[@mobberleyman6112]

poobear, although an interesting story, i presume you read about it rather than experienced the situation yourself. You should not be describing an event you did not witness as paranormal, all you can do is say there remains no explanation for the event, you cannot infer true paranormal activity unless you are 100% certain that was the cause. I have to say im like the 2 out of town reporters in the video, id have to experience the situation myself before even considering it may be paranormal

[@isabellind1292]

@@mobberleyman6112 I was standing outside a local strip mall beneath the edge of the roof when something hit me in the head and fell to the ground and when I looked down to see what hit me, I saw it was a stone and I looked above me and don't you know, there stood a crow at the edge of the roof and he'd dropped the stone on my head! Thank goodness he hadn't taken off or I might have wondered where on Earth (or beyond) the stone had come from!🙄

[@analogchris9084]

I was too little to stay up late with the grown-ups and watch this show when the series ran on TV....but if l cracked the bedroom door of my aunt's room "just so" l could just barley see part of the black and white picture TV in the living room....and l could hear the opening music of the program!! WHAT EXCITEMENT!! ....and l was feeling soooo very proud & brave 😂 ! Alas: my caper was discovered the next week....and my TV snooping days were over. 🎭 By the time THE TWILIGHT ZONE series started, l was moved to an upstairs bedroom...and my bedtime was 7PM until high school years. I could hear THE TWILIGHT ZONE music all the way upstairs in my room. Now that l am 66 years old, can FINALLY see both of these series here on KZbin......THANKS FOR POSTING!!!! My beloved grandparents are no longer alive.........but these shows show so well the type of adults that were around in the USA back then. They were mostly from the "Great Depression/WWII" ERAs....dubbed rightly "THE GREATEST GENERATION"....."SALT OF THE EARTH PEOPLE "...,full of kindness and compassion for everyone: near and far.....and honest in all situations....and their daily teaching to me was ALWAYS TO "DO THE RIGHT THING !!! This show is a great reminder of the wonderful character that Americans in thist country once were! I would simply not have become who l am without them. I miss them everyday ..... but in a very real sense: they are still with me. I am now 66 years old. Love your children.... Hold them close.... Teach them well. Peace & Love..... ✌ 💕 🙏 .

[@MonicaO-f3q]

Hi AnalogChris -- ! I see it has been a year since you posted your comment, but I had to tell you how much it touched my heart! My parents were of that GREATEST GENERATION, and they taught me so much by their example -- kindness, hard work and honesty! I miss them, and carry their memory with me everyday! Thanks so much for sharing your memories and thoughts! ♥ - M.

[@darnelleechols8556]

Thanks for the upload PizzaFlix.

[@sincerelyyours7538]

I'm glad I chanced upon this episode! I remember seeing it at least 50 years ago in my youth and often wished I could see it again and verify its purported facts with more modern information. I'm referring to the second half of the film, the part that talks about a magic "pill" that can turn water into gasoline. My grandfather had a similar encounter with a fellow in Holland in, oddly enough, 1917, the year this event supposedly took place. This fellow had invented an alternate fuel that my grandfather, an educated engineer and an officer of the Royal Naval Air Service at the time, was tasked with testing. (The RNAS was the British aerial bombing service before it joined with the RFC and became the RAF in April 1918). The man in this case was a private inventor and his fuel was not derived from water and a magic pill, but it was "cleaner, more powerful, more efficient, cheaper to produce and better in every way than gasoline", according my grandfather's diary. The man called it "fultine" and it worked like a charm in a test engine set up very much like the test depicted in this film. Grandfather witnessed the test and sent his report in to the British Admiralty but never heard from them, or the man, about it again. Much more recently I did my own research and found that ethanol was actively being tested in several countries that year as an easier to produce replacement for gasoline for the Allied cause in WW1. Ethanol, of course, can be made from any fermentable organic stock from corn stalks to seaweed and so would have made an excellent unlimited fuel source for the Allies if stocks of oil and gasoline were to run low. It, however, never made it as an alternate fuel on its own and is today only mixed with other fuels to reduce costs and lower emissions. The story in this episode appears to be fiction, and it isn't the only such story about a new mystery fuel made from water, but it is interesting how war-time developments can blend with popular fiction over time, isn't it?

[@lisa.user-xm7kz2tb6x]

Sincerely Yours- 👍👊✌-lisa

[@coiledsteel8344]

Sincerely Yours. VERY GOOD! At least you keep an open MIND - not like the "hatters" and trolls here. Just think IF people, from 100 years ago, saw what we have TODAY - think some might say it was - MAGIC?🤔🙄

[@markhamsmith2171]

Sincerely Yours Markham

[@misterrobert6799]

cool story bro.

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

now we see people like stanly myers and bob lazar making hydrogen from water and driving cars with it

[@carlenemoon3262]

you are over 50 if you remember this series...

[@MissMarinaCapri]

Carlene Moon, guilty!

[@kathyhodges9787]

I'm over 60 and I remember

[@ingerrogers1131]

58 to be exact, and I didn't start watching any of the old classics like this until I was in my thirties. As a kid, I didn't have time for television.

[@kevmodee1866]

Yep...54! Loved this series; as well as Masterpiece Theater, Twilight Zone, Night Stalker.

[@Zichronot]

Yes I am. 😏

[@miapdx503]

It's September, 2022. This channel is my happy place, where I come to escape these horrible times we live in. Be safe, be well...and most of all, let's be kind to each other 🌹

[@josephdelatorre3751]

And to this date 2019 there have been at least 11 people who have been able to make the automobile combustion engine work with water, and all 11 of them have been killed under odd circumstances. That is a true story it is documented and you can look it up.

[@vargr]

All killed off by big oil and Halliburton.

[@oliviajohnjohnolivia8142]

It also can work from sperm.

[@hewitc]

It's total bull. This guy was a fraudster.

[@frankcabanski9409]

Baloney. In this story, the real life version, the guy was a fraud. When people saw through his con, he returned to Canada.

[@deusvolt2146]

@@frankcabanski9409 Water is hydrogen and oxygen...two highly flammable gasses. Of course it can be done.

[@beeorganic]

@17:59 Now I don't mean to sound over-picky here; however, this guy was worried about someone stealing/analyzing the mixture (being the purpose of pouring it down the drain). I tend to believe there would be enough leftover in the drain trap to do a chemical analysis with. I probably would have never thought of this unless I hadn't replaced the kitchen sink earlier today.

[@DidivsIvlianvs]

There's a tank full to analyze in the secretary's car.

[@paulhagen5645]

I had never seen this show before. I can remember, Outer limits, the Twilight zone, and I had heard of this. I'm glad that now I can watch these great shows.

[@kulavoorjagadish1277]

Instead of rocks falling, about 8 months ago, may 2018 during rainy season witnessed tons of fish falling over our village # Harekala, India.

[@lorinedrow8150]

Kulavoor Jagadish interesting, tell me more???

[@karenengelhardt1610]

That's not supernatural. It happens all over the world. Fish are sucked into waterspout clouds and carried sometimes thousands of miles in storms to fall on land.

[@lauraarcher1730]

Did you eat them?!!

[@barbaravick5634]

Kulavoor Jagadish Not terribly unique. Waterspouts can carry fish for many miles.

[@dr.wisdom7917]

I believe it, these days strange things do happen

[@dmontoya351]

1 of my dad's favorite still is 2021😘!!

[@thurayya8905]

I live in Chico, California, and I had never heard of this. I need to look this up! Chico is a beautiful town; the back lot they shot this on does not capture it in the least.

[@Marsbonfire007]

He disappeared alright... courtesy of big oil.

[@williammartinec5798]

Rudolf Diesel disappeared but not his engine

[@fjccommish]

In the true life story, he returned to Canada. His demonstration had been a fraud.

[@jamesvickers9476]

Big oil companies found out about this an said he must go...more to this story then they are telling

[@hewitc]

This old chestnut. Wishful thinking. Urban myth.

[@jenjennitrite8146]

He was probably killed in a most egregious fashion! 😱

[@Earthdogbonzo3]

This show is well done, thought provoking and entertaining without color and any of the other gratuitous nonsense.

[@jsl151850b]

In the Robert Heinlein short story 'Let There Be Light' (1940) a guy invents an easy to manufacture 40% efficient solar cell. He knows his invention will be quashed and his life is in danger so he sends the formula and manufacturing procedure to every newspaper in the country for free, asking only for a commission of $0.01 per square foot sold. He's soon rich.

[@slimdudeDJC]

Sometimes the best defense is a very open one.

[@edwardwerick2420]

"Have Space Suit Will Travel" was the first book I checked out of the school library while in 8th grade. I was hooked and have read nearly every word the good Dr Bob ever wrote. I especially like his concept of EARNING the right of franchise (voting) by 6 years of military service. I understand Israel has something like it. I wish America did as well.

[@frankcabanski9409]

Terrific. The real life story fictionalized in this episode was a con man with a fake demonstration. When he was found out, he returned to Canada.

[@ZXM23NYC32LA2ZEE]

This man’s grandson was believed to have made a special kind of watch. One that you can make telephone calls on, one that would monitor your general health, and one that would access endless amounts of information. His grandson was known to only eat apples. The grandson vanished after taking a walk in an apple orchard in Washington State.

[@ZXM23NYC32LA2ZEE]

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[@_John_Tyree_]

Frank, the village idiot...? XD

[@roseterry2744]

Is stumbled across this series that I haven't seen since forever. It is as good now as it was back then! I love John Newland as the host Brings back good memories! Great scripts and good actors! I read the other comments..and I am 72 too but it's 2023! They don't make shows like this anymore! 🤗🙋🌹

[@russg1801]

Yeah, a rock the size of a brick falls from the sky at terminal velocity, hits a man in the head, and he's only 'knocked out!"

[@veomamaples6189]

😜😂😂😂😂😂😁

[@scarletdamsel3139]

lmbooo

[@nancyhowell4505]

They did fall slowly too, also mentioned. Watching it hit his head didn't look like terminal velocity, IMO. 🙂

[@ravenchanticlare4329]

I think back then they knew how to tell a story with less.AND I it was all in the story.GOOD WORK GUYS!nice upload!👍😎✌

[@stevengrotte2987]

An excellent series, I thought so when I first saw it 60 years ago,

[@karlschwinbarger105]

Me too!

[@lesterhall5145]

Shark tank woulda loved this guy.

[@vargr]

We should feed shark tank to real sharks. Loads of luaghs.

[@toddaulner5393]

Would have offered him $20,00] and 10% royalty.

[@alanfletcher7356]

I was a mechanic at a GM dealership for over 35 years. Anybody with even first year mechanic training knows that there is absolutely nothing you can do to water to make it burn in an internal combustion engine. I heard a story years ago about a guy that made an engine that got something like 150 miles to a gallon. It was rumored that he was done away with by some oil company higher ups or the government. But that was probably just an urban legend.

[@orange70383]

Except break it down to hydrogen and oxygen.

[@Xezlec]

Sure there is. If you can turn it into something else via a chemical reaction. But the energy content would have to come from somewhere. That's the part these stories seem not to think about.

[@Bebecat477]

Or was it...

[@sparsparkster]

It went the same place as that 85 mile per gallon carburetor

[@AngryHybridApe]

New York Times...that explains everything.

[@reach4thestars67]

Interesting episode. Thank you for uploading.

[@community1949]

Betcha a nickel they did find a way to run engines on water. And that discovery was buried to protect oil, gas, and coal.

[@michaelwertzy9808]

@@stevebergman6431, can you actually enjoy and figure out that it's fictional entertainment? You're trying to impress the wrong people, Mr. wizard, I bet you put a lampshade on to be the "life of the party". Even Einstein had quite a sense of humor! You're pitiful to say the least, mommies calling.

[@olivespeppers4234]

agree yet with a slight modification the technology isn't buried yet the people who knew/know the technology are/were buried, the sorcerers need to "control" the herd/slaves to stay in they're mind "power"

[@lexied]

Just think of all the people that could have starved without jobs.

[@charlesmurphy1510]

Nancy Desch of course they did, it’s called hydrogen electrolysis

[@ingridclare7411]

They did . Its known...

[@shyloduffy4118]

I've never even heard of this show...I'm just so glad I somehow landed on this chanel of youres I use to love the outer limits and twilight show..I find it so weird that I've not ever heard of this one , Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@debiking6657]

I have never heard of this show either. Twilight zone was a great show. Watching this show the rocks falling looked very familiar. I was born in 1956. Do you know the year this episode played

[@somelady2965]

I currently live in Chico. Took the Bidwell Mansion tour with my daughter on a class trip, it was really neat. Neat stories about a neat lady.

[@septemberquest6393]

Iconic, classic series,. Just like twilight zone and Alfred Hitchcock...outer limits...these shows set the bar for all mystery, paranormal, horror film....🎥

[@TaC0Man909]

Gettin ready to settle down for the night. ❤ this show

[@GreatDayEveryone]

KZbin rocks! I love finding these old series. Really fun. There's one about a spy who's 6 inches tall!!

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you!

[@venetia6296]

I love these short stories that respect our intellect. 👍😎

[@haroldwilkes6608]

Bingo! That's the key, they're not dumbed down to the lowest possible mentality. Thinking has been taboo for a number of years.

[@lestatangel]

5:22 "...cranks all over the world, even in San Francisco." Mostly San Francisco.

[@restcure]

Emperor Norton was only the beginning

[@jenna_baker]

Yeah goes to show that people born and raised in the bay area tend to be stuck up since the beginning lol

[@coinpat]

My two favorite episodes from this unforgettable show.

[@stanleytimms8578]

I first watched this episode when I was 11 and it always sparked my interest especially as a vehicle owner since 1970, true or not. The music is still frightening as well as John Newland's intriguing monologue. Glad I found it again.

[@dodecaheathenblue8132]

Chico is where we live...love this !!!

[@summersolstice884]

Gasoline pill story ... I wonder if any of these bright men ever thought of retrieving the mixture from the sink trap?? Yes ... these are great stories to watch ... thank you ...

[@sparsparkster]

Or the gas tank

[@shanemike3070]

Electricity can split water to Hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen is very flammable and you can run a engine of it and have pure oxygen entering the air intake. I dont think a pill added to water would split H2O, still very interesting episode

[@WitchidWitchid]

Problem is that via electrolysis of water even at 100% efficiency you won't get more energy out than you have to put in to break the molecular bonds.

[@skatpak2967]

it was a fake pill..the water is what the engine ran on..just like they can make now..seems the guy that made that engine...well he ended up in jail..and who knows what ever happened to him...lol..all part of the machine..that is life

[@frankcabanski9409]

The gas pill is the story of John Andrews. He pitched his gasoline powder to the U.S. Navy, but then he disappeared. It turned out he had returned to Canada. His pitch was a fraud.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

Hydrogen is still being studied as a potential alternative...who knows, it may happen.

[@Thomas.3698]

​@@WitchidWitchidwell how much effort & energy goes into obtaining oil & making it into gas? Maybe, both require a lot of work (energy) but one wouldn't pollute everything? Just wondering about it. I'm not a scientist

[@shanghaibennyii6565]

Gasoline from Alka seltzer. Wow

[@fruitsoflabor7114]

2023 and I don't think I ever saw this episode. 📺

[@Bill23799]

This really did happen in the town of Chico in 1922.

[@Lolabelle59]

cherylcolwell.com/2455-2/

[@davehallett3128]

The premise of this series is that all these stories did happen

[@qianaglaze1687]

Wow really I was wandering... Chico is a weird place...

[@Unfamous_Buddha]

The fish falling from the sky happens when a Waterspout (tornado over water) sucks up things from the water then drops them over land.

[@beandavid3651]

The second show about the man who had pills to convert water to gas for 2 cents per 10 gallons ended up disappearing and never being heard of again.....if it happened once it could happen again.

[@tamarwilliams446]

The first story scared me. It really did.

[@thefoxx6262]

Why dont they ever stay by the person who is a mystery and genius" instead they always turn their backs on them .....

[@jamessmith7691]

I really like these old shows. Many are so much better than the ones of today.

[@kathleenking47]

Better writers Today, writers are raised on screens. It's not the same

[@yolaa23]

Big rocks are falling from the sky and Frank is just going to stand there..🤦

[@karenengelhardt1610]

Well that's Frank for you.

[@jamesmueller8701]

@@karenengelhardt1610 ,,, Thanks ... That was "cute" ,,, Made me smile ... I like that i like that in a person ...

[@karenengelhardt1610]

@@jamesmueller8701 Cheers 🍻

[@INDYOSKARS]

"Dummies are everywhere, even in San Fransisco"

[@lendus.adolla]

Frank had rocks in his head. Shit for brains!

[@hammadoolass]

I LOVE JOHN NEWLAND

[@hammadoolass]

@Good Morning Good Afternoon and Good Night No, it's a Greek island

[@hammadoolass]

@Good Morning Good Afternoon and Good Night Sauvignon Blanc and Muscadet - and you?

[@lavieenrose5954]

@@hammadoolass They’re my two favourite white wines 🥂!

[@mojavegreen2072]

The rocks came from Mount Lassen, seventy miles from Chico. It blew last in 1920s. Can’t say they weren’t warned!

[@ursulapainter5787]

I read the story of Charles Elton sometime in the early 1970's. I remember that it stated he conducted the test in a U.S. Navy lab in 1905. Within a few years, he disappeared and his home where he lived alone had been ransacked. He was survived by a sister.

[@frankcabanski9409]

Hogwash. The gas pill is the story of John Andrews. He pitched his gasoline powder to the U.S. Navy, but then he disappeared. It turned out he had returned to Canada. His pitch was a fraud.

[@mtsflorida]

@@frankcabanski9409 he pitched it to Great Britain too for I think 15 million and was accepted there. This was no fraud. Technology is there suppressed by different governments the same as the hydrogen generator. As a kid I experimented with sodium, sulfur, calcium,phosphorus, manganese, magnesium and with probably carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen you can get simular reactions from a synthetic product. Like all great men of science that invent or realize (Tesla, Leedskalnin..) nor all people want their secrets out.

[@frankcabanski9409]

@@mtsflorida He was a fraud.

[@marccolten9801]

@@frankcabanski9409 So _they_ got to you too!

[@10-4-goodbuddy]

Just the “introduction” of this show used to scared the daylights out of me, and still haunts me till this day... 😳

[@knottreel]

The excellent acting, music, and Newland's delivery made these episodes so believable. They scared the crap out of me.

[@willfade7994]

Me too! I love this stuff as much as I love The Twilight Zone. There’s a certain nostalgia that’s irreplaceable about the old black and white shows too.

[@grimsfairytalez9777]

1:23 Dr Stanley can't fix Franks stupidity unfortunately.

[@melthedog6969]

Great show...used to watch it when i was a younger man...lol!There was a guy in Australia that made either a fuel fromwater or an engine that ran on water...i believe you can or could(not sure now)watch a video on KZbin of him driving his vehicle with water.....sadly he was murdered...of course!

[@immrnoidall]

"oh no . big rocks are falling from the sky." " quick. everyone get under the cloth porch roof."

[@lc2748]

LOLLLOLOL!!!

[@christinav.lhlimpuii706]

Lol.... Or stare at it till it falls on you😂😂😂

[@rafaelramirez3180]

immrnoidall 😂😂😂😂😂

[@josephkane8176]

Lol. I think everyone thought the same. Interesting episode though.

[@amyntut]

LOL !

[@johnallen2771]

I live just outside of Chico, CA, and I wasn't aware of this part of their history. Truly bizarre that rocks could fall out of the air like that as well as fish. We do have some active volcanos around here and I wonder if they could have shot that up in the air. But how could it happen at exactly the same time every day? Curious.

[@ucc1-308]

Never happened. This show is just fiction. I'm from Chico and never heard of it.

[@tomfromeriej4611]

LOL lolol

[@tarynmosakowski3512]

@@ucc1-308 look it up

[@YaoEspirito]

@@ucc1-308 One Step Beyond's business model was dramatizing bizarre stories that had some foundation in truth.

[@ucc1-308]

@@YaoEspirito actually they were all made up

[@orange70383]

Things like this happen often and I'm sure they're investigated fully but we aren't told about them. You hear talk of someone telling of something odd happening here and there but it's always discounted or forgotten. How would one get there story out if all news sources are censoring the news, you have no other way to tell your story except maybe a youtube video if it doesn't get pulled. Information is tightly controlled and nobody takes word of mouth stories seriously, even if people believed the stories nothing could be done about them, no real coverage. Your reality is very controlled and you only know what you're told, think about that, you only know what you are told, you're 100% controlled.

[@truthmatters-jt5up]

other workings are at hand as well. years ago, my brother and a friend of his invented a system that made oil filters and the process of changing them obsolete, with the replacement system costing pennies. when they tried to develop it, their lives were threatened. and bill gates kills as much if not more technology than he produces, after buying all rights to it.

[@jerryleroy9187]

When I was a kid about 40 years ago, my friend's dad invented some kind of copper hose spring looking thing that looked like it was off of a still. He had it wrapped around the block of the engine and the manifold. It would heat up the fuel and expand and he would get at least 40 miles to a gallon. One day there were 4 men that showed up in a big old black Cadillac and had a talk to him. 10 minutes later a tow truck showed up and took the car away never to be seen again. He was served papers from the government that day also from the men who came to the house and he also was threatened. He never talked about it much after that, he was quite paranoid about letting the wrong person hear about it. Weirdest thing though. He had to sign some papers that he would never do it again and not tell anyone about it under the penalty of prosecution. They said he could spend the rest of his life in prison. They said that it was a threat to the national security of the country and that he better comply.

[@richardpruett7500]

Two different vignettes with little in common. The rocks falling down on Chico were almost certainly brimstone from Mt. St. Helens or another volcano. Perhaps the synthetic fuel inventor was lured outside the Secretary's office and then kidnapped by agents of the Seven Sisters oil companies.

[@LuckyBaldwin777]

In the old days, miners used a lamp called a carbide lamp. They ran on acetylene that was produced by adding a chunk of calcium carbide to water. Can't help but think the gas pill has something to do with that.

[@marvwatkins7029]

That Rolls was too modern for 1917. Still, I hope that it and the other antique cars shown in this episode are still around.

[@toddaulner5393]

1922

[@terryford8280]

THIS IS A TIMELESS GEM 💎!! 💕👍💞😘

[@Believe_on_the_LordJESUSChrist]

water is more valuable than most might think.

[@yb0647]

Sadly none of the stories are based on anything more than dramatic licence and urban myth. Check them out..no original references or historical record of specific people or confirmed events...Good tv for 1960 but true....sorry no

[@melbae.1124]

Great episode! Makes me think How many secrets there are in the world and we are not prepared to received them because our intellectual IQ is not prepared for that?

[@cathycarlin8747]

You mean like Tesla, who figured out how to send electricity out without wires! The government never lets anything go for free when they can make money from it. Corrupt to the core!

[@hazeleyes1951]

Wow that was a great episode,great ending! I didn’t know those things about identical twins! I don’t know if my dad was identical because he and my uncle looked so much alike people would make mistakes! But they both had the same interests I mean with everything!!

[@raysantiago3750]

It's amazing how after over 50 years ago, I would watch these Sci-fi movies at night and still remember the plot. One Step Beyond, Outer Limits, Night Gallery and many more. Special movies 🍿🥤🍫🍭🍩🍪🥛☕🍬🥧 being entertained. ❤ SoCal USA 🇺🇲

[@RatedArggg]

Ah, good ol' Chico, CA. Known for stocking Velveeta in the gourmet section of the grocery store. (Google it.)

[@MikeGreenwood51]

You get rock drops like that if a flock of constipated woolly mammoths are passing overhead at high altitude. It's too hot for them in the USA so they never land there and so no one has ever seem them in the states. But up north of Newfoundland they are the most common type of elephant apart from the elephant seals.

[@MikeGreenwood51]

@Joe Batters Scientists are still working on why they solidify.

[@tharealmikezee3165]

Ha what's up with Frank there, in the middle of the street getting rocks dumped on his head. Could've been fatal! That was really rough times for him, there. WRONG place, WRONG time!!

[@MultiAlanR]

The cast list at the end is for a completely different episode, S2 Ep 27 The Clown

[@rafaelramirez1507]

Correct 👌🏻 , on a DVD that I have it doesn't show no end credits at all ... I wonder why? 🤔

[@lizlocher3612]

This is a very bizarre episode because there is no point for either scenario to have occurred!!! Usually there is a reason for the unusually strange incidents to occur to effect a desired result, like the train stopping saving all the people after the man at the party was made aware of the psychics reading n he didn't believe, but then saw it all was real as he experienced it just like the psychic predicted. The result - to save the people from instant death which only occurred because the coincidence of the reading to the non believer unhinged him so that he tried various ways to change what the psychic said was going to happen because of the rarity n oddity of someone telling the future to you before it even happened, then watching the event unfold exactly as predicted by the psychic when he was on the train. This caused him to pull the emergency brake enabling the train to stop making the crash that would have occurred n took so many lives if it had not been thwarted avoided n saving all the people on the train from death n injury. No one knew there was a stalled train ahead no way of telling anyone about it as the mechanical components in the warning system were not even working so there was no way to alarm the engineer to avoid the crash n everyone would have been hurt n killed. The psychic reading so alarmed the man on the train when it played out exactly as predicted he was upset enough to do anything to change the outcome of the incidence so he pulled said brake. These are unusual but the obvious outcome showed the reason she had the vision n he was at that particular party to have been told it.. these other two stories were just something that really happened but it changed no outcome nor helped anyone, so the question still remains "Why" did these two incidents occurred??? Very spooky because there is no conclusion to the reason people were exposed to the rocks falling out of the sky on that town or the invention was not able to benefit anything or anyone..There can be reasons we have no earthly idea for some occurrences, because God does not have to supply an explanation or a reason because He is God. Also many eons later in the existence of the world finally the reasons for these things happening may come out. God has no time limits!!! Very unnerving!!!!

[@Bebecat477]

Still watching this show..thank you for sharing these 😊. That guy was probably accidentally on purpose disappeared from the "other room"

[@SBCBears]

"Based on true, supernatural events that defy scientific explanation...." Now there is a set of assumptions!

[@jondory9378]

...that pretty much confirms it.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

Richard Devon played the gangster who was shot in the limo in the Dirty Harry movie Magnum force.

[@JohnJones-oi1pg]

What about the gas still in the car's gas tank ????

[@redradiodog]

And how did the concoction stay in the tank after that hole had been punched in it?

[@gerberjoanne266]

The inventor said that it was enough to get the car to the State Dept. I imagine that it was also just enough to get them to the laboratory. So, I guess that there was none left.

[@rogerscottcathey]

@@redradiodog : it was a screw cock, not a poked hole. Still, didnt see him screw it back on.

[@JerryEricsson]

@@redradiodog Being a bit younger and not aware of the cars of old, you may have missed the fact that back then there were petcocks that could be used to drain off the water that got into the gas tanks. Since water is heavier then gas, it was not unusual to open the cock and drain off a bit of gas and water to improve the running of the car. The banging you heard was the fellow pounding on the wing nut on the petcock to open the valve and drain off the gas. I know this, of course, because folks used to lock their fuel tanks when kids found out about siphon hoses, so we, who had hot cars but not gas money could find a older rig, put a pan under the drain, and steal a gallon or 5 for a free night of cruising main. I consequently used this well learned method in catching fuel bandits after I joined the poice force.

[@sergeipohkerova7211]

I like this episode but how come Charles Elton poked the gas tank but filled it right after without plugging the hole he made?

[@margaretunderwood6835]

I remember watching these shows when I was little. A few of them I never forgot because they scared me to death.

[@kiajulian4619]

Every One Step Beyond episode story is really documented somewhere. Only a couple of the stories can be attributed to someone's imagination or their conscience or something. (Like the jockey episode). Most are either witnessed by more than one person or couldn't have happened except for some completely weird ass crap. ( Like the mom trapped in the mine--scary!!) That's what makes the show so creepy! Lol!

[@lovingmayberry307]

Why didn't they keep the glass containers that Mr. Elton used? They could've run analyses to discover what the ingredients of his "pill" were, then reverse engineered it.

[@richardtorz2164]

And there would have been some left in the "S" drain trap below the sink still.

[@RSEFX]

I presume in real life---IF anything like this really happened----Elton took more precautions, cleaned up everything etc., which would eat up too much time in such a short episode segment, and probably bore the audience. However, John Newland, in his end summation, could have mentioned, if only in passing, that Elton had taken those precautions. But it was probably felt that too many explanations would've pleased only the die-hard detail fans. Alas.

[@mr.wizard2974]

Just think ..in about 100 years we will all be gone and our offspring will be checking all this out if there is still a world.

[@jeremyripton]

If we're gone...then who will,our offspring be?

[@tyrssen1]

Both fascinating events! John Newland presented fantastic events as well as fictional ones, always with class. He even did peyote once, live on his show, to describe the effects. We've seen people talking about "powering your car with water" in recent years as well, but I've yet to see anything believable (if you have, by all means, let me know!) Needless to say, Big Oil would stamp out such things in a minute, and indeed, have suppressed and even murdered those who threaten their profits.

[@pintificate]

Seth: "Big Oil" murdering people who threaten their profits is yet another myth that has been fed to the gullible by the ignorant.

[@pippishortstocking7913]

You're in a state of clinical delusion if you don't think they would.