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[ Woman Narrating ]
In 1785, several children...

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in the township
of Blair, Maryland,

accused Elly Kedward
of witchcraft.

She was found guilty
and banished
in the middle of winter.

It was assumed
she died from exposure.

The following year,
all of her accusers...

and half the town's
children had vanished.

Fearing a curse,

the entire township fled
as soon as the weather broke...

and vowed never
to utter the name...

Elly Kedward again.

[ Man ]
You look a little blurry.
Let me zoom out on you.

Okay.
Okay ?

More.
Okay, I got you.
Got it ?

This is my home,
'Kay.

Oh--
which I am leaving the comforts
of for the weekend...

to explore the Blair witch.

Well, Heather was probably...

one of the two or three
best students...

that I've had
the pleasure of teaching.

She was committed.
She was energetic.
She was very creative.

She was someone who,
I think,

reminded me of myself
really a lot at her age.

She was looking to develop
and find her voice.

Plus, she was
interested in documentaries,

which my own background
is in documentaries.

I met Heather in high school.

I met her when I moved...

to Montgomery County,
Maryland.

She was one of the first
people that I actually met.

Just met her
in passing in the hallway.

And then we were
in a play together.

And, uh, that's how
we really became acquainted.

She was this
tiny little thing that--

First go in and, of course,
Mom was there...

and the baby's been brought up
for the first time.

I stick my arms out to go
pick her up, and--

"Careful, careful,
you'll break her !"

I said, "I didn't break
the others. How am I going
to break this one ?"

So, uh, I picked her up
and held her and--

I guess for an hour or so
before I gave her back to Mama.

She had submitted
a proposal to me...

to do
a short documentary on...

the legend of Blair Witch.

It was something
I had never heard of before,
to tell you the truth--

[ Heather ]
We're doing a documentary...
Yeah.

about the Blair witch.
Oh !

Oh, have you heard
of the Blair witch ?
That's an old, old, old story.

As I remember--
[ DeCoto ]
Here was a legend...

that had developed
in this area over the course
of couple of centuries.

Whenever a particular
bad sequence of events
happened in this community,

there seemed to be a tendency
to blame it on Blair Witch,

who apparently was a woman
who had been cast out...

during the colonial era
as a witch.

It seemed like
a great opportunity
to interview people...

who had been
passing down this legend
for a couple of centuries.

[ Heather ]
Could you just run it
for a couple of feet for me,

so that we can check
that it's okay ?
Sure.

Joshua was more glitz.

He thought it would be cool
to be in the film business.

He was not willing,
I don't think,

to do the kind of work
that was really necessary...

to develop a voice.

I think Heather and Josh were
really sort of polar opposites
in a lot of ways,

but clearly,
they liked each other.

I didn't know Heather
very well. I think--

I guess I really
only met her once.

And that's when
she was talking about...

the Blair Witch documentary
and going into the woods...

and wanting Josh
to be a part of that.

[ DeCoto ]
They collaborated
on several projects together.

I mentioned to her a couple
of times that I was concerned...

that his--
some of the negative
aspects of-of his--

um--

really lack of-of commitment
and energy would...

perhaps be negative
for her, but...

it turns out that
they did like working together.

It didn't really go over
too well, because I remember
we fought about it...

before he left.

And I mean, I feel
really badly about that now,

because, I mean,
we argued horribly.

But I just had this--
I just had this feeling.

I didn't want him
to go off with her.
It was just something about...

her that rubbed me
the wrong way.

It was just
instinct, I guess.

I didn't want him to go off
for the whole weekend.

So what's up ? Are you happy
with the way the documentary
is going ?

Yes, I am.
Yeah.
Yeah ?

And I'm very pleasantly
surprised by our little Mikey.

"Our little Mikey" ?
[ Laughs ]
Little Mikey.

When he was a little kid
he was a pain in the, uh,
you know.

He was a pain. He was, uh--
He was really, uh,

always pushing
my parents' buttons.

Um, sort of the devil
with the halo on his head.

We had the Golden Rule
of no cursing in the house,

and, of course,
he'd have to walk by and
slip out the little ones.

Nothing bad, but he was always
sort of, you know, on the side.

And, you know, they'd catch it
and then you'd catch it.

So he was always
that kind of character.

I-I met him
a couple of times, actually.

Josh used to go with Mike
to go drinking and stuff and--

Um, but I wouldn't say
I knew him really well.

The last night I saw him
he was excited.

He was really happy
with himself.
He came into the house.

He was all packed and ready
to go for the next day.

And we sat down. We had
a cup of coffee together...

and-and we talked about
the whole-- the whole thing.

He really didn't know too, too
much about it. That's what
they were going to find out.

But it was something he really
felt that he loved doing--

you know, doing the sound
equipment stuff, and--

You know, I just told him
to go out and be happy.

Make yourself something.

[ Mike ] I could help you, but
I'd rather stay here and record.
Okay.

[ Heather ] Packs are on.
We're ready to go.
Let's rock.

We gotta go up
to the shack ? The shanty ?
[ Heather ] Yeah.

Wow.
[ Clanging ]

[ Josh ]
Yeah, that can help the--
Oh, my God.

The search of the three missing
Montgomery College students...

continues
in Frederick County tonight,

as dozens of volunteers
and state officials
join local forces...

in what has now become
a full-scale search
of the Black Hills area.

Local officials, combined with
over 100 search volunteers,

have failed
to come up with any signs
of the three missing filmmakers.

Montgomery College
film students Heather Donahue,

Michael Williams
and Joshua Leonard...

were reportedly shooting
a school project...

about a local myth
called the Blair Witch.

At this time,
their whereabouts
are still unknown.

[ Heather ]
Josh feels it's necessary
to look at the map now,

even though I know where
we're going, and we're going
straight up there.

If you'd known where we're
going, we wouldn't be hiking
like--

[ Josh ] We're in
the middle of the woods--
Some of it is off-trail hiking.

I have harbored some guilt...

because, as I looked back
over the proposal later,

I realized that I had
neglected to notice that...

Heather had suggested
going into the woods...

for a couple of days,
working on the film.

We started to wonder
the next day,

and my parents
started panicking.

And for weeks after that
it was just numb.

I don't really remember feeling
too much other than numbness.

[ Woman ]
When I saw her mother,

that's--
[ Sighs ]

that was probably
the first time I really felt it.

And I started to cry.

[ Narrator ]
The only piece of evidence
found by police...

was Joshua Leonard's car...

parked on Black Rock Road.

Uh, we checked the car over
completely. Never found
any clues with the vehicle.

We checked with witnesses that
may have seen the film students,

and never could--
we could never locate 'em.

The Black Hills search
of three missing filmmakers
has been called off.

Ten days and thousands
of man-hours have been
unable to produce...

any clues to the cause
of the mysterious
disappearances.

Family and friends
of the Montgomery College
graduates...

are holding on to the hope
that someone or something
will provide some answers.

Well, when the story turned
into a really big story,

I went to the sheriff's office
and I tried to talk with him,

and he's really been no help.

I mean, it's, uh--

I-I joined
the search party, and...

I called when we didn't find
anything on the search party,

and I told him I thought
we should still keep lookin'...

because I know
there are clues out there.

I still go out and I still look,
and I know there's something
out there.

He's talked to me
a few times, but I--
He just doesn't--

He doesn't want to hear
anything I have to say.

[ Woman ] December 12, 1994:
[ Fulcher ]
"Dear Sheriff Cravens,

"I have tried repeatedly
to reach you on the phone,

"but you have not returned
any of my calls.

"You and I both know
the history of Burkittsville...

"and the events that
have earned our town
its peculiar reputation.

"Past events have proven
that something evil resides...

"in the Black Hills
that surround us--

"the same Black Hills that
those three young people
hiked into a few months ago...

"and never came back from.

"I urge you to look to the past
for the answers you seek.

Sincerely, Dottie Fulcher."

They won't tell me anything.
That's why there's this...

feeling that I have that
they know more than they're
willing to talk about.

I think that they don't want
to admit that they saw her
and that's she's there.

You know, Elly is not
very far from any of us
at any time,

and she chooses
her time to appear.

And... they just don't
want to acknowledge that.

My name is Luken Johnson,
and I'm a witch.

Witchcraft is basically
a science.

You have a delineation
between paganism...

or polytheistic religions--
more than one god--

and witchcraft,
which is a scientific study
of energies and materials.

By the power of air,
I bless and consecrate thee.

From the goddess to the god,
soon would it be.

Wiccanism is a new religion.

What you got to understand
here, man, is...

we lost most of the records
for what would be
considered witchcraft...

throughout the latter part
of the 1700 to 1800s...

and a lot beforehand
with the "burning times,"
as we refer to it.

Bring out Elizabeth Selwin.

[ Johnson ] These are when
people were tortured and
killed-- the Salem witch hunts.

A simple case of bad bread--
the grain in the bread--
caused "hallucinogenics."

You get a bunch of kids
hallucinating that someone
is making fun of them...

or torturing them, then,
of course, parents are going
to react in a protective manner.

Before you know it, people are
dying by the hundreds because
so-and-so did something evil.

- Witch !
- [ Spits ]

[ Crowd Clamoring ]
Burn ! Burn !

[ Johnson ]
Most of the time it wasn't
anything to do with evil.

These were people that were
trying to help through either
natural lore, herbalism,

any kind of medicine
that may not have been
standard practice.

- Burn the witch !
- [ Crowd Clamoring ]

But by the Revolutionary War,

these trials, which were
quite common at the time,

had somewhat faded out,
and witchcraft had--

was a thing of the past,

except in the rural areas.

And there we had
a lot of superstition
among the populations,

and people still
practiced witchcraft.

Two examples come to my mind--

one being a 1786 case...

of the Blair witch of Maryland;

the other one being
the Bell witch
of Adams, Tennessee, in 1817.

Now, while both of these cases
are interesting academically,

I find the Blair witch
of Maryland the most colorful.

[ Josh ]
What's your take on
the Blair witch at this point ?

Do you think she exists ?
I don't know.
I don't know.

[ Heather ]
This is Burkittsville,
formerly Blair.

It is a small,
quiet Maryland town,

much like a small,
quiet town anywhere.

I'm Bill Barnes.
I'm the executive director...

to the historical society
here in Burkittsville.

I've been that
for quite a few years and
am known as the town historian.

And, I've tried to keep up
with our history and make it...

be alive to the people
that come behind me.

Burkittsville was actually
founded on another old town
by the name of Blair.

And it was founded here
in 1734 to protect the western
approaches to Baltimore...

from attack
by the Indians and so forth.

But it died out
because of a witch.

Her name was Elly "Kedwards,"

and she took a bunch
of the children--
kidnapped them--

and carried them off
into the woods,
and they never found them again.

And the people became very
afraid and they pulled up
and left and abandoned the town.

And it stayed
abandoned for 40 years.

[ Narrator ]
Though records from this period
of history are scarce,

this registry
of the seafaring vessel
The Reliant...

shows that a woman
named Elly Kedward,

the woman history
has labeled as the Blair witch,

did in fact sail
from Ireland to Baltimore...

in the summer of 1769.

The Blair Witch story
begins like...

all other witch stories--
with an old, haggard lady.

And in this particular case,
she was a Catholic...

living in a predominantly
Protestant community.

The story goes that
she had bled a few children,

and by the pinpricks,

probably because of some sort
of illness that she detected...

or something
to that effect.

The children went back and
reported it to their parents.

This is, of course,
at that time an early sign
of witchcraft.

She was tried, summarily
convicted and banished.

The winter she was banished
was supposedly the worst ever,

and no one knows
what happened to her.

She was left by herself
out in the woods.

What they did was
they blindfolded her,
took her out into the woods--

and this was in the middle
of the winter--

tied her to a tree
and left her,

where she soon succumbed
to the elements.

The following year,
the young lady who was
her first accuser...

and most of the other children
who were her accusers...

and children of the village
vanished throughout
the course of the winter.

By the end of the winter,
over half the town's children
had disappeared.

Immediately, the townspeople
blamed these disappearances...

on Elly the Witch.

The people simply vacated
the area-- they left.

They abandoned the community,
and they never spoke about
the incident again.

[ Man ] "As he related to me,
he had lived in a small town
40 miles to the north.

"The place had been abandoned,
he told me, as it had come
under a curse.

"The well-built homes
that still stood there
were boarded up and empty,

"with no sign as to why
their denizens had chosen
to leave so abruptly.

"This man had heard
that the town had been
cursed by a witch.

"And he claimed he had seen
a cemetery full of
the gravestones of children.

But whether that is true
or not, I could not say."

[ Narrator ]
In 1809, a rare book
about the occurrences...

surrounding the Blair Witch
legend was discovered.

Entitled
The Blair Witch Cult,

this tome is supposedly
a collection...

of firsthand accounts
that illustrate the effects...

of the infamous Blair witch.

And the book is filled
with bloodletting,

all kinds of bloody gore,
witchcraft, paganism--

Basically it's a pack of lies.
Don't believe any of it.

But the people of the time
did believe in it.

[ Man ] "The awful hag
wrenched the boy's head
from his writhing body,

"and defiled the church
with his warm blood.

"It was then
that I noticed a dog's teat
had sprouted from her leg.

"She controlled
the animals in the forest,
even the trees...

"seeming to do her bidding.

"When she walked,
she didn't touch the ground.

"And her followers
made a horrible mulch...

of the countless dead
littering the streets."

The Blair Witch Cult,
by Anonymous, 1809.

It was about the Blair witch,
and it was pretty true--

pretty factual book about
what really happened here.

But the Maryland Historical
Society wanted it back,

and they took it over--
almost over-- my dead body.

But I couldn't keep it
because it did belong to them.

Thirty-eight years later,
a chance encounter...

resurrected the abandoned
township of Blair.

They were building a railroad
through here, and the gentleman
building the railroad...

was out ridin'
his horse and got lost,
stumbled up on an old road,

and it led into what
was Blair at the time.

He had a friend named Burkitt,
and Mr. Burkitt was a developer,

and he talked him into coming
here and developin' this area,

and he named it
Burkittsville.

The town was actually
formed about 1824,

and right about a year after
that, the crops had come in.

Wheat was mostly
what the farmers grew there.

And the crops were in and
they decided to have a picnic
down on the local creek.

[ Woman ]
"Tappy East Creek has been
possessed by a demon.

"Since Ilene's horrible death,
a fortnight passed.

"The creek has been polluted
by a foul oil and an abundance
of strange totems.

Mary Johnson, 1825."

[ Woman Chanting ]

[ Moorehouse ]
There was an incident
that occurred...

involving a young child
by the name of Ilene Treakle.

This little girl was playing
in a very shallow stream
of water, and she drowned.

That creek was real shallow.

It was only probably
six to eight inches deep.

A child could just wade across
or crawl across there, really,
it was so shallow.

Well, supposedly,
according to the story,

there was 12 witnesses
who observed...

a ghostly white hand...

come up out of the water and
drag the child under the water.

That's all they could see.
Nobody ever saw a face or body.

All they remember seeing
was the arm and the hand.

And before they could
get to her, she had went
and pulled her down.

She went under
the rocks and the mud,
and everything was calm again.

[ Moorehouse ]
But I have a problem
with this story.

How is it that 11 people
happen to be in the right place
at the same time...

to simultaneously see this
ghostly hand come up and drag
this child under the water ?

The river is searched.
Now, unfortunately you're
talking about knee-deep water.

It's only two or three feet
at the maximum.

Her body should
have easily been found.
It's never found.

I think that in the case...

of the Ilene Treakle story...

is that there's
another explanation,

that perhaps it was something
like parental neglect.

Someone wasn't
watching the child,
and the child drowned.

[ Narrator ]
For the first time
in recorded history,

a death is blamed
on the Blair witch.

The news of it spreads
as far as Baltimore,
sparking this reaction.

[ Man ]
"Dear Sir: I find myself
forced to write this letter...

"upon the atrocity
I found within your pages
this Sunday past.

"I've never seen
such callousness shown towards
the death of a young child,

"especially one
who was taken from this world
in such a terrible manner.

"As to your humorous view
of the beliefs
of her parents...

"that she was murdered
by a ghost,

"I remind you that
there have been many reports
of such terrible specters...

"witnessed
in the nearby townships.

"Whether or not these wild tales
are true is incidental.

"The fact remains
that a young girl
has tragically drowned,

"and her memory should not
be tarnished by such wild
and torrid speculation...

"over the manner of her death.

Sincerely,
Eugene Robertson."

The river, according
to what we've been told
through written records,

then turns oily and has
a bunch of stick figures...

floating into it
for the next week.

No one can use the river
for any kind of water,
for food or drinking.

It's totally unusable.

After that the people wouldn't
even go near the creek.
They wouldn't fish in it.

They didn't swim in it.
They didn't do anything in it.

Because it just scared them
completely to death, and they
blamed that on the Blair witch.

[ Man ]
"May, 15, 1829: Delivered
twin calves this morning.

"I'm moving the entire herd
to the fallow pasture...

"because three cattle died
from drinking creek water.

"I'm using the pond instead.

Lloyd Wellens,
Farming Journal."

[ Moorehouse ]
And the town again
kind of returned to normal...

one more time.

"They went into the woods
prepared to find death.

"What they found was
a desecration of humanity...

"at the site which trappers have
referred to as 'Coffin Rock.'

On top of the rock formation--"

There was a lady lived there
in town when I was a boy.

She was 50 years old
when I knew her,

and she told me
when she was a little girl...

she had been walking
in the woods one day,
and this lady appeared to her--

and she wasn't walking;
she was floating
in the air, really--

and took her by the hand
and led her to an old house
back in the woods.

And took her down in the
basement and left her there
and said she'd be back.

And she left and
the little girl sat there,
she said, for several hours.

And finally, she got scared.
She was able to crawl
through a window...

and ran back to town.

But in the meantime, the town
had started to search for her.

They sent out a search party
to look for her in the woods.

But it's plausible here
that this little girl...

was only telling a story...

of the Blair witch
as she had heard it from, maybe,

her parents,
her siblings or her friends.

But what is strange
about this case was that
the first search party...

that had gone out
to look for the little girl
had vanished.

[ Narrator ]
When the entire search party
failed to return,

another search party
was dispatched to find them.

What they found was a massacre.

[ Barnes ]
And that search party come up
on Coffin Hill or Coffin Rock...

and found those men.

[ Moorehouse ]
The first search party
had been killed,

laid out on a flat rock
in the woods.

They had been disemboweled,
and on their faces,
hands and feet...

were carved
these strange pagan symbols.

[ Barnes ]
And they were heavily
cut in by the ropes,

so they were alive
when they were tied up.

And somebody had disemboweled
every one of them...

and cut some letters
and stuff in their foreheads.

Very good-- It wasn't crude.
You could read what was there.

It was all
symbolic-type stuff,

and it scared them
very bad,

like most it would anybody.

I couldn't have
stood there very long.

Their bodies were in a severe
state of decomposition.

So the search party
goes back to get help,

and when they return,
the bodies have vanished
without a trace.

[ Barnes ]
But they could still smell
death in the air,

which where men die
or women die...

that you can always
smell that.

And there was
no sign of them there.

Now, you notice there
has been an interval..

of about 60 years
in between these events.

And if we move forward to 1940,
which is about 60 years,

we find another
interesting situation...

happens in this
very same area.

[ Heather ] There are
an unusually high number
of children laid to rest here,

most of whom passed
in the 1940s.

Yet no one in the town
seems to recall anything
unusual about this time,

to us, anyway.

Yet legend tells
a different story,

one whose evidence
is all around us,

etched in stone.

As I remember,
Mr. Parr was an old hermit.
[ Heather ] Right.

And he lived up on the mountain.
He had a place up there. It'd
been there a long, long time.

Sort of in the winter, I guess--
The fall or the winter 1940,

some of the young kids
started to disappear,

and nobody-- nobody knew
anything about why they were--
why they were disappearing.

Finally, one day old Mr. Parr
come down into the market...

and said,
"I'm finally finished."

And what did he
mean by that ?
I guess nobody knew at first,

but the police finally
went up on the mountain,

and they searched his house
and they found the bodies
of seven kids from the area.

Wow.
And those were the seven kids
that were missing.

And then they brought them
out of the woods one at a time.

It just was a terrible thing.
It just tore the community up.

Each of them had again
been disemboweled.

There was again reported
strange markings of carvings
on their hands,

on their foreheads--
ritualistic carvings,
if you will.

Well, Rustin Parr
admitted to this crime.

And in the court
he said that...

the reason he killed
the children is that
he was doing...

what this old lady ghost
had told him to do.

Now, it's possible
that this man...

was trying to fit himself...

into the mythos
of the Blair Witch,

but that's conjecture.

[ Narrator ]
One child, Kyle Brody,

would escape
from Parr's clutches.

He was able to give testimony,
and it was his words...

that decided the fate
of the Burkittsville Killer.

[ Gavel Pounding ]
[ Man ]
Order ! Order !

[ Man ]
And ladies and gentlemen,
I once again quote Kyle Brody:

"He told me to stand
in the corner
and face the wall.

"I could hear Emily screaming.
He was cutting her.

"I looked. He was cutting
a symbol on her face.

"Sometimes he would come up
to me, 'Do you hear her ?

"Do you hear the woman's
voice ?' I would cry.

"After a few days,
he killed her.
He cut her open.

"And after he took everything
out of her, he left with her...

"and I never saw her again.

"When he came back,
he told me not to be sad,

that he'd bring
someone else back soon."

[ Narrator ]
They burned Rustin Parr's house
to the ground that night.

He was hanged
four months later,

on November 22, 1941.

[ Gallows Doors Open ]

I had a tape one time
of a television--
of a newsreel...

showing him where
he was murdered--

he was killed for murdering
those seven boys.

[ Man Over Speaker ]
Why did you do it, Mr. Parr ?

I heard voices in my head.
What kind of voices ?

A woman's.
Whose voice, Mr. Parr ?

No idea who it was.
Was it Satan ?
Was it the Blair witch ?

Could've been.
How did you kill
the children, Mr. Parr ?

With knives.
Were you alone
in the killings ?

Yes.
How did you get
the children into the woods ?

Promised them things.
What kinds of things ?

Candy.
Did you kill other children
that we don't know about ?

No.
Over here,
Mr. Parr.

Mr. Parr,
why those seven children ?

That's what
the voices told me.

Mr. Parr, the writings
on the wall in your house,
what do they mean ?

What were the writings
on the wall, Mr. Parr ?

Did you write those ?
Did you write on the walls ?
No.

Who wrote
on the walls, Mr. Parr ?

[ Man #2 ]
You've been sentenced to death.
Do you feel this is fair ?

Yes.
Mr. Parr, do you think
God has forgiven you ?

Yes.

Have you asked
the priest for absolution ?
Yes.

Members of your family
been to see you ?
No.

[ Reporters Clamoring ]
Mr. Parr ! Mr. Parr !

[ Girl Gasping, Shrieking ]

[ Shrieking Continues ]

What ?
Nothing.
I don't know why...

you have to have every
conversation on video.

Tape some ambience.
We're making a documentary.

No about us getting lost.
We're making a documentary
about a witch !

I have a camera.

Doesn't hurt, 'cause we'll
look back on this and laugh
heartly. Believe me.

So we're working over there,
and all of a sudden...

I hear kind of a commotion
from the other side
of the foundation.

And I hear, like,
rocks banging together.

And we kind of ran
around the side,
and apparently what happened...

was that Pete was removing
a stone, and a section
of the wall just caved in.

Nobody was hurt.
This was only--

This section of the wall
by this time was only about four
or five feet off the ground.

And so I checked and nobody
was injured and I told them,
clear this out a little bit.

And about 20 minutes later,
Pete comes running up...

and he's got this dirty, old,
like, a backpack in his hand.

By the way they had located
those,

it appeared the stones had been
there...

for many, many years
and had not been disturbed.

So it makes you wonder
how someone had removed
those stones...

forensically--
in other words, stone by stone,

carefully not
disturbing them...

and then putting them back
in the same exact order...

that they were
originally in the ground--

uh, makes you wonder why
they were hiding them there.

Certainly not
for someone to find them,

'cause they would stay there
for years and years more...

if they hadn't have done
that anthropology dig.

[ Man ] What I recognized
real quickly were a couple
of 16-millimeter film cans.

And there was also
what looked like some
videotape cartridges in there.

This had nothing
at all to do...

with colonial period stuff.

And so, I called the sheriff.

Footage was found allegedly...

that was filmed
by the three students.

I contacted the local color lab.
We got it developed,
and I reviewed the film.

And all I found
was the students themselves,

some scary noises
in the woods at night...

and a few examples of that,

but no concrete evidence
on what happened
to the students.

[ Footsteps ]

Listen.

Hello ?
Hello ?

It's all around us.

This backpack was found...

in sterile soil, which is like
the bottom of the site.

It's just-- You know,
from there to the middle
of the earth is just dirt.

The original house
at the site had burned down,

and so there was a layer
of ash that was like sitting...

in the interior
of the house,
like the basement.

So this knapsack
had been in sterile soil...

with no evidence
around it of disturbance.

Over the top of it was
an undisturbed layer of ash.

And the whole thing
was boxed in by...

basically a colonial-era wall
that was undisturbed.

It was--
[ Stammering ]
Even a forensic expert...

could not have
put that thing into the site
without disturbing...

the charcoal, the wall
or the sterile soil.

It was as if it materialized.
And, of course, that's not
the language of science,

so I can't--
I just don't know what
to say about this, really.

[ Sighs ] At the time
that the footage was found,
it was-- it was scary.

It was very, very eerie.

And it's not something
that I'd really want to look at.

To tell you the truth,
I-I've kind of avoided it.

Uh, I really don't--
I don't feel too comfortable...

with seeing the last few days
of my brother's life on video.

I really just don't feel
too comfortable with that.
It's very eerie.

Well, when they found...

this videotape or film or
recordings of whatever it was,

immediately the Blair Witch
business emerged...

and people became
superstitious.

And they said, well maybe this
is connected to the Blair witch.

Well, I thought
it was kind of fishy myself.

I looked at the whole thing
as possibly a hoax or whatever.

But-- But it was
still strange.

After reviewing the film
I still thought it was a hoax.

Well, there's always
that possibility, but, uh--

I-I think, like I mentioned
earlier, I think it would be
remote that it's a hoax...

because of the way
the tapes were hidden, and...

the-the fact that it--

Just to view the tapes,
they are very realistic.

And they do-- The tape is from
a time period the students...

would have been able
to have taped it.

[ Screaming ]
Oh, God ! God !
[ Whimpering, Panting ]

[ Mike ]
Hurry up !
I'm coming !

My boots aren't laced.

Oh, my God, what the
[ Deleted ] is that ?

What the [ Deleted ]
is that ?

[ Whimpering ]
[ Shouting,
Screaming ]

The case of the Black Hills
disappearances has
once again been closed.

The investigation was reopened
last October after film reels
and videocassettes,

supposedly belonging
to the three missing
film students,

were found
by a Maryland University
anthropology class.

Frederick County police
officials declared today that...

the found footage
was inconclusive...

and that all possible leads
on the case have been exhausted.

Heather Donahue,
Joshua Leonard
and Michael Williams...

disappeared in 1994
while shooting
a documentary film project...

in the Black Hills area
near Burkittsville.

The three student filmmakers
are still missing.

Uh, Burkittsville has only
got myself and one deputy.

We did the best we could.
We called in the county
authorities early,

and we contacted the FBI later
for more in-depth searching.

And I hate to publicly criticize
someone in law enforcement.

I was in law enforcement
for 32 years.

I just saw that
there were things, maybe,

that could have been done
that weren't done.

I did a very good job.

Well, it seems
like that the-the--

That this-- something happens
about every 50 or 60 years...

to make
the Blair Witch theory
continue on.

And I think that's probably
what the cameramen are doin'.

They were hopin' to carry it on
in some way, and maybe they did.

They may have disappeared.
Who knows for sure ?

But, uh, it's just
strange that...

it always happens
almost in a 50-year pattern...

that she somehow surfaces
or something surfaces
that leads to her.

I think they knew the legend,
but I don't think they knew
the whole history.

I don't think
they felt, uh...

any fear, but I don't think
they felt any kind of respect.

I think to them
it was just another project.

Uh, it was
a way to get a grade.

And, uh,
I think they met her.

And I think she met them
when she was ready to.

And I think they're gone.

[ Sobbing ]
I am so, so sorry...

for everything
that has happened.

Because, in spite of what
Mike says now, it is my fault.

Because it was my project.

Everything had to be my way.

And this is where
we've ended up.

And it's all because
of me that we're here now--

hungry and cold...

and hunted.

I think it's unexplained.

I think it remains unexplained
what happened to them.

In my law enforcement career,
I've seen people that
have actually decided to...

disappear on their own
and reestablish a new identity.

There was no reason in this
case to do that and there's
no indication that they did.

There's never been
any evidence found...

to show that they're--

that they fell upon foul play,
that they're no longer living.

Uh, so it's something
in between,

or certainly, in the very least,
something very suspicious.