Secrets of the Unknown #177

In "The Miracle," a young girl clings to the fragile hope that her beloved flower can survive the winter, only to have it cruelly cut by her brother and offered back as a gift. Her mother, unwilling to break her daughter’s faith in love’s enduring power, gently lies—telling Jo the wedding corsage she’s kept never faded, and asking her to place the new rose beside it. To her astonishment, the bloom remains vibrant, untouched by time.

In "The Man Who Couldn't Be Killed!", Jo finds himself sentenced to hang on a Monday, prompting a desperate escape and a fateful visit to a witch doctor who grants him a potion to erase all Mondays from his life. But when he wakes up to discover he was born on a Monday, the spell begins to unravel in ways he never expected.

In "Paddy and the Leprechauns," a heartbroken man named Paddy takes a walk in the woods to clear his head after being rejected by his stepdaughter’s father for lack of wealth. When he lifts a massive stone and hurls it aside, he unwittingly frees a band of mischievous leprechauns who offer their aid in winning her hand. With the stepfather suddenly eager to accept Paddy as a son-in-law—eager to claim the leprechauns’ gold—Paddy’s joy leads him to seal the creatures back beneath the stone, unaware of what that final act might truly cost.

In "Mass Murder," a scientist uses a duplicator ray to create multiple copies of himself to tackle a complex problem, then disposes of them once their purpose is served. When an acquaintance sues him for mass murder, the story leaves readers pondering the moral line between creation and destruction—how would you decide the case?