Before the ground shifts, before the water turns black, before a settlement falls into silence, he is there.

In this first episode of Beyond the Ruins: Encounters with the Unknown, Rowan Blackwood tries to unravel the unsettling legend of the Pale Watcher, a figure who appears in the final days before catastrophe.

With firsthand accounts and unexplained patterns, this episode explores the possibility that some horrors don’t hunt, they observe.