Q 01/05

What is the name of the ghost said to haunt the abandoned dredge in the woods outside Skeleton Creek?

A) Old Tom Flint

B) Old Joe Bush

C) Mad Sam Crane

D) Black Jack Reed

Answer · why

B) Old Joe Bush

Old Joe Bush is said to be a worker who died in an accident there years ago. Sarah's night-time footage claims to catch him on camera.

Q 02/05

What injury leaves Ryan housebound after his night-time accident at the dredge in Skeleton Creek?

A) A fractured skull

B) A broken collarbone

C) A broken leg

D) A crushed hand

Answer · why

C) A broken leg

A broken leg puts Ryan in a cast and under his parents' eye, so he writes everything down while Sarah keeps exploring with her camera.

Q 03/05

The New York Times called Skeleton Creek one part X-Files and one part which found-footage horror film?

A) Paranormal Activity

B) Cloverfield

C) Quarantine

D) Blair Witch Project

Answer · why

D) Blair Witch Project

Blair Witch Project is the obvious cousin of Sarah's shaky clips from the dark woods, which other reviewers also likened to that film's handheld frigh...

Q 04/05

The first Skeleton Creek video password, houseofusher, points to a sinking-house story by which American author?

A) H. P. Lovecraft

B) Washington Irving

C) Edgar Allan Poe

D) Nathaniel Hawthorne

Answer · why

C) Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe haunts the whole series: his pit and pendulum, his cask of Amontillado and his tell-tale heart all turn up as later passwords.

Q 05/05

In which US state does Patrick Carman set the small former mining town of Skeleton Creek?

A) Montana

B) Oregon

C) Colorado

D) Idaho

Answer · why

B) Oregon

Oregon is home ground for the author, who was born in its capital, Salem, and modelled his haunted town on a real one there.