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*** Some of them appeared as toys in her room, but not as characters as seen in the Labyrinth, so this doesn't discount the madness hypothesis.

 

* In the ''[[Baywatch]]'' episode [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Mv1-ki_wc Strangers among us], a group of half-crazy UFO believers cause problems for the lifeguards as they misinterpret water phenomena on the beach as signs of aliens and almost drown and so on. They are led by the more sensible Dr. Faye Taylor, who has a more scientific view on UFO's. All seems to be normal until the very last minutes of the episode, where she disappears without a trace during something resembling a strange weather phenomenon.

* Of all things, British medical soap/drama ''[[Casualty]]'' pulls this one once. In one episode Tom Baker plays a patient who claims he's an alien; the nurse treating him believes he's delusional until a power cut knocks out the lights and he's shocked at the sight of the patient's glowing green eyes.

* A short story based on ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' "revealed" that the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future were actors hired by Scrooge's nephew. His intent was that, with the aid of some hallucinogenic drug slipped into the old man's food and a lot of research into his background, Ebenezer would be [[Driven to Madness]]. But the conniving nephew didn't think to hire anyone to play the ghost of '''Marley'''. And Marley '''warning''' Scrooge that the ghosts would come is what made that night a [[Heel Face Turn]] rather than a collapse of sanity. "'You were always a good friend to me,' said Scrooge."

 

* ''[[The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries]]'':

** "Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Meet Dracula": In the episode, the Hardy Boys suspect a man of being Dracula, but this is apparently dis-proven. At the end, the villain is in handcuffs and standing in front of a mirror, and Joe Hardy notices that the villain has no reflection, while the other characters conveniently not look at the mirror. The villain is taken away by the cops before Joe can get anyone else to notice.

* One of Leslie Charteris' short stories featuring [[The Saint]] involves a villain faking attacks by the Loch Ness Monster. The villain is then killed by the Loch Ness Monster. Really.

 

* In one episode of ''[[Bones]]'', a person is found dead in the middle of nowhere by a ufologist. At the end of the episode, Brennan and Booth manage to find the real killer. They are lying on the hood of a car in a field, stargazing and talking about whether or not aliens are real. Just then, all the crickets and other natural sounds disappear, leaving both of them a little freaked out in complete silence.

** In another, a murderer uses a myth about a witch in the woods (an intentional parody of [[The Blair Witch Project]]) to cover up the unintentional killing of his filmmaker brother. At the end, though, Angela and Hodgins see what appears to be a ''real ghost'' on footage of the murder. They promptly decide to never mention it again.

* ''[[Miracle on 34th Street]]'' (1947) has the scene at the end where the little girl gets exactly the present she wanted, but notably avoids an explicit sleigh shot.

 

* ''[[The Basil Brush Show]]'' had a Christmas episode where Santa gets food poisoning from the cafe and the gang is forced to make and deliver presents in one night. The next morning when Santa comes round and everyone finds out that he is a department store Santa. After everyone leaves they find the flat full of presents and hear a loud "ho-ho-ho!". It transpires the department store Santa was the real Santa after all.

* In one episode of ''[[Dont Eat The Neighbours]]'', Lucy ends up depressed after she learns that Old Father Bunny has not delivered the bicycle she wanted. So that night, the other adult male characters in the show get up onto the roof, each claiming to Lucy that they are Old Father Bunny and they have brought her the bike she wanted. The next morning Lucy has 7 bikes, but there were only 6 men up on the roof last night. She then finds a note attached to it from Old Father Bunny apologizing that it is a day late, but he and his elves were busy painting it into a multicolour one.

* In ''[[Ultimate Marvel]]'' {{spoiler|Thor is presented as a lunatic who believes himself a god. Eventually it's revealed that Loki has used his [[Reality Warper]] powers to rewrite the world and trap Thor on earth}}.

 

* One episode of [[Two and A Half Men]] has Charlie experimenting with marijuana. He ends up having hallucinations of his ex-girlfriends (and [[ZZ Top]]). After he makes a date with {{spoiler|Rose}}, it's revealed she's the only one who's real.