Into the Darkness: Terrifying True Tales: Volume 1

By Ethan Hayes

2026 edition. Updated and expanded.

Some doors should never be opened. Some knocks should never be answered.

In 1982, in a small Wyoming town, a sixteen-year-old sees a pale thing with fingers like garden tools, and it changes the rest of his life. A morgue worker on the overnight shift takes in bodies from a crime scene in the woods, and something comes along with them. At three in the morning, a gas station clerk in rural Louisiana opens the door to two children with solid black eyes who only want to use the phone. A young doctor at a remote asylum in upstate New York starts hearing patients whisper about the Pale Crawler.

Into the Darkness, Book One gathers fifty true accounts from ordinary people who went somewhere they shouldn't have, or stayed somewhere too long. Inside you'll find the Rake, Mothman, the Grunch Road Monster, black-eyed children, skinwalkers, the Pale Crawlers, and things that have no name at all. These are their stories, told in their own words, by the people who lived through them and have never been the same since.

Read them with the lights on. Then check the locks.

Fifty true stories of the unexplained from Ethan Hayes, author of Encounters in the Woods, What Lurks Beyond, and Fear in the Forest.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1953462189
• ISBN13: 9781953462183
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Free Reign Publishing
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"