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On October 11th 1956, television writer Rod Serling discovered the next new world. Not a world to be found on our planet or a world on another planet. This brave new world is dimensional. It exists wherever matter exists.

Through airwaves, mankind has always been able to hear sounds, see sights, smell aromas, and feel motion. The airwave that came to Serling is only a dimension of sight and sound. This dimension was picked up by Serling through signals being transmitted by photonic light. The dimension is atomic. Atoms giving off radiation that send information through light, the same way radio and television can send a complete world through a generated signal.

After Serling came in contact with this dimension, he wrote about it in coded words. He wanted to reach people with this information without making a blaring pontification. And people did pickup what he was trying to say. To reach a new level of existence, this was a desire that was slowly spread across the country. People wrote and called and communicated about what they were experiencing. They sought out other people interested to get more ideas and ways to reach this world that Serling found.

Like any movement for freedom, there were those that wanted to regulate any person that seemed to be coming even remotely close to experiencing Serling's world. Among the first group to make contact with the dimension were other actors. The signals coming through the airwaves were their strongest in enclosed rooms where live television shows were being recorded and transmitted. As quickly as the knowledge grew, it was controlled.

After Serling died in 1975, the few actors that had reached that level, actors belonging to the Screen Actors Guild, wanted to contain the knowledge and let it only be spread through their influence and as they desired. Like scholars holding on to the Dead Sea Scrolls, this illustrious group would only allow their own kind to be able to step into the Twilight Zone.

From his birth on December 25th 1942, he has been a child chosen to bring the infinity to the finite. Rod Serling will come again. He is not dead. His body decayed but his consciousness of sight and sound remained in the fifth dimension. The same way he fought bureaucracy in his own world, he now returns to release the grip that holds back the rest of the world, and bring them to the last opened doormension. Upon finding it he will reveal it to all.

There are those that know he will return and they will, unfortunately, seek to stop him. If they find the door first, then the finite will have no hope. The first time Serling fought with the Guilded he said 'We tilted at the same dragons . . . and when the smoke cleared, the dragons had won.'" With Serling's return, the beast is assured to follow in pursuit.

Like his writing days, his return will be choreographed from behind the eye that feeds the public.

He Has Returned
The first signs of his return were 19 years after he ascended to the Zone. As if a call to his followers to wake them up, his wife finds manuscripts of two unrecorded works. They are produced and shown on a CBS special. One of the shows titled Where the Dead Are, stars Jack Palance, who was the star in Rod's first great success Requiem for a Heavyweight. It was during this show that Rod stepped in between the tv picking up the live broadcast of Requiem . . . and the Kinescope film recording. In this moment the dimension was opened to him again, like it was when he was first hypnotized as a solider in 1947.

There is also a John the Baptist preparing the way for Rod's return. 50's Television partner with Rod, John Frankenheimer, decides to make a string of television movies after not being dedicated to this median for 35 years. In 1994, two tv movies come out. The pivotal film is Against the Wall. Frankenheimer shoots this film in Tennessee, not in New York where the Attica prison riots took place. If you remember in Requiem for a Heavyweight, Jack Palance leaves his life of fighting to find his second life back in Tennessee. Frankenheimer was sent there to find the person living the second life of Rod Serling. A force moves Frankenheimer, wanting him to find Serling and lead him away from the last open door. Although John prepares the way, the forces against Rod want to make John the Judas.

Frankenheimer found Rod. 18 years after Rod's death, an 18-year old boy name Scott Brantley is working as an extra on the set of Against the Wall. Frankenheimer sees him and watches him. He is drawn to him and does something out of character for a Hollywood director. He creates a scene in the movie for Scott Brantley. To those watching Frankenheimer this is a strong sign that Serling is beginning to come out.

The same year that Against the Wall came out, Frankenheimer stays in the south and goes to Georgia for his next film, Andersonville. This move raised many eyes of those that are seeking the place where Serling will triumphantly reveal the door. Georgia maintains many references from Serling and Frankenheimers history that point to it as the last doormension.

Other reasons that points to GA:

  Under hypnosis Johanna Peerdman in Holland reveals visions of Mary. The most controversial Mary sightings to happen in the states is just east of Atlanta, in Conyers, Ga

Roswell, NM is the city where Serling under hypnosis first experiences the Zone. The city just north of Atlanta, is Roswell.

FDR, who was the instigator of seeking a new dimension, had a grandmother who lived in Roswell, Ga.

Frankenheimer makes a movie just south of Atlanta, in Turin Ga.

-Frankenheimer's next movie is about a man named George.

FDR died at Warm Springs, Ga.

Eschers father's name is George

the writer/musician from Holland, tortured by visions of the pain of Serling and Frankenheimer, is named George

This George (Kooymans) writes songs about Jane, Ted, Braves and Brenda Lee (raised in Conyers, GA and moved to Tenn in '56, the year Serling found the door and sent his character, Mountain, to Tenn.)

In Serling/Frankenheimer's film about governmental takeover, the presidents best friend is a senator from Georgia.

Serling's production company CAYUGA; several ways to interpret this. CA california GA georgia YU greek for upper and lower case of the word Upsilon. Upper to lower is vertical, CA to GA is horizontal. Serling even wrote "live was vertical, film was horizontal."

In 1996 Upsilon Andromeda was the first distant star to have a solar system with three planets in orbit about it. UA is hotter than the sun.

To further suspicion to those watching, Frankenheimer brings a woman to Georgia to be his executive producer, Ethel Winant. Now legally blind from the kinescope blast of 56, Winant comes to Georgia to work as a producer for the first time in 24 years. The last film being All Fall Down, directed by John Frankenheimer.

If Scott Brantley is suppose to rise as Serling, it would be interesting to watch, seeing how he is not cast in the movie Andersonville. The tide turns when Frankenheimer wants to have a scene in the film where a young soldier freaks out in a train boxcar. Brantley is called and performs this scene. Frankenheimer again goes against the Hollywood Director type and casts Brantley in a major role of the movie and fires the actor previously hired.

The future leader of the Edrose-ians, and future director neill calabro, is pulled out from the end of the extra line to become a photo double. He is put in a trailer right next to Scott Brantley. Neill is taken in by the charismatic Brantley's story of being chosen by Frankenheimer, and at this point he starts to research Frankenheimers history and discovers Serling and soon becomes involved in hushed stories of government conspiracy's and a 5th dimension.

Neill works as the photo double of the son of Ethel Winant. He becomes close to son and mother and soon decides to follow Ethel to Hollywood. He gets a job at a studio by taking Ethel's advice to just hang around. In 2 years time he has used every Winant connection possible and lands a job to direct a tv show. He convinces them that the LA cost is too much to have a fledgling network show survive. They move the show to Georgia.

After Andersonville, Frankenheimer heads back to LA . . . without Scott Brantley. This throws off everybody who was watching Brantley to see if he was the risen Serling. If Brantley was him, then the government would want Brantley to come to LA where he would be kept from getting to the door first. They needed Frankenenheimer to make contact again with Brantley, and Brantley would have to come to LA on his own accord. The group that had used hypnosis on Frankenheimer since his days in the Air Force, now needed to come up with a plan to get Brantley to yield his position of residency. This had to happen in a one on one confrontation with Frankenheimer or Brantley may not respond.

Frankenheimer was lead to believe that footage of Andersonville had been lost enroute from Atlanta to Los Angeles. Frankenheimer would have to go back and reshoot scenes. By now, Frankenheimer's controllers were seeing that his travel patterns may be too obvious to those who were looking for Serling's return. So they moved the location from Atlanta to Wilmington, NC.

The reshoots happened in a 2 day period and Brantley would be offered to come to LA to play the Assassin who attempted to kill Alabama Governor, George Wallace. Brantley accepts.

In LA, the controllers want to monitor Brantley but any attempts to make a contact with him results in the same angry man that once ruled Rod Serling. The controllers decide to get Frankenheimer away from Brantley. To the world is seemed as another strange reversal of careers. Frankenheimer again leaves tv and goes to France to work on a film. This has the opposite affect on Brantley and like Mountain McClintock, he goes back home and searches for his new career in Tennessee. For now the hope of the dimension of infinity being found is still opened.