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In the offices of Discovery America, senior producer Tom Betiger opened a package from Los Angeles and pulled out a videotape and a letter.

Tom Betiger put the videotape aside first, opened the letter and read it.

The package was mailed by Garcia Rodriguez, a former colleague who worked at ABC. The other party had mentioned the package before. When Garcia attended the Saint Denis Film Festival, he found someone selling a video. The photographer It was three college students who went on an expedition in Maryland, but the three disappeared, and the people who searched and rescued them only found related items and a video camera left behind.

However, the video tape in the camera was damaged and was still being repaired, so I had to cut out a part and mail it to see if it was worth it.

I also hope to help the three missing college students.

Tom Betig subconsciously felt that this was not normal, but the first thing he thought of was not to verify the authenticity, but whether the video clip was worth playing.

Many documentaries on the Discovery Channel are themselves special films under the name of documentaries.

These days, the so-called real documentaries don't have to do too much.

Tom Betig came to the workbench and played the video tape. As soon as the picture started, a subtitle appeared: This was taken from a video camera lost in the forest...

Then there is the questioning of three college students to the residents of a small town. The residents of the small town frequently mention that there is a scary Blair girl nearby, and many people have disappeared in the town over the years.

Three college students enter a mountainous woods where witches may exist...

Witches are widely spread in the West, and Tom Betig has also heard many witch stories, especially in the eastern United States, where there are many witch legends with a long history.

There is a market for this film!

Tom Betig quickly judged that it should be attractive, after all, the legend of witches is extremely popular among the people.

Three college students disappear because they are exploring the secrets of witches, what a big stunt.

What if something goes wrong later? Tom Betig didn't believe that the three disappeared because of witches, and even felt that there was something wrong with the video tape itself.

But Garcia-Rodriguez visited him specially, and he owed Garcia some favors back then, and the video tape itself was full of selling points, so it would be a pity to give it up.

It can not only return favors, but also attract viewers, it is best to broadcast it.

As for the authenticity...

Tom Betig quickly had an idea. If it was false, there would be a program called Exploring the Secrets of Witch Legends later to expose the falsity of these legends.

Only five or six minutes into the video tape, the three college students disappeared into the dense forest, and a subtitle appeared at the end, which seemed to be the address of the website.

As a senior producer of the American channel, he has a lot of power in his hands and makes decisions quickly.

Hart, come here. Tom Betig summoned an assistant and handed him the videotape: Send it to the fifth program team and tell them that we will be on the show this week.

The assistant named Hart took the tape and immediately went to the fifth program group.

Tom Betig took out Garcia Rodriguez's letter and read it again, then went to a secluded part of the corridor, called Garcia, and the two chatted for a long time, and agreed to go to Los Angeles on business Get together.

On an ordinary weekend, after dinner, Kirkland went outside for a walk. When he returned home, he turned on the TV, connected to the cable station, switched to his favorite Discovery Channel, and waited until the new episode of Discovery Investigation was broadcast.

This is a mystery-seeking program. The previous episodes have talked about the Bermuda Triangle, Pirates of the Caribbean treasures, ferocious great white sharks and Amazon piranhas, etc., which are quite attractive.

Because he likes this show very much, Kirkland specifically checked it on the Internet. The ratings of the show are quite good. Not long after it started broadcasting, the audience reached over two million.

For a documentary-type show on a cable station, this is quite an achievement.

Hi everyone, I'm Carrie Byron, welcome to this episode of Exploration and Investigation...

When the time came, the show started on time. The blond hostess wearing a cowboy hat stood in front of a dense forest and said, Look behind me. There is an old stone tablet standing in front of this forest. The text on it is a warning.

The camera zoomed in, and the text engraved on the stone tablet was faintly visible: Beware of witches, stay away from the woods!

The hostess pointed to the inscription behind the words, and said: This stele was erected in 1824, and the inscription is Mr. Johnson-Sitton, the first mayor of Brune, Maryland. According to many legends on the east coast, due to the church's Hunting, many witches from Europe came to North America with the colonization, and hid in the mountain forests on the east coast of the United States. So far, there are many witches in Maryland, Delaware, Phrygia, Massachusetts, etc. The names and stories of witches, among which the Blair Witch is a very well-known and popular one.

Seeing this, Kirkland was very interested. This episode was obviously about witches. Although his family was in the west, he had heard many legends about European and American witches since he was a child.

Even, most of the horror memories of childhood were contracted by the legend of witches.

His grandmother said that when his great-great-grandfather was still living in the middle of the country, he served as the sheriff of a small town. A gypsy woman fell in love with the daughter of a rich businessman in the town. The rich businessman despised gypsies very much and took people to kill gypsies Sai woman, who did not expect a gypsy woman to know witchcraft, put a curse on the rich businessman before she died, and the rich businessman's family became seriously ill and died one after another...

It also made him think of gypsies as bad guys for a long time.

The legend of the Blair Witch has a long history and has attracted a lot of attention.

The words on the TV brought Kirkland’s attention back to the program: “We received a video some time ago. Someone accidentally picked up the video camera and some personal items in a dense forest. After inspection, they were the relics of three missing college students. , According to people who last saw the three college students, the three wanted to explore the secrets of the Blair Witch.

The host's speech speed is accelerating: Because the video tape is still being repaired urgently, we can only edit out the intact part of the picture first...

The screen of the program changed, the host disappeared, and a video tape with severe camera shake began to play.

In October 1994, three film students disappeared in the jungle near Buzizville, Maryland, USA. At that time, they were filming a documentary about the ancient local legend Blair Witch. A year later, Their backpacks were found, and the audio tapes, Hi-8 cameras, and 16mm cameras inside clearly recorded the last journey of the three of them...

The video tape was not long, just five or six minutes, but Kirkland's eyes widened. This was obviously taken by the three college students with a DV camera. There was absolutely nothing wrong with it. They went crazy looking for the witch?

Kirkland couldn't help shivering when he thought of the legends about witches, and ran to the jungle to find the witches. Isn't that asking for trouble?

Then, another thought appeared in my mind, these three college students disappeared? Have you found it now? Even if the living can't be found, can't the dead be found?

Could it be that he met a witch?

Kirkland hurriedly made a sign of the cross on his chest.

The show is still on, but Kirkland's head is full of witches and three college students. After all, human life is at stake.

The names of the witch and the three college students lingered in his mind all night, causing Kirkland to be a little distracted on the date the next day.

What's wrong with you? Girlfriend Harry asked concerned.

Kirkland told the truth: Last night, I watched a program on the Discovery Channel. Three college students ran into the woods in the mountains to look for witches, but they disappeared.

real?

It should be true. Recalling yesterday's program, Kirkland said, Someone picked up the video of the three college students taking selfies with DV and sent it to the Discovery Channel.

Harry was very curious: Won't he be killed by a witch? I heard from my father about witches. It is said that some witches cannibalize people.

Kirkland shrugged: I don't know, the show didn't reveal more information, poor kid.

After a day of dating, when Halle came home, she met Lisa from the neighbor's house. The two chatted and walked towards the community. For some reason, Halle mentioned what Kirkland had said in the morning.

Yesterday, it was said on TV that three college students went to find a witch, but they disappeared. They were neither alive nor dead.

This is a religious country, and materialism is not the mainstream. Lisa immediately asked: Really? Which TV station's program? Witches really don't exist in the world, do they?