Whether they be found in L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” or J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantastical Middle-earth, the idea of sentient, mobile, tree-like beings have ignited imaginations across the globe, but what if entities like Marvel Comics eponymous “Groot” were not merely works of fiction but based on something ancient, alarming and all-too real.

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In the late 70s an experienced French rider mounted her favorite horse, had the foresight to take a spare and called her dog to accompany her on a tour of her family’s vast rural estate; never once suspecting that her scenic excursion into the swampy wilds would become a week long odyssey of terror from which—some say—she never fully recovered.

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During the first half of the 20th Century, in a the span of less than two months, multiple families hailing from Botetourt, Virginia fell prey to a series of bizarre and terrifying series of attacks by a group of enigmatic individuals who—for reasons that remain unknown—filled their homes with noxious and (in at least one case) potentially lethal gas.

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