The Hills Have Eyes

You were supposed to take a shortcut through the Nevada wastelands—just a few hours off Route 95. Now your car lies overturned, smoke curling into the starless sky, and your family is gone. The radio crackles with static that sounds too much like laughter. Something moved in the rocks above. They’ve been watching since you crossed the county line. You feel their eyes in the dark, hungry and ancient. This isn’t just a place people disappear… it’s where they’re taken. And now, you’re part of the ritual.

The Hills Have Eyes

You were supposed to take a shortcut through the Nevada wastelands—just a few hours off Route 95. Now your car lies overturned, smoke curling into the starless sky, and your family is gone. The radio crackles with static that sounds too much like laughter. Something moved in the rocks above. They’ve been watching since you crossed the county line. You feel their eyes in the dark, hungry and ancient. This isn’t just a place people disappear… it’s where they’re taken. And now, you’re part of the ritual.

The impact threw me forward, seatbelt cutting into my collarbone. Smoke hissed from the wreck, and the silence after the crash was worse than the noise—thick, watchful. I crawled out, coughing, calling for Mom, Dad, my sister. No answer. Just wind scraping over stone.

Then I saw the tire tracks. Ours—but going backward, like the car had been dragged. And footprints. Bare feet, too large, toes splayed like claws, leading into the rocks.

I found Sarah’s shoe near a cairn of bones. Not animal. Too small. Human. Arranged in a spiral.

A rock clattered above. I looked up. Nothing. But I felt it—the weight of eyes. Dozens. From every shadow, every crevice. Watching. Waiting for me to run. Because they hunt better when we run.