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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2023 11:37 am 
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TRIVIA---May 24, 2023 is the 82nd anniversary of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Hood being sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in World War II. British actor Robin Hughes was a signalman who was supposed to board the Hood as it set sail to hunt for the Bismarck, but the day before, he was reassigned to officer's training school which saved his life. Of the Hood's crew of 1,418 men, only three survived. Hughes said in in an interview he was "four".
Hughes is probably best known to American audiences for appearing in THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "The Howling Man" in which he claimed he was an innocent traveler, who was falsely imprisoned by mad monks in an ancient castle. After tricking a man to free him, he revealed himself to be The Devil, who was now free to continue inflicting misery and suffering on mankind.

May 24, 2023 is the 82nd anniversary of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Hood being sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in World War II.

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British actor Robin Hughes was supposed to board the Hood as it set sail to hunt for the Bismarck, but the day before, he was reassigned to officer's training school which saved his life. Hughes is probably best known to American audiences for appearing in THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "The Howling Man" in which he claimed he was an innocent traveler imprisoned by mad monks in an ancient castle. After tricking a man to free him, he revealed himself to be The Devil, who was now free to continue inflicting misery and suffering on mankind.

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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2023 9:31 am 
His story about the Hood was dramatized in an episode of "One Step Beyond", a TV series similar to the ""Twilight Zone". In it, he had a premonition that the Hood would sink. He even appeared at the end of the episode with the host.


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