The Best Episodes of Ghost Stories Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   5.6/10(115 votes)

   #1 - Back Ward

   S1:E19/28/1997

   The new chief psychiatrist at an old mental institution is haunted by Images from the hospital's cruel past.

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   6.5/10(31 votes)

   #2 - Last Flight Out

   S1:E29/28/1997

   A year after the plane crash that claimed her husband and child, a guilt ridden woman takes a night flight. Amid the storm-tossed flight, the woman is haunted by ghosts of her past.

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   6.2/10(31 votes)

   #3 - Step-Sister

   S1:E310/5/1997

   When a young girl's mother remarries, she moves into her step-father's house, only to find herself haunted by the ghost of her jealous step-brother. But soon she discovers he's trying to warn her - about his own death and the danger she now finds herself in.

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   5.3/10(27 votes)

   #4 - You'll Always Be Mine

   S1:E410/5/1997

   A young woman is stalked by the ghost of an obsessive suitor. After she's found murdered, the cop who failed to protect her is haunted by her cries for help from beyond the grave.

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   5.6/10(24 votes)

   #5 - Wake in Fear

   S1:E510/13/1997

   An overworked intern is plagued by dreams in which he sees corpses being wheeled to the hospital morgue. They turn out to be premonitions of patients about to die the next day on the operating table.

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   5.0/10(16 votes)

   #6 - Blood Money

   S1:E610/13/1997

   A crooked lawman hounds an ex-con bank robber to determine the whereabouts of his buried loot. Upon retrieving the ill-gotten booty, the dirty cop discovers to his horror that the money's even dirtier - it's haunted by the spirits of those who were killed during the heist.

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   6.4/10(28 votes)

   #7 - Landscape of Lost Dreams

   S1:E710/20/1997

   A couple returns to their honeymoon hotel in a last ditch effort to save their crumbling marriage. When the wife vanishes, the husband is suspected of killing her.

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   6.2/10(110 votes)

   #8 - Cold in the Grave

   S1:E810/20/1997

   A divorced, embittered repairman murders a woman he picked up in the bar, stashes her body in an industrial refrigerator, and dumps it into the river.

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   6.7/10(22 votes)

   #9 - Personal Demons

   S1:E910/27/1997

   A social worker pursuing a mentally unbalanced man who escaped from a halfway house discovers that her client is prodded to murderous actions by a malevolent demon.

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    5.9/10(18 votes)

    #10 - Cloistered

    S1:E1010/27/1997

    A lonely care-giver to the elderly falls for a man whom she believes is kept in his house by his domineering mother. But as their secret relationship grows, she is horrified to learn that the young man is not what he seems.

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    7.5/10(31 votes)

    #11 - All Night Diner

    S1:E1111/3/1997

    Abandoning her family, a woman drives out of town and stops at an all night diner. Inside, she is harassed by strange customers who know too much of her past, causing her to flee to another diner. But to her horror, she discovers that it's the same diner with the same tormentors. Turns out she was killed in a car crash and is trapped in her own purgatory of guilt.

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    5.6/10(19 votes)

    #12 - Beware the Muse

    S1:E1211/3/1997

    A tabloid reporter concocts a story about a long-dead serial killer, and unwittingly resurrects the killer's ghost.

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    5.5/10(16 votes)

    #13 - Blazes

    S1:E1311/10/1997

    A hero fireman, who is actually a compulsive arsonist, forges an unholy alliance with a mysterious homeless man with more than a passing interest in blazes.

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    6.2/10(21 votes)

    #14 - Cold Dark Space

    S1:E1411/10/1997

    A frenzied man finds himself trapped in a nightmarish hospital room. Surrounded by the dead from his past, it appears he's lost in a limbo world between life and death. We discover this is all the delusion of an astronaut adrift in space with his dead co-pilots as company.

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    5.0/10(21 votes)

    #15 - Green-Eyed Monster

    S1:E1511/17/1997

    A jealous husband becomes a green-eyed monster when he finds his wife giving undue attention to their backyard tree -- the very tree from which her ex-boyfriend committed suicide.

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    6.1/10(17 votes)

    #16 - Sara's Friends

    S1:E1611/17/1997

    Sara works in a morgue, but she has lots of friends - on the gurney. But when a grifter tries to con her out of the morgue patient's valuables, he learns that Sara's friends will go above and beyond - the grave.

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    5.9/10(18 votes)

    #17 - Beat the Reaper

    S1:E1711/24/1997

    A man on death row prays for a governor's pardon. One night he has a ghostly visitation from his dead partner, who shows him how to escape. But trapped in the bowels of the prison, the man is terrified to learn that the ghost is the Angel of Death, intent upon keeping his prize, and not being cheated.

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    5.5/10(17 votes)

    #18 - Conscience

    S1:E181/19/1998

    A good man who has done some terrible things finds that his conscience has a unique way of giving himself away - whether he wants it or not.

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    6.5/10(15 votes)

    #19 - Sleep No More

    S1:E191/19/1998

    A dream psychologist who takes on her patients' nightmares yearns to escape her work and insensitive husband. But when her nightmares start to invade her waking hours, she seeks refuge - into a peaceful dreamscape.

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    6.2/10(21 votes)

    #20 - Point Hope

    S1:E201/26/1998

    A woman is saved from suicide by a mysterious lighthouse keeper with more on his mind than her salvation.

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    6.2/10(17 votes)

    #21 - The Stainless Blade

    S1:E211/26/1998

    The famous magician Vance Delbert passes on the secret of his magic sword.

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    5.7/10(18 votes)

    #22 - The State of Grace

    S1:E222/2/1998

    A lonely hospital orderly falls in love with a beautiful woman who just happens to be comatose. A la Sleeping Beauty she is reawakened by his feelings for her - yet only he alone can see her in a wakened state.

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    7.2/10(17 votes)

    #23 - Fatal Distraction

    S1:E232/2/1998

    A frustrated writer is tempted to cheat on his wife by a mysterious woman he sees through his apartment window. But when he discovers that she is a ghost, it's too late -- and intends to get her revenge.

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    7.7/10(20 votes)

    #24 - The New Nanny

    S1:E242/9/1998

    A nanny spends a terrifying first night with her strange new charge.

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    5.4/10(20 votes)

    #25 - Heartsick

    S1:E252/9/1998

    The recipient of a heart transplant finds herself attracted to a stranger she sees on a train. Turns out she's being controlled by the ghost of the donor - the erstwhile lover of the man on the train.

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