The Man in the Ditch

Long-haul trucker Jack Harlan is just passing through when he swerves to avoid a man crawling out of a roadside ditch, his mouth grotesquely sewn shut. Stopping to help pulls Jack into a nightmare that the town of Hollow Creek has kept buried for decades.

The victim’s silence is no accident. He was silenced for what he knew about a string of unsolved disappearances tied to the abandoned asylum on the edge of town. As Jack digs deeper, he finds himself hunted by suspicious locals who will do anything to protect their secrets.

Every clue leads back to the asylum and the dark history the creek itself seems determined to hide. Jack must decide whether to keep driving or risk everything to expose the truth before he becomes the next person who vanishes without a trace.

In this tense rural thriller, one man’s decision to stop and help may cost him far more than he ever imagined.