Cyrus Longworth was a scientist and the best friend of Quentin Collins in 1970 parallel time. In 1969, Cyrus participated in a seance to contact a spirit that was haunting Collinwood. The events went horribly wrong and actually resulted in the death of Quentin's wife, Angelique. Angelique, pretending to be her sister Alexis, obtained Cyrus's journal and eventually discovered that despite Cyrus's beliefs, it was Roger Collins, and not Quentin, who had murdered her during the seance.