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.

West Virginia, 1897. A young bride is found dead at the bottom of the stairs. Her husband won't let anyone near her neck. She's buried within a day — until her mother says her daughter came back, four nights running, to tell her exactly what happened.

February 1959. Nine hikers vanish into Russia's Ural Mountains. Their tent is found slashed open — from the inside. Footprints lead into the dark showing no sign of panic. Injuries the medical examiner could only compare to a car crash, with no external wounds to explain them.

Christmas Eve, 1945. Fire tears through the Sodder home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Five children are never found — no remains, no bones, just ash. For the rest of their lives, their parents insisted they didn't die in that fire.

Winter, 1953. Something moves out of Big Swamp — bloodless kills, a scream like a woman's cry at the edge of the dark, and a town of eight hundred suddenly swarmed by a thousand armed hunters. They called it the Vampire Cat. What was really stalking Bladenboro that winter?

January 1984. Twenty-four-year-old Sherry Hart climbs into a white Mustang for a late-night drive on Highway 16 — and never comes home. Eleven months later, two hunters look down into a 2,000-foot ravine. What follows is a confession, a capital murder charge, and one of the most humiliating jailbreaks in North Carolina history.

February 1972. A historic blizzard isolates the mountain town of Boone — and under cover of that whiteout, something dark moves up the mountain. When family finally reached the Durham home, they found a silent house, a missing station wagon, and a destroyed interior hiding a horror that would take 50 years to solve.