Trails in Iowa

You approach an area where the lush green grass that you have been enjoying abruptly ends. From here until as far as your eyes can see, it's merely a dirt path that trails off into the darkness. Though walking on this trail is what you have come here to do, seeing it in person, you are immediately filled with doubts as to the choices that led you here. Seeing that you are preparing to take a step in the opposite direction, your partner on this journey steers you back onto the path. At one point in time, you may have seen this as a beneficial moral boost, but the fear of heading down the Haunted Trail has you paralyzed. There's just no shaking the feeling that you are being pushed towards an impending doom...