10 Twilight Zone Episodes That Eerily Predicted The Future

The Twilight Zone has stood the test of time due to great storytelling, real-life themes, and some unforgettable characters. The show’s creator, Rod Serling, was way ahead of his time. Watching The Twilight Zone today can be more shocking and eye-opening than it was back when it originally aired in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The show’s opening features a line that says The Twilight Zone is a “dimension of imagination”. However, what made the show fun and sometimes scary was that the line of imagination and reality was blurred. That line continues to be blurred today in new ways.

Some Twilight Zone tales had their fingers on the pulse of themes and ideas that have loosely or directly come to pass years later. Those episodes have become creepier and more entertaining with time. Submitted for your approval are ten such episodes that eerily predicted the future.

This season 3 episode begins with Earth steadily moving closer to the sun. The story primarily revolves around two inhabitants of a New York City apartment building dealing with the extreme heat as the planet pushes closer to extinction. In true Twilight Zone fashion, those events are revealed to be a dream but the opposite is actually true. The Big Apple’s temperature is actually plummeting as the planet moves further away from the sun.

Earth succumbing to extreme temperature changes is a familiar narrative. The “greenhouse effect” and “global warming” are terms we are all too familiar with today. Climate change has caused environmental havoc like out of control fires and the melting of polar ice caps.

There are heated political debates over what to do or what not to do about climate change while humanity’s future hangs in the balance. Unlike Earth in The Midnight Sun, at least our Earth has a chance to avoid impending doom.