Beyond Belief - Season 4, Episode 5 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

beyond belief fact or fiction posted by jonathan franks tonight your challenge is to separate what is
true from what is false five stories some real some fake can you judge which are fact and which
are fiction to find out you must enter a world of both truth and deception a world that is beyond
[Music] belief an upside down portrait of a vaguely familiar face at first blush it appears to be a normal
photograph viewed from an unusual angle but let's turn it over my apologies to any children we just frightened
especially mine as you can see the photo is not what we expected our eyes processed false information to
our brain and we were tricked tonight you'll be presented with five stories we'll tell you which are true and which
are false at the end of the show before you prejudge them examine them from all angles and don't
accept anything at face value [Music] every week you see ads for house sitters in the paper
you ever considered being one people who need to leave town are always willing to
hire a responsible party to live in their home and make sure no harm befalls it while they're gone
ally prescott has taken on a house city job this weekend she has lots of good books to read and a
things to do list provided by the owner but before this job is through her main thing to do
would be to survive i was a junior in college and i thought i had found a great way to make some
extra money i put an ad in the local paper offering my services as a house sitter
i got a job right away and before i knew it i was spending my first night in a huge
expensive mansion the owner was an architect named lloyd townsend mr townsend left that morning to join
his wife madeline in london for a month-long vacation it was a beautiful house but the weather
was kind of giving me the creeps come on carol just drag your butt out of your apartment and get over here
well i'm all alone we can study here there's like 15 rooms oh you come on it's just a
little storm what's the big deal oh weird you're not gonna believe this i'm watching tv and the show just
changed to some guy mixing something with a shovel in this little dark room no i i didn't touch anything
wait a minute [Applause] yeah it's okay now i don't know it must have been some kind of cable access show
i don't believe it the guy with the shovels back what is up with this tv yeah yeah i'll talk to you later
weird when i get nervous i get hungry and i was feeling really hungry gross gross really gross
[Music] passable [Music] it was so quiet in the house i decided to give the tv another chance
i don't believe it what is going on here what is wrong with this thing okay no more tv
turn off turn off hey this is insane there finally i couldn't figure out what was happening
i was hearing the same scraping sound but the tv was unplugged no no that's not possible
okay who is doing this somebody here [Music] alex is at you okay [Music] i was determined to find out where that
sound was coming from it sounded like it was somewhere in the living room but i had turned the tv off
there too i finally realized that it was coming up through the fireplace from the basement
oh [Music] hello coming down here and i have a weapon is anybody down here is there anybody here i knew i was
getting closer because the sound was getting louder and that's when i saw it i wasn't sure
what it was at first why would anybody put a camera down here i suddenly realized i was standing in
the same area as the man on the tape but what had he been doing down here what was he mixing
is that [Music] who's there [Music] my husband buried me alive who are you i'm madeline townsend
i'll get help [Music] i called the police right away and they freed mrs townsend from the ash catcher
lloyd townsend was arrested for attempted murder in europe and brought back to the united states to
stand trial and me i gave up house sitting and went back to being a part-time waitress
the video that ali saw was of mr townsend mixing the mortar for the brick tomb he had encased his wife inside
fortunately mrs townsend had suspected her husband for some time and had planted the video camera in the
basement to spy on him but how did the video keep turning up on the tv sets upstairs
was it because the townsends had recently rewired their home but then how did the camera turn itself
on in deciding whether this story is fact or fiction put yourself in ally's place are you occupying a
space where trust resides or are you sitting in a house of lies we'll find out if this story is true or
false at the end of our show next a mysterious vision appears during an armed robbery
on beyond belief fact or fiction the neighborhood phone booth what with the popularity of the personal cell
phone they're becoming a vanishing species but how many dramas have taken place in
these tight little boxes how many secret romances how many extreme pleas for help jason
laird is in a desperate place he's down to his last chance will he stand up for what he believes no
matter what the consequence or will he just phone it in i was driving through this small town
called port angeles on my way back to college when my car started losing power i knew something was wrong so i pulled
into the first repair shop i saw yeah you got a problem here fuel pumps busted oh man i don't believe this well can i
make it back to school no without a fuel pump carburetor ain't getting any gas that's why you're losing power so how
much is a new fuel pump i don't know labor parts around 400 bucks 400 bucks maybe a little more but i got to get
back to school not in this car okay go ahead fix it you got 400 bucks i'll get my parents to wire me the money
just fix it hello hello jason is that you jason is that you there was no way i could ask my parents for more money
it was real tough talking to my dad about anything and my mom was fighting cancer
i just couldn't go through with the call [Music] i always felt so guilty about the money
my parents had to spend to put me through college especially since they had so little for
themselves then i saw it just laying there why would a gun be alongside the road
like that did somebody toss it out of a passing car i never held a gun before but as soon as
i picked it up strange thoughts started running through my head i was so desperate i wasn't thinking
straight all i saw was a quick solution to my problem [Music] so i didn't want to hurt anyone so i waited
for everyone to leave but as soon as one customer left another one would come in
it was now or never all i had to do was scare the guy and take the money [Applause]
i couldn't believe my eyes it was my father i got out of there fast i was totally
freaked my parents lived over 500 miles away and i had just heard my dad's voice on the
phone and where was that man now why didn't he come out of the store this time there was no one in the store
except for the clerk i must have imagined the whole thing it had to have been my nerves
i should have just forgotten the whole idea but i couldn't all i could think about was getting the
money for my car hey hey you [Music] you're not my father you can't be no you can't be
what is happening here hello dad jason how are oh you're home where else would i be
your mom had a rough day today is she okay she's fine now she's sleeping what are you doing in port angeles how
did you know i was here your phone collect remember oh that's right jason are you okay
are you in any trouble what do you mean why would you think that the strangest thing happened i dozed off
a little while ago and i had this dream your car broke down and uh you were really upset
and then you were in this uh mini mart looking at sunglasses and then and i know you'd never do this
jason but in a dream you had a gun and you reached into the tail it woke me up it's some dream you had
just you know if you're ever in any trouble um i'm here to help thanks dad you already have
my dad wired me the 400 for the new fuel pump and a little extra to keep me going
we've become a lot closer since then i almost made the mistake of my life that night
i'm just glad someone was there to stop me whoever it was what's the explanation here who was the
man in the convenience store it couldn't have been jason's father he was miles away was it a lookalike
a twin brother of his father's that jason had never heard about but then how do you explain the accuracy of his
father's dream was jason's dad somehow transported to the store while asleep is this strange happening
in the all-night march steeped in hours of research or are we just presenting a lie of
convenience we'll find out if this story is true or false at the end of our show
next strange things surround a man in his new classic car on beyond belief fact or fiction
america has always had a love affair with the automobile from its earliest beginnings the car has meant more than
mere transportation for many these hood ornaments stand as an expression of image
and self-worth val giraldi does more than invest his money into classic cars he also invests his heart and soul and
his latest acquisition may do more than take him where he wants to go it's threatening to drive him
crazy [Music] i'd been a car nut all my life when i was eight years old i could tell you what kind of car was
coming just by the sound of its engine after a good year in the stock market i was finally able to purchase the car of
my dreams a 1940 packard i fell in love with the car from the first moment i saw it
it was kept in my condition by its original owner clifton teasdale who had died a year before
all i cared about was making sure it stayed that way nice set of wheels mr geraldine
this is more than just a set of wheels emery this is a 1940 packard 120 cabriolet
it's worth more than all the cars in this garage put together really huh these beauties don't come on
the market anymore emery look at those lines it's a work of art how'd you find it
a client of mine tipped me off the owner's widow kept it locked in a garage for the past year since her husband's
death apparently the old girl made some kind of death bed promise to her husband
never to sell it but well i could be pretty persuasive yeah what'd you do well let's put it
this way emery she didn't know what hit her careful emery now there's some new rules
with the packard number one never touch it and you don't let anybody else touch it either
i understand mr geraldine you also want a bigger parking space i don't want anybody accidentally
denting it well actually i think all the parking spaces in the building are the same size
so all right then i'll pay extra for these two spaces and i also want you to put a
chainling fence around them a chain-link fence i'm not sure i can do that you can do it emery
[Music] yes sir emery got the fence up that night and i slept great knowing the packet was protected
no it can't be good morning mr geraldi so how do you like the fence huh emery there's a dent in the door you did
it you hit my car when you put the fence in no no no so i didn't touch your car sir
i swear yeah sure dents don't just appear i don't see a dent well of course there's a dent
oh this is crazy i'm sorry there was a dent well maybe it was a shadow you know the
lights down here could have been playing tricks with your eyes yeah it must have been a shadow
[Music] every chance i got i'd give the packet a quick dusting i'll bet teasdell himself never took
such good care of it i don't believe it this is no shadow somebody keyed it every
well you're gonna tell me that's a shadow i don't see a scratch mr geraldi what of
course there's a scratch i don't understand it it was there it was a deep ugly scratch
well it's not there now look i think you're worrying too much about the car mr grilled you're seeing things i'm not
seeing things car is making me a little crazy look just forget about it for a while it's
fine really maybe you're right emery just need a good night's sleep that's all [Music]
good night [Music] i was becoming neurotic about the packard i felt a lot better after a good
night's sleep but then the worst possible thing happened it wasn't shadows it wasn't my imagination the packet was
gone what was going on here i had the only key maybe i should never abort the car from
mrs teasdale luckily clifton teasdale had installed a tracking device on his car
and the police found the packet a few hours later abandoned at the local cemetery
hey hey watch it i don't want any scratches on that chrome yeah who are you i'm the owner
uh you see any damage or anything no it looks good to me why don't you just let me drive it home
sorry it's got to go through the impound first fingers why would somebody steal it and leave it
out here i don't know and then i thought i noticed something that didn't seem possible
i couldn't believe what i was seeing the packet was found in a cemetery where the
original owner clifton teasdale was buried shortly after the last incident val giraldi returned the packard to clifton
teasdale's widow at no cost to her but the questions remain who or what drove the car to teasdale's
grave that day and how do you explain the disappearing dent and scratch on the car's body
were they figments of garald's obsessive imagination or was emery the parking attendant at the bottom of all this
is this story of the classic car based on truth are we just taking you for a ride we'll
find out if this story is true or false at the end of our show next a man tries to stop a terrifying
dream from coming true on beyond belief fact or fiction excuse me but i've always wanted to do
this buses for springfield hilldale bikini corners now leaving at gate number seven all
it's a aboard sound approximately 22.2 million americans travel by bus every year jordan hicks
works at one of the many depots that dispatch the buses drivers and passengers on their way
as they say relax and leave the driving to them but jordan hicks will soon have an
experience that leaves him so unnerved he's not about to leave the driving to anyone
[Music] i've been working as a maintenance man for the madison tour bus company for the
past 10 years my job was to make sure that each bus was spotless before it left the yard
but that morning i had something else on my mind something much more urgent sal sal has bus 29 is it left yet no
no 29 is not going out until 10 30. oh have you seen laugh he's in his office [Music]
lyle lyle i know this is gonna sound crazy but you gotta stop us 29 from leaving this morning why
isn't it clean enough for you jordan they're all gonna die in there what do you mean they're all gonna die
in there okay i told you that this was gonna sound crazy but i had a dream last night that
bus 29 had a horrible accident a dream yeah the mclaren bridge went out i was there lyle
trying to wave him down but they wouldn't stop bus 29 went nose first right into the river
nobody had a chance they all drowned sure you know i can't stop a bus from going out because somebody had a bad
dream no you don't understand it was more than a dream it was it was so real it was it was like like a
premonition bus 29 is a great lakes tour it's a full load and it will be leaving as scheduled at
exactly 10 30 a.m [Music] i can't let that happen lil [Music] mr masterson smashers jordan hicks
there's emergency please let me in [Music] sorry mr masterson's busy right now this
is extremely important debbie i have to see him what's the big emergency hicks you have
to stop bus 29 from leaving i had a dream it crashed everybody died please mr masterson you
can stop it are you out of your mind that is the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard
there's only 10 more minutes left get back to work hicks i'm busy nobody would listen but i had to do
something or the blood of all those innocent people would be on my hands stop the watch
jordan what are you doing jeff you can't leave you're gonna die get out of the way and let this bus
leave or you're gonna be in a whole bunch of trouble what's going on jordan had some dumb
dream that the mclaren bridge went out and this bus goes down don't worry folks uh the bus will be
leaving shortly uh just a little scheduling problem get back in the bus and take off check you
can still make the schedule no don't do it chet you got to believe me you're all gonna
die in there keep your voice down you maniac i can't do it lyle i can't leave has everybody lost their mind around
here it was a dream because of you and your stupid dream we're 15 minutes behind
schedule with a bus full of angry people they're demanding their money back now you can either get on that bus and
start driving or you can find yourself another job i won't do it fine lyle get another driver you're both
fired mr masks not now debbie i'm busy but you won't believe what i just heard on the
radio the mclaren bridge just collapsed my god if i had left on schedule we would have
been right in the middle of that bridge the schedule's an alternate route and i gotta leave in about ten minutes
chad i need to ask you about something why'd you believe me when nobody else would
because last night i had the same dream you had how is this possible we've all had
premonitions before but can two people have the same dream at the same time or did the driver chet carter just
imagined he had the dream after being upset by jordan's warnings whatever the case
many lives were saved as a result in telling this tale of bus 29 have we reached the destination of truth
or is this just another rest stop on the highway of lies we'll find out if this story is true or false at the end
of our show next a dead man's curse haunts his widow from the grave on beyond belief
fact or fiction they say the grass is always greener than the other person's yard
but today we have lots of ways to improve the situation special fertilizers seeds
even vitamins for today's lawn and of course a variety of different sods to choose from
suzanne elliott is about to become preoccupied with a certain plot of dead grass
before this story is through who knows what else might die as we say our final goodbye to gordon
luther elliott loving husband devoted father and successful businessman gordon luther
elliott died of congestive heart failure after spending the last six months of his life
in a federal prison he was imprisoned for embezzling a large sum of money from a company he owned with his party
enjoying greener pastures and life everlasting gordon loved his wife suzanne and his
son james and he cherished the many happy hours that he spent in his garden gordon elliott loved making things
grow yes he did and although he couldn't resist the temptation of greed he must be forgiven his sins and be
allowed to rest in peace amen amen [Music] goodbye gordon we forgive you oh shut up suzanne he doesn't want your
forgiveness that's no way to speak to your stepmother james my father was an innocent man reinhardt you know
it he went to prison for a crime he didn't commit he helped you build a business
and you shafted him it should be you in that grave not my father come on suzanne
service is over you know i was with him when he died and he swore that no grass would ruin this grave
until the truth comes out eric i think he knows what he doesn't have any proof get his inheritance forget the whole
thing what was that whole thing about the grass not growing on gordon's grave until the truth comes out
what did that mean just calm down suzanne old gordo took his gardening too seriously he's dead
there's nothing he can do everything grows here don't worry about it [Music] [Music]
three weeks after the funeral suzanne elliott quietly moved in with her dead husband's ex-partner
eric reinhardt who was that on the phone don't get mad but i called the caretaker
from the cemetery again what why do you keep doing that eric there still isn't any grass growing on
his grave well that's because the caretaker is an idiot i told you he doesn't know what
he's doing well he said that there's grass growing on all of the other graves around
gordon's just not on his so there's something wrong with the dirt who cares no eric don't you see
it's gordon he is doing this all right suzanne would it make you feel better if i hired a private gardener to
take care of our little grass problem cheers i don't get it it's been a whole month
soil tested fine there should be grass by now i tried everything mrs elliot the chemical organic fertilizer
bermuda rye buffalo grass i even laid sod and that died i knew nothing would grow
don't give up yet i got one more idea we dig up the deceased and we re-bury him in a more
nutrient-rich plot ma'am ma'am go ahead dig them up it's not gonna work i feel like i'm having a nervous
breakdown eric and you don't even care i care suzanne but you're bringing this on yourself
you're making a big thing about some lousy grass it's gordon's grass he's doing this to me i don't eat
i don't sleep i look like a hank look i'll rebury him and the grass will grow no you don't know gordon
he won't let us rest until we confess what now you listen to me you don't even think about confessing
i am not giving all this up i have worked too hard and too long to get it okay all right
then we have to go to gordon's grave and beg his freaking you've got to be kidding me i'm not
going to gordon's grave then i will tell everything i don't care anymore i can't do this
[Music] huh look at that they've already dug his new grave get on your knees eric are you crazy
just tell them you're sorry and let's go home it's freezing out here eric get on your knees
gordon good and i know you can hear me i am so sorry that you died in prison we never wanted that to happen did we
irk i know we didn't eric and i never planned on falling in love it just happened
gordon and we did frame you and we are so sorry okay suzanne that's enough okay gordon will
you please please forgive us hey what's going on who's in there i don't know i don't
think he can see us hello the caretaker found the dead bodies of suzanne elliott and eric reinhart the
following day he also noticed that for the first time grass was growing and gordon luther
elliott's grave why wouldn't the grass grow on gordon's grave was it controlling things from
beyond or was it merely a fluke of nature that kept his cemetery plot bare if so how do you explain that once his
death was avenged the grass grew tall and thick was gordon's son behind the entire scenario
but then why weren't the experts hired by suzanne and reinhardt able to make the grass grow in judging
this story have we planted the sweet smell of truth or is that a whiff of fertilizer in the
air next you'll find out which of our stories are fact and which are fictional when beyond
belief returns [Music] now let's look back at tonight's stories and find out which ones are inspired by
actual events and which ones are totally false let's review the story of the house sitter who
discovered a frightening secret is there anybody here [Music] why would anybody put a camera down here
did you think this story really happened you're right our research shows a similar incident
happened around the oregon california state line in the early 80s what was your opinion of the young man
whose misdeeds were stopped by a vision of his father [Music] [Music] hey hey you
this strange story has to be fake right wrong it's fact a similar story happened to a
young man in the pacific northwest about 20 years how about the story of the classic motor
car that drove its owner to distraction well you're gonna tell me that's a shadow
i don't see a scratch mr geraldi what of course there's a scratch i don't understand it it was there it
was a deep ugly scratch well it's not there now look i think you're worrying too much about the car
mr geraldi you're seeing things i'm not seeing things this car is making me a little crazy was
this story based on a real happening not this time we made it up the story of the two men who had the
same premonition about bus 29 how did you judge that one jordan what are you doing chad you can't
leave you're gonna die get out of the way and let this bus leave or you're gonna be in a
whole bunch of trouble what's going on had some dumb dream that the mclaren bridge went out and this bus
goes down don't worry folks uh the bus would be leaving shortly uh just a little scheduling problem get
back in the bus and take off check you can still make the schedule no don't do it chet
you gotta believe me you're all gonna die in there this strange story of a double premonition seems to be a work of
fiction right that's exactly what it is this story never happened the grave where no grass would grow
until the dead man was avenged how did you judge that one and we did frame you and we are so sorry okay
suzanne that's enough okay gordon will you please please forgive us hey what's going on
who's in there i don't know i don't think you could see us hey bro hello hey hey hey hey we're here all right hey
hey what kind of bozo are you man hey did you think this was real if you did we got you
this one's fake [Music] we were able to get a hold on the truth tonight or did reality remain
an elusive concept and when you reach out to grasp it does it turn out to be beyond belief
i'm jonathan the two stories tonight were based on first-hand research conducted by author
robert treylands for beyond belief this is campbell lane [Music] you

This episode features the following cases: House of Shadows, One Hand in the Till, Teasdale's Motor Car, The Vision and the Grave.

Brief Summary

Five stories challenge listeners to discern fact from fiction, featuring a house sitter, premonitions, and a haunted classic car.

Key points

The Challenge of Truth. Can you judge which stories are fact and which are fiction?
A Terrifying Discovery. Ally Prescott uncovers a shocking truth while house sitting.
A Life-Saving Premonition. Jordan Hicks has a dream that could save lives.
A Dead Man's Curse. A widow is haunted by her husband's curse from beyond the grave.
Confession at the Grave. Suzanne and Eric confront their past mistakes at Gordon's grave.
Grass That Won't Grow. The mystery of why grass won't grow on Gordon's grave unfolds.

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