A mysterious caller troubles a wealthy industrialist. As his maid answers the calls, she becomes suspicious of his past. She tries to protect her employer from his own guilty conscience, but does she have a mysterious past of her own?

A city government is held hostage by a mad scientist with a device that can tunnel through solid rock as easily as a submarine can travel through water. Armed with a powerful laser, he can either trigger or prevent an empending earthquake. As evidence points toward an eminent quake, the mayor must make a decision.

A rich woman is overcome with guilt when she finds out that her whimsical desires led to the death of her faithful maid.

A naive old lady takes eight million dollars cash out of the bank and keeps it at her house. A man who helped transport the loot recruits an accomplice to con her out of it.

A judge and his housekeeper follow the story of a serial killer who prays on young woman and leaves notes exalting his deeds. The well-read housekeeper tries to remember where she has read the killer's text before. The judge is oddly detached from the whole thing.

An old man, recently widowed, rapes and kills a young scientist. He is haunted by her spirit who invokes the spirit of his dead wife to urge him to confess his crime.

A prison guard befriends an inmate locked in solitary confinement. The inmate is tormented by a less compassionate guard. The warden tries to find a solution to the problem.

A young woman is transformed into the world's greatest singing star by a hypnotist. A demanding man uses hypnosis to transform a sad young girl into a singing star. While not under hypnosis, she cannot sing and doesn't remember her concerts. Is it worth the price she pays for her fame?

A young, small time hood and former college football star who is down on his luck and desperate for cash tries to borrow from his rich uncle. When the uncle turns up dead, everyone thinks the boy killed him. At first, his mother does not believe he is innocent. But guilt over his childhood compels her to try to find the real killer.

A deep sea diver is commisioned by an unscrupulous antique collector to rescue an ancient statue from a shipwreck. While on the mission, he finds something else that needs rescuing: a young girl under the collector's care. He also finds a mysterious inhabitant of the shipwreck.