Creepy Worlds #163

In a case that baffles even T.H.U.N.D.E.R. agents, a series of mysterious deaths at the Museum of Natural History and a lab linked to DNA research leads Nomans to investigate a stolen mummy and a series of bizarre, unexplained fatalities. When a stunning foreign woman claiming to be a descendant of the ancient priestess Ankhara appears, Nomans finds himself drawn into a web of hypnotic power and ancient secrets that challenge everything he thought he knew.

Gideon Bean recounts to a skeptical reporter a bizarre 1909 encounter at a county fair, where he claims alien visitors from Antares V arrived in a spacecraft and, misunderstanding human amusement, permanently distorted the shapes of fairgoers using a resonance beam projector. The aliens, believing the Earthlings enjoyed seeing their reflections warped, intended to win their friendship by offering more such "gifts," but the result left the crowd horrified and bewildered.

In "I Dared Enter the Haunted Forest!" from Creepy Worlds #163, a wealthy man’s arrogance leads him deep into a cursed woodland, where the forest’s keeper reveals a chilling truth: the man was chosen not for his wealth, but for being someone the world would forget. The story unfolds with quiet dread, as the line between reality and another dimension blurs, leaving the fate of the man uncertain.

In "Sleep, You Fool!", Perry’s prank to upstage Bud backfires when he accidentally dozes off for two decades, waking to a world that’s moved on—only to find Bud and Joyce married. The twist lands with quiet shock, turning a jealous scheme into an unexpected reckoning.

Frank Masters, a renowned photographer of submarine life, captures startling images of a massive clam shell in the Coral Seas off Tarawa—only to witness it open and reveal an unexpected undersea city. Though he films the incredible sight, his evidence is dismissed as a hoax when he tries to prove it to marine experts, leaving him struggling to convince anyone of what he saw.