WALKER CREEK
Walker Creek is an immersive fiction multimedia webseries (a.ka. Alternate Reality Game/ARG) created by Alex Hera consisting of over 100 videos, 7 websites, and several interactive elements across social media and email. After its completion, it was re-edited into a feature film, and a feature-length documentary about its production was created.
Walker Creek, WA is a small town with a dark secret: a hidden society of parasitic aliens taking over human bodies and turning them into shapeshifting creatures known as The Hosted. On October 24, 2020, Daniel Shephard recieves a box of VHS tapes from his recently deceased father, George Shephard, with a letter telling him to find the truth. These VHS tapes (circa 1989) contain evidence of the infestation in Walker Creek, and chronicle the actions of the rebellion trying to stop them. Daniel realizes that he has to find the truth behind his hometown, discover how to stop the Hosted, and figure out how his father was involved.
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EXPLORING WALKER CREEK
As Daniel continues his journey into the VHS tapes, he uncovers more than he ever could have imagined and recruits allies along the way, including the untrustworthy but useful rebel Host, Adam, and Daniel's old friend, Matt Seakins, who still lives in Walker Creek.
While Daniel investigates from the sidelines, Matt searches across Walker Creek in the hopes of finding information and a way into the Hosted's underground base, The Home. However, their investigation does not go unnoticed. Eventually, the leaders of the Hosted, known as The Tour Guide and The Speaker, discover the plot, and Daniel is forced to return to Walker Creek to face them, and the truth about his father.
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INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS
"Walker Creek" is an immersive, found footage webseries, filmed and edited in the style of live broadcasts and in-world cameras, with the entire project presented as if it is a true story. This is also referred to as 'Unfiction' series or as an ARG (alternate reality game). The YouTube channels that host the series was managed by characters in the story, who each had social media and email accounts which could be contacted.
Additionally, "Walker Creek" has many in-universe websites that can be accessed, including three blog sites, a tourism website for the town, and four "secret" websites containing large databases of text, media, and messages from the Hosted and Rebellion. These websites often contain hidden logic puzzles and codes to be completed to unlock further content. There are also two phone numbers with answering machines, and while the project was active, there was a live segment once per month in which viewers could call in and talk to one of the characters, Adam.
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