Campfire Radio Theater · Haunted Air Audio

Hungry Hollow

February 6, 2013·31 min·2 clips

Alexa confesses she's an ancient witch who lures men to be eaten in a pagan ritual.

The fire is already lit. A narrator pulls the listener in, then sends the road through the mountains, into a black tunnel, and down into a valley that already feels wrong. The tunnel has a mouth, and the woods are framed less like a hiking spot than a place with a tally. Jay goes quiet. Alexa leads someone toward a clear spring and waterfall, and the scene slips from private temptation into something colder. The brush feels awake. Jay watches long enough for jealousy to curdle, then worries Alexa may have spotted him among the trees. By morning, Bill is gone. Jesse wakes Jay with the news, and the night's secrecy turns into a search nobody sounds ready for. Alexa has no answer that helps. She says something in the woods made them feel watched, close enough to scare both her and Bill. Bill made the bad choice. He left the water unarmed and unclothed, walked into the trees to check, and never came back. The forest gives them nothing. Alexa blames herself for coaxing him out there. The others try to talk as if Bill is only temporarily missing, but that comfort goes thin fast. The ending imagines Jay as bones in an unmarked grave under ground no one visits anymore. Hungry Hollow has a history. The repeated lament of so many lost in these woods makes Bill's disappearance feel less like an accident than another name added to the place.

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A mountain-haunted flirtation turns into a blood trail and a missing man as the woods close in.

Hungry Hollow follows Jay and Alexa from a Blue Ridge mountain road into woods where a missing man, a clear spring, and a blood trail turn flirtation into danger.

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You want a woods story where flirtation turns dangerous and the trail runs red fast.

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