Hellhound

***Hellhound*** is the fourteenth episode and the season finale of the first season of the thriller horror docudrama found-footage television series Lost Tapes. It originally aired on Animal Planet on February 17th, 2009, alongside Death Worm, and was directed by Douglas Segal. This episode remains to be the only one, focusing on the Goth subculture.

In June 2021, a full-length film was recently announced and will serve as the continuation of this episode.

## Plot

In Fall 2005, a group of goth college students planned to visit a local cemetery in order to film a new segment for the website of their leader, Annabel Lilith. Accompanying Annabel are three of her classmates, who go by the aliases of Ophelia, Luna, and Severin (Severin being the only male member of the group). Annabel planned to induct a new member into their group, a girl named Nora Callarman that Annabel had not yet met. She doubts Nora's worthiness and plans to play a prank on her.

They pick up Nora and begin to drive to the cemetery, blindfolding Nora as they do so. Shortly after arriving at the cemetery, a large dog resembling a rottweiler with glowing red eyes suddenly jumps up onto the hood of the car in full view of their camera. As suddenly as it appears, the dog disappears, seemingly into thin air, but they assume that it ran off and dismissing the incident.

As midnight approached, they set up a table and other items for Nora's initiation in front of a tombstone. As part of the initiation, Annabel asks the "spirits" for a sign, and the dog suddenly appears again, seemingly larger than before, barking, growling and snarling at them. Like before, it disappears very quickly and even more suddenly than before, leaving behind a patch of scorched and smoking earth where it had been standing. While most of the group are terrified by this, Annabel shrugs it off by assuming it is the sign she asked for and insists that they finish the ritual and they continued and Annabel then forces Nora to drink what looks like blood, but is actually fake blood and she drinks it and they finish the ritual and Nora is officially inducted into their group. As they start to leave, Nora and Severin split from the group to take a walk together, during which time Nora asks how many times Severin has seen the dog so far, but he does not have time to answer before they hear the dog approaching again.

They hide behind a tombstone and Nora tells him to close his eyes as the dog approaches. They regroup with Annabel, Ophelia and Luna, who also saw the dog again, and Nora warns the others that the dog means an untimely death for whoever has seen it three times; this results in an argument. As they try to leave, Luna trips and nearly cracks her skull on a glass bottle, supporting Nora's theory and causing the group to panic. They finally get back to the car and try to drive off but the car won't start, with Annabel still arguing with the others that there is nothing to worry about, refusing to believe that there was anything supernatural about the dog. As they finally drive away, still arguing, Annabel does not see another car coming right towards them and they crash.

The camera captures an image of Nora, now injured and bleeding, trying to wake up Severin before realizing that he is dead and comes to the conclusion that he saw the dog three times. As she gets up to leave, the dog suddenly appears again, but is acting very friendly this time and Nora begins to pet it as she leaves the scene.

It turns out that there were no official records of Nora anywhere, and to this day, her true identity remains unknown (it is implied she is a ghost). The others were all proclaimed dead at the scene. Traces of sulfur were found in and around the car, but no evidence of any dog was found anywhere near the site.