You unlock this door with the key of imagination.

Beyond it is another dimension, a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind.

You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance

of things and ideas.

You've just crossed over into the twilight zone.

The Twilight Zone. You might wonder why you can hear the sound of the waves when the story that we're going to be talking about tonight takes place in outer space.

Well, before we take flight on that ship, it's important to understand where the origins of this story lie.

In Chapter 6 of A Voyage to Botany Bay published in 1795, the writer documents the following.

I had often heard of the superstition of sailors respecting apparitions and doom,

but had never given much credit to the report.

It seems that some years since a Dutch man of war was lost off the Cape of Good Hope, and

every soul on board perished.

Her consort weathered the gale, and arrived soon after at the Cape.

Having refitted and returning to Europe, they were assailed by a violent tempest,

nearly in the same latitude. In the night watch, some of the people saw, or imagine they saw,

a vessel standing for them, under a press of sail, although she would run them down.

One particular affirmed it was the ship that had founded in the former gale,

and that it must certainly be here, or the apparition of hair, but on it clearing up,

the object, a dark thick cloud, disappeared.

Nothing could do away the idea of this phenomenon on the minds of the sailors,

and on their relating the circumstances when they arrived in port,

the story spread like wildfire, and the supposed phantom was called the Flying Dutchman. In scenes of infancy written in 1803 by John Layden, another aspect of the legend is added, and it says it is a common superstition of

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