Aliens from space try to destroy Earth by building two mile high skyscrapers which will destabilize the planet's orbit.; A crook gets the magical ability to change his face, but after pulling a robbery, he makes the mistake of changing his face to look like an escaped criminal and is shot to death by police.; A secret formula gives a man the ability to project himself into the future. He finds that a farm is going to be discovered with oil on it, so his friends want to buy the property. He has misgivings about swindling the farmers out of the money that would have been theirs, so he tries to back out of the scheme, but his partners in duplicity tie him to a chair so he can't warn the farmers. He gets loose and drinks the rest of the formula so he can get there ahead of the swindlers and warns them against selling their land.; A deserter from the war of 1812 feels redeemed when his grandson takes up arms to fight for the Union.; A girl whose scientist father believes that there is an undersea race of people living nearby an island keeps having dangerous encounters while diving and being rescued by a couple of young men. The scientist realizes that the two young men are members of the undersea race who can breathe air and are attempting to warn them away.; A hypnotist implants a suggestion into a prison's convicts that, if they escape, they have a recurring dream that passing through a door will grant them sanctuary and the door is that which enters the prison.