The Wood Before Us
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Ongoing3h 40m
Last published Tue, Jun 2, 2026
The Woods Before Us is a nostalgic supernatural coming-of-age story filled with mystery, friendship, emotional family drama, eerie woods, and the terrifying feeling of growing up too fast.
When eleven-year-old Liam Decker moves from Ohio to the isolated woods of Stillwater, Minnesota, he leaves behind everything that ever felt like home. But everything changes when Liam discovers a strange portal hidden deep within the forest - a place connected to this world, but somehow outside of it, where time doesn't work the way it should.
Soon Liam finds himself uncovering buried secrets tied not only to Stillwater... but to his own life, his family, and the people he thought he knew best.
Because some things hidden in the woods were never meant to be found.
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