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[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
ROCHELLE: Look, people disappear. They lose time.
Planes crash that are never recovered.
Look, there's unexplained lights in the sky
and orbs floating into campsites.
NARRATOR: Believe that a clandestine government study was conducted in the 1940s.
ROCHELLE: Exactly. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of North America.
[AUDIO WARBLING]
I'm very serious.
All the time. Everything.
I assume this guy has zero scientific credibility, right?
He's a cryptolinguist.
That sounds made up.
ROCHELLE: I mean, you name it, and it happens there.
Yes.
Yeah, it's just, it's right in our backyard.
We just gotta get a crew up there.
A.C.: Yeah. All right. We got it right here.
So, uh, 12 years in the Navy, codebreaker,
doctorate in primate behavior.
Who's that?
That crypto-whatever the fuck.
Cryptolinguist.
Crypto-what-the-fuck-I-don't- know-what-you're-talking-about.
Now, you got to have Tom re-record the opening intro.
Call him a Navy vet, call him a scientist.
Put "Doctor" in front of his name in that opening graphic thing.
Make his credentials sound like they're fucking real.
NARRATOR: It is a place of legends. [CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
ROCHELLE: Bigfoot. Right. Yeah. That's the angle.
But, look, we have accounts going back
hundreds of years. There's folklore, indigenous accounts.
It's not just the creatures.
NARRATOR: On this episode of Truth Stalkers... [CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
ROCHELLE: I mean, how would they even know?
Nobody has ever been out there to take a look.
Go back to the clip. How long is that, 10 seconds?
NARRATOR: Audio recordings of a mysterious animal.
ROCHELLE: That... we can make that work.
NARRATOR: ...be a hotspot of paranormal activity.
Do you want real local or plays local?
JEREMY: Oh, fuck. Casting...
ROCHELLE: That, that's all we're asking. Wonderful. I will see you soon.
JEREMY: We can use that scream, right?
All right. They'll be here in 20 minutes.
WOMAN: [ON VIDEO] That's the old Chisolm Trail that goes right behind the...
Look, I think I got something here.
[AUDIO WARBLING]
JEREMY: I see nothing.
Give it a second.
- Bam. Right there. - That's good enough.
Are you kidding me? Some asshole in a gorilla suit in the woods?
- It's a placeholder for now. - Are you kidding me?
No, no. I need to sell that placeholder, remember?
This is, this is...
What is this? I mean, is it even from the area?
Do we know anything about it?
Look, can't you just sell this, so that we can actually go?
Make something out of nothing, right?
[PHONE RINGING]
[OBJECT CLATTERS]
Put it in the edit.
Put the scream over the last frame.
[SIGHS]
Here.
Okay. Um, okay,
now do the zoom thing.
Zoom and scream happen at the same time, okay?
[PHONE CONTINUES RINGING]
Okay. Run it through, just the end.
[SLAMS]
[SIGHS]
Why do I see nothing on my screen right now?
Thank you.
NARRATOR: The sound you hear is what some experts believe to be an actual Bigfoot yell.
[ANIMAL BELLOWING ON VIDEO]
Recorded near the Brandon Diner in 1974,
it is regarded as the most authentic audio recording of the creature ever captured.
[ANIMAL GROWLING]
[PHONE BEEPING]
[LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING OVER PHONE]
[MUSIC STOPS]
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
NINA: Growing up in the area, we used to hear about some of the
folklore. We used to hear some stories of...
[CLEARS THROAT]
When I was a kid, my dad, he was interested in, in nature and,
and the magic of the nature, things that were invisible to most.
- And I was... - [CAR DOOR CLOSES]
[SNIFFLES]
[CAR LOCK BEEPS]
[SNIFFLING]
[CLEARS THROAT]
I never had any paranormal experiences or anything,
- but it was an area that everyone knew about. - JEREMY: It's been eight hours.
Not like I ever had an experience or anything.
I mean, it's not like I ever saw a ghost.
- JEREMY: His ass is fired. - But I guess I...
[LOUD BACKGROUND CHATTERING]
- [CLEARS THROAT] - JEREMY: Make some coffee.
I'd, um, I'd try to get to school early.
- Going back to about third grade I would... - JEREMY: Are they still casting?
I'd pray my bus was even 15 minutes early,
- so I could... - JEREMY: Posters.
...you know, go up to the school library and I'd...
- JEREMY: I think it's gonna make it. - Just pick it up where you were.
- JEREMY: I am so fucking hot. - I'd go to the library,
- um, the school library. - [LOUD BACKGROUND CHATTER CONTINUES]
And I'd, I'd find the same book every day,
and I'd read the same parts.
- And it was this book called... - JEREMY: I think it's gonna make it.
...Monsters, Myths, and Legends.
And it had this, this yellow cover with this
dark cartoony monster peering over the title.
- And, um... - JEREMY: Are they still fucking casting?
I was totally obsessed.
I'm sure, you know, it seems childish now, but I've been
looking for it lately.
JEREMY: How long you been letting each of 'em talk?
Just keep going.
No. Actually don't.
Watch and learn, people.
- [CREW CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY] - Shh!
Shh.
[CLEARS THROAT]
Okay.
Nina Noon.
Nina, Nina, Nina Noon.
So tell me, why did you show up here today?
I subscribe to, uh, a list feed that...
No, no, no, no. Why you should go with us?
Hmm, uh...
Just say what you're thinking.
Well, I've always been a big fan of your show,
and I think it's, you know,
really cool to have proof that...
Of what?
To discover something, you know, to actually find something that...
I know exactly what you're talking about,
UFOs and Loch Ness monsters and
spirits of our dead fathers, hmm?
Sweetheart, you're, you're not right for the part,
okay?
We're looking for real.
All right. Okay.
Uh, let's make a decision here.
I got an early start tomorrow and I wanna get home.
[SOFTLY] Asshole.
What was that?
She just call me an asshole?
She just called me an asshole.
- You can say it out loud, sweetheart. - [SIGHS]
YOGA INSTRUCTOR: Kindly lower that left knee to use the mat.
And now the hips, let the hand step to that right side.
You can stay right here and reach the arms high.
Soft gaze for two.
"How surely gravity's law, strong as an ocean current,
"takes hold of even the strongest thing
"and pulls it toward the heart of the world.
"Each thing, each stone, blossom, child is held in place.
"Only we, in our arrogance, push out beyond
"what we belong to for some empty freedom.
"If we surrender to Earth's intelligence, we could rise up rooted like trees."
- [SIGHING] - [PHONE BUZZING]
YOGA INSTRUCTOR: "Instead, we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making
"and struggle, lonely and confused.
"So, like children, we begin again to learn from the things."
Listen, I was just, um, writing you. We need to talk.
MAN: Nina? Wait. They like you.
Who does?
YOGA INSTRUCTOR: "This is what the things teach us. To fall,
"patiently trusting our heaviness.
"Even a bird has to do that before it can fly."
This isn't why I moved out here.
Reality shows and auditioning for assholes. It's just...
MAN: Okay. No. Now wait. Listen, if you don't wanna take it, someone else will.
They're waiting on an answer. What's it gonna be, Nina?
JEREMY: ♪ Truth Stalkers ♪
[JEREMY SINGING THEME SONG]
♪ We stalk the truth ♪
- ROCHELLE: All right. - ♪ We stalk the truth ♪
ROCHELLE: Okay. Give it a rest, man.
[JEREMY SINGING]
[JEREMY LAUGHING]
JEREMY: You love it, Rochelle. You love it.
ROCHELLE: Oh, no. Listen to the radio.
Nope. You're stuck with me.
[SINGING] You fly them around in the space,
so you can always see him, even when you've driven off.
[SINGING] Truth Stalkers!
In other words, don't loose the other vans, Roch.
ROCHELLE: It's a straight shot. They're gonna be fine.
ERIC: Here. I made a couple playlists.
- Oh, thank you, God. - ROCHELLE: Oh, thank God.
ERIC: Password's Eric.
JEREMY: Oh, that's clever.
ROCHELLE: [CHUCKLING] Clever enough to bring some music.
- Ow! - [LAUGHING]
Eric, how's the gear?
It's solid. But, again, not what I'm used to.
JEREMY: And not what we're used to, either.
ROCHELLE: Look, we really appreciate you taking over last minute and all.
ERIC: Yeah, no doubt.
ROCHELLE: Are you gonna play it?
JEREMY: This soundtrack's as old as you, Rochelle.
ROCHELLE: [SCOFFS] Hilarious.
ERIC: You miss it?
Huh?
Where you're from? You miss home?
I can barely remember.
I haven't been back in years.
Kind of like to think I'm not from here anymore.
I can see why.
[ROCHELLE SCOFFS]
[CHUCKLING]
[INAUDIBLE]
[EXPLOSION]
[INAUDIBLE]
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
[SIGHS]
ANNOUNCER 1: [ON RADIO] Thunderstorms over the next few hours.
Cloudy tomorrow... [CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
ANNOUNCER 2: In the news today... [CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
JEREMY: Nothing.
[FOLK MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]
Roch-y, Roch-y, Roch.
So just to keep track.
Don't.
JEREMY: Lost vans, half a crew, and now no guide.
ERIC: I've done lots of shows.
Relax, dude. We read your resume.
[JEREMY SIGHS]
It's not a good sign, you know, guide getting lost.
ROCHELLE: He'll be here. He's a local.
Are any of you our guide?
Uh, super easy. Uh, you just, uh, you show up late,
uh, maybe not at all, maybe get lost, lie drunk in a ditch someplace.
ROCHELLE: Would you shut up?
You're gonna get our asses kicked.
Do you ever think that this is your audience?
I try not to.
No, but these are the people that actually watch your show.
[SCOFFS] Average people.
This is who you do it for.
You drive seven hours. You wade through swamps. You scare yourself silly.
[SNIFFS] Reality.
This is reality. Not what we do.
[SCOFFS]
No one would wanna watch the real thing anyway.
It's too much
and too boring, all at the same time.
[MUSIC ON RADIO DISTORTING]
Who would care?
Just think,
all we really wanted was somebody to run "C" cam.
I'd settle for the bill, actually.
This has been a joy, but we're ready to leave now.
Okay. I tried. Let's go.
Can't we just leave some money?
I would love to, but, uh, I don't have a bill.
You can't figure out the math?
[JEREMY CHUCKLES]
Didn't take long for the hometown girl to go local, did it?
Maybe she's just being decent.
JEREMY: Tell her to be decent when the camera's rolling.
Where's your sense of humor, Nina?
ROCHELLE: Eric, need you a sec.
Wanna do a little intro with some "We're just arrived,"
talk about some recent activity, Bigfoot, people vanishing.
- Let's get the restaurant. - JEREMY: Seriously, Rochelle. What's the point?
Wait for the real crew. This is gonna look like shit.
I got half a mind to just pack up and go.
And just waste the fact that we're here? Nice.
NINA: Growing up in the area, we used to hear about some of the folklore,
we used to hear some stories of... [CLEARS THROAT]
ERIC: Say that again, just a little louder.
- Say what again? - Um, anything you want.
I don't know what...
Uh, just tell me about this place.
NINA: My dad, he, um...
Yeah. Your dad? Tell me about him.
Yeah.
When I was a kid, my dad, he was interested in nature and...
- ERIC: Louder. - [NINA CLEARS THROAT]
NINA: He was interested in nature, in the magic of nature,
things that were invisible to most.
That's better.
I'm gonna go get a couple shots over here.
JEREMY: It's not the first time, that's for sure. I think they'd appreciate the honesty.
Yeah. "How did you spend our money?"
"Oh, we just took a little road trip, and then spent a night in a hotel."
Check your phone again.
ROCHELLE: Fine. I'm just trying to be productive.
- [TRAP SNAPS] - [WINGS FLAPPING]
JEREMY: I am not afraid to tell them exactly what I think, and you know that.
ROCHELLE: [SCOFFS] Of course you're not, because you never get blamed for anything.
I mean, it's easy for you to just shrug your shoulders and laugh it off.
- Is this about the poster? - Oh, my God.
This is about the poster.
Seriously? I hope you're kidding.
- Oh, I hope you're kidding. - And you're fucking... [GROANS]
Jeremy, let it go.
I'd love to let it go, back in the van, as far as from here as possible, in fact.
- [SCOFFS] If you only had it in you. - [CAR DOOR CLOSES]
JEREMY: Give me the keys.
ROCHELLE: Do it, please.
Because this whole thing, it works without you.
Guys, hang on.
JEREMY: Let me guess.
We're late.
JEREMY: Yeah, we're late.
Okay. Hold it a second there, Guide.
We're waiting for the rest of our crew
because somebody drove a little fast and lost the rest of the vans.
[CAWING]
There's a clearing not far in. Let's get moving, so we make it back before dark.
JEREMY: Great.
Okay. Let's pack it up, people, before one of us loses his freaking mind.
We'll find a hotel. We'll start again tomorrow morning.
Uh, get our stuff back from the mountain man.
This is good. This is good.
Huh. I'm not needed, right? So you go do your thing.
You get whatever it is you think this is all about...
- ROCHELLE: Mmm-hmm. - ...everybody shows up, I'll find you.
- ROCHELLE: Yeah. - You won't find us.
Yeah? I've been in the woods before.
Not here.
Please tell me you've been recording this?
Oh, hell yeah.
ROCHELLE: Good.
[THE GUIDE HUMMING]
[HUMMING CONTINUES]
Hey, can you...
The team has fallen behind. Can you slow down?
- [SIGHING] - [HUMMING CONTINUES]
You okay?
- Yeah. - Better keep up.
[THE GUIDE HUMMING]
Well, that sucked.
THE GUIDE: We made it safely.
JEREMY: Where?
A safe place for now. You can begin here.
- ROCHELLE: Here. - Okay.
For your team's arrival.
An offering to the land.
[SOFTLY] Jesus.
ROCHELLE: Hey, guys.
Come on, let's get to work, I found something.
See? Right there.
JEREMY: Man, that is freaky.
Do you hear anything?
Nothing.
Okay, cut.
[JEREMY SIGHS]
You got to think on your feet here now, okay?
You heard knocking in the distance,
or you saw a large, shadowy figure run through the woods,
or you smelled a foul odor. You read the packet, right?
Nina?
Make it good. Okay? Acting. Drama.
Places. Let's go again.
ERIC: Camera's rolling. JEREMY: And action.
NINA: Guys, over here.
- What's going on? - I was setting up a trail cam on that tree right there,
and I heard something. Something big just, just crashing through the brush,
and it was gone so fast, I don't know what I saw, but I know that I saw something.
Something is out there.
JEREMY: Okay, good. [LAUGHS] I like that.
Let's do it again.
ERIC: Camera's rolling. JEREMY: And action, Nina.
THE GUIDE: Hear us. NINA: Guys. Guys, over here.
- JEREMY: What's going on? - NINA: I was setting up a trail cam...
THE GUIDE: Make our hands respect the things you've made,
and make our ears sharp to hear your voice.
NINA: It's not on the list.
Fuck the list, we need another segment to make it connect.
Whoa. Whoa, what do you think you're doing?
ROCHELLE: We just need a few shots in a denser area.
No, no, no, just wait, just wait.
You need to stay in the clearing.
[LAUGHING]
Dude, the camera's not rolling, so you can drop it for a second, all right?
We love the clearing, it's fantastic, but we need more and we don't have a lot of time.
All right. I'll find you a spot, a great spot, just stay here.
I'll secure another place.
Great. Secure it.
Thank you.
Good job.
Let's go.
- Just wait. - No, now you wanna wait.
We need more.
That's fine. You stay here. I don't care.
Nina, you want to join me?
Shouldn't we wait for the guide?
You afraid of the guide?
I can go with.
JEREMY: We're good. Rochelle needs your help.
You and camera guy do your intro.
Talk about all the amazing shit we've seen here.
All right.
Watch your step. Pay attention.
Here, keep it on.
Yes, ma'am.
Let's go.
JEREMY: Circus, isn't it?
NINA: I guess.
Ah, you hope for something long enough,
you start to believe in all kinds of weird shit.
Just to justify what you're doing, yeah?
Look at Rochelle.
Whatever she was looking for passed her by a long time ago.
So, right over there,
that's where Nina saw the marks.
We're about to try a call and response.
Based on numerous eyewitness reports,
we believe that Sasquatch uses a large branch
to strike trees as a way to call out to others.
Perhaps as a signal, or even as a warning.
So I am going to emulate those sounds
and we'll see if whatever else is out here
wants to join in the conversation.
[WALKIE TALKIE BEEPS]
Jeremy for Rochelle. We're about to initiate the tree knocks.
ROCHELLE: Check. All quiet here.
I'm gonna do three knocks,
wait, then three knocks more.
Check.
Here goes nothing.
JEREMY: I'm going again.
[JEREMY BANGING STICK]
Nice improv back there, by the way.
Thanks.
How long you been in LA?
Coming on four years.
Yeah? Treating you good?
It's okay.
[SCOFFS]
Shitty, actually.
Yeah, I would have thought there'd be plenty of work for somebody like you.
Yeah, a few web series.
Yeah. You know what's gonna happen?
You're gonna, you're gonna probably get impatient
and, uh, assert yourself more.
Get aggressive.
That's how it happened for me.
You're an actor?
No, uh, worse actually, I was a writer.
Uh, yeah. [CHUCKLES]
I, uh, I almost had a few things made.
Had an agent.
Never really went anywhere, though.
I was working part-time at a production company
and, um, I just kind of stumbled into this.
And just kind of made it up for myself with Rochelle.
I just couldn't wait around anymore, you know?
I had to... [SNAPS FINGERS] make something happen.
It's different for us, you know.
There's no normal path to success.
You know, everybody out there, they're trying to be the next famous...
whatever.
[OVER WALKIE TALKIE] Rochelle for Jeremy.
- Yeah. - Update, please.
Lot of trees, believe it or not.
Keep me posted.
Getting nervous back here.
Well, Bigfoot tried to grab me, but I told him he didn't exist, so he ran away.
Don't be an ass.
I want to get out of here before dark. Okay?
- [TURNS OFF] - Oop! Oh, did I just do that?
Yeah, we should shoot something.
You know, before we do, though, I think, um,
maybe we should grab a drink sometime
when we're back in LA, talk shop.
I know a lot of people. I bet I could help.
Yeah. We could, you know, get the whole crew together.
That'd be fun.
Right.
- Rochelle for Jeremy. - [STATIC]
Rochelle for Jeremy.
Wait here. I'm gonna have to go find them.
Great.
Let's do another segment up here.
- Jeremy for Rochelle? - [STATIC]
- Nothing. - Did you feel that?
Over here? You stay here. I'm gonna check out our spot.
[BIRDS CAWING]
Jeremy?
[CAWING]
Jeremy?
[GRUNTS]
[SIGHING]
NINA: [ON VIDEO] Yeah.
JEREMY: [ON VIDEO] And your dad, tell me about him.
What the hell?
[PANTING]
[GROANS]
NINA: It was the weirdest thing.
I was walking. And Jeremy, he went one way. And...
Where's Rochelle?
- Looking for you. - Shit!
Rochelle!
Hey!
Wait!
[WALKIE TALKIE BEEPS]
Jeremy for Rochelle.
[STATIC]
Nina!
Nina?
[STRAINS]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
- Hey! - [INDISTINCT CONVERSATION CONTINUES]
I'm fine, by the way. No need to worry about me.
Rochelle, you're not gonna believe this.
ROCHELLE: You never get blamed for anything. Ever.
It's easy for you to just laugh it off...
Rochelle?
JEREMY: Is this about the poster? It's about posters, isn't it?
ROCHELLE: Oh, I hope you're kidding.
ROCHELLE: Jeremy? Seriously, let it go.
JEREMY: I'd love to let it go.
In the van, as far from here as possible.
JEREMY: Yeah! ROCHELLE: Really?
Do it, please.
[CONVERSATION CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
What the fuck?
THE GUIDE: Let's go. We don't have time.
[ECHOING] We can't stay here. We don't have time.
Jeremy?
Let's go.
We need to gather the others.
[CROWS CAWING]
Everything in nature, even us,
has medicine, some people call it.
It's, um, something that's good for everyone.
It's a being's gift to the world.
Even this.
Looks sad, painful for us.
It's passed on,
but the passing, too, can be a gift.
Sometimes, it can be a being's greatest gift.
And it means something that you found it.
It's sharing its medicine with you.
Can I give it something too?
Mmm-hmm. A little prayer.
Or you could write something to it.
Or you can make it something.
A drawing.
Close your eyes.
Good.
Connect here.
When you interact this way,
nature will come closer,
and it'll teach you things.
- You'll see more... - ERIC: Nina!
NINA'S DAD: Things others can't.
NINA: Thought I could see him.
- [SIGHS] - He'll be back, right?
Doubt Jeremy got too far.
No, thanks.
Just save me some for when I panic.
[ERIC CHUCKLES]
Guess I already did, huh?
No, I get it.
The same thing happened to me.
Back by the edge of the woods, by the diner.
- Really? - Mmm.
I saw something weird
and my mind ran away with it.
[CHUCKLES]
And for just an instant,
I thought that there might actually be something about this place.
Is that what you were hoping for?
No, not really.
[CHUCKLING] But it does remind me of this time
I was at my friend's cabin.
We were all sleeping on couches and the floor.
I used to always wear these headphones, you know,
to help me get to sleep, right?
So I wouldn't have to hear all the snoring.
And I woke up,
and we'd all been drinking.
And I went outside, you know, half asleep,
a little buzzed,
- to, um, uh, relieve... - Take a piss?
Yeah. [CHUCKLES] Yeah.
So I'm pissing in the woods, and I'm listening to music,
and I hear something.
My name.
Kind of quiet, through the music.
And I look back, and there's nothing.
So I go back to my business,
and I hear it again, and I look back.
And this time, out of the darkness
comes this thing,
like a white sheet, floating like a ghost,
calling my name.
And I just about have a heart attack.
But it takes one more step, and it's fully in the light.
And I see my friend with all of his bedding, stumbling around,
drunk off his ass, looking for a place to sleep.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
You know, the interesting thing is, though, is that I always
wish that I'd seen a ghost or something.
You know? I prayed for it.
Really, like, every night.
But when I actually thought I did,
and it was right in front of me,
I took it all back,
and I didn't want to see a ghost at all.
I just wanted to be home.
[RUSTLING]
ERIC: Took you long enough. We need to get moving.
THE GUIDE: Get your things. ERIC: You guys okay?
I told you not to leave. I told you to respect this place.
- It's not safe here. - ERIC: Then take us back.
What do you think I'm doing?
That way. That's the way we came in.
You might think you know your way back. You don't.
It responds. All this.
To us.
It changes and makes new connections, always.
Every minute we're here.
Giving us just what we need. Whatever we're afraid to see.
Get up.
[JEREMY GRUNTS]
THE GUIDE: Move!
Let's go!
[FLIES BUZZING]
ROCHELLE: Nina!
Nina!
Eric!
NINA'S MOM: Those prayers won't help. They're not real.
Look at where they've led you.
- How much further? - We're close.
[DISTANT THUDDING]
It's a warning.
Come on.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
It's, it's just an animal.
Come on.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[HUMMING]
[ERIC COUGHING]
[ROCHELLE PANTING]
[GRUNTS]
- [THUNDER RUMBLING] - We're close.
- Come on. - [ROCHELLE EXHALES]
Oh, my God.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[THE GUIDE CHUCKLING]
[THE GUIDE WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
THE GUIDE: Be grateful you don't have to see what I do.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
ROCHELLE: We'll set up for the night.
We'll find our way out in the morning, on our own.
THE GUIDE: The way out is not the way in.
I was checking. There was no hill.
- This isn't the same place. - Sure it is.
It's just darker. [GRUNTS]
[THE GUIDE SINGING]
Nice work, you little hopped up piece of shit.
Thanks a lot.
[MUMBLING]
THE GUIDE: Every path unfolded to the stars.
Impossible constellation.
Break through the sheet of clouds.
- NINA: What do you see? - Until the star.
Hey, can you stay awake?
Talk to me.
What do you see?
[NINA STAMMERING ON VIDEO]
What? Um...
[STAMMERING] I can't think of anything.
ERIC: A little louder.
Um, maybe, uh, tell me about this place.
How was it growing up here?
NINA: Well, my dad.
ERIC: Your dad? Tell me about him.
NINA: He would bring me to... There was this forest that...
ERIC: Louder.
NINA: There was this forest... ERIC: A little louder.
Could you give it a rest over there?
What else am I supposed to do?
[THE GUIDE MOANING]
[CAMERA BEEPING]
[VIDEO PLAYING INDISTINCTLY]
What the fuck?
[CAMERA BEEPING]
What, so it's okay if you do it?
JEREMY: Yep. It's my show.
Oh, man. There's beautiful stuff.
Yeah, what does it matter?
JEREMY: What?
I said, what does it matter?
- [THUNDER RUMBLING] - JEREMY: Hmm?
Well,
whenever whatever that witch doctor gave us wears off,
it matters.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
NINA'S DAD: Would you like to offer this?
[RUMBLING CONTINUES]
You can ask for a feather.
What did it say?
Encounter with raven is rare.
Some people say it gives the gift of magic.
Seeing into the dark.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
ROCHELLE: [ON VIDEO] I wanna do a little intro.
We just arrived. We'll talk about the recent activity, Bigfoot, people that...
[VIDEO STOPS]
[CAMERA BEEPING]
[BEEPING]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
NINA'S MOM: This isn't how we're raising her.
NINA'S DAD: They're offerings.
NINA'S MOM: Do you know what she brought to school today?
A dead sparrow.
- And this? - They're like prayers.
She's praying to dead animals now.
- No, you don't understand. - Writing letters to them,
talking to them out in the woods.
You're not encouraging this anymore.
Do you understand?
This is dangerous.
JEREMY: Hey, where'd you get that footage?
- What? - The footage.
Uh, when we got here, by the diner.
JEREMY: You didn't get this from our office?
- What? The camera? - JEREMY: Yeah.
- No. I got it at the rental... - You sure?
- Yes. - Leave him alone.
JEREMY: Well done.
Fuck, yes.
All right.
This is mine now. Nobody touches it.
That means you, "C" cam.
[LAUGHS] I hope to God I still remember this when I'm not high.
[JEREMY GRUNTS]
He didn't give us drugs.
[LAUGHS] Then you explain all this?
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Look, can somebody please explain to me what the fuck...
ROCHELLE: The footage...
you shot, we saw it six days ago.
It already happened.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
- Let me see it. - No, you're not messing this up.
Yeah. Messing what up?
The show that I'm making about this.
This fucking show.
What? I think you'd all be happy about this.
I'm gonna make you all famous.
So this is basically all just one big joke to you?
You do your little thing...
- Yeah. - ...make a mockery out of all this?
That's the show.
Well, you should be proud.
[LAUGHS]
Well, I am.
[ANIMAL CALLS]
People love my show.
You know why?
Because it's a little bit clever
and a little bit spooky.
And, underneath, it's all bullshit.
So, people will get scared, and then...
rip it apart during the closing credits,
so they can feel safe again.
And then tune in next week for just enough adventure
to make your lives feel like they fucking mean something.
But they don't.
JEREMY: Grow the fuck up. Nothing means anything.
Unless we say it does.
♪ Truth Stalkers ♪
[LAUGHS] I love how smart I am when I take drugs.
He didn't give us drugs.
Here we go again.
When?
When did he give us drugs?
I saw your eyes.
You were scared.
Why?
Explain to me...
how we got back here again.
And before, when we were 10 feet apart,
and all of a sudden, you were gone.
What did you see, Jeremy? Huh?
Okay.
You win.
We really are
in a magical, mystical, wonderful forest.
Makes people disappear and then reappear,
walk in a straight line, but really go in a circle.
We found it.
The fucking meaning of life.
I feel so much better now.
Is it nice to believe in shit like that?
Hopeful shit?
Does it help you sleep better at night?
[JEREMY LAUGHS]
NINA'S MOM: Let's go, Nina. Enough.
He's not coming with.
Why?
He's filling your head with nonsense.
Nina Noon,
that a, uh, stage name?
[SIGHS]
Sort of.
[SNIFFLES]
We changed our name,
my mom and me.
She didn't want my dad to find us.
Now you're an actress pretending to search for a monster?
Hey, listen to this.
Why are you so afraid of silence?
Silence is the root of everything.
When you spiral into its void,
a hundred voices thunder out messages
you long to hear.
This place makes me think of it.
My teacher used to recite it when we were out here.
Do you understand what's happening here?
We're in a spiral.
Here.
Forward
leads back.
Going out
circles in.
When we try to leave,
we come back around to a place that feels the same.
Each rung is like an echo.
How do we get to the center?
Hey. We're leaving.
You can follow us if you want.
I'm going with him.
JEREMY: Could be like a time-travel angle,
but I don't know. Throwing a weird creature
into the mix, that might be too much for one show. I don't know.
Just one sec. One sec.
What?
There should be a fork in the road.
The main thing is we got to keep this place hidden.
We got to have exclusive access.
You know, only a failed writer would find accomplishment
in turning this all into a joke.
Why don't you trot after Nina and your guide?
They're probably sliding down a rainbow on a unicorn right now.
Rochelle, I'm telling you, we got to pitch this thing
as soon as we get a signal.
- Right. - ROCHELLE: [SIGHS] Okay.
It's this way.
JEREMY: Rochelle?
All right. Hold up a second. [YELPS]
[GROANS] I'm fine, by the way. No need to worry about me.
Rochelle.
[SIGHS]
Hey.
Wait.
What the hell?
[GRUNTS]
JEREMY: [WHISPERING] I see her. Rochelle. I see her.
[JEREMY GROANS]
THE GUIDE: Let's go.
We don't have time.
You can't stay here.
ROCHELLE: Jeremy?
THE GUIDE: Let's go.
We need to gather the others.
What happened here?
THE GUIDE: Don't know.
Never been this far.
My teacher told me it was cordoned off briefly.
People set out to study this place...
Tried to, at least.
Laws of physics,
rules, theories, proof.
How could they understand?
What measurement,
what instrument could ever tell
that it was only looking into a mirror?
What way of looking outward could ever be anything
but a never-ending loop back in?
[INAUDIBLE]
NINA: You said it was a warning...
the yell.
There's something here.
THE GUIDE: Everyone sees them differently.
I like to think they're guardians.
What do they protect?
There is something here.
THE GUIDE: Like anything,
they bring back to us whatever we bring to it.
[ECHOING] What do they protect?
People...
from themselves.
[WATER DRIPPING]
[WATER SPLASHES]
- [CRICKETS CHIRPING] - [NINA GASPING]
NINA: Great spirit,
guide me. Send me your protection.
Even though I feel alone,
I know that you are with me.
Show me what I need to see.
NINA'S MOM: Let's go, Nina. Enough.
Just like everything else he promised you,
all that time communing with the dead.
Those prayers won't help.
They're not real.
Look at where they've led you.
Trying to hide, little witch?
You can't talk to birds, huh?
- [OVERLAPPING CHATTER] - We're gonna burn you, witch.
NINA'S MOM: Nina. Look what he's done to you.
I told you not to do those things.
I told you this would happen.
THE GUIDE: It responds to us.
NINA'S MOM: I'm getting us outta here.
ROCHELLE: He's filling your head with nonsense.
JEREMY: Enough Nina. There's nothing here.
NINA: Wait.
NINA'S MOM: He's not coming with.
- Nina. - NINA: No.
NINA'S DAD: What you working on?
Look, Dad.
It's lovely, but it's past your bedtime.
It's an offering.
Nina, we talked about that.
But I'm ready, Dad.
Teach me more.
We promised that we wouldn't, honey.
I'm like you.
Teach me.
Tell me about this.
- [CREATURE GRUNTS] - [WIND HOWLING]
[CREATURE GROWLING]
Was it real?
NINA: [ON VIDEO] I don't... I can't think of anything.
JEREMY: [ON VIDEO] Um, maybe, uh, tell me about this place.
NINA: I don't know where to start.
Growing up in the area, we used to hear about some of the...
folklore. We used to hear some stories of...
- ERIC: Say that again, just a little louder. - NINA: Say what?
- My dad, he... - ERIC: Your dad,
oh, that's better.
Um, anything you want.
NINA: Yeah.
He taught me, um...
- ERIC: Louder. - [NINA CLEARS THROAT]
ERIC: A little louder.
NINA: When I was a kid,
my dad, he, uh,
he was interested in nature,
in the magic of nature.
He was just fascinated by it.
And he saw things that were invisible to most.
And I thought if I could
open my mind...
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