The Artist and the Faces

• 🎨 A woodworker visits a new acquaintance who carves disturbing, pained faces into trees surrounding his property and hanging them on doorframes.
• 😨 The acquaintance reveals the faces represent spirits he sees in the woods at dusk, who whisper that God is a lie and try to lure him out of his house.
• 😱 The story culminates with the artist discovering a horrifying, barely human-like sculpture in the acquaintance's workshop, followed by unexplained banging sounds.

Nevada Survivalist's Encounter

• 🌵 A survivalist camping alone in the Nevada desert encounters a freshly killed coyote with no obvious cause of death and a strange smell.
• 📻 His ham radio suddenly turns on, broadcasting sounds of gunfire, screams, and a dying animal, before blowing out, leaving him with no communication.
• 👽 The next day, he discovers his campsite has been vandalized but nothing stolen, and later spots a tall, two-legged creature with scaly skin, huge eyes, and a jagged grin, which he shoots.
• 🩸 He finds blood splatter where he shot the creature, and upon returning home, learns the DNA is unidentifiable, and he receives a call warning him to forget what he saw.

Road Blockage in Tasmania

• 🚗 A family renting a car in Tasmania encounters a massive, gray, a dozen-foot-tall creature with long arms and bulging stomach while driving at night.
• 🐴 The creature, described as having deep-sea fish-like features and raggedy black hair, is seen holding and eating a dead brown horse, speaking the words "too crunchy."
• 💥 The encounter ends when the creature crosses the road and disappears into the trees, leaving the narrator deeply shaken and unsure of how to report it.

Skinwalker Warning

• 🐺 A college student in New Mexico, after discussing skinwalkers with a classmate who claims to have seen one, experiences a growling and a frail, crouched form with beady eyes in his room at night.
• 💡 He believes leaving his window open may have attracted the entity, interpreting the encounter as a warning not to discuss skinwalkers.

The Hooves at Colorado River

• 🏕️ While camping near the Colorado River, a group hears and sees hoof prints of a large, bipedal creature with hoofs and a sniffing sound.
• 🪵 They discover a stone altar in the willow trees with half-eaten fish and smashed bones, resembling a pagan altar.
• 🔫 The next night, after hearing a horrific scream, the narrator's father and uncle fire two gunshots towards the willow trees and flee the campsite, later reporting to the police that they shot at teens engaged in devil worship, though hoof prints were found everywhere.