There are plenty of examples in the One Step Beyond universe of stories that resemble each other. This one for example, was quite similar to one that aired two months earlier during it's original run back in 1960/1961. In "The Trap", a man channeled the spirit and voice of a dying twin brother he never knew he had. He was so convinced, that a doctor friend of the family located the brother's attorney and wife who managed to locate the missing man following a mine accident.
This story also involves a psychic link of sorts, after a couple checks into a run down motel to just get away from it all, even though they can't even afford the $1.25 room fee. Now think about that one for a minute - that's a One Step Beyond moment right there.
The man (Lonny Chapman as Phil Werris) becomes mesmerized by a manual left behind by a former guest titled 'The Gold Miner's Handbook'. In the middle of the night he sleepwalks to a desk and types up a manuscript of a story about two brothers who 'killed' each other. The story takes place in the Alaskan wilderness where the brothers set off to do some gold prospecting and when greed took over the brothers did each other in. Upon awaking the next morning, Phil didn't remember writing up the story, but his wife thought it worthy enough to submit to a magazine that accepted it for publication.
Still somewhat dazed by the experience, Phil sets out on horseback to look for the brothers, believing his story to have been an omen of some sort. He finds the cabin he described in the story he wrote, and finds one brother tied up but still barely alive, and the other man sitting upright, expired from cold and hunger. The story Phil wrote was amazingly accurate in most of it's details.
As usual, series host John Newland offers a theory of what happened. This one he attributed to some sort of 'psychic seizure' Phil experienced when he handled the gold miner's manual. I imagine his story wound up paying for the motel room.
This story also involves a psychic link of sorts, after a couple checks into a run down motel to just get away from it all, even though they can't even afford the $1.25 room fee. Now think about that one for a minute - that's a One Step Beyond moment right there.
The man (Lonny Chapman as Phil Werris) becomes mesmerized by a manual left behind by a former guest titled 'The Gold Miner's Handbook'. In the middle of the night he sleepwalks to a desk and types up a manuscript of a story about two brothers who 'killed' each other. The story takes place in the Alaskan wilderness where the brothers set off to do some gold prospecting and when greed took over the brothers did each other in. Upon awaking the next morning, Phil didn't remember writing up the story, but his wife thought it worthy enough to submit to a magazine that accepted it for publication.
Still somewhat dazed by the experience, Phil sets out on horseback to look for the brothers, believing his story to have been an omen of some sort. He finds the cabin he described in the story he wrote, and finds one brother tied up but still barely alive, and the other man sitting upright, expired from cold and hunger. The story Phil wrote was amazingly accurate in most of it's details.
As usual, series host John Newland offers a theory of what happened. This one he attributed to some sort of 'psychic seizure' Phil experienced when he handled the gold miner's manual. I imagine his story wound up paying for the motel room.