#25 The Beyond Belief Cinematic Universe [S3E6 with Mohamad el Masri]

Chris is out for this episode, but in his place we have guest host Mohamad el Masri, who is a writer on HBO’s Here And Now. Mohamad wants to believe in the supernatural but ultimately comes at things with a scientific approach.

Story 1: Red Line—a reckless race car driver gets a warning from beyond the grave.

• Mohamad wonders if the speedway is haunted. Jesse believes that ghosts can haunt people in addition to places. If only Chris were he to answer that question…
• Maybe the heat and the fumes caused the driver to hallucinate.

Story 2: Two Sisters—a woman marries her dead sister’s husband, only to discover something strange with the wedding dress.

• It’s a logistical nightmare for the sister to switch clothes with her dead sister in the middle of the funeral floor.
• The dress may have been un-wearable after the morticians fixed it to the dead body.

Story 3: Eclipse—on the eve of a full moon, a prisoner believing he is a werewolf asks to be placed in a room with no windows.

• Jesse believes this one is a bottle episode.
• Kyle points out that the vampire segment was true.

Story 4: The Ice Box—when a man suffers from heat stroke outside an antique store, a large block of ice appears at just the right moment.

• Mohamad points out that the character in the Little Giants was named The Ice Box.
• Mohamad doesn’t buy the initials carved into the icebox. Kyle thinks this detail was just added by writers.
• Jesse thinks it was just a hot day in the writer’s room.

Story 5: The Gathering—a burglar attempts to rob four elderly women, but discovers he may be outmatched when strange things start to happen.

• The group loves this one so much… but does that make it fiction?
• Mohamad thinks it felt too silly to be fact.

The story results are revealed:

• Tiffany gets a ZERO.
• Mohamad points out the relevance of Beyond Beyond Belief in today’s culture.
• To find out which stories are fact and which are fiction… you must listen to the podcast, or check out the full episode below or on Amazon Prime!