Peter Graves hosts this 1994 Halloween television special on the folklore and supposed reality behind three classic supernatural figures. Interviews with self-identified present-day vampires and practicing modern witches sit alongside medical explanations for why some people believe themselves werewolves, including hypertrichosis, the genetic condition that causes excessive body hair, and porphyria, a blood disorder linked to light sensitivity and other symptoms once mistaken for lycanthropy or vampirism. The film moves between old legend and current practice, letting witchcraft practitioners describe their beliefs in their own words rather than treating the craft as pure myth. Scholars and experts weigh in on where these stories originated and why they persisted long enough to survive into a television special built around them. Graves keeps the tone even-handed, presenting the medical and psychological explanations without dismissing the people who still identify with these traditions, so the special works as both a folklore roundup and a period piece of 1990s paranormal programming.