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Dark Holler is a limited-run paranormal documentary series set in the coalfields of West Virginia. In uncovering and then tracing out one family’s interactions with a dark spiritual entity over three generations, patterns emerge, leading to ever darker and more interesting questions about the nature of the relationship between our seen world and the unseen. How do place, time and bloodline factor into our relationship to that invisible other? How firm are the boundaries of our mundane, material world? Do those boundaries ever grow thin?

Driven first by interviews with the experiencers, Dark Holler seeks to reserve judgment, simply relating experiences and family secrets as they emerge organically, revealing a pattern of synchronicity and phenomena that start to direct us toward a particular entity. An entity with a name.

Join the crew and characters as they explore active locations and witness a mosaic of evidence take shape, a certain poetry in reality left by movements of the unseen. Hints at an undercurrent running beneath the surface of our material world.

Creator Ward Hiney has worked on documentary films and investigative journalism projects for over a decade covering topics from domestic terrorism to political corruption to true crime and the opioid epidemic.

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A 5-part docuseries uncovering one family's interactions with a dark spiritual entity over three generations, and a local pastor's dramatic and unexpected impact on what seemed like a hopeless situation.

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The artist

Ward Hiney

Documentary Filmmaker

Ward Hiney is a documentary filmmaker who fell down the rabbit hole of high strangeness and the paranormal, and has been pursuing the weird ever since.

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Dark Holler

Series · teens A 5-part docuseries uncovering one family's interactions with a dark spiritual entity over three generations, and a local pastor's dramatic and unexpected impact on what seemed like a hopeless situation.

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1 Chapter 140 min

A young woman turns to esoteric practices in an effort to control the dark spiritual presence that's plagued her since childhood, but finding far more than she bargained for.

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2 Chapter 242 min

The baptism and exorcism that proved a transitional landmark in the lives of everyone involved.

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3 Chapter 343 min

A family, a pattern, a name.

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4 Chapter 451 min

The phenomenon begins to pull in threads from famous local cases of high strangeness as the crew has some odd occurrences of their own.

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5 Chapter 564 min

The conclusion.

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