History Series / BeyondBeliefFactOrFiction

** At least one FACT segment is based on a story known to be an urban legend known as "[[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-vanishing-hotel-room/ The Vanishing Hotel Room]]."

* DanBrowned:
** One episode presents the "Bride-to-be steals wedding gown from corpse, dies from toxic embalming fluid soaking into her skin" story, an urban legend dating back over half a century, as fact.
** There was another one about a woman's mother disappearing from a hospital room. According to ''Website/{{Snopes}}'', it's centuries-old, but again ''Beyond Belief'' presented it as fact.

* TooDumbToLive: In "The Curse of Hampton Manor", Beverly is electrocuted while taking a bath in the eponymous manor, which she just bought. Curse or no curse, taking a bath/shower in an electrical storm is obviously unsafe, as is using a plugged-in electrical appliance, such as the telephone in the story, while in a bathtub. Doing all three things at the same time takes the stupidity UpToEleven.

''Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction?'' (usually shortened to simply ''Beyond Belief'') is an anthology TV show that ran for four seasons on Creator/{{FOX}} from the years 1997-2002, and revived in Germany in 2021. Each episode featured five short stories that involved unbelievable coincidences or the paranormal, and viewers were challenged to judge which were InspiredBy real events and which were entirely fictional. The show was hosted by Creator/JamesBrolin for the first season and by ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' alumnus Creator/JonathanFrakes thereafter with Creator/DonLaFontaine as the announcer. (And yes, he does say "[[InAWorld In a world.]]") Although your mileage may vary as to how seriously one should take the show's claims of truthfulness, it remains a cult favorite and a great source of nostalgia for anyone who watched it during its original run.

''Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction?'' (usually shortened to simply ''Beyond Belief'') was an anthology TV show that ran for four seasons on Creator/{{FOX}} from the years 1997-2002. Each episode featured five short stories that involved unbelievable coincidences or the paranormal, and viewers were challenged to judge which were InspiredBy real events and which were entirely fictional. The show was hosted by Creator/JamesBrolin for the first season and by ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' alumnus Creator/JonathanFrakes thereafter with Creator/DonLaFontaine as the announcer. (And yes, he does say "[[InAWorld In a world.]]") Although your mileage may vary as to how seriously one should take the show's claims of truthfulness, it remains a cult favorite and a great source of nostalgia for anyone who watched it during its original run.

* OffingTheOffspring: At the end of "the Diner," it's revealed that one of the elderly couple's homeless [[MercyKill "master plan" victims]] was [[LongLostRelative their son, who the husband believed to have been killed]] in [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam.]]

* EvilOldFolks: Creator/AlanYoung and Marjorie Lovett in "The Diner" that own a diner who kill homeless people by poison, [[spoiler:accidentally killing their son believed to have been killed during the Vietnam war]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/OneStepBeyond'', which was also a GenreAnthology based on allegedly true stories of the paranormal.

** The man that Farmer Joss Myrtles reaches out to in "The Land". He wears dark clothes and Joss's daughter, the narrator, notes he seemed oddly familiar. He notes to Joss when asking for 20 years of crops that he's not the one who calls the shots or can assure how long it'll be. He's not referred to as the devil, only that he gives the daughter a bad feeling. He also makes sure to ask Joss if he's sure if he wants to perform the ritual that seemingly kills him and disappears once it was done, and seemed to have kept his word. However, an inverted cross was shown inside the house.

** The man that Farmer Joss Myrtles reaches out to in "The Land". He wears dark clothes and Joss's daughter, the narrator, notes he seemed oddly familiar. He notes to Joss when asking for 20 years of crops that he's not the one who calls the shots or can assure how long it'll be. He's not referred to as the devil, only that he gives the daughter a bad feeling. He also makes sure to ask Joss if he's sure if he wants to perform the ritual that seemingly kills him and disappears once it was done, and seemed to have kept his word.

* KnowWhentoFoldEm: In "The Greedy Investor," a man forces his wife to go into real estate speculation as a way to retire within ten years, and he cold heartedly evicts an old lady who used her mortgage payments to pay for her late husband's medical bills, and the old lady responds that: "mark my words: This house will never be yours." Whenever the husband tries to sell the house something happens that makes the potential buyer back out, and after spending thousands on a new furnace, upgrading the plumbing, new carpeting and now having to deal with paranormal occurrences the wife threatens to leave him if he doesn't forget about the house. Just then, a young couple arrives to look at the house, and everything goes fine, and the wife sells them the house for $1. When the husbands tries to question why he sold at such a low price, she said that it was much cheaper than a divorce, the husbands wryly chuckles, and accompanies his wife to get the paperwork, and it turns out that [[spoiler: the old lady's passed away soon after she was evicted, and the young woman was her granddaughter, who assumed the house would be willed to her after her grandmother's death]].

* AmbiguouslyEvil: The mysterious casket salesman from "The Warning", who made Rob fear from his behavior that he was going to cause his death. However, it if weren't for Rob's terrified reaction to the man that apparently only he could see, he and wife would have died when the elevator crashed.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Eric Crayton of "Blood Bank" is able to feed off blood even when it's drained into his veins as opposed to just his fangs, which he can apparently still do. His bite doesn't seem to cause others to become vampires, as his sole victim is not said to have become one. He also doesn't turn into a bat, since he jumps out the window of the six's floor of the hospital and still managed to escape.

** One of the better segments, "Titan", subverts this trope. The story was about a guy who wrote a book detailing the [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything events of a ship called the ''Titan'' crashing and sinking due to an iceberg]] fourteen years before the actual ''Titanic'' sank. The actual [[http://www.amazon.com/Wreck-Titan-Futility-Morgan-Robertson/dp/0899668216 book]], which is available through Amazon, more or less ''is'' eerily similar to the events of ''Titanic''.