Nine Miles Down (2009)

Plotzle Horror · Puzzle #8 · April 30, 2026 · Horror / Mystery

Six plot descriptions for Nine Miles Down (2009). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A documentary crew films residents of a decaying apartment building in Detroit where nine floors remain occupied and tenants claim something in the basement pulls people down at night.
2. A security patrolman travels to a remote drilling station in the Sahara desert to investigate why contact has been lost with a multinational research team drilling deeper into the earth's crust than ever before.
3. A forensic accountant in Minneapolis investigates financial irregularities at a funeral home and discovers nine bodies were cremated without family consent, leading her into the owner's disturbing past.
4. Two estranged brothers inherit their father's abandoned mineshaft in rural Nevada and descend into its depths to retrieve family heirlooms but find evidence of ritualistic killings instead.
5. An archivist catalogs a dead priest's belongings and finds nine identical letters written to different women, each describing how he failed to prevent a child's death decades earlier.
6. A grief counselor begins having vivid nightmares about a patient who committed suicide nine days earlier and the dreams reveal locations where the patient hid recordings of confessions.