Allison Liddi-Brown
Director
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997)
Season 3
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.
Released May 25, 1997
Episode 43 min
12+
Genres: Crime, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Reality
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Watch Providers: Amazon Prime Video, The CW, The Roku Channel, fuboTV, Peacock Premium + 6 more, Peacock Premium Plus, Plex, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads, Plex Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Fawesome
Production Companies: Dick Clark Productions
Network: FOX
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S3E1 - Morning Sickness, The Curse of Hampton Manor, Wax Executioner, Blood Bank & Ring Toss
"Morning Sickness" - A girl gets all the symptoms of pregnancy, but the tests say she's 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 didn't 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 o
Jan. 21, 2000, midnight
S3E2 - One for the Road, The Music Box, Two to One, Damsel & The Horn
"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 onl
May 26, 2000, midnight
S3E3 - The Find, The Golden Cue, The FBI Story, The Gravedigger's Nemesis & Last Rites
"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 blin
June 2, 2000, midnight
S3E4 - E-Mail, Blood Donor, Epitaph, Stitches in Time & The Soldier
"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...who's 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 wife's wishes. Later it turns out that the man that ordered the expensive gravestone was the wife's 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 devastat
June 16, 2000, midnight
S3E5 - The Nightmare/The Stalker/The Impossible Car Dream/The Dresser/The Burial
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 wife's funeral.
June 23, 2000, midnight
S3E6 - Red Line/Two Sisters/Eclipse/The Ice Box/The Gathering
A race car driver gets veered off course by an unlikely ally; a vindictive woman schemes to marry her late sister's 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.
June 30, 2000, midnight
S3E7 - Connie, Positive I.D., Trucker, Cook-Out & The New House
"Connie" - Dead woman's spirit lives on in her husband's new wife.
"Positive I.D." - Man accused of a robbery that he didn't 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 Harry's spirit saves his family for eating poisioned hamburgers during a family reunion cookout.
"The New House" - An old painting saves people's lives.
July 7, 2000, midnight
S3E8 - Creepy Comics, Louie the Dip, The Wailing, The Landlady & Curse
"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 man's 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 ta
July 14, 2000, midnight
S3E9 - For the Record/Halloween/Precious/Get Your Kicks at Motel 66/Phantom Drifter
This episode features the following cases: For the Record; Halloween; Precious; Get Your Kicks at Motel 66; Phantom Drifter.
July 21, 2000, midnight
S3E10 - Devil's Tattoo, Static Man, The Bloody Hand, Where Have All the Heroes Gone & War Surplus
"Devil's Tattoo" - A biker dude takes his girlfriend in to get a tattoo. The biker dude insists it has to be the devil's 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 can't 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 v
July 28, 2000, midnight
S3E11 - Deadbeat Dad, Ghost Town, The Sewing Machine, The Sleepwalker & Money Laundry
"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 husband's grandma's 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
Aug. 4, 2000, midnight
S3E12 - The Handyman, Anatole, Makeup Magic, Screwdriver & Charlie
"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 he
Aug. 11, 2000, midnight
S3E13 - The Dealer, Gratuity, The Cake, 1st Time Offender & The Mirror of Truth
"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 father's 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 th
Jan. 18, 2000, midnight
Network: FOX
Episode Runtime: 43 min.
Season Runtime: 1935 min.
Released: May 25, 1997
Last Air Date: Sept. 5, 2002, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG
Common sense age: 12+
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