Creepy America, Episode 13: The Backwards Man

By Noah Hoffmann

A series of horror short-stories, "Creepy America" recounts the webshow of the same name. Filmed, edited, and published by friends Zoey and Liam, the two traveled from state to state trying to find the truth behind the strange happenings, local hauntings, and urban legends all across the continental United States. Told years later from the perspective of Liam, these tales describe the events that transpired on the show, from the evolving friendship of the two co-hosts to the vast conspiracy uncovered piece by piece as more and more secrets are uncovered.

When the two are told of a strange man with backwards joints, their skepticism first gives way to a much more earnest investigation, then to something darker.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Noah Hoffmann
• Release date: May 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463052327

Noah Hoffmann

A mild-mannered truck driver by day, I spend my nights writing mostly at an attempt to convince the last few shreds of sanity I have not to jump ship with the rest. When I'm not doing that, you can usually find me playing tabletop rpgs, raiding the "50 cents" section of bookstores, and generally committing similar acts to solidify my reputation as a "huge nerd." Otherwise, my time is spent caring for my loving and intelligent-deficit dog Slade and yelling at you for cutting me off in traffic.

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Creepy America: Episode 13

The Backwards Man

By Noah Hoffmann

Published by Noah Hoffmann and distributed by Smashwords.

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Other series by Noah Hoffmann:

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Episode 13

Creepy America

Episode 13

The Backwards Man

Warner Robins, Georgia

I’ve seen a few posts over the years making fun of our consistent skepticism, pointing out what they believed to be formulaic episode writing. One of the more memorable ones I saw was "CA episode format: hear about spooky thing , not believe in spooky thing , find spooky thing , be spooked, repeat." They were less actual complaints and more playful jabs, but it was still a tiny bit irritating.

The reason for this apparent inconsistency, why we could see so many things and still have doubts when someone called us up and told us about a monster in the woods, is that we cut out all of the dead leads. For every one episode where we showcased something supernatural or paranormal, we had ten scrapped ones of us muddling through woods and abandoned buildings, waiting to spot this or that random urban legend, and looking stupid when it didn’t show. To you, it might have looked like yet another plausible source we were scoffing at. To us, it was the twelfth imaginary boogeyman we were going to waste a whole day trying to find.

I hope some of that is apparent in my writings. Getting a peek behind the scenes may make it easier to understand why we did some things the way we did. Even so, it’s worth repeating before we start talking about the Backwards Man. After all, it’s far from the strangest thing we heard about. It’s not even close. But we treated it with an air of doubt until we saw it. Maybe that’s not fair; we treated it with outright disbelief until we saw it. But my point is, we had reasons.

Luckily for us, though, we have seen stranger . And at the end of the day, that made all the difference.

Our heads were in a weird place in Georgia, and especially in Warner Robins itself.

I’m not exactly sure what to call it; somewhere between a doldrums and a funk, I guess. Most of the work we were doing was for Faces of America, and that was getting pretty old. My patience for the interviews was nonexistent at this point, and even Zoey’s near endless enthusiasm was beginning to tire.

On top of that, we were coming off a string of failed investigations for Creepy America. We didn’t necessarily need them to pan out; the last three episodes