The Hagstone Demon (2011)

Plotzle Horror · Puzzle #6 · April 28, 2026 · Horror / Drama

Six plot descriptions for The Hagstone Demon (2011). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A writer suspects a homeless woman living in his building of killing tenants, but he becomes obsessed with her while trying to discover the source of supernatural events before being implicated.
2. Two estranged brothers return to their childhood home to care for their dying father but old resentments surface when one accuses the other of enabling their parent's alcoholism.
3. A folklore professor researches protective talismans in Scottish villages while his marriage disintegrates and he develops an obsessive belief that his wife has been replaced by something malevolent.
4. A teenage girl discovers her mother's journal describing ritualistic abuse from decades past and the entries begin appearing in her own handwriting as she sleeps each night.
5. Someone finds a perforated stone on a beach and the object becomes a fixation that leads to the dissolution of relationships and employment over the course of one winter.
6. A ceramicist in rural Wales inherits her grandmother's stone collection and begins experiencing migraines that coincide with violent episodes she cannot remember committing against neighbors.