Has anyone ever created a web story with Hugo? I don’t know if “web story” is the correct term. I mean something like this example created with ArcGIS StoryMaps.
I don’t know a theme like that, but yes you can build that kind of web site/web page with Hugo. Shortcodes will help you, but in first I recommend the introduction page about Hugo templating.
Hugo can absolutley generate all the content and html structure you’d need for somrthing like that, but you’ll need some fairly advanced knowledge of css to implement the look and feel.
The example you gave is all rendered in js, Next.js I think, but you could do this with just html and css.