In reality, The Blair Witch Project was the work of two independent filmmakers, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. It wasn't even one of those "based on a true story" deals where the true story turns out to be highly embellished but still based on something that allegedly happened to "a friend of a friend" before Hollywood got involved - every single thing about the "legend" of the Blair Witch was complete fiction. Burkittsville is a real town in Maryland, but it was never known as Blair. Eileen Treacle, Robin Weaver, and Rustin Parr were all fictional (Parr's name was derived from a near-anagram for Rasputin). The book The Blair Witch Cult never existed. That elaborate mythology we just recounted? All completely made up. Donahue's mother contacted Haxan Films to examine and help piece together the footage in order to figure out what had happened to her daughter and her friends. Forensic examination of the site indicated that the soil and rocks above and around the site of the discovery had not been disturbed previously, making the equipment an out-of-place artifact whose presence at the site could not be explained by conventional scientific and forensic knowledge.Īfter examination by the police, the tapes were handed over to the parents of the missing persons. Their tapes, film reels, and cameras, along with Donahue's journal, were discovered a year later by a University of Maryland anthropology class on a trip to the area, buried beneath the foundation of a hundred-year-old house. They were never seen again, a manhunt aided by over a hundred men and even a spy satellite producing nothing. With this legend in mind, after interviewing the locals Donahue, Williams, and Leonard head out into the woods to visit the sites of the murders and disappearances.
Parr confessed to the murders, claiming that "an old woman ghost" told him to kill the children, and he was soon tried, sentenced, and executed. One boy who Parr had spared, Kyle Brody (who subsequently went insane from the experience), told police that Parr had forced him to stand in the corner of the cellar and face the wall while Parr tortured and killed a girl behind him. On May 25, 1941, a hermit named Rustin Parr walked into a store and confessed that he was "finally finished." Police searched his house, where they found the missing children ritualistically disemboweled. From November 1940 to May 1941, seven children were abducted.The bodies mysteriously vanished before they could be properly recovered. The first search party, meanwhile, was found weeks later at Coffin Rock ritualistically murdered, disemboweled with their arms and legs tied together and strange markings carved into their faces and hands. Weaver was found alive three days later, having returned to town with a story of an old woman whose feet never touched the ground. The first search party sent out to find her also went missing. In 1886, a nine-year-old girl named Robin Weaver went missing.Her body was never recovered, and the creek was subsequently clogged with oily bundles of sticks that rendered it unusable as a source of drinking water for nearly two weeks afterwards. Eleven witnesses claimed that they saw a hand reach out of the water and pull her under. In 1825, a ten-year-old girl named Eileen Treacle vanished in Tappy East Creek.
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The town of Burkittsville was founded on the site in 1824, and over the next two hundred years a series of strange disappearances plagued the town: Nevertheless, in 1809 a book titled The Blair Witch Cult was published about the incident, though conveniently enough, only a single, badly-damaged copy still exists, in the hands of a private collector.
Over the next two years, half of the town's children, including all of Kedward's accusers, vanished, and by the end of 1786 the remaining townsfolk, deciding that Kedward had cursed the town, abandoned it and vowed never to speak her name again. She was found guilty of witchcraft and banished from the town of Blair, presumably dying of exposure in the harsh winter. In February 1785, an elderly woman named Elly Kedward was accused of witchcraft by several children, who claimed that she had attempted to lure them into her home and drain their blood. Williams, and Joshua Leonard, ventured to the town of Burkittsville, Maryland (formerly known as Blair) to produce a documentary about a local legend, the Blair Witch. In 1994, three student filmmakers from Montgomery College, Heather Donahue, Michael C. 3.1 Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000).
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