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Nightfall Crypt
  • 7/7/2025
A 16-year-old boy ventures deeper into the woods behind his mountain home than ever before. What begins as a quiet walk under the fading evening light becomes a desperate sprint for his life when something-or someone—starts chasing him. What he sees at the property line is burned into his mind forever. This story explores what happens when you cross a line in the wilderness… and something follows you back.
Transcript
00:00Our house sat deep in the mountains, with nothing but trees and cold wind between us
00:05and silence. I used to think the woods were mine, safe, familiar, but that winter something changed.
00:15I remember the air being wrong, warmer than usual but heavy, as if something was breathing
00:22just behind the trees. I went for a walk that night, flashlight in hand, thinking I could go
00:29farther than usual, just me and the trees. But near the creek, I saw signs someone had been living out
00:38there. And then I heard the first faint rustle of leaves, followed by the distant crack of a twig.
00:46The footsteps grew louder, faster. That's when the dread began.