Peter Wade Jr. (Ron Hagerthy) is a young pilot who works for his father’s, Pete Wade Sr. (Boris Karloff), aviation company. Peter and co-pilot, Bill Tighe (Myron Healey) are on a cargo run. Bill goes into the cargo area to make sure everything is tied down right. Suddenly a glare hits Peter in the eye and he sees the vision of a man. The man tells him to alter his heading. In a trance Peter does what he is told, and the plane goes off course. Bill returns to the cockpit and sees Peter mesmerized. Bill manages to get control of the plane and Peter eventually comes to his senses. He has no explanation for what happened to himself.
Jr. and Sr. have been having communication problems lately. Jr. can’t explain to his father why he went off course because he is afraid his father won’t understand about the vision. Another subject they have trouble discussing is Jr’s future. Sr. wants his son to continue to work for him flying and eventually take over the company, but Peter wants to learn how to design planes not fly them.
That night Sr. has a nightmare and calls out the name Wally. Jr. wakes him up and asks him about his dream. Sr. tells him that Wally Huffner (Roy Engel) was a friend that died during a mission in the war. Later that night Jr. sees a photograph of Wally with his father. The man in the picture is the same one that Jr. saw in his vision. Jr. decides he needs to fly over the same area where he had the vision to find out why the vision appeared and what is the truth concerning the death of Wally Huffner.
“Destination Nightmare” is the eighth episode created for the anthology series “The Veil”. It is one of 4 episodes compiled for the feature film “Destination Nightmare”. The other episodes were "Whatever Happened to Peggy", “The Return of Madame Vernoy” and “Girl on the Road”.
Since none of the episodes were aired, episode numbers are subjective. This episode and "Whatever Happened to Peggy" have different introductions and closings from the other episodes which make them appear to have been the last episodes done before production shut down. They both also have copyright dates of 1959 instead of 1958.