Creature of the Pines (2026) Movie Script
1
[Ominous, eerie music]
[Lightning crashes]
[Creature howl
heard in distance]
[Lightning crashes]
[Ominous, eerie music]
REPORTER: A group of
documentarians are
reported missing in the Pine.
Barrens, their campsite
abandoned with no signs
of foul play.
REPORTER: The backpack, and
mountain bike of student Curtis.
Daly was found this evening
near Ridgewater Creek.
Authorities are asking for
anybody with information
to please come forward.
REPORTER: Authorities
say that newly recovered
footage from a camera found
at the campsite
of missing hiker.
Olivia marsh
has raised more questions
than answers.
REPORTER: The search
for the three men
has been called off
after four days of
helicopters and canines
scouring the Pine Barrens
comes up empty.
Over the last three
decades, people have
continued to go missing.
Disappearances
locals attribute to the Creature
of the Pines.
[Cop siren]
COP: Dispatch, I've
got eyes on a male.
He's walking eastbound.
We're just off of
322 on the entrance
to the trail head. Possibly
looks like he's intoxicated.
DISPATCHER: Copy.
Need backup?
COP: Negative for now.
I'll advise if I do,
I'm going to try and
make contact with him
here.
Excuse me sir.
You all right, sir?
How are you?
What's your name?
You all right?
[Mysterious piano music]
DETECTIVE RUSSELL:
We picked Bell up
on route 322 at sunrise.
He was a mess.
Hands shaking, disheveled,
it looked like he
hadn't slept in days.
He just.
He just looked out of it,
and he just said,
"They're gone.
DETECTIVE RUSSELL:
We know that you went
up to Pine Hollow
with two of your friends.
Jared Ross and Luis Campbell.
You were found
at dawn on route 322.
Disheveled.
Disoriented.
You know how this looks, right?
RAYMOND BELL: It's
not what you think it is.
INTERVIEWER TYLER:
So you suspected
he had something to do
with their disappearances?
DETECTIVE RUSSELL: Of course.
Look, when two people go missing
and only one comes back,
it raises questions.
We ran forensics
on everything, but
nothing turned up.
No blood, no prints,
nothing useful.
Thing is,
Pine Hollow is not new to us.
People vanish out there
every couple of years.
Never any bodies.
Never a clean answer.
Doesn't help that.
Pine Hollow's in a dead zone.
No phone signals, no GPS.
Once you're out there,
might as well fall off the map.
So we had no timeline.
Just his word.
[ Mysterious piano music]
[Wind through forest with trees.
RANGER BILL: First time
I ever heard about
it, I was maybe 19.
My uncle worked
Search and Rescue.
Said a couple of
kids went missing.
Hikers somewhere back in '84.
One of them was high school kid.
Curtis Daly.
His parents raised hell.
Posters up everywhere.
Never found him.
REPORTER: The backpack, and
mountain bike of student Curtis.
Daly was found this evening
near Ridgewater Creek.
Authorities are asking for
anybody with information to
please come forward.
INTERVIEWER TYLER:
Do you believe
those were just regular
missing persons cases?
Yeah,
that's what we
put on the report.
Sure.
Got lost,
slipped, fell.
That's what you're
supposed to write.
But after two decades,
you start to see patterns.
A lot of these folks,
the ones we never
found, they were last
seen on the unmarked trails
down by Ridgewater Creek,
past the warning signs.
It's like something
picks them off.
PROFESSOR HARLAN: In 1978,
19 year old named Peter.
Lemansky went missing.
His sister was part
of the search team.
She later told investigators
she heard him
calling her name from the ridge.
Same tone, same
nervous laugh he always had
when he was scared.
She followed it
for about 30 yards
before a ranger stopped her.
Before she could reply.
She swore it was him, but
Peter was already gone by then.
[Ominous, eerie music]
RAY: On the first night
everything seemed fine.
But then Luis,
he said he heard knocks
in the middle of the night.
DETECTIVE RUSSELL: Knocks?
From where?
The woods
I guess?
So what did you do?
I mean nothing.
It's the woods.
Anything can make
noises and knocks.
You're out in the
middle of nowhere.
DETECTIVE RUSSELL:
His story just didn't add up.
It's. It's not what I believe.
It's what I can prove.
I can't put my finger on it,
but something about
the whole thing
just didn't pass the smell test.
Okay, I'll walk me through this
second day.
RAY: We went hiking.
Was a normal day,
except
we heard a voice.
A voice?
Yeah.
Okay, Raymond,
you need to be very clear here.
I don't know.
It sounded like a
person, but, like, really
far away.
Like someone calling for help.
We stopped. We listened.
And then it stopped.
Like nothing.
INTERVIEWER TYLER:
Are you familiar
with the Raymond Bell case?
JAMES: Oh, yeah.
That one checks all the boxes,
the knocks, the voices.
Then his friends vanished
without a trace.
But Raymond was found
alive, right?
Yeah, if you could call it that.
He was found walking
down the road at dawn.
Confused, dehydrated.
No injuries.
His friends were just gone.
No signs of a struggle.
No blood, no
footprints leaving the camp.
Nothing.
That's what makes
this case different.
He didn't just vanish.
He came back.
PROFESSOR HARLAN: If
you look back through.
Lacuna oral history,
you'll find references
to a legend in this area.
A spirit that doesn't hunt
by force, but by familiarity.
They called it the
Whispering One.
It speaks with familiar voices.
INTERVIEWER TYLER: You mentioned
you've heard actual
recordings from Pine Hollow?
JAMES TELLER: Yeah.
There's one that still messes
with me.
A hiker posted online
a few years back
claimed his trail mic
kept triggering at night
when nothing was around.
When you play it,
it starts with wind.
Some crickets, just normal
forest noise.
Then you hear someone
whisper a name real quiet,
like they're standing right
next to the mic.
[Forest sounds and crickets]
[Dark suspenseful music]
I've filed FOIAs,
talked to Rangers, dug
through archives.
Read more sanitized
Ranger reports
than I can shake a stick at.
GPS loses signal through
most of Pine Hollow.
They'll tell you
it's corrupted data,
but it isn't.
Someone doesn't want
people looking too closely.
DETECTIVE RUSSELL:
Are you familiar with.
Olivia marsh?
RAY: No.
Olivia marsh?
No, I don't know who that is.
INTERVIEWER TYLER: In
your interrogation,
you ask Raymond about.
Olivia marsh?
Yeah.
Olivia was a hiker
who went missing in 2020.
She was a small time.
YouTuber out shooting
in the woods.
And while she was never found,
we did recover her camera.
In her footage,
there was a lot of similarities
to what Raymond was describing.
Same woods, same pattern.
The knocks,
the voices in the distance.
Victim goes missing.
The similarities
were too big to ignore
between Olivia
and Raymond's cases.
REPORTER: Authorities say that
newly recovered footage
from a camera found
at the campsite
of missing hiker.
Olivia Marsh
has raised more questions
than answers.
[Dark atmospheric music]
[Record button sound]
OLIVIA MARSH: OK Pine
hollow, take two.
Yes, Emily, I brought bug
spray this time.
And snacks. And
yeah, extra socks.
Don't start.
Unmarked trails.
Love that for me.
Okay, so real talk.
I read a bunch of the comments
after my last video,
and apparently
this place is cursed.
People are like,
"Don't go past the ridge.
"People hear voices.
"Blah blah blah.
Which honestly
sounds like clickbait
I should have come
up with first.
Anyway, we're doing it.
Welcome to Pine Hollow.
[Wind blows through the trees]
Okay, so we are
officially deeper in
than most park rangers
would recommend.
No GPS, no service.
Just me, my camera, and maybe
three hours of daylight left.
And before anyone comments.
Yes, I know what I'm doing.
I've been on plenty of solo
hikes before in way
worse conditions.
This place is a
little creepy though.
So yeah, I'll camp
near the ridge tonight.
Maybe grab some shots of that
old fire road in the morning
and if this goes well
maybe this will be part
one of a little
off-the-map series.
So, yeah, if you're
new here. Hi.
I'm Olivia, and
I make bad decisions
in the woods alone,
so you don't have to.
[Three knocks on tree]
Woodpecker right?
Woodpecker.
[Crow cawing]
Totally normal.
Nature's ASMR.
Love it.
[Melancholy strings music]
EMILY MARSH: Olivia
was my younger sister.
We were close growing up.
Connected at the hip really.
She was the one
always dragging me
outside and climbing trees,
camping in the
backyard, all that.
INTERVIEWER TYLER:
When was the last time
you spoke to her?
Two nights before
she disappeared.
She called me
when she was still on the road.
She said she was
almost at Pine Hollow.
She wanted to check in before
losing signal.
She sounded good. Excited.
She said the drive
was beautiful,
that the forest looked
like something out of a dream.
So she knew she
wouldn't have service?
Yeah, she told me not to worry
if I didn't hear from
her for a couple of days.
She said she'd hike in,
film a few segments for
her channel and be back Sunday.
That was the last time
I heard her voice.
[Wind through trees]
[Folk music softly plays]
[Three knocks on tree]
Okay.
That was weird.
INTERVIEWER TYLER: I
know this is a bit personal,
but some of the photos
recovered from her phone...
Have you seen those?
Yeah,
the police showed me a few.
She was always
snapping pictures for thumbnails
or just little moments
she wanted to post later.
At first
they look normal,
but then they showed me one
where there's someone or
something.
It's out of focus.
I mean, I guess it could
have been a shadow,
but to me
it looked like a person.
[Record button sound]
[Wind blows through the trees]
Ok, we're all set up.
Here is good.
Ooo, wait.
Okay, so before
I go on my little hike,
I wanted to show
you guys my guilty
pleasure snack I have for trips
like this.
Just have to find it.
Where?
Where did I put that?
I think it's back here.
No.
Where is it?
Ooo, there it is.
Okay.
So judge me
all you want, but this
is elite fuel right here.
We've got Funyuns,
we've got Fritos,
we got Cheetos.
Everything your nutritionist
hates.
Okay, I'm gonna get going.
Get some pictures before
I run out of the light here.
Catch you guys later.
INTERVIEWER TYLER:
You've mentioned a pattern.
People hearing familiar voices.
Can you elaborate on that?
It's surprisingly consistent.
Between petroglyphs,
native oral stories, journals,
and various footage recovered
from missing persons,
they all reported hearing
someone they know,
a spouse, a sibling,
a close friend
calling to them from the woods.
The voices are always clear,
always calm,
almost comforting.
[Record button sound]
So full disclosure,
I. I definitely heard
someone calling my name
like, clear as day.
What's weird is it,
I could have sworn
it was my sister.
Sleep is going to
be fun tonight.
INTERVIEWER TYLER:
Look, I know this isn't
easy for you,
but there's one part
of your sister's
final video
people still talk about.
The moment right
before it cuts off.
Have you seen that?
Yeah, I've seen it.
Any thoughts on
what it could be?
I don't even know
what to believe anymore.
Whatever it was,
it wasn't human.
[Dark, ominous music]
[Record button sound]
OK. That's it again. I
think someone's out there.
[Rain pours on the tent roof]
[Rain falls on leaves]
[Tree creaks]
[Footsteps on
leaves coming close]
I think there's someone
outside my tent.
There's someone out there.
Liv.
That's my sister.
There's definitely someone
out there outside my tent.
Liv.
Liv.
[Footsteps approaching]
Please, just go away.
Just go away.
[Primal roar]
[Olivia screams]
[Pensive piano music]
DETECTIVE RUSSELL: Raymond
this whole thing is going to go
a lot better for you
if you're just honest.
- Did you hurt them?
- No.
Did you black out?
No.
Tell me what happened
to Jared and Luis.
I'm telling you the truth.
The truth?
The truth is
your friends go missing
without a trace,
and you're the last
person to see them.
Why are you the only
one to come back?
Well, maybe you would understand
if you were out there
and you saw what I saw.
INTERVIEWER TYLER:
You let him go?
We didn't have enough
to hold him on.
A couple days later,
we found the campsite.
No sign of foul play.
It was definitely a little odd.
Tents were still left open.
Gear still out.
But no blood,
no sign of a struggle.
It's like they got up
in the middle of the
night and walked away.
And Raymond?
Something just didn't
sit right.
But Pine Hollow's different.
People go in. They.
They don't come out.
All those stories.
They come from somewhere.
PROFESSOR HARLAN:
Every other case ends
the same way.
Gone without a trace.
No tracks, no remains.
Nothing.
But Raymond came back.
And he described the same things
the missing did
before they vanished.
The knocks, the calling.
Whatever he
encountered out there
didn't just let him go.
It left him alive for a reason.
TYLER: Ray, hey, thanks so much
for taking the time to sit with
us here.
Is there anything you need
before we get started?
RAY: Yeah.
Do you mind if I just sketch
while we talk?
Just helps clear my mind.
TYLER: No, I'm good
with that, Chris?
CHRIS: Yeah, it's fine.
TYLER: So it's
been almost a year
since the investigation.
How are you holding up?
Fine.
Just trying to
keep things normal.
Like anyone else.
People move on.
Or at least they should.
TYLER: Do you still think about
your friends Luis Campbell
and Jared Ross?
I, I think about what happened.
Yeah.
Not every day.
That's not doing anywhere
any good.
Because the past is in the past.
And you can't change that.
It is what it is.
JAMES TELLER: The
Lacuna have a phrase,
"Mah wikanen.
Closest translation
is "To be a marked one."
According to their stories, once
you hear a voice out there,
you're marked.
And from that moment on,
it's coming for you.
TYLER: You were the last person
to see them alive.
Does that way on you?
Like lead skin.
Suffocating.
It's not something
that I can control.
The woods take what they take.
I walked out.
They didn't.
TYLER: So what changed
with Raymond's case?
When we found their campsite,
everything looked normal.
Then we recovered the cameras.
What's on that footage.
It's.
You can see it in his face.
He's terrified.
Not running from
something he did,
but from something he saw.
[Ominous tribal music]
JARED: I mean,
we can talk about that all day.
The special effects,
the makeup.
RAY: The torture
techniques that he
had to go through.
JARED: Those contact lenses
look like they're fucking.
LUIS: How much further
do we have to go?
RAY: Luis, seriously?
You are like a little kid.
Chill out.
JARED: We got about
another 45 minutes.
LUIS: Oh my God. Ray!
Dude. I'm sorry. You
got to pull over.
I got a piss, dude.
RAY: No no no no no.
We just stopped.
I'm not pulling over.
Hold it.
JARED: Hey, is
that your new toy?
LUIS: Hell yeah.
4K, stabilization, the works.
JARED: Okay.
LUIS: I wanted to get some reps
in before the wedding season.
JARED: Yeah.
LUIS: Do you want to see it?
JARED: Yeah, sure.
Woo.
This is nice, man.
You know, we literally
filmed weddings together.
You don't need to
film our sweaty asses
hiking.
LUIS: Jared,
it's tradition, bro.
Every trip I film
and every trip, you complain.
Besides,
we need new shit for our reels.
Old shit's gettin dry.
We got a client
last time, remember?
Thanks to me.
JARED: Yeah, yeah.
LUIS: So where did you guys
find this place anyway?
Better be worth it.
JARED: Wait.
You never heard of Pine Hollow?
LUIS: No. Why?
What?
RAY: Nothing. It's just.
Silly stories.
JARED: Yeah.
You know, just about people
going in.
LUIS: And what?
JARED: Just not all of them
come back out.
[Jared and Ray laugh]
LUIS: You guys are
so full of shit.
JARED: I guess you'll find out.
Won't you?
- Please.
- Fuck you.
I get nightmares. Please don't.
You know I'm sensitive.
JARED: Oh, baby.
Look at that view.
RAY: That's the great
outdoors right there.
You can. You can set.
You can set your watch to that.
RAY: Do we want
bug spray or not?
JARED: Yes, sir.
Bring that.
Dude, get this shit
out of my fucking face.
LUIS: You're gonna
like the way you look.
I guarantee it.
JARED: Yeah. Thank you. Here.
Make sure you get my good side.
That's nice. Yeah.
RAY: All right.
All right. Come on.
We've got a long
hike ahead, boys.
So let's get the
show on the road.
JARED: All right.
LUIS: Wow. It's
a hell of a place, Ray.
JARED: Yes, sir.
LUIS: Nice thinking.
JARED: Perfect place for a
murder documentary.
RAY: Oh, let's get a pic.
Come on.
LUIS: I'll show
you my Pine Hollow.
RAY: Right here in my pants.
JARED: Jesus Christ.
LUIS: Make mom proud.
JARED: All right.
Cheese. LUIS: Cheese.
JARED: Perfect.
All right, let's go.
RAY: Let's hit it.
JARED: This way.
RANGER BILL: Yeah,
I've heard a few old
stories passed around
the ranger station.
Or from some of those locals.
The Lacuna had a name
for this area.
I don't know how to say it,
but it was something
about voices or being marked.
When I first started the job,
we used to joke about it.
Don't go too deep or the forest
will start talking.
You know, fun and games,
but after a while,
after the disappearances,
you stop laughing.
RAY: See, I told you guys
this place was perfect.
JARED: Yeah,
until the first mosquito bites.
RAY: Hey, bitch!
LUIS: I already got
two mosquito bites.
Look at these.
All right.
Fire there, tents there,
and then later,
bourbon right here.
LUIS: Wait, did you
actually bring the good stuff?
Come on, man.
Luis, do you think we
hiked all the way out here
without proper
incentive? Come on.
Fucking signal, man.
Yeah, that's, that's
kind of the point.
I mean, we're just out here.
No text, no calls, no
fucking work.
LUIS: Oh. Poor boy
can't text all his girlfriends.
RAY: Oh, Jerry.
Oh, no poor Jerry.
Why are you still coming?
LUIS: I got to document this.
Otherwise, it's just three dudes
drinking in the woods.
Uh, that's what
we're doing, yeah?
Yeah, that's exactly what it I.
Yeah.
LUIS: Exactly, future
generations will need
proof.
You're an Idiot, man.
LUIS: And yet history
will remember me, Jared.
Does that bother you?
Does that kill you inside?
Are you jealous?
DETECTIVE RUSSELL: The
only thing we could prove
was that Bell
was the only survivor.
And no sign
that he had harmed anyone.
Frankly, I don't think
he could have staged
what's on that footage.
[Record Button Sound]
[Wind blows through the trees]
[A campfire crackles]
LUIS: Really?
You guys fucking lonely
out here or something?
JARED: Man. I really can't belie
you thought you heard
Bigfoot earlier.
LUIS: I didn't say
Bigfoot, I said something.
RAY: Well, maybe we can use
you as bait and we can meet him.
LUIS: Yeah.
[Three knocks on tree]
Luis: Okay. I know
you heard that.
JARED: Yeah, shh. I heard it.
[Owl hooting]
LUIS: It's close.
RAY: Jared.
JARED: It's not me, man.
JARED: Ahhhh.
LUIS: Let me go.
JARED: I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
LUIS: That's not fucking funny,
okay, I nearly pissed myself.
JARED: I'm sorry. I just had to.
LUIS: You know I have
a sensitive bladder.
Fuck you.
All right, I'm going to bed.
Please. Please. Come on, guys.
- Please don't fuck with me!
- I'm going bed die bye.
- Good night, boys.
- Oh!
Oh, and Jared eat a dick.
RAY: Beddie bye, bed die
bye, bed die bye, bed die bye.
[Coyote yips and
howls in the distance]
[ Tense pulsing music]
Look, predators evolve
to exploit vulnerabilities,
right?
Wolves isolate the weakest deer.
Spiders mimic prey vibrations.
So this isn't new.
Whatever is out there,
it doesn't chase you.
It learns you.
It waits, it listens.
It uses your own
instincts against you.
Did you hear that?
[Knock on tree]
[Wind blowing through trees]
Jared.
Raymond.
[Knock on tree]
This is just perfect.
This is exactly what I needed.
Thanks a lot of guys.
LUIS: I'm still
a little shook from last night.
So from this point on, I'm
not taking any more chances.
I'm recording everything.
Everyone's making fun of me
because of my baby bladder.
But at least I have
a strong colon.
[Wet fart]
EERIE RAY VOICE: Luis.
LUIS: What the hell?
Are those skulls?
[Cacophony of maniacal laughter]
RAY: Luis!
LUIS: Just once I'd like
to take a shit in peace.
Come on, Luis, keep it together.
You got this.
You're seeing things.
You're just seeing things.
PROFESSOR HARLAN: I believe
something's happening out there.
And I believe the people who've
gone missing didn't
just get lost.
You start lining up
the reports, the knocks,
the voices,
the empty camps,
and it stops looking
like coincidence.
It's a pattern.
Day two of wandering
blind through the wilderness.
Our fearless leader Ray
has us walking in circles.
- Brilliant.
- Fuck off! Luis!
Carry my pack, neck mule.
No, no, no, he's just
documenting your mouth.
That for the future generations.
That's what you said, right?
LUIS: That's right, the
textbook chapter will be called
Raymond Bell World's
Biggest Bitch.
JARED: Ooo wee.
At least I don't have
to piss every 20 minutes
because I have a
little baby bladder.
LUIS: Because you
pissed the bed.
That's not funny.
LUIS: Jared laughed.
DISTANT VOICE: LUIS!
LUIS: Did you hear that?
RAY: Kind of sounded
like a person.
LUIS: May be somebody's lost?
Hello?
RAY: Bigfoot.
JARED: Someone out there?
RAY: Luis' mom?
LUIS: No, dude,
I don't hear my mom out there.
[Tree creaking]
LUIS: Dude, you better
watch what you say.
She's gonna give you a spanking.
RAY: That's what I'm hoping for.
LUIS: Actually,
Raymond, what were
you saying again?
About being the
world's biggest bitch?
RAYL All I can think about is
your mom giving me a spanking.
JARED: You're
fucking pushing it.
DETECTIVE RUSSELL:
When did things escalate?
RAY: That night.
Luis kept filming.
He joked around, like,
you know, we're all a little
drunk
sitting by the fire,
and he went to go
take a piss.
And?
Well he never came back.
LUIS: Look at this man.
Jared Michael Ross,
future alcoholic of America.
Bro, you know what?
Fuck you man.
You know what your
fucking title is?
You're fucking
world's biggest bitch.
That's what.
That's what you are, bro.
What is funny?
I think that's my title actual.
Or it was that earlier.
Fucking both of you guys.
LUIS: Day two in the wilderness.
Current mood:
Surrounded by butt plugs.
Oh, why don't you turn
the camera around for yourself
to see what a true
butt plug looks like?
You know what? That's.
That's fucking it, man.
- What are you doing? - There's
no way I'm letting you have
you only fucking fucking
footage on this trip.
- How about this?
- Ohhh.
New documentary.
Two geniuses.
Hey.
JARED: And their
fucking their idiot friend.
How about that?
LUIS: Oh, fuck you, dude.
Wait, wait. Please.
Real quick though.
Be careful with that camera.
- It's new.
- Oh, I'm so sorry, fucking Luis
I didn't realize that
you were the only one
that gets to play with
the new fucking toys.
LUIS: All right.
Excuse me.
RAY: Where are you going?
LUIS: I gotta go piss.
RAY: How is that possible?
How is that possible?
He's got a baby bladder.
The man has a...
JARED: Nobody wants
to see you pissing, bro.
Don't. I'll edit my dingle out.
It's fine.
I'll need the light, besides
I'll need proof.
If you guys try to kill me.
I'm coming back
to your assholes.
JARED: Just shut up and
take a fucking piss, man.
LUIS: Not your assholes.
I'm not going to haunt
your assholes, but I will.
JARED: Dude, just fucking piss.
LUIS: Okay.
I'm going to haunt you assholes.
Not your assholes.
DETECTIVE RUSSELL:
Did you go after?
We tried.
We looked, but it was dark.
Jared thought
maybe he was messing with us.
I mean, Luis did that
stuff all the time.
[Heavy metal music]
RAY: How can you
listen to this shit?
JARED: Bro
this is art, brother.
Something that you would
not fucking understand. Okay?
Oh, yeah. It's this,
and then it's fucking Beethoven.
What the fuck is
Luis doing, man?
He's probably out there
jerking his gerkin.
LUIS!
Quit jerking it.
Dude, this is probably
just like that fucking time
where he was trying to pranks us
and he was hiding my sleeping
bag for, like, three hours.
Shenandoah.
Fucking stupid asshole.
Luis.
World's biggest bitch.
Where the fuck are you at, man?
Fucking. I swear to God,
when I fucking find you.
Fucking.
It's dark out there.
Who gives a shit, man?
You think he like fell?
Dude, I don't know, man.
I just.
He better not be
fucking with us.
Dude, I swear.
We'll probably have to go get.
What?
We got to go get him.
I mean, it's been a while.
All right.
Well, you fucking
lead the way, bro.
I got out?
You got the light.
Fucking stupid shit.
Dark as shit, I can't
even see anything.
[Wind blows through the trees]
RAY: Luis, where
are you at, man?
JARED: Quit being a dick, man.
This is too far.
Yeah, I can't see
fucking shit, man.
Fuck.
What should we do?
This isn't funny, man.
Fuck, it's so dark out.
I mean, we're not
gonna find him.
Let's. Let's go
back to the fire.
Luis, if this is a
fucking prank, man.
I swear.
Fucking help me God!
Jesus fucking Christ, man.
TYLER: Can you
speak a little bit
more about Pine Hollow?
What it's like. What
it felt like out there.
[Dark ominous music]
It's empty.
And quiet.
Almost peaceful in a way.
JARED: You heard that, right?
Ray.
Yeah.
Sounded like it came
from over there.
I don't know.
Could have been him.
Yeah, then why the
fuck is he not answering?
Luis?
Luis!
Fuck me.
Come on.
Why would he come
out this far, man?
I don't know. Maybe
he fell or something.
Or maybe.
Oh fuck.
What is it?
His camera.
Aw fuck.
Battery's dead.
How the hell did that
end up out here?
[Three knocks on tree]
That came from behind us, right?
No closer.
RANGER BILL: And the knocks?
Always three of them.
Hollow like a dead
tree trunk.
Comes from way off sometimes.
Other times it's close enough
you can feel it in your chest.
Old-timers used to say
that's the woods answering back.
Lacuna legend,
talk about spirits
that echo your own soul.
Like the forest is learning you.
I remember my uncle telling me
if you were ever out
there and you hear it,
call your name.
Don't answer it.
So I never did.
[Record button sound]
JARED: I swear to God,
Ray, I heard him. Okay?
Luis.
It sounded like Luis.
I'm telling you
fucking out there.
RAY: Yeah, well, I
didn't hear shit, man.
Okay. And I did.
He said my name.
Well then why didn't he answer
when you called for him?
I don't know, man.
Okay, but this is one
of his fucking pranks.
I swear to God,
I'm gonna fucking.
No no no, no.
He wouldn't stay out all
fucking night without his pack.
- Okay. - So then is his... what
do we think?
He's hurt?
He could be.
Well, look, man, we can't
just keep wandering out here.
All right well, let's just
give it one more night, then.
And if he's not back by morning.
We pack up our shit and we go
back to the ranger station.
All right.
One more night.
Are you still recording?
Yeah.
Something doesn't
fucking feel right, man.
[Wind blows through trees]
[Dark atmospheric music]
[Record button sound]
[Cacophony of maniacal laughter]
LUIS: Ray?
EERIE RAY VOICE: Luis.
What are you doing, dude?
Come on, Luis.
Just wanted to watch me piss?
- That's cool.
- Give me a second.
If you wanted to watch me
drain my dragon, why didn't
you just ask, Ray?
Where'd you go?
Ray.
Dude.
Ray, is there a reason
why you're taking me
on a fucking scavenger hunt?
Where are you?
EERIE RAY VOICE: Luis.
DEMONIC VOICE: Come here.
LUIS: Ray, what the
fuck are you doing?
EERIE JARED VOICE: Luis.
LUIS: Jared?
Dude, it's not fucking funny.
EERIE JARED VOICE:
It's not fucking funny.
[Cacophony of maniacal laughter]
LUIS: What the fuck is that?
[Creature roar]
[Wind blows through trees]
[Loud crash in trees above]
[Creature roar in the distance]
[Leaves rustle]
[Branch snaps above]
[Creature roar]
[Screams heard]
[Suspenseful driving music]
[Record button sound]
What the fuck was that?
EERIE LUIS VOICE: Jaaareeed.
Luis.
Fuck me.
[Coyotes yip in distance]
Luis? Quit fucking around, man.
Luis, what the fuck, dude?
[Wind blows through trees]
Luis?
Aw fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
Luis, stop fucking around, man.
Fuck.
EERIE LUIS VOICE: Jaaaareeeed.
[Creature roar]
[Creature roar]
[Sounds of body ripped into]
[Labored breathing
and blood gurgling]
TYLER: Do you personally think
Raymond was telling the truth?
[Dark ominous music]
Yeah, I mean,
I mean, he wasn't lying.
I've seen liars; Shifty eyes,
more details than necessary.
He was just.
He was just broken.
Whatever happened
in Pine Hollow.
I don't really know.
Pine Hollow has a reputation.
There's all kinds of
stories and histories
going back to the
Native Americans.
I don't know what's true or not,
but I do know that
people disappear in those woods
every year.
Some of them take
the wrong trail,
get dehydrated,
disoriented - bodies
found miles from campsites.
But most of them.
Most of them are never found.
It's like they up and vanished.
Bell's the only
one I've ever seen
walk out.
[Tense music slowly builds]
Whatever happened out there,
whatever happened out there,
whatever he saw
or heard.
That's a hell of a
thing to live with.
[Dark atmospheric music]
[Record button sound]
Ok.
Red light's on
I guess it's recording,
All right, Jared just
Jared just like, I don't know,
he just fucking ran
off into the woods.
I tried to follow him,
but there's something.
There's something out there.
Something not.
I don't fucking
know. I don't know.
What the fuck is going on?
EERIE LUIS VOICE: Ray.
Don't fuck.
[Nails across tent fabric]
No no no.
Fuck!
Fuck!
[Cacophony of maniacal laughter]
EERIE VOICE: Come on.
What the fuck? What
the fuck? What the fuck?
[Cacophony of maniacal laughter]
EERIE JARED VOICE:
We'll see you soon, Ray.
[Record button sound]
[Breaking news background mus.
REPORTER: A breakthrough
tonight regarding the three
missing hikers coming
out of Pine Hollow.
One of the individuals
has been found alive
after spending several days
in the woods off route 322.
More details to come
as the investigation continues.
[Dark suspenseful music]
DETECTIVE RUSSEL: So what
happened when the sun came up?
I packed up what I could
carry, and I left.
What about your friends?
Nothing.
There's no signs for them.
It was like there were just
gone.
[Suspenseful atmospheric music]
RANGER BILL: I wasn't stationed
out there anymore
when that happened.
But I still knew a few
old folks out there
on the search team.
They told me it was bad.
Real bad.
Three friends go out.
Only one comes back.
No signs of struggle,
no tracks, no blood.
Just an empty camp.
Raymond.
The one who made it out.
He said something
took his friends, but nobody
could figure out what he meant.
I think somebody,
or something's in these woods
that ain't supposed to be here.
And it's smart.
Smarter than people think it is.
Maybe it doesn't kill to feed.
Maybe it kills to
keep people away.
TYLER: Can you tell
us how this Lacuna
legend originated?
[Dark ominous music]
Yeah. It's one of the darker
stories that's lingered around
this part of New Jersey,
though it predates
settlers entirely.
The Lacuna,
who once lived on these lands,
told of a boy accused
of stealing a turquoise necklace
from the chief's family.
He was innocent, though,
and one of the elders
saw who really took it,
the chief's own son,
but said nothing.
And when they burned
that boy alive,
he never looked
away from the elder.
They say his eyes
didn't even blink as he cursed
the land.
He swore he'd return as anything
and everything.
The words are hard to translate,
but the meaning is
haunting
the idea that his
spirit would no longer
be bound to one body,
that he could
become many things.
In the legend,
his spirit takes on the voices
and faces of others,
a reflection, a mimic.
He doesn't chase his victims.
He calls to them, sounding
like someone they love
until they walk
willingly into the forest.
In some versions of the story,
his final words were
"mah wikanen taku sni,
which translates to
the marked ones
will never leave.
TYLER: Would you ever
consider going back?
Been there, done that.
Got the t-shirt to prove it.
But I don't really see
a reason to go back.
And honestly, I
don't think I could.
Whatever happened out there,
I'll never be the same.
What makes you say that?
Because that's where
everything begins.
And where it ends.
Can you elaborate on that?
Actually, no.
We're done here.
You guys can see yourselves out.
CHRIS: Let me get your sound.
TYLER: Well, Ray, man
thank you for your time.
Appreciate it.
CHRIS: What's this?
RAY: It's still out there.
TYLER: What did he say?
He said it's still out there.
What's that?
It's a map.
[Dark ominous piano music]
IAN: Yeah, should
be back by Sunday.
Love you, bye.
CHRIS: Or earlier if
we end up killing Tyler.
TYLER: I heard that.
All right, day
one departure log.
We're rolling from
the trail head
of Pine Hollow.
We're starting here because
it's about as far as anyone's
officially allowed to drive in.
Raymond Bell's old campsite
is about two miles up the road
near the ridge,
past the old fire road.
Dude, are you rolling on this?
Shouldn't we save batteries?
TYLER: Dude, Chris we are
documenting the process, not
just the discovery.
Come on baby. AKR.
AKR?
TYLER: Always keep recording!
Oh, yeah.
IAN: Just don't
shoot my ass while
I'm hauling 30 pounds
of gear up here.
TYLER: Ian, if I
want your opinion,
I'll get it to you.
CHRIS: All right.
Are you ready to do this?
TYLER: Yeah.
- Framing looks good?
- Yeah.
Put the cigarette down.
But, yeah.
I'm not gonna litter,
I put that in my back pocket.
We're here at the
trail head of Pine.
Hollow. Raymond Bell's campsite,
and Jared and Luis'
final resting place
is a few miles back.
So, boys,
any final thoughts
before we head in?
IAN: Yeah, let's do this before
I change my mind.
TYLER: And we are off.
To find the creature
of the pine.
TYLER: What do you think?
Looks like a pretty good spot.
Nice and flat.
- Get the tents up?
- Yeah, I I'm fucking tired
so this works perfect.
IAN: That's a hell of a hike.
TYLER: Always complaining.
CHRIS: Aw my back.
TYLER: Yo, take these. I
want to get this on sticks.
[Record button sound]
TYLER: Chris,
why don't you throw these.
GoPros up?
- Okay.
- Let's get one up
in that tree.
That one right there?
Yeah, I feel like a
wide angle looking down.
- Okay.
- Might be good.
And then it's
motion censored.
So like if anything moves,
it'll just automatically start
recording.
IAN: Sounds like you
want something to happen.
Ian, I don't want
anything to happen.
I'm hoping we get proof.
There's a big difference.
CHRIS: You think something is
just going to wander into camp?
Chris, I don't know,
but if we hear something
at night, I'd sure
like to be able to look back and
see what it was.
That's fair.
You also said you
want a GoPro in each
one of these tents
then too, right?
Yeah. Let's get one in each.
Okay.
Put them in the back,
kind of facing out to the door.
- Okay.
- That sound good?
- Yeah.
- And sound?
Keep that running.
Running all night?
Yeah.
Ian, always keep recording.
Dude, we're making a documentary
we don't know what
we're going to use.
Just keep it running.
We're gonna us a
lot of freaking batteries.
I'm going to head off,
film like, a little transition.
You help with that?
No, no. I'm good. Just.
You know what?
Help Chris with the fire then
after you done with the GoPros.
Sound good?
- Yeah. That's good. - All
right, I'll meet back up with
you.
CHRIS: You brought the big tent?
IAN: Despite what
your ex-wife says
size doesn't matter, Chris.
I wouldn't want to be
anywhere else with anyone else.
Strike that.
I do wish my son was here.
But Chris and Ian
make great substitutes,
albeit a little bit more lippy.
Oh, yeah.
It's an absolute pleasure
working with Tyler.
There's anything I love more.
It's going 66,000 miles an hour
through Fantasyland.
I consider myself
an agnostic when it comes
to the paranormal.
Could be real.
I've just never seen
anything personally
that would make me a believer.
[Record button sound]
[Wind blows through trees]
[Tree creaks]
We're here at Pine Hollow.
State Forest,
where Raymond Bell
and his friends.
Way too stiff.
Here we go.
[Three knocks on tree]
[Owl hooting]
[Three knocks on tree]
No freaking way, dude.
Tell me we got that.
Tell me we got that.
No way, no way, no way.
Yo, bro, did you hear that?
Dog, we got that on.
We definitely got
that on camera.
What the.
Okay. Somebody must
have pissed in his Cheerios
hard this morning.
[Record button sound]
TYLER: Those knocks were insane.
You heard some?
Heard them?
Dude, I got it on camera.
It was three of
them. Super clear.
And in this, like,
distinct pattern.
Tell him, Chris.
Yeah.
Very scary.
Very haunted.
Oh, fuck you and the horse
you rode in on.
I think we're gonna
need some more wood.
All right,
Ian, why don't you take this?
Do something.
Try and be productive, please.
IAN: Does eating
hot dogs not count?
The less wieners
the better, dude.
We're making a documentary.
IAN: I don't think
you understand
the internet.
Oh, he definitely
heard the knocks.
He was, like, 50ft from me.
I'm not sure how he couldn't.
Just, I'm telling you,
the mental gymnastics
he goes through to try
and discredit something
is unbelievable.
IAN: All right. Let's
get some tunes going.
[Heavy metal music]
Let's get some usable footage.
Hope this works for you, Tyler.
Very usable.
[Footsteps in leaves]
Oh. Hey guys.
Did you get anything?
Guys?
[Owl hooting]
You fucking with me?
Knock it off. You're
gonna fry my retina.
What the fuck?
CHRIS: That doesn't
make any sense.
TYLER: You talk like a man
with a tissue paper asshole.
- What?
- That better?
CHRIS: Okay.
IAN: Were you guys
fucking with me?
What?
TYLER: I was looking for that.
IAN: Were you fucking with me?
CHRIS: What are
you talking about?
IAN: Never mind.
CHRIS: Okay.
Did you get some usable footage?
IAN: Yeah, I got loads
of usable footage.
CHRIS: Dude, I don't
think he was talking
about that kind of footage.
TYLER: We can Double down make a
little cash on Pornhub from it.
IAN: Oh, now he does understand
the internet.
[Wind blows through trees]
[Footsteps in leaves]
[Soft cacophony of
maniacal laughter]
IAN: Tyler?
IAN: Chris?
[Record button sound]
[Record button sound]
TYLER: Try and get this.
IAN: Were you guys
fucking with me
last night?
CHRIS: What are
you talking about?
IAN: Someone opened my zipper.
I thought was you
guys fucking with me.
But I came out and there
was nobody out here.
CHRIS: I didn't do shit.
Did you do anything?
TYLER: No, I had
nothing to do with that.
I was in my tent.
Was your GoPro still on?
IAN: Yeah, it should be.
TYLER: All right,
well, go grab it, dude.
TYLER: That's
definitely something.
IAN: It's kind of freaky.
CHRIS: That could
be someone out there
fucking with us, though.
TYLER: That's the shit
we came here for, boys.
Come on, let's go.
All right,
I'm gonna get the drone up.
Get a little footage
from above. All right?
CHRIS: Wait, you're
gonna go by yourself?
TYLER: Well, yeah.
I'm not gonna be far.
I'll be within range.
Keep the cameras rolling.
- All right?
- All right.
Oh, yeah. No.
And with the GoPro thing,
we were literally so close.
I can't believe
the creature knocked it down.
I mean, Chris,
Ian, I guarantee you it'll say
it was the wind.
Definitely the wind.
It was the wind.
It was totally the wind.
But it was definitely
an intelligent
move by an intelligent being.
We're getting close.
IAN: I don't know, man,
the tent thing.
Keep thinking about it.
CHRIS: What, it freak you out?
A little bit,
a little bit.
CHRIS: Yeah, I know.
We could just pack it up,
tell him we got what we needed.
Get the fuck out!
CHRIS: We can't leave.
You know, if we leave, he'll
just come back here by himself.
Would that be so bad?
CHRIS: Come on. Look, we
just give it one more night,
and then we just
get the fuck out of here.
One more night.
That's all he's getting.
TYLER: Yo, boys!
He's back.
CHRIS: What?
I got something, baby.
What? What do you
mean by something?
You'll see Kemosabe.
[Dark ominous music]
[Wind blows through trees]
[Pitter patter of rain on tents]
[Clap of thunder
in the distance.
[Footsteps in leaves]
[Clap of thunder]
[Soft meditation music plays.
[Creature roars]
[Clap of thunder]
[Guttural scream
heard in distance]
TYLER: Chris, what
are you doing?
Dude?
I'm gonna hike out on
the trail until I get
cell phone signal, and then
I'm going to call for help.
Are you kidding me?
Dude, it's pitch black out.
You're gonna end up breaking
your neck.
Well, I'd rather break
my neck out there
then stick around here for
whatever happened to him.
Oh, come on, dude,
let's just wait until sunrise.
We can go out and
find him together.
Dude, you don't get it,
he didn't just fucking get up
and walk out of his tent.
Something took him.
You do not know that.
Come on. Glass half full.
I do know that.
This place is fucked.
We should have never came here.
God damn it! I'm telling
you, Chris, if you walk out now,
I'm not coming after you.
Fine.
Good luck.
Mother fucker.
Dude, just keep filming.
All right?
And I'll meet you at the car
tomorrow morning.
Do not leave.
Capisce?
You better be there.
[Trees creaking]
TYLER: Ian?
Dude, where are you?
[Clap of thunder]
Ian, where are
you, dude? Come on.
Ian say something.
Come on, man.
Seriously, Ian.
Oh, Ian!
Bro. Wait up, man.
Dude, Ian.
Dude, where the fuck
are you going, man?
Come on, dog, Ian!
[Cacophony of maniacal laughter]
[Sound of bone breaking]
CHRIS: Follow the ridge.
Get your cellphone.
Then get the fuck out of here.
[Three knocks on tree]
EERIE IAN VOICE: Chris.
[Clap of thunder]
[Creature roars]
Oh fuck.
[Clap of thunder]
CHRIS: Just keep moving.
Just keep moving.
Ah shit.
What the fuck?
Oh my God. What the fuck?
Holy shit.
What is this?
Ray?
Then who the fuck
did we interview?
[Creature roars]
Who's there?
Aw fuck.
What?
[Cacophony of maniacal laughter]
I hear you.
[Creature roars]
Who is it?
Tyler?
Who's there?
Who is it?
[Creature roars] Oh, shit. Oh!
[Creature roars]
[Screams heard]
[Sound of skin being peeled off]
[Clap of thunder]
[Footsteps on leaves]
Fuck. Fuck.
[Screams of pain]
[Screams of pain]
[Screams of pain]
Mah wikanen
taku
sni.
[Clap of thunder]
[Record button sound]
[Dark ominous music]
PROFESSOR HARLAN: In the legend,
his spirit takes on
the voices and faces of others,
a reflection, a mimic.
He doesn't chase his victims.
He calls to them, sounding
like someone they love
until they walk
willingly into the forest.
In some versions of the story,
his final words were
"mah wikanen taku sni,"
which translates to
"the marked ones
will never leave."
RAY: Whatever
happened out there,
I'll never be the same.
REPORTER: A group of
documentarians are reported
missing in the Pine
Barrens, their campsite
abandoned with no signs
of foul play.
Camera and audio gear
were recovered nearby
and turned over to authorities.
[Trees creaking in the wind]
PROFESSOR HARLAN: Pine
Hollow doesn't care
if you believe in it or not.
It listens.
It learns.
And when it calls your name.
Don't answer.
REPORTER: Online rumors swirl
as Netflix and Paramount
have entered a bidding war
for the rights to the story
and the footage.
And now to John in
Sports, where the Devils
beat the Flyers 6 to 1.
[ Dark atmospheric music]
[Ominous, eerie music]
[Lightning crashes]
[Creature howl
heard in distance]
[Lightning crashes]
[Ominous, eerie music]
REPORTER: A group of
documentarians are
reported missing in the Pine.
Barrens, their campsite
abandoned with no signs
of foul play.
REPORTER: The backpack, and
mountain bike of student Curtis.
Daly was found this evening
near Ridgewater Creek.
Authorities are asking for
anybody with information
to please come forward.
REPORTER: Authorities
say that newly recovered
footage from a camera found
at the campsite
of missing hiker.
Olivia marsh
has raised more questions
than answers.
REPORTER: The search
for the three men
has been called off
after four days of
helicopters and canines
scouring the Pine Barrens
comes up empty.
Over the last three
decades, people have
continued to go missing.
Disappearances
locals attribute to the Creature
of the Pines.
[Cop siren]
COP: Dispatch, I've
got eyes on a male.
He's walking eastbound.
We're just off of
322 on the entrance
to the trail head. Possibly
looks like he's intoxicated.
DISPATCHER: Copy.
Need backup?
COP: Negative for now.
I'll advise if I do,
I'm going to try and
make contact with him
here.
Excuse me sir.
You all right, sir?
How are you?
What's your name?
You all right?
[Mysterious piano music]
DETECTIVE RUSSELL:
We picked Bell up
on route 322 at sunrise.
He was a mess.
Hands shaking, disheveled,
it looked like he
hadn't slept in days.
He just.
He just looked out of it,
and he just said,
"They're gone.
DETECTIVE RUSSELL:
We know that you went
up to Pine Hollow
with two of your friends.
Jared Ross and Luis Campbell.
You were found
at dawn on route 322.
Disheveled.
Disoriented.
You know how this looks, right?
RAYMOND BELL: It's
not what you think it is.
INTERVIEWER TYLER:
So you suspected
he had something to do
with their disappearances?
DETECTIVE RUSSELL: Of course.
Look, when two people go missing
and only one comes back,
it raises questions.
We ran forensics
on everything, but
nothing turned up.
No blood, no prints,
nothing useful.
Thing is,
Pine Hollow is not new to us.
People vanish out there
every couple of years.
Never any bodies.
Never a clean answer.
Doesn't help that.
Pine Hollow's in a dead zone.
No phone signals, no GPS.
Once you're out there,
might as well fall off the map.
So we had no timeline.
Just his word.
[ Mysterious piano music]
[Wind through forest with trees.
RANGER BILL: First time
I ever heard about
it, I was maybe 19.
My uncle worked
Search and Rescue.
Said a couple of
kids went missing.
Hikers somewhere back in '84.
One of them was high school kid.
Curtis Daly.
His parents raised hell.
Posters up everywhere.
Never found him.
REPORTER: The backpack, and
mountain bike of student Curtis.
Daly was found this evening
near Ridgewater Creek.
Authorities are asking for
anybody with information to
please come forward.
INTERVIEWER TYLER:
Do you believe
those were just regular
missing persons cases?
Yeah,
that's what we
put on the report.
Sure.
Got lost,
slipped, fell.
That's what you're
supposed to write.
But after two decades,
you start to see patterns.
A lot of these folks,
the ones we never
found, they were last
seen on the unmarked trails
down by Ridgewater Creek,
past the warning signs.
It's like something
picks them off.
PROFESSOR HARLAN: In 1978,
19 year old named Peter.
Lemansky went missing.
His sister was part
of the search team.
She later told investigators
she heard him
calling her name from the ridge.
Same tone, same
nervous laugh he always had
when he was scared.
She followed it
for about 30 yards
before a ranger stopped her.
Before she could reply.
She swore it was him, but
Peter was already gone by then.
[Ominous, eerie music]
RAY: On the first night
everything seemed fine.
But then Luis,
he said he heard knocks
in the middle of the night.
DETECTIVE RUSSELL: Knocks?
From where?
The woods
I guess?
So what did you do?
I mean nothing.
It's the woods.
Anything can make
noises and knocks.
You're out in the
middle of nowhere.
DETECTIVE RUSSELL:
His story just didn't add up.
It's. It's not what I believe.
It's what I can prove.
I can't put my finger on it,
but something about
the whole thing
just didn't pass the smell test.
Okay, I'll walk me through this
second day.
RAY: We went hiking.
Was a normal day,
except
we heard a voice.
A voice?
Yeah.
Okay, Raymond,
you need to be very clear here.
I don't know.
It sounded like a
person, but, like, really
far away.
Like someone calling for help.
We stopped. We listened.
And then it stopped.
Like nothing.
INTERVIEWER TYLER:
Are you familiar
with the Raymond Bell case?
JAMES: Oh, yeah.
That one checks all the boxes,
the knocks, the voices.
Then his friends vanished
without a trace.
But Raymond was found
alive, right?
Yeah, if you could call it that.
He was found walking
down the road at dawn.
Confused, dehydrated.
No injuries.
His friends were just gone.
No signs of a struggle.
No blood, no
footprints leaving the camp.
Nothing.
That's what makes
this case different.
He didn't just vanish.
He came back.
PROFESSOR HARLAN: If
you look back through.
Lacuna oral history,
you'll find references
to a legend in this area.
A spirit that doesn't hunt
by force, but by familiarity.
They called it the
Whispering One.
It speaks with familiar voices.
INTERVIEWER TYLER: You mentioned
you've heard actual
recordings from Pine Hollow?
JAMES TELLER: Yeah.
There's one that still messes
with me.
A hiker posted online
a few years back
claimed his trail mic
kept triggering at night
when nothing was around.
When you play it,
it starts with wind.
Some crickets, just normal
forest noise.
Then you hear someone
whisper a name real quiet,
like they're standing right
next to the mic.
[Forest sounds and crickets]
[Dark suspenseful music]
I've filed FOIAs,
talked to Rangers, dug
through archives.
Read more sanitized
Ranger reports
than I can shake a stick at.
GPS loses signal through
most of Pine Hollow.
They'll tell you
it's corrupted data,
but it isn't.
Someone doesn't want
people looking too closely.
DETECTIVE RUSSELL:
Are you familiar with.
Olivia marsh?
RAY: No.
Olivia marsh?
No, I don't know who that is.
INTERVIEWER TYLER: In
your interrogation,
you ask Raymond about.
Olivia marsh?
Yeah.
Olivia was a hiker
who went missing in 2020.
She was a small time.
YouTuber out shooting
in the woods.
And while she was never found,
we did recover her camera.
In her footage,
there was a lot of similarities
to what Raymond was describing.
Same woods, same pattern.
The knocks,
the voices in the distance.
Victim goes missing.
The similarities
were too big to ignore
between Olivia
and Raymond's cases.
REPORTER: Authorities say that
newly recovered footage
from a camera found
at the campsite
of missing hiker.
Olivia Marsh
has raised more questions
than answers.
[Dark atmospheric music]
[Record button sound]
OLIVIA MARSH: OK Pine
hollow, take two.
Yes, Emily, I brought bug
spray this time.
And snacks. And
yeah, extra socks.
Don't start.
Unmarked trails.
Love that for me.
Okay, so real talk.
I read a bunch of the comments
after my last video,
and apparently
this place is cursed.
People are like,
"Don't go past the ridge.
"People hear voices.
"Blah blah blah.
Which honestly
sounds like clickbait
I should have come
up with first.
Anyway, we're doing it.
Welcome to Pine Hollow.
[Wind blows through the trees]
Okay, so we are
officially deeper in
than most park rangers
would recommend.
No GPS, no service.
Just me, my camera, and maybe
three hours of daylight left.
And before anyone comments.
Yes, I know what I'm doing.
I've been on plenty of solo
hikes before in way
worse conditions.
This place is a
little creepy though.
So yeah, I'll camp
near the ridge tonight.
Maybe grab some shots of that
old fire road in the morning
and if this goes well
maybe this will be part
one of a little
off-the-map series.
So, yeah, if you're
new here. Hi.
I'm Olivia, and
I make bad decisions
in the woods alone,
so you don't have to.
[Three knocks on tree]
Woodpecker right?
Woodpecker.
[Crow cawing]
Totally normal.
Nature's ASMR.
Love it.
[Melancholy strings music]
EMILY MARSH: Olivia
was my younger sister.
We were close growing up.
Connected at the hip really.
She was the one
always dragging me
outside and climbing trees,
camping in the
backyard, all that.
INTERVIEWER TYLER:
When was the last time
you spoke to her?
Two nights before
she disappeared.
She called me
when she was still on the road.
She said she was
almost at Pine Hollow.
She wanted to check in before
losing signal.
She sounded good. Excited.
She said the drive
was beautiful,
that the forest looked
like something out of a dream.
So she knew she
wouldn't have service?
Yeah, she told me not to worry
if I didn't hear from
her for a couple of days.
She said she'd hike in,
film a few segments for
her channel and be back Sunday.
That was the last time
I heard her voice.
[Wind through trees]
[Folk music softly plays]
[Three knocks on tree]
Okay.
That was weird.
INTERVIEWER TYLER: I
know this is a bit personal,
but some of the photos
recovered from her phone...
Have you seen those?
Yeah,
the police showed me a few.
She was always
snapping pictures for thumbnails
or just little moments
she wanted to post later.
At first
they look normal,
but then they showed me one
where there's someone or
something.
It's out of focus.
I mean, I guess it could
have been a shadow,
but to me
it looked like a person.
[Record button sound]
[Wind blows through the trees]
Ok, we're all set up.
Here is good.
Ooo, wait.
Okay, so before
I go on my little hike,
I wanted to show
you guys my guilty
pleasure snack I have for trips
like this.
Just have to find it.
Where?
Where did I put that?
I think it's back here.
No.
Where is it?
Ooo, there it is.
Okay.
So judge me
all you want, but this
is elite fuel right here.
We've got Funyuns,
we've got Fritos,
we got Cheetos.
Everything your nutritionist
hates.
Okay, I'm gonna get going.
Get some pictures before
I run out of the light here.
Catch you guys later.
INTERVIEWER TYLER:
You've mentioned a pattern.
People hearing familiar voices.
Can you elaborate on that?
It's surprisingly consistent.
Between petroglyphs,
native oral stories, journals,
and various footage recovered
from missing persons,
they all reported hearing
someone they know,
a spouse, a sibling,
a close friend
calling to them from the woods.
The voices are always clear,
always calm,
almost comforting.
[Record button sound]
So full disclosure,
I. I definitely heard
someone calling my name
like, clear as day.
What's weird is it,
I could have sworn
it was my sister.
Sleep is going to
be fun tonight.
INTERVIEWER TYLER:
Look, I know this isn't
easy for you,
but there's one part
of your sister's
final video
people still talk about.
The moment right
before it cuts off.
Have you seen that?
Yeah, I've seen it.
Any thoughts on
what it could be?
I don't even know
what to believe anymore.
Whatever it was,
it wasn't human.
[Dark, ominous music]
[Record button sound]
OK. That's it again. I
think someone's out there.
[Rain pours on the tent roof]
[Rain falls on leaves]
[Tree creaks]
[Footsteps on
leaves coming close]
I think there's someone
outside my tent.
There's someone out there.
Liv.
That's my sister.
There's definitely someone
out there outside my tent.
Liv.
Liv.
[Footsteps approaching]
Please, just go away.
Just go away.
[Primal roar]
[Olivia screams]
[Pensive piano music]
DETECTIVE RUSSELL: Raymond
this whole thing is going to go
a lot better for you
if you're just honest.
- Did you hurt them?
- No.
Did you black out?
No.
Tell me what happened
to Jared and Luis.
I'm telling you the truth.
The truth?
The truth is
your friends go missing
without a trace,
and you're the last
person to see them.
Why are you the only
one to come back?
Well, maybe you would understand
if you were out there
and you saw what I saw.
INTERVIEWER TYLER:
You let him go?
We didn't have enough
to hold him on.
A couple days later,
we found the campsite.
No sign of foul play.
It was definitely a little odd.
Tents were still left open.
Gear still out.
But no blood,
no sign of a struggle.
It's like they got up
in the middle of the
night and walked away.
And Raymond?
Something just didn't
sit right.
But Pine Hollow's different.
People go in. They.
They don't come out.
All those stories.
They come from somewhere.
PROFESSOR HARLAN:
Every other case ends
the same way.
Gone without a trace.
No tracks, no remains.
Nothing.
But Raymond came back.
And he described the same things
the missing did
before they vanished.
The knocks, the calling.
Whatever he
encountered out there
didn't just let him go.
It left him alive for a reason.
TYLER: Ray, hey, thanks so much
for taking the time to sit with
us here.
Is there anything you need
before we get started?
RAY: Yeah.
Do you mind if I just sketch
while we talk?
Just helps clear my mind.
TYLER: No, I'm good
with that, Chris?
CHRIS: Yeah, it's fine.
TYLER: So it's
been almost a year
since the investigation.
How are you holding up?
Fine.
Just trying to
keep things normal.
Like anyone else.
People move on.
Or at least they should.
TYLER: Do you still think about
your friends Luis Campbell
and Jared Ross?
I, I think about what happened.
Yeah.
Not every day.
That's not doing anywhere
any good.
Because the past is in the past.
And you can't change that.
It is what it is.
JAMES TELLER: The
Lacuna have a phrase,
"Mah wikanen.
Closest translation
is "To be a marked one."
According to their stories, once
you hear a voice out there,
you're marked.
And from that moment on,
it's coming for you.
TYLER: You were the last person
to see them alive.
Does that way on you?
Like lead skin.
Suffocating.
It's not something
that I can control.
The woods take what they take.
I walked out.
They didn't.
TYLER: So what changed
with Raymond's case?
When we found their campsite,
everything looked normal.
Then we recovered the cameras.
What's on that footage.
It's.
You can see it in his face.
He's terrified.
Not running from
something he did,
but from something he saw.
[Ominous tribal music]
JARED: I mean,
we can talk about that all day.
The special effects,
the makeup.
RAY: The torture
techniques that he
had to go through.
JARED: Those contact lenses
look like they're fucking.
LUIS: How much further
do we have to go?
RAY: Luis, seriously?
You are like a little kid.
Chill out.
JARED: We got about
another 45 minutes.
LUIS: Oh my God. Ray!
Dude. I'm sorry. You
got to pull over.
I got a piss, dude.
RAY: No no no no no.
We just stopped.
I'm not pulling over.
Hold it.
JARED: Hey, is
that your new toy?
LUIS: Hell yeah.
4K, stabilization, the works.
JARED: Okay.
LUIS: I wanted to get some reps
in before the wedding season.
JARED: Yeah.
LUIS: Do you want to see it?
JARED: Yeah, sure.
Woo.
This is nice, man.
You know, we literally
filmed weddings together.
You don't need to
film our sweaty asses
hiking.
LUIS: Jared,
it's tradition, bro.
Every trip I film
and every trip, you complain.
Besides,
we need new shit for our reels.
Old shit's gettin dry.
We got a client
last time, remember?
Thanks to me.
JARED: Yeah, yeah.
LUIS: So where did you guys
find this place anyway?
Better be worth it.
JARED: Wait.
You never heard of Pine Hollow?
LUIS: No. Why?
What?
RAY: Nothing. It's just.
Silly stories.
JARED: Yeah.
You know, just about people
going in.
LUIS: And what?
JARED: Just not all of them
come back out.
[Jared and Ray laugh]
LUIS: You guys are
so full of shit.
JARED: I guess you'll find out.
Won't you?
- Please.
- Fuck you.
I get nightmares. Please don't.
You know I'm sensitive.
JARED: Oh, baby.
Look at that view.
RAY: That's the great
outdoors right there.
You can. You can set.
You can set your watch to that.
RAY: Do we want
bug spray or not?
JARED: Yes, sir.
Bring that.
Dude, get this shit
out of my fucking face.
LUIS: You're gonna
like the way you look.
I guarantee it.
JARED: Yeah. Thank you. Here.
Make sure you get my good side.
That's nice. Yeah.
RAY: All right.
All right. Come on.
We've got a long
hike ahead, boys.
So let's get the
show on the road.
JARED: All right.
LUIS: Wow. It's
a hell of a place, Ray.
JARED: Yes, sir.
LUIS: Nice thinking.
JARED: Perfect place for a
murder documentary.
RAY: Oh, let's get a pic.
Come on.
LUIS: I'll show
you my Pine Hollow.
RAY: Right here in my pants.
JARED: Jesus Christ.
LUIS: Make mom proud.
JARED: All right.
Cheese. LUIS: Cheese.
JARED: Perfect.
All right, let's go.
RAY: Let's hit it.
JARED: This way.
RANGER BILL: Yeah,
I've heard a few old
stories passed around
the ranger station.
Or from some of those locals.
The Lacuna had a name
for this area.
I don't know how to say it,
but it was something
about voices or being marked.
When I first started the job,
we used to joke about it.
Don't go too deep or the forest
will start talking.
You know, fun and games,
but after a while,
after the disappearances,
you stop laughing.
RAY: See, I told you guys
this place was perfect.
JARED: Yeah,
until the first mosquito bites.
RAY: Hey, bitch!
LUIS: I already got
two mosquito bites.
Look at these.
All right.
Fire there, tents there,
and then later,
bourbon right here.
LUIS: Wait, did you
actually bring the good stuff?
Come on, man.
Luis, do you think we
hiked all the way out here
without proper
incentive? Come on.
Fucking signal, man.
Yeah, that's, that's
kind of the point.
I mean, we're just out here.
No text, no calls, no
fucking work.
LUIS: Oh. Poor boy
can't text all his girlfriends.
RAY: Oh, Jerry.
Oh, no poor Jerry.
Why are you still coming?
LUIS: I got to document this.
Otherwise, it's just three dudes
drinking in the woods.
Uh, that's what
we're doing, yeah?
Yeah, that's exactly what it I.
Yeah.
LUIS: Exactly, future
generations will need
proof.
You're an Idiot, man.
LUIS: And yet history
will remember me, Jared.
Does that bother you?
Does that kill you inside?
Are you jealous?
DETECTIVE RUSSELL: The
only thing we could prove
was that Bell
was the only survivor.
And no sign
that he had harmed anyone.
Frankly, I don't think
he could have staged
what's on that footage.
[Record Button Sound]
[Wind blows through the trees]
[A campfire crackles]
LUIS: Really?
You guys fucking lonely
out here or something?
JARED: Man. I really can't belie
you thought you heard
Bigfoot earlier.
LUIS: I didn't say
Bigfoot, I said something.
RAY: Well, maybe we can use
you as bait and we can meet him.
LUIS: Yeah.
[Three knocks on tree]
Luis: Okay. I know
you heard that.
JARED: Yeah, shh. I heard it.
[Owl hooting]
LUIS: It's close.
RAY: Jared.
JARED: It's not me, man.
JARED: Ahhhh.
LUIS: Let me go.
JARED: I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
LUIS: That's not fucking funny,
okay, I nearly pissed myself.
JARED: I'm sorry. I just had to.
LUIS: You know I have
a sensitive bladder.
Fuck you.
All right, I'm going to bed.
Please. Please. Come on, guys.
- Please don't fuck with me!
- I'm going bed die bye.
- Good night, boys.
- Oh!
Oh, and Jared eat a dick.
RAY: Beddie bye, bed die
bye, bed die bye, bed die bye.
[Coyote yips and
howls in the distance]
[ Tense pulsing music]
Look, predators evolve
to exploit vulnerabilities,
right?
Wolves isolate the weakest deer.
Spiders mimic prey vibrations.
So this isn't new.
Whatever is out there,
it doesn't chase you.
It learns you.
It waits, it listens.
It uses your own
instincts against you.
Did you hear that?
[Knock on tree]
[Wind blowing through trees]
Jared.
Raymond.
[Knock on tree]
This is just perfect.
This is exactly what I needed.
Thanks a lot of guys.
LUIS: I'm still
a little shook from last night.
So from this point on, I'm
not taking any more chances.
I'm recording everything.
Everyone's making fun of me
because of my baby bladder.
But at least I have
a strong colon.
[Wet fart]
EERIE RAY VOICE: Luis.
LUIS: What the hell?
Are those skulls?
[Cacophony of maniacal laughter]
RAY: Luis!
LUIS: Just once I'd like
to take a shit in peace.
Come on, Luis, keep it together.
You got this.
You're seeing things.
You're just seeing things.
PROFESSOR HARLAN: I believe
something's happening out there.
And I believe the people who've
gone missing didn't
just get lost.
You start lining up
the reports, the knocks,
the voices,
the empty camps,
and it stops looking
like coincidence.
It's a pattern.
Day two of wandering
blind through the wilderness.
Our fearless leader Ray
has us walking in circles.
- Brilliant.
- Fuck off! Luis!
Carry my pack, neck mule.
No, no, no, he's just
documenting your mouth.
That for the future generations.
That's what you said, right?
LUIS: That's right, the
textbook chapter will be called
Raymond Bell World's
Biggest Bitch.
JARED: Ooo wee.
At least I don't have
to piss every 20 minutes
because I have a
little baby bladder.
LUIS: Because you
pissed the bed.
That's not funny.
LUIS: Jared laughed.
DISTANT VOICE: LUIS!
LUIS: Did you hear that?
RAY: Kind of sounded
like a person.
LUIS: May be somebody's lost?
Hello?
RAY: Bigfoot.
JARED: Someone out there?
RAY: Luis' mom?
LUIS: No, dude,
I don't hear my mom out there.
[Tree creaking]
LUIS: Dude, you better
watch what you say.
She's gonna give you a spanking.
RAY: That's what I'm hoping for.
LUIS: Actually,
Raymond, what were
you saying again?
About being the
world's biggest bitch?
RAYL All I can think about is
your mom giving me a spanking.
JARED: You're
fucking pushing it.
DETECTIVE RUSSELL:
When did things escalate?
RAY: That night.
Luis kept filming.
He joked around, like,
you know, we're all a little
drunk
sitting by the fire,
and he went to go
take a piss.
And?
Well he never came back.
LUIS: Look at this man.
Jared Michael Ross,
future alcoholic of America.
Bro, you know what?
Fuck you man.
You know what your
fucking title is?
You're fucking
world's biggest bitch.
That's what.
That's what you are, bro.
What is funny?
I think that's my title actual.
Or it was that earlier.
Fucking both of you guys.
LUIS: Day two in the wilderness.
Current mood:
Surrounded by butt plugs.
Oh, why don't you turn
the camera around for yourself
to see what a true
butt plug looks like?
You know what? That's.
That's fucking it, man.
- What are you doing? - There's
no way I'm letting you have
you only fucking fucking
footage on this trip.
- How about this?
- Ohhh.
New documentary.
Two geniuses.
Hey.
JARED: And their
fucking their idiot friend.
How about that?
LUIS: Oh, fuck you, dude.
Wait, wait. Please.
Real quick though.
Be careful with that camera.
- It's new.
- Oh, I'm so sorry, fucking Luis
I didn't realize that
you were the only one
that gets to play with
the new fucking toys.
LUIS: All right.
Excuse me.
RAY: Where are you going?
LUIS: I gotta go piss.
RAY: How is that possible?
How is that possible?
He's got a baby bladder.
The man has a...
JARED: Nobody wants
to see you pissing, bro.
Don't. I'll edit my dingle out.
It's fine.
I'll need the light, besides
I'll need proof.
If you guys try to kill me.
I'm coming back
to your assholes.
JARED: Just shut up and
take a fucking piss, man.
LUIS: Not your assholes.
I'm not going to haunt
your assholes, but I will.
JARED: Dude, just fucking piss.
LUIS: Okay.
I'm going to haunt you assholes.
Not your assholes.
DETECTIVE RUSSELL:
Did you go after?
We tried.
We looked, but it was dark.
Jared thought
maybe he was messing with us.
I mean, Luis did that
stuff all the time.
[Heavy metal music]
RAY: How can you
listen to this shit?
JARED: Bro
this is art, brother.
Something that you would
not fucking understand. Okay?
Oh, yeah. It's this,
and then it's fucking Beethoven.
What the fuck is
Luis doing, man?
He's probably out there
jerking his gerkin.
LUIS!
Quit jerking it.
Dude, this is probably
just like that fucking time
where he was trying to pranks us
and he was hiding my sleeping
bag for, like, three hours.
Shenandoah.
Fucking stupid asshole.
Luis.
World's biggest bitch.
Where the fuck are you at, man?
Fucking. I swear to God,
when I fucking find you.
Fucking.
It's dark out there.
Who gives a shit, man?
You think he like fell?
Dude, I don't know, man.
I just.
He better not be
fucking with us.
Dude, I swear.
We'll probably have to go get.
What?
We got to go get him.
I mean, it's been a while.
All right.
Well, you fucking
lead the way, bro.
I got out?
You got the light.
Fucking stupid shit.
Dark as shit, I can't
even see anything.
[Wind blows through the trees]
RAY: Luis, where
are you at, man?
JARED: Quit being a dick, man.
This is too far.
Yeah, I can't see
fucking shit, man.
Fuck.
What should we do?
This isn't funny, man.
Fuck, it's so dark out.
I mean, we're not
gonna find him.
Let's. Let's go
back to the fire.
Luis, if this is a
fucking prank, man.
I swear.
Fucking help me God!
Jesus fucking Christ, man.
TYLER: Can you
speak a little bit
more about Pine Hollow?
What it's like. What
it felt like out there.
[Dark ominous music]
It's empty.
And quiet.
Almost peaceful in a way.
JARED: You heard that, right?
Ray.
Yeah.
Sounded like it came
from over there.
I don't know.
Could have been him.
Yeah, then why the
fuck is he not answering?
Luis?
Luis!
Fuck me.
Come on.
Why would he come
out this far, man?
I don't know. Maybe
he fell or something.
Or maybe.
Oh fuck.
What is it?
His camera.
Aw fuck.
Battery's dead.
How the hell did that
end up out here?
[Three knocks on tree]
That came from behind us, right?
No closer.
RANGER BILL: And the knocks?
Always three of them.
Hollow like a dead
tree trunk.
Comes from way off sometimes.
Other times it's close enough
you can feel it in your chest.
Old-timers used to say
that's the woods answering back.
Lacuna legend,
talk about spirits
that echo your own soul.
Like the forest is learning you.
I remember my uncle telling me
if you were ever out
there and you hear it,
call your name.
Don't answer it.
So I never did.
[Record button sound]
JARED: I swear to God,
Ray, I heard him. Okay?
Luis.
It sounded like Luis.
I'm telling you
fucking out there.
RAY: Yeah, well, I
didn't hear shit, man.
Okay. And I did.
He said my name.
Well then why didn't he answer
when you called for him?
I don't know, man.
Okay, but this is one
of his fucking pranks.
I swear to God,
I'm gonna fucking.
No no no, no.
He wouldn't stay out all
fucking night without his pack.
- Okay. - So then is his... what
do we think?
He's hurt?
He could be.
Well, look, man, we can't
just keep wandering out here.
All right well, let's just
give it one more night, then.
And if he's not back by morning.
We pack up our shit and we go
back to the ranger station.
All right.
One more night.
Are you still recording?
Yeah.
Something doesn't
fucking feel right, man.
[Wind blows through trees]
[Dark atmospheric music]
[Record button sound]
[Cacophony of maniacal laughter]
LUIS: Ray?
EERIE RAY VOICE: Luis.
What are you doing, dude?
Come on, Luis.
Just wanted to watch me piss?
- That's cool.
- Give me a second.
If you wanted to watch me
drain my dragon, why didn't
you just ask, Ray?
Where'd you go?
Ray.
Dude.
Ray, is there a reason
why you're taking me
on a fucking scavenger hunt?
Where are you?
EERIE RAY VOICE: Luis.
DEMONIC VOICE: Come here.
LUIS: Ray, what the
fuck are you doing?
EERIE JARED VOICE: Luis.
LUIS: Jared?
Dude, it's not fucking funny.
EERIE JARED VOICE:
It's not fucking funny.
[Cacophony of maniacal laughter]
LUIS: What the fuck is that?
[Creature roar]
[Wind blows through trees]
[Loud crash in trees above]
[Creature roar in the distance]
[Leaves rustle]
[Branch snaps above]
[Creature roar]
[Screams heard]
[Suspenseful driving music]
[Record button sound]
What the fuck was that?
EERIE LUIS VOICE: Jaaareeed.
Luis.
Fuck me.
[Coyotes yip in distance]
Luis? Quit fucking around, man.
Luis, what the fuck, dude?
[Wind blows through trees]
Luis?
Aw fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
Luis, stop fucking around, man.
Fuck.
EERIE LUIS VOICE: Jaaaareeeed.
[Creature roar]
[Creature roar]
[Sounds of body ripped into]
[Labored breathing
and blood gurgling]
TYLER: Do you personally think
Raymond was telling the truth?
[Dark ominous music]
Yeah, I mean,
I mean, he wasn't lying.
I've seen liars; Shifty eyes,
more details than necessary.
He was just.
He was just broken.
Whatever happened
in Pine Hollow.
I don't really know.
Pine Hollow has a reputation.
There's all kinds of
stories and histories
going back to the
Native Americans.
I don't know what's true or not,
but I do know that
people disappear in those woods
every year.
Some of them take
the wrong trail,
get dehydrated,
disoriented - bodies
found miles from campsites.
But most of them.
Most of them are never found.
It's like they up and vanished.
Bell's the only
one I've ever seen
walk out.
[Tense music slowly builds]
Whatever happened out there,
whatever happened out there,
whatever he saw
or heard.
That's a hell of a
thing to live with.
[Dark atmospheric music]
[Record button sound]
Ok.
Red light's on
I guess it's recording,
All right, Jared just
Jared just like, I don't know,
he just fucking ran
off into the woods.
I tried to follow him,
but there's something.
There's something out there.
Something not.
I don't fucking
know. I don't know.
What the fuck is going on?
EERIE LUIS VOICE: Ray.
Don't fuck.
[Nails across tent fabric]
No no no.
Fuck!
Fuck!
[Cacophony of maniacal laughter]
EERIE VOICE: Come on.
What the fuck? What
the fuck? What the fuck?
[Cacophony of maniacal laughter]
EERIE JARED VOICE:
We'll see you soon, Ray.
[Record button sound]
[Breaking news background mus.
REPORTER: A breakthrough
tonight regarding the three
missing hikers coming
out of Pine Hollow.
One of the individuals
has been found alive
after spending several days
in the woods off route 322.
More details to come
as the investigation continues.
[Dark suspenseful music]
DETECTIVE RUSSEL: So what
happened when the sun came up?
I packed up what I could
carry, and I left.
What about your friends?
Nothing.
There's no signs for them.
It was like there were just
gone.
[Suspenseful atmospheric music]
RANGER BILL: I wasn't stationed
out there anymore
when that happened.
But I still knew a few
old folks out there
on the search team.
They told me it was bad.
Real bad.
Three friends go out.
Only one comes back.
No signs of struggle,
no tracks, no blood.
Just an empty camp.
Raymond.
The one who made it out.
He said something
took his friends, but nobody
could figure out what he meant.
I think somebody,
or something's in these woods
that ain't supposed to be here.
And it's smart.
Smarter than people think it is.
Maybe it doesn't kill to feed.
Maybe it kills to
keep people away.
TYLER: Can you tell
us how this Lacuna
legend originated?
[Dark ominous music]
Yeah. It's one of the darker
stories that's lingered around
this part of New Jersey,
though it predates
settlers entirely.
The Lacuna,
who once lived on these lands,
told of a boy accused
of stealing a turquoise necklace
from the chief's family.
He was innocent, though,
and one of the elders
saw who really took it,
the chief's own son,
but said nothing.
And when they burned
that boy alive,
he never looked
away from the elder.
They say his eyes
didn't even blink as he cursed
the land.
He swore he'd return as anything
and everything.
The words are hard to translate,
but the meaning is
haunting
the idea that his
spirit would no longer
be bound to one body,
that he could
become many things.
In the legend,
his spirit takes on the voices
and faces of others,
a reflection, a mimic.
He doesn't chase his victims.
He calls to them, sounding
like someone they love
until they walk
willingly into the forest.
In some versions of the story,
his final words were
"mah wikanen taku sni,
which translates to
the marked ones
will never leave.
TYLER: Would you ever
consider going back?
Been there, done that.
Got the t-shirt to prove it.
But I don't really see
a reason to go back.
And honestly, I
don't think I could.
Whatever happened out there,
I'll never be the same.
What makes you say that?
Because that's where
everything begins.
And where it ends.
Can you elaborate on that?
Actually, no.
We're done here.
You guys can see yourselves out.
CHRIS: Let me get your sound.
TYLER: Well, Ray, man
thank you for your time.
Appreciate it.
CHRIS: What's this?
RAY: It's still out there.
TYLER: What did he say?
He said it's still out there.
What's that?
It's a map.
[Dark ominous piano music]
IAN: Yeah, should
be back by Sunday.
Love you, bye.
CHRIS: Or earlier if
we end up killing Tyler.
TYLER: I heard that.
All right, day
one departure log.
We're rolling from
the trail head
of Pine Hollow.
We're starting here because
it's about as far as anyone's
officially allowed to drive in.
Raymond Bell's old campsite
is about two miles up the road
near the ridge,
past the old fire road.
Dude, are you rolling on this?
Shouldn't we save batteries?
TYLER: Dude, Chris we are
documenting the process, not
just the discovery.
Come on baby. AKR.
AKR?
TYLER: Always keep recording!
Oh, yeah.
IAN: Just don't
shoot my ass while
I'm hauling 30 pounds
of gear up here.
TYLER: Ian, if I
want your opinion,
I'll get it to you.
CHRIS: All right.
Are you ready to do this?
TYLER: Yeah.
- Framing looks good?
- Yeah.
Put the cigarette down.
But, yeah.
I'm not gonna litter,
I put that in my back pocket.
We're here at the
trail head of Pine.
Hollow. Raymond Bell's campsite,
and Jared and Luis'
final resting place
is a few miles back.
So, boys,
any final thoughts
before we head in?
IAN: Yeah, let's do this before
I change my mind.
TYLER: And we are off.
To find the creature
of the pine.
TYLER: What do you think?
Looks like a pretty good spot.
Nice and flat.
- Get the tents up?
- Yeah, I I'm fucking tired
so this works perfect.
IAN: That's a hell of a hike.
TYLER: Always complaining.
CHRIS: Aw my back.
TYLER: Yo, take these. I
want to get this on sticks.
[Record button sound]
TYLER: Chris,
why don't you throw these.
GoPros up?
- Okay.
- Let's get one up
in that tree.
That one right there?
Yeah, I feel like a
wide angle looking down.
- Okay.
- Might be good.
And then it's
motion censored.
So like if anything moves,
it'll just automatically start
recording.
IAN: Sounds like you
want something to happen.
Ian, I don't want
anything to happen.
I'm hoping we get proof.
There's a big difference.
CHRIS: You think something is
just going to wander into camp?
Chris, I don't know,
but if we hear something
at night, I'd sure
like to be able to look back and
see what it was.
That's fair.
You also said you
want a GoPro in each
one of these tents
then too, right?
Yeah. Let's get one in each.
Okay.
Put them in the back,
kind of facing out to the door.
- Okay.
- That sound good?
- Yeah.
- And sound?
Keep that running.
Running all night?
Yeah.
Ian, always keep recording.
Dude, we're making a documentary
we don't know what
we're going to use.
Just keep it running.
We're gonna us a
lot of freaking batteries.
I'm going to head off,
film like, a little transition.
You help with that?
No, no. I'm good. Just.
You know what?
Help Chris with the fire then
after you done with the GoPros.
Sound good?
- Yeah. That's good. - All
right, I'll meet back up with
you.
CHRIS: You brought the big tent?
IAN: Despite what
your ex-wife says
size doesn't matter, Chris.
I wouldn't want to be
anywhere else with anyone else.
Strike that.
I do wish my son was here.
But Chris and Ian
make great substitutes,
albeit a little bit more lippy.
Oh, yeah.
It's an absolute pleasure
working with Tyler.
There's anything I love more.
It's going 66,000 miles an hour
through Fantasyland.
I consider myself
an agnostic when it comes
to the paranormal.
Could be real.
I've just never seen
anything personally
that would make me a believer.
[Record button sound]
[Wind blows through trees]
[Tree creaks]
We're here at Pine Hollow.
State Forest,
where Raymond Bell
and his friends.
Way too stiff.
Here we go.
[Three knocks on tree]
[Owl hooting]
[Three knocks on tree]
No freaking way, dude.
Tell me we got that.
Tell me we got that.
No way, no way, no way.
Yo, bro, did you hear that?
Dog, we got that on.
We definitely got
that on camera.
What the.
Okay. Somebody must
have pissed in his Cheerios
hard this morning.
[Record button sound]
TYLER: Those knocks were insane.
You heard some?
Heard them?
Dude, I got it on camera.
It was three of
them. Super clear.
And in this, like,
distinct pattern.
Tell him, Chris.
Yeah.
Very scary.
Very haunted.
Oh, fuck you and the horse
you rode in on.
I think we're gonna
need some more wood.
All right,
Ian, why don't you take this?
Do something.
Try and be productive, please.
IAN: Does eating
hot dogs not count?
The less wieners
the better, dude.
We're making a documentary.
IAN: I don't think
you understand
the internet.
Oh, he definitely
heard the knocks.
He was, like, 50ft from me.
I'm not sure how he couldn't.
Just, I'm telling you,
the mental gymnastics
he goes through to try
and discredit something
is unbelievable.
IAN: All right. Let's
get some tunes going.
[Heavy metal music]
Let's get some usable footage.
Hope this works for you, Tyler.
Very usable.
[Footsteps in leaves]
Oh. Hey guys.
Did you get anything?
Guys?
[Owl hooting]
You fucking with me?
Knock it off. You're
gonna fry my retina.
What the fuck?
CHRIS: That doesn't
make any sense.
TYLER: You talk like a man
with a tissue paper asshole.
- What?
- That better?
CHRIS: Okay.
IAN: Were you guys
fucking with me?
What?
TYLER: I was looking for that.
IAN: Were you fucking with me?
CHRIS: What are
you talking about?
IAN: Never mind.
CHRIS: Okay.
Did you get some usable footage?
IAN: Yeah, I got loads
of usable footage.
CHRIS: Dude, I don't
think he was talking
about that kind of footage.
TYLER: We can Double down make a
little cash on Pornhub from it.
IAN: Oh, now he does understand
the internet.
[Wind blows through trees]
[Footsteps in leaves]
[Soft cacophony of
maniacal laughter]
IAN: Tyler?
IAN: Chris?
[Record button sound]
[Record button sound]
TYLER: Try and get this.
IAN: Were you guys
fucking with me
last night?
CHRIS: What are
you talking about?
IAN: Someone opened my zipper.
I thought was you
guys fucking with me.
But I came out and there
was nobody out here.
CHRIS: I didn't do shit.
Did you do anything?
TYLER: No, I had
nothing to do with that.
I was in my tent.
Was your GoPro still on?
IAN: Yeah, it should be.
TYLER: All right,
well, go grab it, dude.
TYLER: That's
definitely something.
IAN: It's kind of freaky.
CHRIS: That could
be someone out there
fucking with us, though.
TYLER: That's the shit
we came here for, boys.
Come on, let's go.
All right,
I'm gonna get the drone up.
Get a little footage
from above. All right?
CHRIS: Wait, you're
gonna go by yourself?
TYLER: Well, yeah.
I'm not gonna be far.
I'll be within range.
Keep the cameras rolling.
- All right?
- All right.
Oh, yeah. No.
And with the GoPro thing,
we were literally so close.
I can't believe
the creature knocked it down.
I mean, Chris,
Ian, I guarantee you it'll say
it was the wind.
Definitely the wind.
It was the wind.
It was totally the wind.
But it was definitely
an intelligent
move by an intelligent being.
We're getting close.
IAN: I don't know, man,
the tent thing.
Keep thinking about it.
CHRIS: What, it freak you out?
A little bit,
a little bit.
CHRIS: Yeah, I know.
We could just pack it up,
tell him we got what we needed.
Get the fuck out!
CHRIS: We can't leave.
You know, if we leave, he'll
just come back here by himself.
Would that be so bad?
CHRIS: Come on. Look, we
just give it one more night,
and then we just
get the fuck out of here.
One more night.
That's all he's getting.
TYLER: Yo, boys!
He's back.
CHRIS: What?
I got something, baby.
What? What do you
mean by something?
You'll see Kemosabe.
[Dark ominous music]
[Wind blows through trees]
[Pitter patter of rain on tents]
[Clap of thunder
in the distance.
[Footsteps in leaves]
[Clap of thunder]
[Soft meditation music plays.
[Creature roars]
[Clap of thunder]
[Guttural scream
heard in distance]
TYLER: Chris, what
are you doing?
Dude?
I'm gonna hike out on
the trail until I get
cell phone signal, and then
I'm going to call for help.
Are you kidding me?
Dude, it's pitch black out.
You're gonna end up breaking
your neck.
Well, I'd rather break
my neck out there
then stick around here for
whatever happened to him.
Oh, come on, dude,
let's just wait until sunrise.
We can go out and
find him together.
Dude, you don't get it,
he didn't just fucking get up
and walk out of his tent.
Something took him.
You do not know that.
Come on. Glass half full.
I do know that.
This place is fucked.
We should have never came here.
God damn it! I'm telling
you, Chris, if you walk out now,
I'm not coming after you.
Fine.
Good luck.
Mother fucker.
Dude, just keep filming.
All right?
And I'll meet you at the car
tomorrow morning.
Do not leave.
Capisce?
You better be there.
[Trees creaking]
TYLER: Ian?
Dude, where are you?
[Clap of thunder]
Ian, where are
you, dude? Come on.
Ian say something.
Come on, man.
Seriously, Ian.
Oh, Ian!
Bro. Wait up, man.
Dude, Ian.
Dude, where the fuck
are you going, man?
Come on, dog, Ian!
[Cacophony of maniacal laughter]
[Sound of bone breaking]
CHRIS: Follow the ridge.
Get your cellphone.
Then get the fuck out of here.
[Three knocks on tree]
EERIE IAN VOICE: Chris.
[Clap of thunder]
[Creature roars]
Oh fuck.
[Clap of thunder]
CHRIS: Just keep moving.
Just keep moving.
Ah shit.
What the fuck?
Oh my God. What the fuck?
Holy shit.
What is this?
Ray?
Then who the fuck
did we interview?
[Creature roars]
Who's there?
Aw fuck.
What?
[Cacophony of maniacal laughter]
I hear you.
[Creature roars]
Who is it?
Tyler?
Who's there?
Who is it?
[Creature roars] Oh, shit. Oh!
[Creature roars]
[Screams heard]
[Sound of skin being peeled off]
[Clap of thunder]
[Footsteps on leaves]
Fuck. Fuck.
[Screams of pain]
[Screams of pain]
[Screams of pain]
Mah wikanen
taku
sni.
[Clap of thunder]
[Record button sound]
[Dark ominous music]
PROFESSOR HARLAN: In the legend,
his spirit takes on
the voices and faces of others,
a reflection, a mimic.
He doesn't chase his victims.
He calls to them, sounding
like someone they love
until they walk
willingly into the forest.
In some versions of the story,
his final words were
"mah wikanen taku sni,"
which translates to
"the marked ones
will never leave."
RAY: Whatever
happened out there,
I'll never be the same.
REPORTER: A group of
documentarians are reported
missing in the Pine
Barrens, their campsite
abandoned with no signs
of foul play.
Camera and audio gear
were recovered nearby
and turned over to authorities.
[Trees creaking in the wind]
PROFESSOR HARLAN: Pine
Hollow doesn't care
if you believe in it or not.
It listens.
It learns.
And when it calls your name.
Don't answer.
REPORTER: Online rumors swirl
as Netflix and Paramount
have entered a bidding war
for the rights to the story
and the footage.
And now to John in
Sports, where the Devils
beat the Flyers 6 to 1.
[ Dark atmospheric music]