Random Most Haunting Paranormal Mysteries From ‘Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction’ (12 items)

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  (#7) The Viewing

  A funeral home is the site of a spooky and semi-heartwarming tale from Season 1, episode 2, of the series. It follows a young man who is left home alone in his family's funeral home while they're at a movie. Earlier in the day, an elderly woman asked to postpone her husband's funeral because he's missing his military medals, she can't seem to find them, and she wants to make sure that her husband is buried with them. 

  That evening, while the young man is alone in the house, an older man knocks on the front door and asks if he can see the remains of the man whose funeral is being postponed; he claims that he has the man's medals. 

  After leaving the elderly man alone with the cadaver, he returns to find that the man he was just showing around was actually the guy who had passed, and that he was bringing himself his own medals.

  Could this story have really happened? According to the show, yes.
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  (#10) Bright Light

  This classic tale from Season 2, episode 6, follows a woman on a road trip to see her mother who finds herself in the middle of a real-life horror story. After stopping for a bite to eat at a sleazy bar, she gets paranoid that she's being followed. Someone driving behind her keeps flashing their brights and honking their horn as she drives faster and faster, but she can't escape. 

  The car behind her finally succeeds at making her skid off the road, and after she's stopped, the driver gets out of the car and tells her to get away from the car. That's when she discovers that there was a creepy guy hiding in her backseat with a knife. 

  Jonathan Frakes says that this story is false - but remember to check you backseat anyway. 
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  (#5) Room 245

  A creepy tale from Season 4, episode 6, tells the story of a woman and her sick mother who attempt to check into a hotel, but their reservation is messed up and they have to take a different room. Luckily, there's one room left: Room 245. Once inside, the mother's health goes downhill and her daughter has to step out to get her anti-bacterial prescription filled. 

  Once she has the prescription, the young woman absentmindedly leaves it with the hotel's concierge. When she goes back to grab the meds, they're gone and the concierge says that he's never seen her before. She explains that she and her mother are staying in Room 245, but when they go to find her mother, there's no one there. Not only that, but everything in the room has been changed around. As outlandish as this is, it happened in Paris at the turn of the century.
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  (#1) The Apparition

  The opening story of Beyond Belief from Season 1, episode 1, is a real humdinger. This creepy tale tells the story of a woman who, after suffering a nervous breakdown, can't stop seeing the ghost of a deceased woman standing behind her in her home's second-floor mirror. No matter what she does, the woman continues to appear as if she's trying to say something, and it's super creepy. 

  Her therapist nixes the idea of getting rid of the mirror, but she does cover it with a blanket, which mostly works. One night during a thunderstorm, the woman is all alone when a man breaks into her home and tries to take advantage of her. She runs upstairs, and that's when the man sees the ghost in the mirror. He freaks out and runs off, but he's caught by the police shortly afterward. According to the authorities, the woman in the mirror was his first target.

  Wildly enough, this is actually a true story. 
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  (#2) Kid in the Closet

  This creepy story from Season 1, episode 2, dives into the fear of the unknown that we all have, but with a creepy twist. In the story, a young boy named Danny is terrified by a monster in his closet, so much so that he sleeps downstairs on the living room couch as much as possible. Everyone knows how much the closet freaks Danny out thanks to his older brother telling the whole school; his mother tells the viewers that he's "labeled as a coward" by the bullies. 

  When Danny tries to confront his bullies, they drag him upstairs and threaten to lock him in the closet. Danny dares his brother to go into the closet first, and when he does, something gets him. Or at the very least he's never seen again. To say that this scene is emotionally scarring is an understatement.

  As wild as the story is, it's supposedly based on a real-life event. 
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  (#4) The Hooded Chair

  In Season 2, episode 8, the story of a cursed chair is brought up that seems too spooky to be true - but is it? In the story, a large, cursed, hooded chair is purchased by steel magnate George Talbot. The chair has a history of cursing everyone who sits in it, but Talbot doesn't believe in some curse, so he immediately takes a seat.  

  Nothing happens to Talbot, but after his maid sits in the 300-year-old chair, she is hit by a drunk driver while crossing the street. A few day after that, one of Talbot's friends sits in the chair and he perishes in a plane crash. Talbot's life crumbles around him as his company falls apart and he bleeds money - but was it because of the chair? 

  He later discovers that the chair was owned by Napoleon while he planned Waterloo, the greatest military defeat of all time. Before he can chop the chair to bits, Talbot suffers a heart attack and that's the end of him. The wildest thing about this story is that it's based in fact - so keep an eye out for that chair. 

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