Encounter With Unknown - Part 8

Rod Serling hosts Encounter With The Unknown documentary - featuring three stories of the supernatural, based on real-life events! Part 8 of 9

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• 1970's
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[Vagrarian]

The stories in this film are based on urban legends, really, not "true stories" although people believe them to be true. BTW, this story's amusing for the girl's hair....no halfway stylish woman of the 20s would have long flowing hair! It would be short and bobbed, so they could get their cloche hats over it. But it was the 70s....

[ORBSTEWBALL]

What I've always found interesting about this chestnut of an anthology film,is the fact that both gene ross and Rosie holitik (here portraying father and daughter)...had also appeared as Judge Oliver W. Cameron and Nurse Charlotte Beale in 'Don't Look in the Basement'...also released in 1973!

How cool is that?

Thanks for posting! :)

[poosaypirate]

@SheriffTankStoner wow If nobody told me that,,,, i would never have guessed!

id never heard of that before .- it makes sense if you pick it apart but

.... hmmmm!

[SheriffTankStoner]

@poosaypirate he fought against the status quo, he battled sponsors over censorship and he had the guts to tell people in high places things they didn't wanna hear.

[tjhoenecke]

@PeterRoeder31 People like to say, "If you're getting flak, you must be over the target." Well, you'll also get flak for being a jackass, so just because you're getting fflak, it doesn't automatically mean you must be doing the right thing. Some say that Serling was at least partly at fault, because he could be a bit too abrasive sometimes. So who knows, really.

[PeterRoeder31]

@tjhoenecke You are right. Such a brilliant guy like Serling naturally pisses people off.

[Vebinz]

Interesting segment, but if the girl died in the 20's, and the Senator's car is 70's, that means some five decades passed, so the father should be older than that.

[Vebinz]

@Vagrarian

She's a country girl, so maybe the bobbed style wasn't fashionable in the rural areas.

[ragemanchoo82]

The Chicago ghost Serling mentions in the opening of the segment was discussed in an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, and one of the actual drivers was interviewed, having given the ghost a ride sometime in the 1930s or 40s. At the time it was recorded he was in his 80s.

[poosaypirate]

@tjhoenecke ive never heard of this how did he piss off hollywood? what did he do?

[tjhoenecke]

@PeterRoeder31 Serling managed to piss off nearly everyone in Hollywood before he died. ("You'll never work in this town again!") This is what he was reduced to in the final years of his life just to earn cigarette money.