From the time when Rod Serling wrote his famed anthology series The Twilight Zone in the late 1950s, it would grow to five seasons and multiple reboots, featuring many up and coming stars and twist endings. It boasted famous episodes showcasing human thought, idiosyncrasies and nature, diving into issues over race, government, war, society, reality and other aspects of human nature. He portrayed morally challenging dilemmas in the guise of science fiction and fantasy so audiences and networking would not be offended by and cancel the series.
What many did not know was that Rod knew about artifacts and the Warehouse. He previously saw the usage of artifacts several times during his life and even helped Warehouse agents successfully retrieve an artifact when a mission went south. In gratitude, and knowing they could trust him with a secret or two, they showed Rod the Warehouse itself. Rod swore to never reveal the information until he proposed an idea to the Regents in the late 1950s.
Serling had seen multiple nefarious uses for artifacts before and after the Warehouse and proposed a way to indirectly inform the public about artifact properties, examples and effects. Noticing the seemingly increased post war spike in artifact activity coupled with the worldwide nuclear paranoia, the Regents sanctioned and funded his plan. His show, The Twilight Zone, was born, basing scenes and episodes off of artifact properties and altering them into stories to make them too hard for Warehouse enemies to recognize.
When the show was cancelled, it was due to increasing pressure from outside enemy forces. It was revived in the 80s to help act as an artifact deterrent during the Cold War; its return in the early 2000s was precipitated by increased terror attacks. The show was not a failure or disappointment in Warehouse terms, as it subliminally showed many people the dangers of artifacts, helped track down many tricky and elusive artifacts and even educated the people on morality.
More so, some props on the show became so iconic or infused with abnormal energy that they too became artifacts. Those artifacts are, for the most part, stored together in the television sector.
Artifacts[]
- Charles Darrow's Thimble [One for the Angels] Season 1/Episode 2
- William Frank Carver's Glass Ball [Mr. Denton on Doomsday] Season 1/Episode 3
- Marion Davis' Scarf [The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine] Season 1/ Episode 4
- Charles Correll's Amos 'n' Andy Taxi [Walking Distance] Season 1/Episode 5
- Theophilus of Adana's Contract Seal [Escape Clause] Season 1/Episode 6
- Lucretia Garfield's Reading Glasses [Time Enough at Last] Season 1/ Episode 8
- Odilon Redon's Painting of "Flower Clouds" [Perchance to Dream] Season 1/Episode 9
- Hermann Goring's Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross [Judgement Night] Season 1/ Episode 10
- Ibn Battuta's Besom, Smenkhkare's Coffin [And When the Sky Was Opened] Season 1/Episode 11
- James Ben Ali Haggin's Leaky Fountain Pen, Honoratus of Amiens’ Peel [What you Need] Season 1/ Episode 12
- Way Bandy's Tie Clip [The Four of Us Are Dying] Season 1/ Episode 13
- Richard Matheson's Beret [Third from the Sun] Season 1/ Episode 14
- Noel St Malo Juul's Water Skin [I Shot An Arrow Into The Air] Season 1/ Episode 15
- Sarah Knauss' Personal Compact Mirror [The Hitch-hiker] Season 1/ Episode 16
- Margaret D Craighill's Bandages [The Purple Testament] Season 1/ Episode 19
- Percy Bysshe Shelley's Note to his Wife [Mirror Image] Season 1 /Episode 21
- Christopher Lee's Bowtie[A World of Difference] Season 1/ Episode 23
- Christian Mortensen's Thread and Needle [Long Live Walter Jameson] Season 1/ Episode 24
- Paul W. Fairman's Office Chair [People Are Alike All Over] Season 1/ Episode 25
- Anne Greene's Noose [Execution] Season 1/ Episode 26
- Edward O. Thorp's Casino Chip [A Nice Place to Visit] Season 1/ Episode 28
- Edward Henry Potthast's painting "Coney Island" [Nightmare as a Child] Season 1/ Episode 29
- Hans Berger's Notepad [A Stop at Willoughby] Season 1/ Episode 30
- Patrick Suskind's Bottle of Perfume [The Chaser] Season 1/ Episode 31
- Robert Todd Lincoln's Pocket Watch [Mr. Bevis] Season 1/ Episode 33
- Mario Prada's Store Mannequins [The After Hours] Season 1/ Episode 34
- Charles Dickens’ Desk [A World of His Own / Cold Reading] Season 1/ Episode 36
- Lyn Robinson's Turtle Shell [King Nine Will Not Return] Season 2/ Episode 1
- Reginald Fessenden's Radio [A Thing About Machines] Season 2/ Episode 4
- Gaetano Bresci's Camera [A Most Unusual Camera] Season 2/ Episode 10
- Nikita Khrushchev's 1931 Ford Model A [The Whole Truth] Season 2/ Episode 14
- The Flying Dutchman [The Odyssey of Flight 33 ] Season 2/ Episode 18
- Christiaan Barnard's Scalpel [The Toys of Caliban] Season 2/ Episode 29
- Johann Georg Elser's Postcard [Four O' Clock] Season 3/ Episode 29
- H. G. Wells' Time Machine [No Time Like the Past] Season 4/ Episode 10
- Webb C. Ball’s Railroad Chronometer [A Kind of a Stopwatch] Season 5/ Episode 4
- William Shakespeare's Neck Ruff [Uncle Simon] Season 5/ Episode 8
- George Wallace’s Podium [I Am the Night - Color Me Black] Season 5/ Episode 26
- Dorothy Day’s Chalkware [To See the Invisible Man] (1985 - 86) Episode 16b
- Samantha Smith's Cap [Children's Zoo] (1985 - 86) Episode 3b
- Pan Twardowski's Mirror [Dealer's Choice / I of Newton] (1985 - 86) Episode 8c
- Tarrare's Wooden Box [Misfortune Cookie] (1985 - 86) Episode 14c
- Helena Blavatsky's Bread Knife [Memories] (1988 -89) Episode 46
- Clarence Saunders’ Turnstile [The Mind of Simon Foster] (1988 - 89) Episode 57
- Justus von Liebig's Fertilizer Sack [Evergreen] (2003) Season 1/ Episode 1
- John Wesley Hardin's Rosewood Grip Pistol [One Night at Mercy] (2003) Season 1/ Episode 2
- Nannie Doss' Eyeglasses [Dead Man's Eyes] (2003) Season 1/ Episode 8
- David Z's Guitar [Harsh Mistress] (2003) Season 1/ Episode 13
- Eli Robins' Scalpel [Fair Warning] (2003) Season 1/ Episode 26
- Ronald Dale Harris' Quarter Wrap [Rewind] (2003) Season 1/ Episode 28
- Pharaoh Pen-abw's Twin Caskets [The Pharaoh's Curse] (2003) Season 1/ Episode 37
- Huitzilopochtli's Sacrificial Bowl [Sunrise] (2003) Season 1/ Episode 43
- Cameron Todd Willingham's Lighter [Burned] (2003) Season 1/ Episode 44
Artifacts From the Show[]
- Original Alicia Prop [The Lonely] Season 1/ Episode 7
- Slot Machine [The Fever] Season 1/ Episode 17
- WWI-era Nieuport Biplane [The Last Flight] Season 1/ Episode 18
- Alien's Device Prop [The Monsters are Due on Maple Street] Season 1/ Episode 22
- U.S. Air Force Space Probe No. 1 [The Invaders] Season 2/ Episode 15
- Psychic Penny [A Penny For Your Thoughts] Season 2/ Episode 16
- Room 22 Door [Twenty Two and The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror] Season 2/ Episode 17
- Seat from Global Airlines Flight 33 [The Odyssey of Flight 33] Season 2/ Episode 18