Secrets of the Unknown #152

In "Flight Number Thirteen!" from *Secrets of the Unknown* #152 (1975), two criminals seize control of a plane carrying passengers who move and speak with eerie detachment. As the hijacked aircraft is steered by remote into a hidden parallel realm, the pilots find themselves trapped in a world where the very air strips away feeling—leaving them vulnerable to the silence of the passengers they now can’t understand.

In "The Ragged Man," a cold-hearted businessman’s obsession with wealth leads him to gamble everything on a hunch—when his Geiger counter ticks near his yacht, he believes he’s discovered a uranium fortune beneath the waves. Written by an unknown hand and illustrated by an unknown artist, the story follows his desperate scramble to buy up underwater land, unaware that the real danger was already hidden in plain sight.

In "When the Curtain Falls!" from *Secrets of the Unknown* #152 (1975), a jealous stagehand's desperate bid to eliminate his rival backfires when a staged stabbing goes awry—leaving him trapped and armed only with a rubber dagger he’d substituted for a real one. With tension mounting behind the scenes, the actor’s near-miss sets off a chain of events that turns the theater into a claustrophobic trap.

In "The Terrible Tree!" from *Secrets of the Unknown* #152 (1975), a man gambles on his farm’s fate by sabotaging a massive redwood—only to find the tree’s remains come alive with a deadly, vengeful will. As he flees the wreckage, he’s trapped on a boat formed from the very wood he betrayed, adrift in a sea where the past refuses to stay buried.

In "So This Is Mars!", a Martian filmmaker’s experiment takes a surreal turn when he teleports a human filmmaker’s Martian set to the red planet—only to discover that human culture mirrors his own in uncanny, unexpected ways. The story unfolds with quiet wonder, exploring identity and perception through a single, striking twist.

In "What Is Monium?" from *Secrets of the Unknown* #152 (1975), a man stumbles upon a mysterious metal that defies physics—when split, its halves remain linked across empty space. He turns his discovery into a dazzling magic act, using a hoop that lets objects vanish and reappear on the other side. When a daring audience member uncovers his secret, he’s blackmailed into using his power for crime. Forced to build a crate to hold stolen goods, he traps the thief inside—using the very hoop that once freed him, now sealing his captor in a cage that leads straight to justice.

In "The Perfectly Frightened Man," a man’s quiet life unravels when his wife insists he’s been fooled into believing he’s a sorcerer—until a casual phrase sends him tumbling into a transformation he never saw coming. Written by an unknown hand and illustrated by an unknown artist, this 1975 tale from *Secrets of the Unknown* #152 blends eerie domestic tension with sudden, surreal twist.

In "What On Earth?", a lone thinker challenges the limits of human ambition, arguing that true space travel comes not from rockets, but from the quiet power of love. As his radical belief spreads, his followers begin to vanish—drawn away not by machines, but by something far more mysterious.