Off the Beaten Path

A short collection of local legends and ghost stories about Erie, Pennsylvania, and its surrounding areas. Produced by and aired on WQLN Channel 54 Erie.

It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies. One by one, the crew is possessed and killed, and it is up to Paxton Warner to find the links between the dark side of the moon, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Devil himself.

Sophia Hapgood is thrust into a horrifying world after her brother James brings her into a fatal situation. He passes a demon to her that she must spread to others within 6 days or else they both die. Sophia must make a choice to save her brother or find a way to end the curse.

Spin-off short story of the "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi!" series, which is set after FILE-06.

Three friend's video documented holidays in Stockholm of "Party, Drugs and Swedish Girls" get interrupted by a serial killer.

A film editor who must save his film crew from a mysterious cult by following the group's conditions, namely completing their own filmmaking. But he did not know that the cult he was facing was a terrifying cult that he could not trust.

June 6th, 2022, five friends in Swallowtail County attempted a seance, a ritualistic practice to make contact with the other side. Four of the five individuals were found deceased shortly after the seance began at 6:12 A.M., the details of their deaths are both gruesome... and horrific. This is the investigation of the sole survivor and his victims.

A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.

After the death of his mother, Sean pays a company to install a camera on the underside of her coffin lid, with terrible consequences.

Rob Welling meets Kyle Fowst at his father's funeral and they quickly become friends yet Rob is troubled by the appearance of an enigmatic humming man leading them to discover a world hidden beyond the realms of reality where a monstrous cult work to 're-cast' people from the outside world into their 'actors' on their 'stage' and work to resurrect their master: An ancient sorcerer named Eritaz. As Rob is taken in by the chaos, its up to Kyle to use the jewel he left behind and uncover the mysteries of reality before it's too late.

The Hamleigh woods have been drawing people to their deaths for months thanks to the enigmatic author Clive Allen. Fred Rolfe and Jason Hodder intend to uncover the mystery of the woods, however Fred discovers more than he planned.

YouTuber Tomoki Uchikawa, along with his friends Hinako, Souta, and Nanae, head to the former Ishio Village, where there are rumors of people being spirited away, to film a video investigating urban legends. However, their whereabouts remain unknown, and the police discover the rental car they had rented near a tunnel on the outskirts of the village. The video cameras left behind there show shocking images of locked houses, children in armed uniforms, imprisoned adults, and adults being infected by a strange disease, a rotten demon, that occurs on the night of a new moon.

Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.

A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.

An aspiring documentarian and two conservationists who venture into the Outback to record the animals displaced by bushfires where they discover a terrifying new species.

The e-DEMON recording is a wakeup call to understand the truth of what’s happening to our world ever since the e-DEMON was released from its prison. Witness that first night of demonic possession as it turns a group of friends against each other. As growing numbers of people get possessed, knowing who to trust is the key to survival.

The terrifying story of a group of former college classmates who get lost driving to a college reunion camp out in the Sierra Nevada mountains. After stopping for the night, they stumble onto something much darker. They must battle to escape the evil they unleashed to not only save their own lives but their souls as well.

A documentary filmmaker takes his three friends out into the woods of Vermont searching for Bigfoot.

A documentary filmmaker discovers a strange vessel that inhabits human bodies.

Jim, a man suffering from addiction and homelessness, must overcome his demons to escape from the sadistic pervert filming him paint a remote house under the pretense of helping the less fortunate.