A Haunting: Witching Hour

About

A Haunting: Witching Hour is a first-person horror adventure that blends supernatural mystery with time-shifting exploration. Playing as Eddie, a troubled man with psychic visions, you piece together fragmented stories from Shady Hollow’s haunted past by touching objects in the environment. The game’s opening episode casts you as part of an indie film crew investigating a decades-old double murder tied to local folklore. As police question Eddie about the missing crew members, the narrative pulls you through key moments in the town’s history, revealing connections between witchcraft rumors, family tragedies, and unsolved disappearances. The game’s layered storytelling stands out, weaving together events from 1695 to 2015 in a way that rewards close attention to environmental details. While the VR format amplifies tension during eerie encounters, the real draw is the slow figuring out of Shady Hollow’s cursed legacy. Though episodic DLC plans were cut short, the core experience remains a chilling walk through a town where every shadow hints at buried secrets.

Storyline

It was in 1695 when Elizabeth Ainsley was accused of being a witch. She was betrayed by the one person she cared for the most, Rev James Beaumont. Little did he know the terror he was about to unleash upon the small town of Shady Hollow. It wouldn’t be until the 1940’s before the Beaumont family would return to Shady Hollow. Cliff and Linda Beaumont along with their children Sally and John moved to Shady Hollow to open a coal mining operation. The woods outside of Shady Hollow were known to be rich with coal, and being in the coal business, the Beaumonts’ saw this as a great opportunity. Several months after their arrival, their daughter Sally went missing. For weeks, the towns people searched the woods and the coal mines but all they would find is a shoe belonging to Sally by the Hollow Creek. Most believed that Sally must have fallen into the creek and drowned while others believed it was the curse of The Hollow Creek Witch. A year later, both Cliff and Linda Beaumont grew ill and soon died. It was rumored that the loss of their daughter was too much for them to handle. John, being the sole remaining member of the Beaumont family was taken to an orphanage. About thirty five years later (1975), John, now a grown man was approached by another mining company looking to buy the rights to the Beaumont Coal Company. The coal company was abandoned after the death of his parents so John agreed to sell his share of the company. On the morning of March 15th, 1975, John and two miners would travel through the woods to take mineral samples at one of the more lucrative mining sites in Shady Hollow. John would be the only person to return from that trip. After several searches, the two miners were found. What the police saw would haunt them the rest of their lives. John Beaumont was immediately arrested for the murders and spent his remaining days in the Shady Hollow Mental Hospital. In the spring of 2015, 5 indie film makers travel to Shady Hollow to do a documentary about the disappearance of the two miners in 1975 and the Beaumont family. After arriving, they soon find out that the townspeople of Shady Hollow don’t welcome outsiders and are resistant to speak about the troubled past of the town. They soon begin to uncover the urban legend of the Hollow Creek Witch that haunts the woods surrounding Shady Hollow.