The House in Sherwood (2020)

Plotzle Horror · Puzzle #10 · March 13, 2026 · Horror / Thriller

Six plot descriptions for The House in Sherwood (2020). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A grief counselor begins treating a traumatized child who describes elaborate punishments inflicted by invisible residents of his family's new home but the parents deny anything unusual.
2. An architect designing a luxury development on protected woodland experiences vivid hallucinations of trees with human faces and her colleagues find her sketches increasingly disturbing and incomprehensible.
3. A man returns to his childhood town after twenty years and learns that everyone who lived on his former street has developed the same degenerative illness within months.
4. A recovering addict inherits her estranged grandmother's estate in rural England and discovers the previous tenants died under suspicious circumstances that mirror her own recurring nightmares.
5. A woman investigates paranormal events at a haunted house while being unknowingly followed and filmed by another woman who is making her own documentary about the investigation.
6. Two documentary filmmakers investigating a condemned neighborhood in Detroit interview residents who claim an abandoned Victorian mansion compels people to commit acts they later cannot remember.