Season 1 Episode 12: The Hide Behind

Episode Summary There is a legend of a creature that has never been seen, that is always lurking right behind you! The question is, is the Hide-behind Really Real? Ford is determined to find out.

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Episode Short #5: The Hide Behind

It was another sunny and hot day in Gravity Falls, and Ford had decided to get the gang together to solve yet another mystery from the Author's journal.

So, with as much enthusiasm as any kid who was about to knock on death's door could have, Heather, Fids, Stan and Ford went upstairs to prepare for the next anomaly. Ford got his backpack prepared for what was called, 'The Hide-Behind'. He had come across the journal entire just the night before.

Meanwhile Stan got their dad's camera ready for rolling. "Maybe we can interview people to see if they've seen it!" He exclaimed.

"Seen what?" Fids as but Stan shushed him as he began the recording. "We're on!" He said pointing the camera at Ford.

"Oh" Ford clears throat. "Hello. And welcome back to Ford's Guide to the Unexplained."

Stan holds up UFO keychain and buzzes it causing it to make a spooky sound.

"Thank you." Ford said before continuing. "Today we investigate Gravity Falls anomaly #132: The Hide Behind." He declares holding up the title card.

"The Hide Behind!" Heather exclaimed. "I've heard of it. No one's actually seen it."

"Correct." Ford said pulling out the journal and reading from the page about the hide behind. "Local lumberjacks tell of a mysterious creature, always just out of sight. But these photos suggest it might actually be real!" He said showing photo's within the journal of strange tracks in the woods. "Either way, I intend to find out!"

"Can you imagine if we proved a theory that the Author hadn't?" Fids exclaimed. "He'll be so impressed that a bunch of kids figured it out."

"That's if we find him." Stan said.

"We'll find him." Ford said. "But for now the Hide Behind is our main focus.

Stan jumps out at Ford. "YAAAH! HIDE BEHIND!" he yelled startling his brother much to everyone's amusement.

"Stan!" Ford exclaimed. "Give me that." He snatches the Camera away. "We've got interviews to do."

Moments later the gang sets off to interview several different towns' folk about the mysterious hide behind.

"The Hide behind?" Wendy, Danny's mom asked. She was standing outside of her cabin with the twins. Her Kids were sawing down a tree in the background. "Oh, he's real alright. REAL AS THE SUN IS BRIGHT! He was behind me once; made this sound: tchktchktchktchktchktchk. Mighty spooky."

The tree that Wendy's Daughters are cutting down starts to fall. They run away.

"Mom!" One of her Daughter's said. "It's comin' down!"

"Then stop it." Wendy said not looking behind her.

"Mom!" The second oldest daughter said.

"Be a woman Marian!" Wendy shouted still not turning around. "Or be a brat and get your brother."

"Danny." The girls scream as the tree falls on their home.

Meanwhile Heather had taken her own camera and went to go interview Lazy Chiu with Fids.

Fids hid behind Heather as they interviewed her, when Heather asked why he said something about this lady being creepy. Like she could see into the future or something. Of course, this only made Heather laugh.

At the moment Lazy Chiu was pouring and overflowing a cup of coffee, as a man with a gray mustache tried to get her attention.

"Can I get a refill ma'am? Refill?"

"Oh, the Hide Behind is definitely real." Lazy Chiu said. "He might even be behind me right now! Let me see..." She begins to turn around and around over and over again. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa—!"

The guy with the gray mustache shook his head in disbelief.

"Well you're right about one thing." Heather said. "She is creepy."

(Back with Ford and Stan…)

"Don't believe every legend you hear, kid." Grauntie Mabel said as she began her interview with the Twins.

Ford sighed, after the upset with Wendy's cabin they had come here in hopes of better luck, but it didn't look like they'd get any.

"The people in this town are literally the dumbest people in the world. Literally." She went on. "The Hide Behind's just a rumor. You want a mystery? How about the mystery of why—"

Suddenly something runs out behind Mabel, and into the tree line making the tchktchktchktchktchktchk. Sound Wendy had mentioned. "What the?" Mabel said.

Ford gasped. "That's it!" He grabs the camera and runs after it without thinking.

"Hey, we're doin' an interview here! Ford!" Mabel yells as she notices he's going straight into the woods. "No Stop!"

"Ford!" Stan races after him, as Heather, and Fids show up just in time.

"What's going on?" Heather asked.

"Fords chasing it!" Stan shouted.

"The Hide Behind?" Fids asked.

"No Michel Angelo!" Stan scoffed. "Of course, it's the Hide Behind! Come on!" Stan shouted causing the friends to run faster.

"Ford!" Heather yelled. "Careful not to make the wrong turn!" She cried remembering that they were close to Kill Billy Territory.

Ford barley hears her as he presses forward, but luckily the Hide Behind darts left instead of right! "I'm coming for ya. Where is he? Where is he?"

He stops at a tinny tree and speaks to the camera "Alright, I've narrowed it down to this tree." He says facing the camera at himself. "Now I know what you're wondering. How do you catch a creature who's always right behind you? How about..." He zooms out the camera to reveal- "A mirror suit! Nothing's going to sneak up on old Ford—"

Stan hangs down from a tree and knocks Ford over. "BLIND SPOT!"

"AAH! Oof! I'm down! Ford down!" Ford cried.

"Guys knock it off before you scare it off!" Heather whispered as the tchktchktchktchktchktchk sound is heard once more.

Fids helps Ford to his feet and they all approach the tree.

"This is it. Get ready to finally be seen, Hide Behind!" Ford said. "In 3... 2... 1..."

Everyone jumps behind the tree to find an owl with a maraca in its mouth.

"What?" They all say in unison.

"Wow! Cool! Maraca owl!" Stan exclaimed.

"But how?" Ford asked.

"Yeah we heard the sound!" Fids said in which the owl shook the maraca in its mouth making the tchktchktchktchktchktchk sound.

"Awe man!" Heather groaned. "What a waste of an afternoon."

"I guess we can't win them all." Fids said. "Ford want to call this off?"

Ford takes off mirror suit and dumps it on the ground. "Well, based on lack of evidence, I have to conclude, anomaly # 132, the Hide Behind, just a legend."

"Want to go watch some re-runs of Ducktective?" Stan suggested.

"Race ya!" Heather challenged and raced off with Stan and Fids hot on her heels.

Ford follows them more slowly, he was still kind of bombed that their hunt had turned up empty. Then again maybe it was too ambushes to try and find it in one day.

Suddenly something makes the tchktchktchktchktchktchk sound behind him.

He turns quickly "What was that?" He asked looking around, but he saw nothing so he just shrug. "Meh, nothing." He says and keeps walking, unaware as the Hide Behind emerges from behind a nearby tree and follows him all the way home…

-To Be Continued