【本集对手】沼泽怪物

一系列显然毫无关联的死亡事件所涉及到的每一个受害者都是被碾压身亡，身上覆盖着湿滑的西班牙苔藓。经过调查，考查克发现每个受害者都与脾气暴躁的卡琼人保罗·兰戈瓦有关。然而，兰戈瓦有一个铁证如山的不在场证明：他是一个睡眠实验的对象，已经睡了几个星期。最终，卡尔意识到兰戈瓦的睡眠状态让他下意识地变成一个来自卡津湾的“妖怪”：佩雷马尔费特，一个覆盖着西班牙苔藓的巨大生物，它会把你的生命碾碎。佩雷马尔费特“杀死”兰戈瓦以防止他被吵醒，考查克必须进入芝加哥的下水道，用唯一能摧毁它的东西杀死佩雷马尔费特：用河口胶木制成的矛。

A series of apparently unrelated deaths involve each victim being crushed to death, and covered in wet, slimy Spanish Moss. Upon investigation, Kolchak discovers that each victim was related to Paul Langois, a hot-tempered Cajun. However, Langois has an iron-clad alibi: he's been the subject of a sleep experiment and been kept asleep for several weeks. Eventual, Carl realizes that somehow Langois' sleep state has caused him to manifest a subconscious ""boogey-man"" from the Cajun bayou: Peremalfait, a huge creature covered in Spanish Moss that crushes the life right out of you. Peremalfait ""kills"" Langois to prevent him from being woken up, and Kolchak must travel into the sewers of Chicago to kill Peremalfait with the only thing that can destroy it: a spear made out of bayou gum wood.

Un homme sert de cobaye pour des recherches sur les rêves. Mais celui-ci crée un monstre qui tue dans la réalité, Kolchak intervient...

Mehrere Morde werden begangen. Die Opfer hatten keine persönlichen Beziehungen. Kolchak bemerkt am Tatort, dass auf einer Leiche "spanisches Moos" liegt. Der Reporter findet heraus, dass die Vorfälle mit einem Patienten zusammenhängen, der Teil eines Schlaf-Experimentes ist ...

Carl Korchak (Darren McGavin) é um jornalista que trabalha para o Chicago's Independent News Service, investigando diferentes casos para suas matérias, ele sempre acabava envolvido com fenômenos sobrenaturais. Porém, não importava quantos vampiros, lobisomens, demônios ou seja lá que outras criaturas misteriosas cruzassem seu caminho, ele nunca conseguia convencer seu editor da realidade daqueles acontecimentos.