Beneath the Darkness (2012)

Plotzle Horror · Puzzle #7 · March 20, 2026 · Thriller / Horror

Six plot descriptions for Beneath the Darkness (2012). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. Someone purchases a foreclosed house in rural Vermont and the previous owner watches from the woods as decay spreads through the property and into the new resident's behavior.
2. A pharmacist begins diluting cancer medications to fund his gambling addiction and experiences vivid hallucinations of his deceased patients visiting him at night in his home.
3. A grief counselor realizes her newest client is describing murders he committed rather than processing loss but she continues their sessions to gather evidence for police.
4. A teenage girl returns to her coastal town after rehabilitation and finds her former friends have created a pact to exclude anyone who left their group.
5. Two spelunkers discover a vast underground chamber filled with human remains and one begins documenting the find while the other develops an obsession with staying below.
6. Several teenagers witness their friend being killed by a local man who is respected in the community, and they attempt to reveal his crimes while avoiding being murdered themselves.