August 1955. A silver light drops from the sky outside a Kentucky farmhouse. What follows is four hours of gunfire aimed at small, glowing-eyed figures that won't stay down — and a family that never changed their story.

January 1970. Two WVU freshmen catch a ride home from the movies and are never seen again. Eighty-eight days later, the National Guard finds two graves — both victims decapitated, their heads never recovered. Six years pass before a confession comes from four hundred miles away... and then gets taken back.

November 1966. A seven-foot figure with glowing red eyes near an old power plant. Thirteen months of sightings, strange men in black asking questions no one could answer — and a bridge collapse that would tie Point Pleasant to legend forever.

June 1970. VISTA volunteer Nancy Dean Morgan comes to Madison County to help — and four days after she goes missing, she's found murdered in the back seat of her own car. It took fifty-four years, a corrupt sheriff, and one journalist's relentless pursuit to get even part of the truth.