Original subtitles

(gentle guitar)

(sonar pings)

(wind gusting) (rain pattering)

(thunder rumbles)

- [Robbie] In the dream, I can hear her screaming.

She stands alone by a fallen tree

and points to something far away

and when I turn to look, the sky goes red

and blackbirds swirl around me.

(piano music rises)

Their wings become the walls of the house we grew up in

and as something scrapes against the window

I fall through the floor, and into the earth.

And a piano begins to play in the blackness.

And then I wake up.

(thunder rumbling)

(thunder crash)

(wheels clattering)

(train cars whooshing)

This is my street.

And that is the house that I grew up in.

And fled.

This is where I used to sneak out with my sister

and smoke cigarettes,

on the rock, at two in the morning.

And that's the autumn foliage.

- Remember when you and Noelle used to make these together

every year and,

for special occasions

and you would like splash flour on each other

and joke around? - No.

- Well, you did.

Got some great pictures of that,

how could you not know it?

- [Robbie] This is my mother.

- I'm so glad you're home.

I'm home. - I could

spoil you and cook for you and bake for you.

- [Robbie] Uh huh.

- Sugar, egg, butter,

and your favourite candies

that you and Noelle used to love -

See, I said her name and the lights flickered.

That's her.

She heard me say her name.

- [Robbie] Eh?

- The radio.

See, that's it!

Her favorite part.

The candy going in. - It's just-

- When I'm thinking about her.

There it goes again. - You just need to-

- [Leslie] Nope, it's a sign.

Can't tell me otherwise.

Hi, Noellie!

- [Robbie] Mom...

- What?

This butter isn't melting.

You don't believe?

- [Robbie] That that's a spirit?

- Yeah.

- [Robbie] No, I don't.

- I think you should research it

and do a documentary on angels and spirits and signs.

- [Robbie] That's what you think I should do?

- Yes.

- [Robbie] Angels?

- Yep.

Jeez, I'm gonna get carpal tunnel with this.

Butter won't melt.

You'll have these cookies tomorrow.

- [Robbie] Okay, mom.

- Glad you're home, honey.

- [Robbie] I'm home.

- All right, I'm gonna put the other,

I'm gonna put that in the fridge.

'Cause, I think that's what happened.

I had to melt it to mix it and

it was too warm to start out with.

Pathetic looking.

- [Robbie] Are you ready?

- I'm trying to put food away.

- [Robbie] You wanted to do this.

- Yeah, 'cause I believe.

Go ahead. - You're a non-believer

so it's hard to explain to -

This is where I feel her, one of the places.

The lights flicker a lot,

which is a sign

that there's a spirit watching over you,

and in your presence.

And then on the stairs sometimes,

I'll like, hear soft footsteps in the middle of the night.

On the stairs? - Yep.

In the kitchen,

I feel her, because she used to love for me

to show her how to make the old family recipes,

our Hungarian recipes.

And whenever we would cook

she would like put her arms around me and hug me

and sometimes give me a kiss.

So I feel her a lot right here

by the stove where we used to cook.

I have to keep it just the way it was

when she was here last.

I really feel her in here

and sometimes the music box goes off on its own.

- [Robbie] When does that happen?

- It's usually in the middle of the night, late.

But-

She loved this room.

Well, I think angels are,

after someone passes and leaves their physical body,

they go to heaven, and,

they come back in the form of an angel.

I'm not afraid of it.

- [Robbie] Okay.

- All the places that were important,

that's where I feel things.

Even though she was grown up,

I would always give her a kiss goodnight,

tell her I love her, tuck her in.

She was always my little girl,

even if she was a teenager.

(car rattling)

(wipers slashing)

(rain pattering)

(rain falling on creek water)

- [Robbie] How often do you come here, ma?

- At least once a month.

- [Robbie] By yourself?

- Yeah.

(rain falling)

(creek water rushing)

She's gone.

It's still hard.

(rain pattering)

(thunder rumbles)

Can you stop filming? I ju-

(engine revving)

- [Robbie] No.

- [Leslie] Rob?

- [Robbie] What?

- [Leslie] Come here.

- [Robbie] What?

- Come in Noelle's room, I wanna play her song for you.

(gentle guitar music)

♪ As the days are growing darker ♪

♪ And colorful leaves begin to fall ♪

♪ The crow above me sings so sweetly ♪

♪ I wanted to answer to her call ♪

♪ Miss Crow, take me with you ♪

♪ You're always free to dance, to sing, your stage ♪

♪ The world below you, and I know you know too ♪

♪ Miss Crow, take me with you ♪

♪ Take me, take me with you ♪

(gentle guitar music)

♪ The crow is gone, but left a message ♪

♪ Among the fallen leaves and dreams ♪

♪ Of autumn's forest floor ♪

♪ A feather floated down to my feet ♪

♪ And I see that I can be as free ♪

♪ If I just spread my wings and soar ♪

- Mom... ♪ I know I can do more ♪

♪ Miss Crow- ♪

- Sometimes I just wanna die so I can see her again.

- [Robbie] No, don't say that.

I love you.

- Love you.

- [Robbie] I don't want you to die.

- I know.

I got the pumpkins.

I love carving pumpkins.

So I have two beautiful pumpkins.

We'll carve 'em up.

We need to get something to put-

I don't recall this being this hard.

- [Robbie] Be careful.

- Cut deep.

All right.

Now, gotta cut this off.

Just remember when you grow up,

you're gonna do this for your kids.

- [Robbie] I am grown up.

(Leslie growls)

- Is it scary?

I have to put my glasses on 'cause I can't see in the dark.

But we gotta put him outside.

(door scraping)

We have to put him in the leaves.

(insects chirping)

- [Robbie] Ta-da.

(birds chirping)

(wind gusting)

- So I still think you should make a documentary

about angels and signs.

- [Robbie] I am, that's why I'm filming.

- All right, well, what about psychics?

Do you believe in them?

- [Robbie] No.

- I think some of 'em are shams

but there's one I have, she's really good.

(phone ringing)

I told him how you have always predicted things and,

you know, I wanted him to do a documentary on it.

(Robbie scoffing)

- The power went out.

'Cause there's a lot of wind outside, so...

- I heard something down there.

What? - I heard something.

I don't know, check it out.

- [Robbie] Uh.

(footsteps plodding)

My mom swears she heard something.

(footsteps plodding)

(gentle thunder)

Hello?

(distant church bells)

(footsteps plodding)

(owl screeching)

(door rattling)

There's nothing down there.

- You sure?

- [Robbie] Yes.

- I heard something for sure.

- [Robbie] There's nothing down there.

There's nothing down there.

(air rushing)

(latch clicking)

(drawer scraping)

(photo rustling)

(tapes scraping)

(house creaking)

(thunder rumbles)

(button clicks) (Noelle humming)

(cascading thunder)

(Noelle humming)

♪ Ooh, as the days are getting darker ♪

(tape static) (house creaking)

(gentle piano music) (thunder trembling)

(Noelle vocalising)

(drawer scraping)

(Noelle vocalising) (gentle piano music)

(gentle piano continues)

(Noelle mournfully humming)

(off-key piano)

- [Leslie] Good boy, you give Noelle kisses?

Ah, look at Noelle's happy she got the toy.

- [Robbie] Why'd you get rid of the piano?

- It just really gave me bad memories.

Good boy, you love Noelle?

Not bad memories but, just reminded me too much of Noelle

and I just didn't want it around.

- Noelle diamond.

Noelle diamond.

Noelle diamond.

Snidy Tung!

- [Leslie] Noelle, say "Wee"!

- Wee, wee, wee, wee.

- Give Noelle a kiss.

Robbie.

Robbie.

Robbie!

Come here.

- [Robbie] Mom?

- Do you hear that?

- [Robbie] What?

- You don't hear that?

- [Robbie] Yeah, I hear it.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

(music box plaing Swan Lake)

- [Leslie] It's a sign.

What? - It's a sign.

(Swan Theme continues)

That's definitely a sign.

(music box stops)

- [Robbie] Did you turn it on?

- No.

I was upstairs and I called you at the bottom of the steps.

- [Robbie] Uh-huh.

- [Leslie] Yeah, you just don't believe, right Rob?

- [Robbie] No, I don't.

- Yeah, I know.

I don't know where you got that from.

I taught you better.

(somber piano music)

- I'm worried about my mom.

(piano continues)

My dad's not here.

My sister's not here.

And I haven't been here.

I don't know what she's been, uh

doing for the past three years

on her own.

(Noelle's piano song continues)

She thinks she hears signs and

ghosts

and uh,

she also is afraid of something knocking at the door

and she thinks something bad is here.

(piano music plunges)

So I don't know.

I guess this is my documentary about angels.

(Robbie sighs)

I don't know.

(Noelle's piano playing continues)

Hm...

And this is my eye.

(piano music stirring)

(footsteps descending staircase)

Mom, I'm taking the car.

- [Leslie] Okay.

(creek water sloshing)

(crow cawing)

(water rushing)

(leaves rustling)

(distant creek water)

(wind chimes)

(wind gusting)

(wind chimes)

(footsteps plodding)

- I was up at like 4 a.m.

and fucking I'm obsessed with what's his name?

Daniel? - Oh my god.

He is like, perfection!

And he's- - [Robbie] Eh!

How's it going? - Hi.

Why do you have a camera?

- [Robbie] Oh, I have a cam-I'm making a, um,

I was coming up to you 'cause I-

Do you live here or are you from around here, or?

- Yeah, we live actually right down the road.

Yeah.

We grew up here.

- [Robbie] Oh, you grew up here?

Yeah. - Cool

- What's your name by the way?

Robbie. - Oh, okay.

- I'm Nancy.

- On the other side.

- Next to each other?

- [Robbie] Yeah, just stand next to each other.

And I'll just ask questions and

- Okay, can we smoke on camera, is that?

Yes. - Okay.

Well, I mean, our whole lives, we grew up here.

- Yeah, we grew up here.

- It's nice, it's a small town, so.

Pretty quiet. - Yeah.

There's lots of woods. - Yeah.

- That's all it is, is woods, woods.

- That's literally all there is to do around here, so.

- [Robbie] I'm sorry, what's all there is to do?

- Hang out.

Yeah. - Hang in the woods.

- In the woods, and have bonfires-

- Party, smoke, drink.

- [Robbie] So I'm doing the film on the woods.

And then I'm also, if you might remember a few years back,

the girl that went missing off of this road.

Yeah. - I'm doing a documentary

about her as well.

- Oh.

Yeah, yeah, no, we saw her, you know, she would-

- Yeah, we used to see her around.

- Yeah, you know, she'd be walking on the street-

- I never really talked to her, but I mean,

I always saw her around.

The search party?

- [Robbie] Yeah, if you could talk first about that.

- Well, they had us all get together

and just go through the woods.

There's a lot of paths are in these woods,

a lot of places that people could get lost,

but us locals, we know it, so...

- [Nancy] Yeah.

- We looked for a few days, but we didn't find her.

- [Nancy] Yeah, no one turned up, but-

- [Robbie] And then, yeah, can you talk a little bit

about that too? - Yeah, I mean,

we came together as a community

and we tried to, you know, look for her and stuff

and, you know, like I said,

we all know the back of these woods

like the back of our hands

so we just sort of searched for her

but unfortunately nothing came up

and it was really sad and scary

because you feel like you kind of know everybody here

and, you know, when someone goes missing,

it's sort of, you know, it's just a little-

It was sad. - It was eye opening.

- Everybody was very quiet.

- [Robbie] What do you think happened?

- Well, I think somebody killed her.

- [Nancy] That's morbid.

I mean, I don't like to assume that she died

but it's been a couple years now

and no one's even heard from her and so.

- I mean, we looked.

- No, we did, yeah, we searched.

- [Heather] Under things and paths and

- Nobody was able to find her.

- The lake, we looked, you know?

Unless she just wanted a whole new life and ran away.

- I doubt-that would be the fortunate thing,

but unfortunately- - And then actually,

is this, just so you?

- Yeah, that's her.

- Yeah.

- Yep, that's her.

- [Robbie] Thanks.

- It's really sad.

So why are you doing this documentary?

I'm just trying to figure out what happened.

Oh, okay. - Do you believe in ghosts?

- I mean, you know.

- Lots of local stories.

- Yeah, it's not like a Jersey Devil,

but nothing too crazy.

- [Robbie] Talk a little bit about the Jersey Devil.

- The Jersey Devil?

I don't think he's in this area.

Isn't that the Pine Barrens?

That's South Jersey.

- [Robbie] Well, thank you.

- No, no problem.

Anything else, you know, if we can do to help,

just let us know.

- We live here, you'll find us.

- I live right up the road that way.

There's a street right off on the side.

Yeah, I live next door. - And she's next door, so.

- [Heather] We grew up here.

- [Nancy] Nancy and Heather.

(dog barking)

- I don't know too much about it.

The only thing I heard was that she had went out

and she didn't ever come back

and they didn't know where she was.

They went looking for her, but they haven't found her yet.

- [Robbie] Oh, all right.

And you believe in ghosts?

- Do I believe in ghosts?

Well, not really.

I mean, I don't think there's such things as ghosts.

People make themself a ghost.

- [Robbie] People make themselves a ghost?

- Yeah, yes.

- [Robbie] How do they do that?

- Because they just think about it and talk about it

and really don't know what a ghost is.

- [Robbie] Oh, all right.

Well, what do you think happens when we die?

- When we die, we go up to heaven

and God takes care of us

and lets us live our own life up there.

- [Robbie] All right.

Thank you.

- You're welcome.

- [Robbie] Have a nice day.

- You too.

- [Robbie] All right.

All right.

- I really didn't get a story about it, so I don't know.

They just said that she was on this road and went missing

and nobody ever seen her after,

I guess she was on this road.

But that's all I heard

I mean, I didn't-

- [Robbie] Can you actually look in the camera

when you're talking?

- Sure.

I don't think anybody found anything really.

There's not much back here to do except hunt and fish.

I mean, it's like 20 miles of just woods.

Yeah, if you go out that way,

you'll come to a river

and then across that river, it's still just all woods.

Nope, no ghost stories.

- [Robbie] What do you think happens when we die?

- I really couldn't tell ya.

I'm hoping there's something though.

I'm hoping you go somewhere.

- What do I believe in?

Being realistic and I never seen a ghost,

so according to me they're not real, so I like being real.

- [Robbie] Well what do you think happened to her?

- What do I think happened to her?

I don't know.

I don't-

I have no idea.

- [Robbie] All right.

Well, thank you.

- Yeah, no problem.

(leaves rustling)

- [Robbie] Hey there.

Pretty run down.

(leaves crunching)

(house creaking)

(person whistling)

(Robbie knocking)

- [Leslie] When are you gonna start filming?

I have something to talk about that's really good.

- [Robbie] I'm getting-

- Are you ready?

- [Robbie] Yeah.

- So I had this dream about this beautiful angel

and she was floating up the stairs towards my bed

and then she hovered at the end of the bed

and she just whispered, "It's gonna be okay."

- [Robbie] Okay.

- And I just believe that there's angels and people

on the other side that come to you like a visitation

in your dreams to tell you that they're okay

and to comfort you.

- [Robbie] Okay.

- So what have you been filming?

- [Robbie] What do you mean?

- What have you been doing lately?

What have you been filming?

- [Robbie] Just different stuff around the house and,

old pictures and stuff.

- You're not going to that road, are you?

- [Robbie] No.

- Don't go there alone.

Makes me really nervous.

- [Robbie] No, I wouldn't go there.

(tape scraping)

(Noelle's piano music)

(pen scratching)

(piano music continues)

(door shuts)

(Robbie panting)

(footsteps plodding)

(music box playing)

(stairs creaking) (footsteps plodding)

(Swan Theme continues)

(Swan Theme continues)

(music stops)

(house creaking)

(camera thuds)

(curtains crashing)

Oh, fuck.

Shit.

(footsteps plodding)

(church bell tolling)

- [Noelle] With her wither, moan and shiver,

ghastly gaping gasping flicker

go she gently, wished the whistler,

tilt the wilt 'pon thrones of wicker,

pluck the morsels of her maybes,

wrap a worm around her daisies,

rot the knot and dark shall lick her

(wind gusting)

(leaves rustling)

- So glad you're gonna be home for Thanksgiving.

Do you want me to bake you an apple pie?

- [Robbie] Yeah.

- Plenty of bread I can use for the stuffing.

Whoa, don't stand there and film it!

Tell me it's overflowing.

Do you want me to put some cut up chicken in it?

'Cause I just saved the broth.

- [Robbie] Ah, yeah.

- Okay.

- Can I have a bite of it?

Thank you.

- I don't know why you don't eat in the morning.

- [Noelle] With her wither, moan and shiver,

ghastly gaping gasping flicker,

go she gently, wished the whistler,

tilt the wilt 'pon thrones of wicker,

Pluck the morsels of her maybes,

wrap a worm around her daisies,

rot the knot and dark shall lick her,

furl her last uncurling finger,

bellow madly, chirped the maggots,

death's a most ungodly habit.

- [Robbie] Hey again.

- Hi.

How's it going? - Good.

Robbie, right?

- [Robbie] That's me.

I found, I did find you.

- You did.

- [Robbie] How's your day going?

- It's all right.

- Good, how about you?

How's your movie going?

- [Robbie] Movie's going all right.

- You wanna come down?

Go that way.

- [Robbie] Do you have some time

to do more questions?

Yeah. - That's fine.

- [Robbie] All right, over here?

Yeah. - Be careful.

We just got off our shift at the diner, so.

Sunny's Diner.

Have you been?

- [Robbie] No, I'm not from here.

- Oh yeah, that's right.

- [Robbie] I'm like 30 minutes away.

- They have terrible eggs.

Don't get the eggs there.

- Hood on, the last time I saw her.

- [Heather] Yeah, it was raining that day.

- Yeah.

She had a bright pink raincoat, I don't know.

That's pretty much it.

She was just mysterious.

- [Robbie] Okay.

- I used to see her walking up and down the road a lot.

Usually I'd just see her walking up and then

go off into the woods.

There's lots of trails over there.

So, I saw her a few times just go off into the trails.

- [Robbie] Do you have any idea what she was-

- Wanna go down this way?

- [Robbie] Yeah, how much further is it?

- It's just right up here.

Right here.

This path right here, I saw her.

She came walking down in here and she went in there.

- [Robbie] By, like by those?

- [Heather] Yep, right here.

- [Nancy] - That's the trail.

- [Robbie] That's a trail?

- [Heather] Yep, there's trails back in there.

- There are some trails through there and stuff

and fields that we would hang out in, so.

- My cousin is a cop a couple towns over

if you wanna talk to him.

He might have some information for you.

- [Nancy] That's right, I forgot about that.

- I'm sure.

- [Robbie] You think he'd talk on camera?

- Probably.

You know, it's kind of a big story.

Everybody knows what went on.

- I mean, I believe in heaven and hell and purgatory.

- [Heather] I believe in reincarnation.

- [Robbie] I'm sorry, you-

- Like, I don't believe in heaven or hell.

I think you kind of just die

and you either keep going or you just,

you know your soul carries on,

either in an animal or a person-

- I agree a little bit.

I believe in ghosts.

I believe that, I absolutely believe in ghosts

especially being in these woods so, yeah.

So I believe that - - Seen things, heard things.

- Yep, that people, you know

especially people that I guess don't move on

they kind of stay in this world

and haunt it, in somewhat sense, yeah.

- [Noelle] Toast the maiden, swill the swallow,

burst the ripened, blood-wet hollows,

flood the valleys, rush the red,

unknown dances-

bellow madly, chirped the maggots,

death's a most ungodly habit,

herd our flocks to steep your sockets,

surge the flesh of -

- rake her ringlets,

dust the tendrils, string the strands in swollen tangles,

So sing adieu to falling flowers,

browning vines and failing powers,

- [Robbie] Ma?

- [Noelle] Drying rivers, diving doves,

Regretful lips; unspoken loves,

- [Robbie] Mom?

- [Noelle] Memories of aging minds,

the final dirt of humankind,

- [Robbie] Ma?

(poem continues indistinctly)

(Noelle's piano playing)

Ma!

(footsteps plodding)

(door screeching open)

(night-bird calling)

(distant church bells)

Mom, come with me.

- [Leslie] She's in the woods.

- [Robbie] Mom, come with me.

(night-bird screeching)

(footsteps plodding)

Go to bed.

(footsteps plodding)

(Noelle's piano music)

(dial tone)

(paper rustling)

- So normally when we're conducting a search

especially in this type of terrain

is that we'd have people line up

usually where you can see each other

see the terrain around you

and then we just walk, kinda staying in line,

and just looking and observing,

See, if you see actual footprints, especially it's-

This time of year's a lot of moisture on the ground,

there's a lot of things you could see people's footprints.

You'd see scraping marks if the person was being dragged.

They might drop items on the ground

anything that doesn't fit, that looks out of place.

- [Robbie] How far out into the woods do you think they went

in my sister's case?

- No more than a couple thousand feet

probably less than a half a mile.

- [Robbie] So they wouldn't have gone deep in?

- They wouldn't have been able to go deep in

with the terrain, the type of year

especially she was just walking on the street.

She wasn't prepared with hiking boots and other stuff

and thick, warm clothing.

I don't think she'd make it very far.

- [Robbie] So if you were looking years later

what would you be looking for?

- So then we're obviously looking for something different

because you won't have the smell.

You won't have anything where a search and rescue dog

would be able to find it.

We'd be using cadaver dogs.

Three years out in this area

it would be nothing but bones is all you would probably find

maybe some scraps of clothing.

Unfortunately, animals, we do have bears

and we have foxes here, that uh,

bobcats, they would actually get to a body

if it was buried shallow in the ground

and dig it up and consume the flesh that was on it.

So you'd have that.

If it was buried deeper in the ground

you'd have worms getting to it

and the decay that's there.

So you would, again, you'd either have that depression

and you'd have bones underneath there

or you'd have bones on the surface

and maybe some loose scraps of clothing or stuff

to identify.

(waves crashing)

- [Unknown Woman] Okay, we're at the lighthouse beach today.

It's a little bit windy.

Hi Rob.

Whatcha doing?

Yeah?

- That was cool!

(waves crashing)

- [Unknown Woman] There's the lighthouse.

(waves crashing)

(thunder trembling)

(footsteps plodding)

(Robbie breathing deeply)

(blanket rustling)

(window scraping)

(mic blasting)

- [Robbie] Fuck!

(footsteps plodding)

So what do you think actually happened?

- I have no idea and I don't wanna think about it.

(church bell tolling)

- [Robbie] She's just watching home movies

and crying right now.

I don't really know how to help her when she's like this.

(Leslie crying)

(stirring piano music)

(floorboards creaking)

(piano music continues)

(gentle thunder)

Grandma...

We used to have such a big family.

So many of them are gone now.

(rain and thunder)

(door screeching open)

(rain pattering)

Hello?

Hello?

(rain hitting leaves)

(crow cawing)

(bulb tinking)

(thunder crashing)

Hello?

(rain pattering)

I'm just gonna film it until it happens again.

Noelle?

N-

Fuck.

(button clicks)

Noelle?

Can you hear me?

Is there anyone in this house?

Do you hang out by the door?

Noelle?

Are you in your room?

(static tape noise)

Is there anyone in this house?

Can you hear me?

(indistinct sounds)

Do you hang out by the door?

(indistinct voice)

(door knocking)

It's around back.

Around back.

Over here.

Over here.

Hey.

- What's up?

- [Robbie] Smoking.

- Gimme some of that.

- [Robbie] Where's your friend?

- She's working, at the diner.

I'm off today.

- [Robbie] Is it snowing?

- A little bit, it was on the way over here.

- [Robbie] Thank you for coming.

- Yeah.

Ta-da. - Oh, yes!

It's what we do.

- [Robbie] What we do on a Monday.

- Yeah. (laughs)

- [Robbie] Am I fitting into the-

- You are.

- [Robbie] So this is my room.

Ta-da.

This is...

Ta-da.

- This is where the magic happens?

- [Robbie] There's no magic.

- Why'd you give me the full one?

That one was, wait.

- [Robbie] 'Cause we're new friends.

I don't know anybody here anymore.

- Oh, you're gonna get me-

I can't, can I curse?

In your movie?

- [Robbie] Yeah.

- You're gonna get me fucked up.

- [Robbie] I can't open it again.

- I'm good at opening drinks.

- [Robbie] Cheers to new friends.

- Nope.

No more for me.

That tastes like apple.

- [Robbie] Yeah.

- Woo!

- [Robbie] This is how we do it in Hollywood.

- Oh yeah, tell me more about Hollywood.

Hollywood seems amazing.

No. - Is it awesome?

No. - No, it's not awesome?

- [Robbie] It's all right.

- It's all right?

It's better than here.

What is there around here?

- [Robbie] Childhood.

- This.

- [Robbie] Alcohol.

- Drinking, smoking.

- [Robbie] Yeah.

- Oh, I have something for you.

What? - I found something.

What? - I was going

through my stuff.

- [Robbie] This is apple.

What?

- [Heather] They were posted all over,

and I kept some of them.

- [Robbie] I guess your cousin told you all that?

- Yeah, when I talked to him the other day,

he told me everything.

- [Robbie] Where'd you get these?

- [Heather] I held onto them.

They had posted them in the diner, around town,

and they gave them out

when we were looking through the woods.

- [Robbie] Maybe film me as I-

I'm gonna look at, I've never seen these.

Are they the same?

- [Heather] Mm-hmm.

There was a lot of them.

- Yeah, I never saw this.

I was-

I had just moved and I-

I didn't see them.

- [Heather] You can have that if you want.

- Yeah, can I hold onto it?

- [Heather] Yeah, you can keep it.

- Thank you.

- [Heather] When I saw her, she always was like

bopping around when she was walking

and I saw her writing in a book

and I heard that she wrote music.

Nancy said she wrote music.

- [Robbie] Pick one.

- [Heather] I like this one, this one looks good.

- [Robbie] I haven't listened to them all yet.

♪ Becomes the hunted ♪

♪ Hated for just trying to survive ♪

♪ There's always less and less to call home ♪

♪ More and more to run from ♪

♪ Ooh, catch me if you can ♪

- That sounds pretty.

♪ Run fox, driven out and hunted down ♪

- [Robbie] Yeah, I didn't even know these tapes existed.

- She had a lot of talent.

♪ Better run so fast, fox ♪

♪ Just wanna live my life ♪

♪ Somehow ♪

♪ They don't understand ♪

♪ It's the way that I am ♪

♪ Wuh hooo, Wuh hooo, Wuh hooooo ♪

♪ Better run, better run ♪

♪ Wuh hooo, Wuh hooo, Wuh hooooo ♪

♪ Better run ♪

(tape clicks off)

- She had such a pretty voice.

(thunder booming)

(Noelle playing a piano waltz)

(thunder rumbling)

(piano waltz continues)

(rain hitting windows)

(piano music continues)

(Leslie's distant crying)

(piano waltz continues)

(rain pattering)

- [Robbie] Happy Thanksgiving.

- It's Happy Thanksgiving 'cause my boy is here.

- [Robbie] I like your earrings.

- Thanks.

You know what the secret is?

- [Robbie] What?

- You crumble up the turkey heart and put it in there.

- [Robbie] Oh.

- Okay.

It's ready to go in.

Delicious turkey.

Here we go.

Whew.

Almost everything's done.

- [Robbie] What's your favorite part about Thanksgiving?

- Being together.

What are you doing?

- Smoking.

- [Leslie] Polluting your lungs?

Standing in the rain?

- Uh-huh.

- [Leslie] Not helping me with Thanksgiving meal?

- What are you doing?

- [Leslie] Well what do you think I'm doing?

Already made two pies, turkey's in the oven, stuffing,

sweet potatoes.

- I'll be right in.

- Getting rained on.

Like an idiot.

Dear Lord, thank you for this day

and for having Robbie with me

as I felt so alone

and

prayers to my daughter in heaven

that she's safe and warm and happy.

Thank you, Jesus.

Amen.

- [Robbie] Love you, mom.

- Love you, honey.

- [Robbie] Happy Thanksgiving.

- Happy Thanksgiving.

Thanks for coming home.

(Noelle vocalizing)

(drawer and pictures shuffling)

(Noelle's piano music)

(tape glitching)

(Noelle vocalizing)

- [Robbie] I miss you.

(rainfall)

Mom.

Ma.

What are you doing?

- Who are you?

- [Robbie] Robbie.

- Robbie's not here.

- [Robbie] Ma, what are you looking at?

- [Leslie] Noelle.

- [Robbie] What do you see?

- [Leslie] I see Noelle.

I see her out there.

There she is.

- [Robbie] What do you want?

- [Leslie] I want everything to be the way it was.

- [Heather] I got the candle.

- [Robbie] What?

- [Heather] I got the candle.

(house creaking)

- [Robbie] Sorry.

- [Heather] Nice.

(bottle pops)

(glass hitting teeth)

- [Robbie] It's been weird around here.

- Like what?

- [Robbie] Well, the music box

keeps turning on in my sister's room.

There's been footsteps.

The door keeps, like, the door that we just came in opens.

My mom has been sleepwalking.

You believe in ghosts, right?

- Yes, very much.

- [Robbie] Shh.

(footsteps plodding)

Open it.

(music box plays)

Yeah.

You don't think I'm crazy?

- [Heather] I don't.

(button clicks)

- [Robbie] Noelle.

Noelle, did you turn on the music box?

Did you turn on the music box?

Do you wanna ask something?

- If you're here, give us a sign.

We wanna help you.

- [Robbie] Are you okay?

- Yeah.

- [Robbie] Ask something.

- Do you know who killed you?

Your mom and your brother miss you.

They just wanna say hello.

And know that you're okay.

Just let us know that you're okay.

- [Robbie] You okay?

- Yeah, it makes me think of my dad.

- [Robbie] What?

- I lost my dad a few years ago.

- [Robbie] I'm sorry.

I did too.

How did it happen?

- He killed himself.

- [Robbie] I'm sorry.

- It's okay.

Sometimes I wish I could talk to him too.

- [Robbie] Ask him something.

- Hey, dad.

Are you there?

I miss you.

Is it you that bothers me in my room at night?

- [Robbie] What happens in your room at night?

- Something sits on my bed, I can feel it.

When my back is turned.

- [Robbie] Did you stop it?

- No, it's still recording.

- [Robbie] Shh, shh.

(indistinct sounds)

Shh, put that down!

(quickening footsteps)

- [Leslie] What are you doing in here?

- [Robbie] Nothing.

- [Leslie] Get out!

- [Robbie] Stop yelling.

- [Leslie] Get out!

- [Robbie] This is my friend, Heather.

- [Heather] Sorry.

- [Leslie] Just get the camera out of my face.

I'm so sick of this.

I'm done.

- [Noelle] You can actually hear nature talking to you.

She has a lot of voices

the sound of

leaves in the trees brushing against each other, gentle-

The sound of the wind, howling, moving

between branches.

- [Robbie's Father] Les, I love you.

(ride whirring)

- [Robbie] Do you want me to try to find you?

- [Leslie] Can you get out of this room?

(rain pattering)

- [Robbie] Wow.

- Hey!

I finally get to be included in this little mix.

Yeah. - Yeah.

- Been stealing Heather from me for the last week or so.

- [Heather] Trying to do a seance.

Yeah. - We were just, like, talking.

She came in and she's like screaming.

"Get out!'"

- Well it's her dau-

Oh, speaking of, I'm really sorry about your sister.

I didn't realize that it was her.

- [Robbie] No, it's all right.

Sorry I didn't tell you guys earlier.

No, it's- - I was just,

I was trying to keep it, like-

you know, like?

Not be weird.

- [Heather] Before it happened, right?

- What?

- You left before it happened, like you were gone?

- [Robbie] I was in California, yeah, when it happened.

- Well, I don't know.

Why were you in California, when it happened?

Why didn't you come home?

What were you doing out there?

- [Robbie] Because my mom didn't tell me

for weeks after she was missing,

and I thought my sister just wasn't talking to me.

- [Heather] Oh.

- [Robbie] So I had no idea until it was too late.

- Were you guys fighting?

- [Robbie] No, I just,

I thought she was mad at me for leaving.

And that's why I haven't been home in years 'cause-

It was fucked up.

- [Heather] So she doesn't know

what you're doing now, right?

She doesn't know anything about this?

- [Robbie] No.

- [Heather] Oh.

- Well, isn't she curious as to why you're filming?

- [Robbie] She thinks I'm making a stupid documentary

about angels but I just want to actually-

- Did you tell her that?

- [Robbie] Now I'm gonna go into just

I want the opportunity to search myself.

- By yourself?

By yourself? - Yeah.

Just for a couple days.

- We can go with you.

- That is crazy.

- [Nancy] That's not a good idea.

- [Robbie] Go head, here.

- Like, film you?

Yeah, go head. - Okay.

- [Robbie] Ask whatever you want.

- [Nancy] But the, I mean, what do you-

What do you hope to find out there

that nobody else has found?

- [Heather] Do you have a plan?

You're just gonna wing it?

- [Robbie] A fox.

A trap.

Tree with a fork.

And steps.

It's a fox.

A fox.

(air rushing)

(floorboards creaking)

(music box playing)

(footsteps plodding)

(music box winding)

(music box starting)

(Swan Theme continues)

(wind howling)

- [Robbie] Why are you crying?

- I'm just sick of this whole thing,

this filming, and everything,

I'm just tired of it.

I just want you to stop.

- [Robbie] Mom, how long have you been sleepwalking?

- I don't sleepwalk.

- [Robbie] Mom, you turned the music box on last night.

- Yeah, sure, I turned it on, right.

You just don't believe in God or angels,

so you just try to make it look like I did it.

- [Robbie] It's not your, Mom,

you sleepwalk.

- Robbie, YOU sleepwalk.

YOU do it.

Not me, I've seen you.

Laying on the floor when you were in the bed

and the door's open in the middle of the night.

- [Robbie] You turned the music box on, Mom.

- Where were you when I needed you?

I don't want to hear this stuff.

There's no angels and God, and all that.

I'm so sick of that.

You weren't here.

I'm not trying- - Oh, be quiet.

- [Robbie] I'm not trying to hurt you, Mom.

- Yeah, well, you do.

'Cause you weren't here.

Why don't you make something of yourself?

Why don't you do something with your life

instead of just holding that stupid camera in your hand?

It's ridiculous.

I'm sick of it.

- [Robbie] Mom.

- Get out of here, just go.

- [Robbie] You wanna lose two kids, then?

- Are you fucking kidding me?

- [Robbie] No wonder she didn't wanna stay in this house!

- [Leslie] After what I've been through?

What? - You fucking

kidding me, Robbie?

I can't believe you!

- [Robbie] What?

You're fucking crazy!

- [Leslie] I'm fucking crazy all right!

(Leslie crying)

(bag rattling)

(horn blaring)

(footsteps plodding)

(rock music playing in distance)

- Hey.

- [Robbie] Hey.

Thank you.

- Sure.

You ready?

- [Robbie] Yeah.

There's, you know where I can put my bag?

- Yeah, you can put it in the back.

- [Robbie] All right.

(door thuds)

Bye, Mom.

Take me to the road.

- Okay.

- [Robbie] What?

What are you gonna tell my mom if she calls?

- I will tell her that you're sleeping

and you'll call her back.

- [Robbie] And what if she presses?

- I think I can handle it.

Moms are my specialty.

- [Noelle] Sometimes the moon disappears

and the night turns black.

But the dark moon always gives way to a new crescent,

and the light slowly returns.

Our journeys into darkness are guaranteed

and they are unavoidable.

But so is our inevitable return to light,

to beauty, to peace.

- [Robbie] You got it?

- [Heather] Yep.

(creek water sloshing)

(water sloshing continues)

(crows cawing)

- [Robbie] Did that look alright?

- [Heather] Yeah, looks good.

All right. - Whew.

- [Robbie] Thank you for everything.

- You're very welcome.

- [Robbie] I'll see you Monday.

- Sure you're gonna be okay?

- [Robbie] Yeah, I'll be alright.

- Okay.

I'll see you Monday.

- [Robbie] See you Monday.

Thank you.

Tell Nancy hi.

- I will.

Good luck.

Thank you. - Be safe.

(footsteps plodding)

(distant thunder)

(leaves rustling)

- [Robbie] There's no fucking trail here.

Fucking trail.

(leaves crunching)

(water sloshing)

(leaves crunching)

(crows cawing)

(crows cawing)

Yes?

(footsteps plodding)

(Robbie panting)

(leaves crunching)

(Robbie panting)

- How you doing today?

- [Robbie] I'm good, you-

I'm good.

I'm good, I uh-

- You know, I just don't like people trespassing.

- [Robbie] Uh-huh.

I didn't realize I was trespassing.

- Yeah, if somebody gets hurt or something

then I could get sued,

and it could turn into a real big mess, you know?

- [Robbie] Yeah, I get that.

So I- - I really don't know

if you're just filming or you're looking for something else.

- [Robbie] Talked to you a few weeks ago.

- Yeah, I kinda recognized you a little bit.

Yeah. - I got the camera,

so I'm filming like birds and

- Oh, okay.

But I really don't like people on my land.

You know, if you get hurt or something,

then it's my fault, I could get sued.

So I really don't- - Well, it's just the woods.

I'm just filming nature stuff.

- Yeah, but you're on my property.

I mean, you know, I don't know who you are, really.

- [Robbie] Well, I talked to you a few weeks ago.

- Yeah, well, that was just the first time I ever met you

and now I see you walking around on my property.

- [Robbie] Yeah, no, which way is off your property?

I'll start goin' that way-

- If you go back down the path this way-

- [Robbie] Sorry, I didn't mean to like perturb you.

- About a half a mile the road is,

and then that'd be off my property.

Because I own over like 200 acres on this land.

- [Robbie] Oh I didn't realize that, I'm sorry.

Well, just tell me which, point which way to go and I'll-

- If you go down this path right here

and just keep following it out

it'll take you right to the road.

Yeah. - And then

that's not my property anymore.

- [Robbie] Well, I'll start heading, you know?

Just filming birds.

- Okay.

- [Robbie] Yep, I'll go this way then.

What?

- Have a good day.

- [Robbie] Yeah, you too.

(leaves crunching)

- Now I'm gonna go this way.

You go the other way and you'll come out to the road.

(footsteps plodding)

(leaves rustling)

- [Robbie] Where?

I'm sorry, which way?

I'm lost.

- You gotta turn around

come out here onto the path

turn around and walk straight out

you'll come right out to the road.

- [Robbie] All right, sorry about that.

- It'll bring you into a little town.

- [Robbie] All right, yeah.

Okay? - Yeah.

- Got it?

I got it. - All right,

have a good day.

- [Robbie] Yeah, you too.

(leaves crunching)

I'm going this way.

(corn stalks rustling)

(insects chirping)

(animal noises)

(brush crunching)

(animal screaming)

(plants crackling)

(plants rustling)

(shrill wind)

(footsteps crunching)

(leaves rustling)

(single patter)

(trees rustling)

(wind over leaves)

(forest rustling) (classical piano music)

(music continues)

(owl sreeching)

(owl calling)

(classical music continues)

(light thunder)

(animals calling)

(wind rushing over trees)

(classical piano continues)

(branches rustling)

(piano music continues)

(leaves crunching)

(leaves crunching closer)

(indistinct sound)

(Robbie stops music)

Hello?

(animals screeching)

(classical piano) (animals screeching)

(branch cracks) (Robbie panting)

(leaves rustling)

(leaves crunching)

(distant animal cry)

(leaves crunching)

(animal screams)

(wind gusting)

(river rushing)

(river sloshing continues)

(Noelle's piano music)

(distant animal call)

(distant animal call)

(Noelle's music continues)

Where are ya going?

(leaves crunching)

(fox screeching)

(fox cries)

(crow cawing)

(fox barking)

(fox barking)

(fox barking)

(whistling)

(leaves crunching)

(fox calls)

(branch scraping)

(footsteps plodding)

(branches scraping)

(branch scraping)

(distant whistling)

(branch scraping)

(object thuds)

(indistinct noises)

(objects moving)

(branch scraping)

(branch scraping)

(fox screeching)

(object thuds)

(footsteps plodding)

(fox calling)

Fuck!

I feel like she was there.

Motherfucker.

(Robbie humming to himself)

(branch cracks)

(leaves crunching)

(branch cracks)

(Robbie panting)

(leaves crunching)

(branch cracks)

(leaves crunching)

Hello?

- Hey.

Oh, it's you again.

- Oh.

- What are you still doing here?

I thought you were leaving.

- I can't hear you.

(bag rustling)

Come on, get on!

Fuck.

- I don't really like people on my property.

- [Robbie] Yeah.

I'm not filming or anything.

Yeah I, I'm a little turned around.

- Well

I just don't like people poking around on my property-

- [Robbie] Yeah, you said that yesterday

I thought-

You said that yesterday, I'm looking

I was on a map and the map said this is state park, actually

where I am now.

- No, the state park is back that way.

This is my property.

- [Robbie] That way, you said?

- Yeah.

You wanna follow me and I'll show you the way out?

- [Robbie] Well, I still got a little bit to film.

- Well, maybe you could go to the state park and film it.

- [Robbie] Yeah, no, I'm just gonna grab,

I have some of my gear back that way, so thank you, though.

- Maybe I should follow you

and make sure you get out of here.

- [Robbie] No, that's all right

I'm pretty-I got the map, so if I'm off a little bit

that's, I'll be able to find my way back real quick.

Don't worry about it.

- Okay, just be careful.

It's very dangerous.

You see all dead trees and stuff laying around.

Yeah, no, it's the woods. - Don't want you to fall

and get hurt.

- [Robbie] No, no.

Your name's Keith, right, Keith Bixby?

- Yeah, yeah.

- [Robbie] Yeah, I mentioned to my friends

before I went hiking yesterday that I had talked to you

at your house, so...

They know I'm out here and-

- You sure you don't want me to show you?

'Cause I can show you how to get out of here.

- [Robbie] Yeah, no, that's all right.

- So you're just filming?

- Just, yeah, I got some shots of deer earlier.

I'm not filming now.

- Okay.

- [Robbie] It was nice to see you again, though.

- You too.

- Yeah, when I was telling my friends about you

I talked about your house and the road

and the documentary I was making

and that I was coming out here so

thanks for being a part of it.

- Okay.

Be careful. - Yeah, yeah.

- I don't need anybody getting hurt.

- [Robbie] No, yeah.

All right. - All right, yeah.

(leaves crunching)

- [Keith] That's it, keep going that way.

You're going the right way.

- [Robbie] Shut the fuck up.

What? - Just keep going.

- [Robbie] Stay the fuck away from me, dude!

Stay the fuck away from me!

- Just that way.

That way.

That way's the way out.

(leaves crunching)

I told you yesterday-

- [Robbie] Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.

(trees rustling)

(eerie quiet)

(leaves crunching)

(fox screaming)

(fox screaming closer)

(fox barking)

(wings flapping)

Fuck!

(crows cawing)

Noelle?

Shit.

(leaves rustling)

(twigs snapping)

(trap clanking)

(leaves rustling)

(Robbie muttering)

(Robbie grunting)

(Robbie grunting)

Put this here.

Put this here.

Put this one here.

I'm gonna put this one here.

Okay.

Okay.

I'm gonna put this here

and mark it.

(Robbie grunts)

(Robbie holding back cries)

(Robbie grunts) (fox barking)

(crows cawing)

(fox and crows calling)

(Robbie panting)

(fox barking)

(Robbie grunts)

(fox barks closer)

(fox calls closer)

(fox barking)

(fox barking)

Calm down.

Calm down, get yourself together.

Get your fucking self together.

Get yourself together.

Get yourself together, okay?

(geese honking)

(branch cracks)

(fox screaming)

(leaves crunching)

(animal noises)

(branch cracks)

(leaves crunching)

(Robbie breathing)

(far off fox scream)

(branch cracks)

(distant piano music)

Fuck.

Noelle?

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.

(leaves rustling) (Noelle's piano music)

(branch snapping)

Fuck!

(piano continues)

(leaves crunching)

(song switches)

(Noelle vocalizing)

♪ Better run so fast fox ♪

♪ Just wanna live my life ♪

♪ Somehow ♪

♪ They don't understand, it's the way that I am ♪

♪ Wuh hoo, Wuh hoo, Wuh hoooo ♪

♪ Better run, better run ♪

♪ Wuh hoo, Wuh hooo Wuh hoooo ♪

♪ Better run, better- ♪

- [Keith] Hey.

Anybody in there?

Hey.

(footsteps crunching)

What are all these apples for?

(leaves rustling)

There's a bunch of animal bones here too.

Hey, what are you doing in there?

Hello?

Hello?

Anybody in there?

Hey.

I don't like you too much anymore.

(leaves rustling)

I heard her singing

and I just wanted her to sing to me.

- [Robbie] If you find this, this is the guy.

- [Keith] I just wanted her to sing.

- [Robbie] Go away.

Go away!

(branches rustling)

Just go away!

Go away!

Fuck!

Fuck.

Fuck is that?

His name is Keith,

his name is Keith Bixby.

His name is Keith Bixby.

Noelle! (gunshots crack)

(body thuds)

(gunshots)

(Robbie grunting)

- [Keith] It was so beautiful.

- [Robbie] Keith Bixby!

His name is Keith Bixby!

He lives on Tinsman Road!

- [Keith] Wish I could hear her sing again.

- [Robbie] His name is Keith!

His name is Keith Bixby!

He shot me!

He shot me!

His name is Keith!

Please!

Please!

I'm dying!

I'm dying!

Please, don't shoot me!

Please, my mother!

My mom will be alone!

- [Keith] I really didn't mean to hurt her.

- [Robbie] Please, please!

I'm dead, I'm dead.

- [Keith] She wouldn't sing.

- It hurts-get it together!

(gunshot cracks)

- [Keith] I don't wanna have to keep chasing ya.

(Robbie howling in pain)

She was beautiful.

(fox crying)

I ripped her hair right out of her fuckin' head!

That little bitch!

(footsteps getting closer)

(Robbie moaning)

- [Keith] I'm such a good boy.

She's singing to me.

(footsteps moving away)

She's got feathers.

(fox barking)

(gun cocks)

She was so beautiful.

(gunshot cracks)

- Robbie!

(Robbie panting)

(leaves crunching)

(Robbie gasping)

(Robbie crying)

(Robbie panting)

(leaves crunching)

(owl cries)

(raccoon chittering)

(Robbie crying and laughing)

(fox screeching)

(Robbie vomiting)

(Robbie panting)

(fox barking)

(night-bird calling)

(fox barking)

(holding back vomit)

(brush rustling)

(Robbie grunts)

(distant voices)

(car passing)

(Robbie grunts)

(Robbie struggling for breath)

(guttural crying)

(female voices in distance)

(primal crying)

(Robbie hacking)

(struggling for breath)

(crow caws)

(engine revving)

(Robbie hacking)

(Robbie panting)

(siren blaring)

(struggling for breath)

(walkie talkies)

(static crackling)

(Noelle's piano song)

(thunder rumbling)

(piano music continues)

(piano music continues)

(thunder trembling)

(Noelle's song continues)

(piano continues)

(wind gusting)

(kitten meowing)

(kitten meowing)

(wind gusting)

(plastic scraping)

(kitten meowing)

(kitten meowing)

(kitten purring)

(snow pattering)

(snow crunching)

(snow pattering continues)

(tape clicks on)

(Noelle's piano music)

(piano song continues)

- [Robbie] I love you.

(Robbie choking up)

I love you.

(Noelle's song continues)

(snow crunching)

Ma?

- I feel her.

She's home.

(Tinsman Road piano theme)

(piano continues)

(piano continues)

(piano theme continues)

(piano winding down)

(piano theme ends)

(tape clicking)

(tape static)

- [Noelle] Next

to

You.