Forbidden Worlds #57 (1957)

In a remote house, Tom’s sudden happiness baffles his brother Jim, who grows increasingly uneasy as Tom speaks of a mysterious girl named Phyllis who visits him through the picture window—claiming she’s a vision from the past. As Jim tries to understand the strange occurrences, he begins to suspect Tom’s mind is unraveling, but the truth behind the window’s shattered glass and the haunting echoes of a long-ago accident may be far more unsettling than madness.

Paul Reid, a wealthy man whose obsession with hunting borders on the inexplicable, begins experiencing strange trances and vivid nightmares after a hypnotist’s party, during which he mimics ancient Native American rituals with uncanny precision—cooking a chicken using hot stones, as if from a forgotten past. As his behavior grows more erratic, his wife Linda grows alarmed, especially when he claims to remember the life of a long-dead Plains chief named Kachono, though he insists he’s never studied such things. The story unfolds as Paul’s mind seems to awaken buried memories of a lost civilization, blurring the line between his present life and a forgotten past he can’t explain.

Professor George Meeker, a timid scholar haunted by his own fear, accidentally ingests a mysterious potion during a trip to India, triggering vivid, recurring hallucinations in which he relives historic battles—first at Thermopylae, then the Charge of the Light Brigade—each time forced to confront his deepest shame as a coward. Though he tries to dismiss the visions as mere imagination, the experiences grow more intense and physically marked, leaving him tormented by the echoes of his imagined failures. As the line between memory and hallucination blurs, he’s left questioning whether the potion is revealing a hidden truth—or simply amplifying his inner torment.

In the frozen wilderness of Alaska, Lieutenant Don Jeffrey survives a crash landing during a blizzard and is guided to safety by a mysterious St. Bernard dog named Bozo, who seems to appear out of nowhere with food and drink. Though the dog vanishes as the storm clears, Jeffrey returns home to Maine, where a childhood memory resurfaces—his long-lost dog Bozo, who may have been the same faithful animal that saved him.