Once Upon a Time

**"Once Upon a Time"** is the first episode in Season 1 of Secrets of Sulphur Springs. It premiered on January 15, 2021 to 0.52 million viewers.

## Plot

Griffin Campbell and his family move to a new town, take ownership of an abandoned hotel and hope to restore it.

## Full Plot

The show starts with a blonde girl named Savannah Dillon running through the woods at night.

Three kids sneak onto the front porch of the abandoned Tremont Hotel, daring each other to look inside. When a boy named Topher takes a peek, he sees a girl who screams and they all run away from the window in fear.

Inside, the girl’s name is Zoey and she and her twin brother Wyatt just moved in with the rest of the Campbell family. Their older brother, Griffin, records his sister screaming and gleefully runs up to his room to put the video online. The family has just moved to Sulphur Springs, Louisiana, from Chicago and his dad, Ben, bought the hotel because he visited it as a kid.

At school, Griffin’s new classmates tell him that The Tremont is haunted by a blonde girl named Savannah. When he talks with a girl named Harper who shows him a picture of her, we see that it’s the same girl who was running in the woods at the start of the episode. Savannah mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago and is believed to be haunting the hotel.

Griffin brings his new friend Harper back to the hotel with him and she shares the Savannah ghost story with the family. When Griffin’s mom, Sarah, says the house isn’t haunted, the lights flicker and the power goes out. Griffin goes downstairs with his dad to hold a flashlight while his dad resets the breaker.

Returning upstairs, Griffin offers to give Harper a tour, but takes her back to the basement because he thought he saw something when he was down there with his dad. Harper uses a flashlight with dead batteries that suddenly works for her and they see the label for a fallout shelter through some shelves, Climbing through, they find themselves in an underground tunnel that leads to a mid-century bunker.

While exploring the bunker, Griffin finds a door behind some safety suits that leads to another hallway, this one covered with tree roots and debris. At the end of the hallway is a metal spiral staircase that leads to a hatch. Griffin doesn’t want to go up, but Harper doesn’t take no for an answer. When she gets to the top, she screams and Griffin chases after her. Harper felt a shock when she crossed through it, but Griffin didn’t feel anything.

It’s daylight and they see a blonde girl running through the woods who looks just like Savannah. They start to follow her and pass The Tremont, stopping in their tracks because instead of looking like a decaying abandoned hotel, it looks brand new. A boy named Ben bumps into Griffin and his jaw drops because Ben looks just like photos of his dad when he was younger.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Preston Oliver as Griffin Campbell
* Kyliegh Curran as Harper Dunn
* Elle Graham as Savannah
* Kelly Frye as Sarah Campbell
* Josh Braaten as Ben Campbell
* Landon Gordon as Wyatt Campbell
* Madeleine McGraw as Zoey Campbell

### Guest Cast

* Bryant Tardy as Topher
* Jake Melrose as Young Ben
* Jim Gleason as Bennett Sr.
* Chloe Guidry as Quinn
* Sherri Marina as Mrs. Douglas
* Nhedrick Jabier as Nate
* Nala Hamilton as Classmate #1
* Ian Winningkoff as Classmate #2
* Trina LaFargue as Counselor (Becky)
* Payton Rowbatham as Camper #1
* E'mani Tamia Johnson as Camper #2

## Trivia

* This is the first episode of the series and the season.
* This episode was filmed in Summer 2019.
* This is one of three episodes that aired as an hour-and-a-half long series premiere with no commercials.
	+ On some TV guides, a similar sounding movie with a similar plot, *Secrets of the Hot Springs* (切小金家的旅館) is mistaken by reruns of the series premiere.
* This episode premiered right after the Season 5 premiere of ***Bunk'd***.
* When Harper pulls up the picture of Savannah on her phone, the wrong sound effect is played. (The sound when delivering a text)

## Gallery

1. ↑ #tbt to shooting our pilot last summer. Looking forward to our first week of shooting the series in just a few days! #SulphurSprings 🐭🐭🐭