Fear the Woods (2017) s01e05 Episode Script

The vast
North American wilderness
is home to evil forces
thought only to exist
in nightmares.
But the terrible creatures
that roam here are all too real.
Go, go, go, go!
In the woods of West Virginia
lurks a fearsome creature
born of bloody legend.
Once it latches onto you,
it won't let go.
It looks like death.
We've made it angry.
Ah!
Run!
This was just pure evil.
- Oh!
- Oh, my God! Turn, go!
"It's going to come and get us.
It's going to come and get us."
The town of
Point Pleasant, West Virginia,
is postcard-pretty
on the outside
But years ago,
a devastating tragedy
shook its residents to the core.
The Silver Bridge was a bridge
spanning from Point Pleasant
to Kanauga, Ohio.
It collapsed on
December 15th, 1967.
It was the worst bridge disaster
in U.S. history.
It claimed 46 lives.
This was just a huge,
traumatic event
for the small town.
I was right in the
middle of it when it happened.
I was 5 years old in
Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
At the time,
a mysterious creature was seen
clinging to the bridge.
Because of its expansive wings
and insect-like appearance,
it became known as the Mothman.
There were people that
claimed they seen it
flying around some of the towers
of the bridge a few days
before the bridge collapsed.
People thought that
this creature
caused the collapse
of the bridge.
There were over 100 reported
sightings to the authorities.
My guess is there were probably
hundreds more
who never reported anything
because they were afraid
of being called crazy.
There are those that think
the Mothman itself
is a harbinger of doom.
The Mothman sightings in 1966
started a gigantic surge
of media coverage
and a lot of curious people
who descended on Point Pleasant
to get a glimpse
of this creature for themselves.
You know, there were people
driving around
with rifles and guns.
The military and the police
did come in
and quarantined that area off.
This brought a lot of theories
that there was a cover-up.
The fear still is out there.
These days, this
legendary being is said
to haunt the woods
outside of Point Pleasant.
It's a perfect environment.
It still is.
It's desolate.
It's very eerie.
It's dead silent.
Nothing has really changed
in the 60, 70 years.
It's a very scary place to be.
In 2008,
Jeff and Krystle Drenning
head out to the area
for a little getaway.
When we went on this trip,
we thought we were just going
for a day trip,
something different.
I had no idea it would change
our lives like this.
I entirely regret it.
I wish we had gone anywhere else
but Point Pleasant.
We work in retail management
at the time,
and it was few and far between
that we had weekends
off together,
so one came up, and we decided
it was within driving distance.
We wanted to head out
to that area.
So if we keep going
A casual stop for directions
changes their destiny.
- Take the left?
- Okay, okay.
The man started talked to us
and explained these stories.
So he just drew us
a map where there was
a lot of
paranormal activity reported.
Thank you so much for your help.
Here you go.
Thanks.
Don't worry about it.
Thanks.
Krystle and I always shared
just a brief interest
in the paranormal.
I mean, we didn't really
put much stock into it.
But upon being alerted
to Mothman's stalking grounds,
they find the lure irresistible.
We're just going to go
straight ahead.
And we decided to just
give it a shot, you know?
It would be like a little
adventure following
the little map he drew us,
treasure-hunt kind of deal.
This is it.
If I had the opportunity
to go back,
no, there's absolutely nothing
that would get me
to go out there.
Got it?
Is this it?
I think so.
Krystle and Jeff
decide to make
the most of the experience
and return with proof
of their adventure.
Ready?
Okay.
We went just, like,
to the local Walmart
and got a digital voice
recorder.
That was the first time we had
tried anything like that.
You ready?
Yeah.
Let's see if this thing works.
This way?
Sure.
I think this is the place.
Do you have that recorder thing?
Oh, yeah.
Do you know how to work it?
Hit record.
Hello?
Is anyone there?
Uh
"If you're here, can you,
you know,
make an audible noise
to make your presence known?
Just say a word."
Can you hear me?
Here, let me try.
Good luck.
Are you there?
Can you hear me?
At the time, we audibly
heard absolutely nothing,
and when we backed out,
I didn't think
anything happened.
You know, I just chalked it up
to cross this little adventure
off on a list
and head back into town.
I'll try and get some rest.
When we got back home,
we just thought
we'd see what we got.
- Can you hear me?
- All right. Are you ready?
Oh, I'm ready.
- Are you there?
- All right.
If there is anything
you want to tell us,
this is your last chance.
What?
No, no, no.
Let me see that.
And then we heard this really
deep voice just say, "I'm here."
Someone is messing with us.
And
Did you mess with this?
It just blew my mind.
Like, it was, like, we almost
went into, like,
kind of a state of shock.
We just were speechless.
If there is anything you
want to tell us,
this is your last chance.
I am here.
What?
And it just takes you aback.
It was really a deep, raspy,
guttural voice,
but it didn't sound like
it should come from
any humanoid vocal cords.
I was not prepared for what was
going to happen next.
Hello?
I thought it was just
a computer or a telemarketer,
something like that.
That was weird.
Who was it?
No one there.
But I quickly found out that
it wasn't any of those things.
I am here.
Geez!
Jeff?
I I don't know.
Hello?
I am here.
We knew we were dealing with
something that shouldn't exist.
Let's go inside.
Yeah.
We knew 100 percent
that whatever we picked up
in Point Pleasant
had followed us home.
Here, let me try.
On a whim,
Jeff and Krystle Drenning
went into the woods
to try and contact a legendary
creature, the Mothman.
If there is anything
you want to tell us,
this is your last chance.
If you go in and mess
with something like this,
we had learned the hard way that
you're almost opening a door.
I am here.
Now that they've
conjured up the entity,
it won't leave them alone.
People that, you know,
had encounters, you know,
with this thing are never
to be able to shake
that feeling that
there's something unexplainable
that is still in their life
and won't go away, a haunting,
so to speak.
Odd things started happening.
We were getting ready
to go out to dinner,
and I went into the bathroom
just to touch up makeup
or something like that.
I went to grab the doorknob.
And the doorknob
was just burning hot.
And I pulled my hand back,
and there was, like,
this dark black, ashy substance
on my fingers from
where I touched the knob.
I immediately thought, "Oh, my
gosh. Something is on fire."
Jeff, fire!
Jeff!
She yelled for me, so I go.
Jeff, hurry!
Fire!
Ah!
Ah!
And I touch the doorknob,
and it's burning hot.
I mean, it's radiating heat
from inside the doorknob.
Fire!
It's literally hot to the touch
to the point
where it blisters your hand.
Fire!
Stand back!
All right.
Oh, God.
Oh, my God!
What happened?
I'm looking around
to make sure, you know,
hey, there's no fire
internally in the wall.
What happened in here?
There was nothing.
No fire, everything was
completely normal.
Jeff
We then opened up the back
of the bathroom door.
There's handprints on
the back of the bathroom door.
It was these elongated fingers,
and it's like this ashen,
sooty kind of residue.
There's no way it was human.
We realized pretty soon
that the activity
that we started to have
was nothing compared
to what we would end up
having to deal with.
When I was home alone,
I was definitely on edge.
It was looking over
your shoulder,
wondering if something is
going to happen at any time,
and it takes a lot out of you
to be constantly
on edge like that.
Jeff?
I thought you were at work.
She continues to talk
to what she thought was me,
and there's no response.
And she saw a hand just press
up against the shower curtain.
I mean, there's something there.
It's not something she imagined.
I mean, she actually felt it.
There was
different things drawn.
There would be, like,
big handprints.
There would be different
symbols, mainly, like,
drawings of eyes
and things like that.
It takes it to an entirely
different level.
I mean, your home is supposed
to be your safe haven,
and it's now ground zero,
essentially.
It was late.
I worked a closing shift.
It was probably 10, 10:30 p.m.
I was out in the middle
of nowhere on this one stretch
of highway.
It's incredibly desolate.
There's no residences around
or anything
for probably 15, 20 miles.
This was a road
that I had driven daily,
I mean, to and from work.
I never noticed anything out of
the ordinary prior to this
and I rounded a turn
on the road,
and just on the edge
of my headlights
I caught a silhouette
of someone,
and I thought,
"That's kind of strange,
a hitchhiker out here
in the middle of nowhere.
He's never going
to catch a ride.
I mean, he's literally
in the middle of nowhere."
Hey!
As I approach him, I could see
that this wasn't
a normally dressed person.
I mean, they had a cloak on
Hello?
Like a hood.
It draped all the way
down to their ankles,
but their hands
were at their side.
Do you need a ride or what?
He had this really
Hello?
Twitchy kind of movement to him.
Can you get out of the way?
This thing turned around
And the first thing
that I noticed
was this desiccated, gray,
mottled-looking skin
on the hand.
I mean, it almost looked
decomposed.
I could see two eyes glowing.
And it wasn't like
an animal's eyes
when you shine a light on them,
they'll reflect back at you.
These were independently
glowing.
I mean, almost like it had
its own light source.
So I'm completely awestruck.
This doesn't make sense to me.
And then it breaks the stillness
of the whole situation.
It let out this
ear-piercing shriek.
It looks almost like Death, what
you think Death would look like.
There's something unexplainable
in their life.
It won't go away.
This thing is just pure evil.
The legendary Mothman
has haunted the woods
of West Virginia
since the 1960s.
Jeff and Krystle Drenning
have crossed its path,
and now it's stalking them.
They're seeing this thing
and hearing it
and encountering it
over and over.
It's terrifying to live
with this.
Your home is supposed to be
a safe place to be,
and you never know when
something is going to happen.
Jeff finds himself face-to-face
with a bloodcurdling creature
in the middle of nowhere.
I'm trying to wrap my mind
around what is in front of me.
It was really animalistic.
The movement in itself is enough
for me to know there's no way,
shape or form that was a human.
Ah!
It's coming closer to me,
so immediately I think,
you know,
"Oh, my God.
What am I going to do?"
Ah!
You could feel it
when something was near.
It was just The air
became just really thick.
You could almost feel your lungs
start to tighten up
and your heart beating.
It was almost as if it
just surrounded you.
Once it manifests itself
physically, I mean,
that's an entirely
different ball game.
It's terrifying.
I mean, you feel violated,
almost.
This thing that isn't supposed
to exist not only contacted you,
not only replied
to what you said,
it's taken the next step further
and followed you home.
I am here.
That voice
definitely haunted us.
We began to hear that voice
not only in recordings.
Jeff.
But we would actually
Got to the point where
we would hear it audibly.
Jeff, it's here.
Huh?
Jeff, it's here.
It's here.
And every time I hear that
voice, it's just complete dread.
It just This voice is just,
like, pure evil.
Ah!
Jeff!
Jeff!
Jeff!
We would actually hear things
in the home, you know,
disembodied footsteps.
Jeff, I told you.
Jeff!
What?
As the activity grew stronger
Stop it!
It became more violent.
Stop it!
Stop it!
Silverware that would
actually be thrown on the floor,
you could hear it
from the next room.
Stop it!
The knocks on the wall
No! No, don't!
Pushed to the point
of desperation,
Krystle and Jeff return
to where their nightmare began.
You ready?
Yeah.
We decided to go back
Let's go.
Okay.
Just to try to get some answers.
We just had enough.
We got to a point
where we were like,
"That's it. You know, this thing
has followed us home,
but we know that it came
and attached itself to us
in Point Pleasant,
so we're going to go there
to the source
and just confront this
once and for all."
I mean, it was almost
a last-ditch effort.
It seemed like we didn't have
anywhere else to turn.
It was a completely
different ball game
than the first time.
The first time that we went,
we were just, you know,
looking for some entertainment,
having fun.
This time we wanted
to fight this thing down.
When we crossed that threshold,
it was almost like we could feel
just this really ominous
suppressing-type feeling.
It was almost like something
was closing in around you.
This is it.
Do you have the recorder?
Yeah, okay.
Do you have the recorder out?
Yeah.
Are you here?
This time it was more along
the lines of demanding answers.
Tell us what you want!
We've had enough!
Just leave us alone!
Do you hear anything?
Do you think he's here?
Say something!
Do you hear anything?
This feeling continued
to grow and grow,
it was a feeling
I can't even begin to explain.
It was almost like you
just wanted to jump out
of your own body.
We know you're here!
Come out!
Finally, Jeff just told it.
It's now or never!
After I had said,
"It's now or never,"
I gave it 10
or 15 seconds to answer.
I didn't hear anything.
Oh, come on, Jeff.
What was that?
I don't know.
Ah!
Jeff!
It was like a freight train
hit me.
Jeff!
Something just hit him
in the chest,
and he just lifted up
in the air and just went.
Are you okay?
Are you okay?
I thought, "This is it.
I'm going to die.
There's no doubt about it."
He just looked up at me.
His face was pure white,
and he just said, "Run."
- Run!
- I'm not leaving you here!
I jet fast as I can.
It literally felt like
we were running for our lives,
that whatever this was
I thought we were done for.
Hello?
I am here.
Ah!
After months of torment,
Jeff and Krystle return
to the site
where they first encountered
Mothman to beg for peace.
Ah!
Oh, Jeff!
It doesn't work.
Run!
What?
Run!
I just know that an unseen force
literally just assaulted me,
so in my mind it was,
"Run. Get to the car.
Get out of here."
I was pretty much
in shock when we were running.
I just I thought
that this was it,
that it was going to kill us.
The only thing going through
my mind
was just to get
as far away as possible.
Go, go, go!
I do regret going back.
I don't know if it gave it
any more, you know, energy.
Despite the couple's
attempt at a truce,
Mothman won't let go of them.
After we had confronted this,
it just felt like there was
nothing that we could do.
We felt hopeless.
We didn't know if we just
made it angry
so things are going
to get worse.
Jeff.
Thanks.
Come on.
Give me that too, okay?
We just heard this extremely
deep growl come from inside.
We're leaving!
Just let us go!
Krystle, stop.
Let's just go.
Come on. Get in the front.
Get in the front.
And we left, and we
thought if we moved,
everything was over,
but it wasn't.
For the Drennings,
the terror doesn't end.
Mothman follows them
wherever they go.
I think we definitely
opened a doorway.
There's no doubt about that.
What came through it, I don't
know how to get rid of it.
I don't know if it's
going to follow us
for the rest
of our lives or not.
I really hope not, but, I mean,
it just seems like whatever
we do nothing gets rid of it.
We've actually had a Catholic
priest come to our house
and bless it twice,
but it just always comes back,
so we just have to deal
with it on a daily basis.
But the question is,
what exactly is Mothman?
Some say it goes back
to a bloody chapter
in West Virginia's history.
Chief Cornstalk
was a Shawnee chief
who was murdered
over a land dispute.
Him and his son both were
actually murdered back
in the 1700s.
It was told over the years
that Chief Cornstalk
actually cursed the town
of Point Pleasant in the form
of a 200-year curse in revenge
for him and his son's deaths.
And exactly
two centuries after
the massacre,
Mothman descends on
Point Pleasant to wreak havoc.
Two hundred years to the month,
to the day and to the year,
that's when the bridge fell.
Some contend Mothman
is the personification
of Chief Cornstalk's revenge.
Others refute that claim,
but most believe
he is not of this world.
There were some people
who claimed this thing
had biblical connotations.
They thought that, you know,
this thing was just pure evil,
period,
so I don't know if anybody
will ever be able
to have a direct answer.
Whatever the origin,
the legend persists,
and even after taking 46 lives,
Mothman still stalks the area.
Few are foolish enough
to go looking for him,
and those who do often
suffer the consequences.
My brother wanted to try
to find the Mothman.
- Ah!
- Oh, my God! Turn, go!
Ah!
Faye Dewitt and her
brother Topper's encounter
takes place even before
the horrific bridge collapse.
The Bug Man of Virginia.
That's real spooky.
What do you think it eats?
Maybe it eats people.
Oh, God.
Maybe it uses its mothy
proboscis
to drink them dry
from the inside out.
Really, Topper?
It was my brother's big idea to
go up there and try to find it.
He was going to prove
that that was a fake
because he was
a very skeptical person,
a very smart person
to the point that,
you know, he didn't think nobody
knew anything but him,
and he was going to prove
the Mothman was a fake,
and that was his intent
of going up there.
You know, what if we
actually see it?
Then what are you going to do?
You're going to eat your words,
is what you're going to do.
I'll go out and shake hands
with it
and try to look for the zipper.
How about that?
I don't know why you made me
do this.
See anything?
Nothing publishable.
Do you see that?
I thought, "Well, what is it?"
See what?
Nothing.
Topper, did you see that?
What?
I saw it plain as day.
Well, what did it look like?
It was just a deer or something.
- This wasn't a deer.
- Big deer?
You're so stupid.
So which way?
This was your idea, not mine.
What?
Don't turn around.
Why?
My brother just kept
looking at me.
He said, "Don't look.
There's something
there beside the window."
No.
In my peripheral vision,
I could see it there beside me
even though
I was looking straight ahead,
and I thought,
"What are we going to do?
What are we going to do?"
Did you see that?
There are a lot of people
who go looking for this creature
and, you know,
playing it off as,
you know, maybe just some fun,
but once they encountered
it themselves,
you know, I think
they change their tune.
Faye Dewitt
and her brother, Topper,
head out to prove that Mothman,
the legendary beast
haunting the woods
at Point Pleasant, is a hoax.
They find out the hard way
that it's not.
I got scared the minute
I turned my head
and saw that thing
beside the window.
It had, like, rubbery,
tight skin, like, on him,
and long fingers,
long curly nails on.
I mean, like you would see
on a hawk or a bird.
But if one thing stands out,
it's the eyes
is what caught you.
You're focused on that,
and that's what those eyes did.
The Mothman definitely
has a way of hypnotizing.
I would say just about everyone
who witnessed this creature
talked about how they were
almost paralyzed by,
you know, these two red eyes.
We were just scared to move,
afraid if we moved, it might
try to come in the car.
Go.
Go!
Drive!
Topper, drive!
Hurry!
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Turn, go.
- I'm turning.
- Go!
- Hold on.
And when my brother turned,
he thought he was going to
throw him
when we made the turn,
but he didn't.
Go, go!
We were going down the road
like a racetrack.
- You see it?
- Drive!
And it seemed to be right
beside the window there.
Drive, drive, drive.
Topper, hurry!
He was trying to speed up
and lose it,
and it just was right there
by the side of the window
just like nothing, like
it was no effort whatsoever.
No!
What?
We'll get trapped in there.
And he made that turn
into the loading dock,
where they would
fill the trucks up.
And I said, "Don't go in there!
Then how are we
going to get out?
It'll have us pinned."
Where'd he go?
Maybe we lost him.
And when he did that
It crouched, kind of like
a squat position,
looking at me and my brother,
and we just drew back
and tried to be real quiet
and don't move, and I told him,
"What are we going to do?
What are we going to do?"
It jumped off the car.
Where'd he go?
It landed just a few feet away,
and it's crunched down,
just like it did in the car
and watched us,
crouched like a gargoyle.
What are you doing?
Are you crazy?
Topper!
What are you doing?
Hey!
Get out of here!
Hey!
He was picking up chunks
of coal, throwing it at it.
Get out of here!
Topper, get back here!
And I was sitting, telling him,
"Get in here!
Leave it alone.
Let's get out of here."
And it stood up.
Get back in here.
And I told him,
"Now you done made it mad!
It's going to come and get us!
It's going to come and get us!"
My brother said, "Don't move.
Don't move."
I said, "I can't. I can't.
What's it going to do?
What's it going to do?"
Faye and Topper
go looking for a creature
they think is a hoax
- Did you see that?
- Until they find it.
Hey! Get out of here!
Now they are trapped on the road
facing the living nightmare
that is Mothman.
Topper, get back here.
I saw its wings because
it just opened it up
just as pretty as a angel or any
bird, and it was beautiful.
I mean, just
It was like seeing a angel
in a way because of those wings,
big enough
to carry a human being.
It was beautiful.
Beautiful
and terrifying.
Topper!
It ran, and I thought sure it
was coming after us.
It just flew off,
and off it went.
But it was just amazing to see
something like that,
but we were scared.
Topper
I told my brother, "We need
to get out of here and get home
because it might come back."
So he turned around
and whipped around.
We went home.
That was it,
and then the bridge fell,
I guess, not long after that.
The siblings never see
Mothman again.
I had a lot of things in
my life happen that was scary.
That was really more scary
than life-threatening.
Though it let Faye
and Topper go,
Jeff and Krystle
aren't as lucky.
Mothman continues
to terrorize them.
We've been dealing with it
for 8 years.
We have no idea why it chose us,
but it did.
It's almost like it's just there
to torture us.
This did happen.
Ah!
Jeff!
After nearly a decade, I don't
think it's ever going to leave.
It's all too real.
You need to take precautions.
You need to realize
that the world
isn't as simple as mankind
has led us to believe.
Stop it!
Now, my belief is, you know,
there's definitely
something out there.
What it is, I don't know
if anybody will be able
to answer that.
I personally can't answer
that question.
The unknown is out there,
you know?
I just don't know if that book
will ever be closed.