A young couple make their money being the worst kind of people… influencers. Their next project is heading deep into a forgotten piece of Mississippi to renovate an abandoned farm. That’ll get the views! Of course, as is the lot of young couples looking to be social media gods, they run into disturbing trouble as night falls on the remote location. Austin and Janna have been living that “van life” and traveled around America with their lovely golden retriever Arlo. Now they’re ready to settle down and reset, enjoying their new massive stretch of property. So, after a brief introduction with the happy couple the message flashes across the screen that the couple have gone dark on social media and their friends and family have not had any contact with them. Their friend who hosts Found Persons Report is worried about them and as the authorities are not taking it seriously, he’s set up this channel to find the couple. He warns that someone can be seen hanging around the background of the footage they shot while checking out the property and needs our help to get to the bottom of things. We interweave his footage with the surviving footage of Janna and Austin. It’s a solid way to get the story moving and I dig it. Social media posts, unedited footage, trail cams and our unnamed sleuth piece together the horror that played out when darkness fell on the desolate home. Austin and Janna have a bit more depth when you peel back the facade of social media and it’s a good way to make influencers more likable than the show monkeys you usually get… well Austin still comes off as a chode but he’s a tolerable chode so I’ll take it. Janna digs into the land’s past which is pretty fucking disturbing while Austin begins to lose his cool as weird and spooky things keep escalating. They escalate for the man looking for his lost friends as well. Disturbing footage, disturbing noises and disturbing answers all come to light and a disturbing end comes to our protagonists. Surprisingly engrossing, suitably sad and a refreshing combination of real-world and supernatural unease.
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