Rod Serling hosts this investigation of the supernatural as seen through a trilogy of dramatic re-enactments. The stories themselves are narrated by Rod Serling, but the opening and closing portions of the film feature a second, uncredited narrator.
Plot:
The film presents three allegedly true stories of the supernatural.
The first story, "The Heptagon," opens on a somber note at the funeral of college student Johnny Davis. Who was accidentally killed when a seemingly innocent phone prank played on him by his three friends went horribly wrong. As the funeral service ends, Johnny's mother (who is the seventh daughter of a seventh son) recites a cryptic message to the three young men she blames for the death of her son: "One by land, two by sky, seven times around go the three of you, and may your reward be just and true." And, one by one, her grim predictions come true.
The second story, "The Darkness," is set in rural Missouri during the early twentieth century and involves the disappearance of a boy's dog in the vicinity of a mysterious hole in the ground. The boy's father is lowered into the hole and lets out an agonizing scream! He is pulled up from the hole, however he is now, a much different man than he was before he went down into the hole.
The final segment, "The Girl on the Bridge," involves a strange disoriented girl standing on a bridge and a senator stops his car to help her. The girl ask him to give her a ride home. As the senator and his wife arrive at the address the girl had given them. The girl's father answers the door, telling the senator that his daughter died in a car accident on the bridge many years earlier.
Rod Serling as Narrator (voice)
Robert Ginnaven as Father Duane
Gary Brockette as Frank Cameron
John Leslie as Randy Powell
Tom Haywood as Dave Terrell
Fran Franklin as Mrs. Davis
James N. Harrell as Brother Taylor
John Cissne as Johnny Davis
Mary Jane Wilson as Mrs. Wilson
Lyle Armstrong as Second Priest
Charles Rumph as Student
Kevin Bieberly as Jess
Annabelle Weenick as Mother
Robert Holton as Joe
Frank Schaefer as Barber
Ken Carson as Doctor
Bob Glenn as Constable
David Haney as First Man
Bill Thurman as Second Man
Syl Schumann as Third Man
Charlie Dell as Jonas
Rosie Holotik as Susan
Michael Harvey as Senator
Judith Fields as Senator's Wife
August Sehven as Paul
Gene Ross as Susan's Father
Beverly Dixon as Susan's Mother
Soundtrack:
Rememberin' (How It Used To Be)
by Steve Beeson
Performed by Becky Fain
Sleepy Shores (uncredited)
Composed and Performed by Johnny Pearson
Graveyard (uncredited)
Composed and Performed by Johnny Pearson
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