S1 E12: MANHUNT, COMPLETE - Campfire Horror Stories Podcast

MANHUNT COMPLETE is a full-length, single-episode version combining all 4 parts of the story. This is a cinematic, 30-minute episode is a horror story about adolescence, control, and what happens when bigotry is mistaken for belief.

Set in a humid southern town at the end of the 1990s, a group of high-school friends plays a late-night game of Manhunt to escape curfews, sermons, and the pressure closing in around them. But when the game bleeds into real life, the woods become something else entirely... and going home doesn't mean you're "safe."

As paranoia grows and the town closes ranks, this story explores how silence is enforced, how belief can be weaponized, and how easily authority turns predatory when no one is willing to look too closely at themselves. What begins as a coming-of-age memory becomes a relentless psychological descent where survival depends on knowing when to run... and not to follow blindly.

Dark, atmospheric, and deeply unsettling, MANHUNT is a story about growing up under judgment, the true cost of disobedience, and the truth that the most dangerous monsters are rarely the ones hiding in the woods.