Secrets of the Unknown #84

In "The 13th Floor," a nervous passer-by finds themselves trapped in a hotel elevator with a calm operator who seems oddly unfazed by a spy threatening to detonate a bomb. As the elevator ascends to the 13th floor—where no such floor exists—the operator vanishes without a trace, leaving the terrified passenger to wonder if the building itself is hiding a deeper, stranger truth.

In "End of the World?", a baseball player’s mitt becomes the unlikely vessel of an entire civilization’s last hope when tiny rocket-equipped inhabitants flee their doomed world as the ball hurtles toward them. The story unfolds with a mix of wonder and urgency, as the fate of a hidden society hangs in the balance on a single, speeding pitch.

In "Forever is a Long, Long Time!", a greedy businessman seizes a revolutionary device from a reluctant scientist, eager to extend his life to a thousand years like a giant redwood. Ignoring the warnings, he activates the ray in his mansion—only to discover too late that immortality comes with a terrible price: he’s frozen in place, as immobile as the very tree he sought to emulate.