“The Wreck of the Titan” — An eerie 1898 Short Story Foreshadowing Disaster — and the 1912 Newsreel
Both fiction and film express the power of story
A thrilling and haunting immersion into everything not of this world…
So did I feel, when a long time ago I watched an episode of ONE STEP BEYOND, a television show that was the first of its kind, giving highly detailed reenactments of true stories from the psychic and paranormal worlds. For three years I never missed watching the show, produced and directed by the immensely talented and elegant John Newland, who did the narrations in his deeply compelling voice. Each week, young as I was, I felt I had gone through a portal into an alternate reality, but reality that had factual evidence behind it.
I was given to recognize the fascinating idea that we are so much more than we seem, and this world we live in is not all there is. Every episode was provocative and wonderfully acted, like these three:
- Three days before his death President Abraham Lincoln tells his wife Mary and his friend and biographer Ward Hill Lamon of a recurring dream in which he is…
