A snap of a twig. A rustling leaf. In the woods, myth, urban legend, and horror collide with real-life killers. Transporting viewers into a vortex of dark mystery and psychological terror, each episode tells the true story of a crime set in a desolate location.

In an Oklahoma town, Amanda Burney and her fiancé Ethan Walton runs an errand that turns into a run for their lives.

In May 2000, friends Liz Reiser and Brandi Hicks go to a video store in the quaint Ohio town of New Philadelphia. Their plans for an innocent movie night morph into a true-life horror film when they give a ride to a stranger in the parking lot.

Recent high school graduate Stephanie Neiman gives her friend a ride, which ends with Neiman fighting for her life.

In 1979, a walk in the woods turns out to be a deadly mistake for single mother Marie Huckins; then, 20 years later, her daughter, Patricia, finds herself following in the same fateful footsteps.