Legend says that long ago, nature thrived in harmony around the lake, until evil arrived. Men, blinded by dark desires, brought fear, hate, and death. Fishermen call it La Miringua, the one that drags you in the lake for your sins.
上世纪90年代，美国南方小镇的录像店女员工，始终放不下姐姐离奇失踪的旧事。一次整理库存时，她意外翻出了姐姐生前拍摄的系列纪录片《南方惊魂》，片子里记录着当地各种不为人知的民间诡异传说。随着她一集集深入观看，纪录片里的灵异内容竟开始在现实中接连应验。她顺着片子里的线索四处走访调查，试图揭开姐姐失踪的真相，却一步步触碰到小镇尘封多年的黑暗秘辛，那些只在口耳相传里的恐怖存在，已经悄悄盯上了她。
民国末年，长白山深处的迷雾山村怪事频发。村民陈狗子偶遇神秘新娘并收留，此后命运陡转，暴富后离奇暴毙，接连命案让村子陷入恐惧。老猎户马三爷携众人追查真相，在灵异传闻与人心叵测间探寻谜底，山林深处的隐秘与善恶纠葛正悄然浮出水面。
In 1984, a woman with a phantom pregnancy is exiled to a remote Catskills inn where she becomes convinced that she is the target of a mysterious woman in the woods who will stop at nothing to be a mother.
