Exploring the Blair Witch Mythology

[@zh9664]

I was expecting him to say "this is where the foundation steps in" at any moment

[@trustypatches4042]

"strange effigies hung on nearby trees, dead college kids, time to send in the d class"

[@kingcobra2858]

And send in the mole rats.

[@bren97122]

The protagonists of horror movies such as this face off with terrifying entities and find themselves witnessing unnatural and horrific phenomena. For them, every minute is a struggle to survive. For the Foundation? Just another Tuesday at the office.

[@DynomitePunch]

@@bren97122 some kid running through the woods screaming, pumps into some dudes in swat gear wandering around with a local shaman, "OH THANK GOD YOU HAVE TO HE-" blows his head off because he doesn't have time to babysit or administer amnestics "ok, so point the way lets get this over with, we gotta be back at base in five days to help with sealing the scarlet king...again....i don't get paid enough for this, shoulda kept being a mercinary...." he says as they continue through the forest.

[@thatonegooze]

The blair witch is just another monster from the organisation from Cabin In The Woods, which is also the foundation

[@Robo-Hector]

Imagine being a kid in Maryland when this movie came out

[@Turtles21]

Fun fact: I live 15mins from Burkittsville, where it was filmed. I can't remember if the new one was filmed there, but the old was.

[@jellosapiens7261]

I live like 45 min east of Burkittsville, but I was like 3 when the movie came out, so I was of course none the wiser

[@sleepysartorialist]

LMAO I wonder if this is why my mom wouldn't let me watch it as a kid. She grew up there. Probably didn't wanna see it herself since I would have needed an adult with me at the time.

[@skylerhall1537]

My best friend had an older brother living with their dad when the movie came out about ~1hr from the town it was filmed in. He was a teen when the movie was filmed and apparently he and his friends loved hiking into the woods to make the little stick dolls and stack rocks to scare people off. Especially after the movie came out and tourists were just trampling around everyone's property 🤣

[@alanscott4846]

Tons of stuff is supposed to be haunted in and around Burkettsville, Bloody Lane, the Maryland Theater, the ghost car just off from Lightersburg, the White Lady Of Clear Spring, it's all just part of the local folklore. Since The Blair Witch is just a movie it is actually not that big a deal as a ghost story but it is kind of a big deal that a big hit movie was made in an area of small towns and dairy farms.

[@ExcaliburGamingYT]

As a person who lives in Maryland, I can confirm that there is no witch. Wait what’s that on the tree

[@miqsm]

I can second this

[@thedukeofchutney468]

I grew up in Fredrick County MD and I remember parents having to assure their kids that there was no actual witch.

[@sergersgerhersh6594]

Wrong. My mother-in-law lives there 😔

[@dravensinclair5121]

Found the cult members...

[@SeanHiruki]

Also from Maryland. No witches. But possible zombie virus might be in fort detrick

[@frightfang5235]

I saw this when I was 13 and remember asking my dad over and over, “Is this real? They marketed it as real. Are you SURE it’s not real?” Goes to show the power a story can have on an audience, depending on the presentation.

[@CynAnne1]

Mike said, during an interview, that he had to call his aunt and console her, as well as explain, repeatedly, to his family that he was very much *'not* dead'. 😂

[@frightfang5235]

@@CynAnne1 I remember seeing or reading about that later on as an adult 😂

[@dontfollowme9043]

You know, I "lent" my copy of district 9 to a friend just for him to frantically call me after 3hours asking if district 9 is real and aliens did come to earth 🤦

[@frightfang5235]

@@peitertje12 you have to understand that the found footage genre really didn’t exist the way we view it today back when this movie initially released. There was nothing to indicate in my teenage brain that the movie presented as being real wasn’t until my parents reassured me that it wasn’t. And the movie was MARKETED as a real story. It’s an easy thing to fall for when you’re literally a kid.

[@67marlins81]

@@frightfang5235 I can back you up on that, I recall the media attention really did leave the public guessing. You couldn't go anywhere that Summer without seeing a TV advertisement for the movie or in the paper, and I myself even wondered if it was real..

[@jamesnorman9160]

This has always been one of my favourite horror movies. That final scene of Heather seeing Mike just standing in the corner and she's screaming and screaming, it still gets me on a core level.

[@sigmacademy]

Third movie showed the Blair Witch several times (for a millisecond or so), and yes, it kinda looked goofy. Gave her elongated limbs. :/

[@CynAnne1]

@@sigmacademy - Although, when you realize *she's been there,* 'blending in' with the trees *the entire time* ... *that's* when the "Eek!" happens. 😨

[@Prhmangel]

Yes, this is what terrified me after I saw the original in the theater.

[@leopardcubpupkryky6940]

Favorite

[@Hugo_Golden]

Blair Witch Project (the original) is the only horror film that has ever scared me Still one of my favourite horror films to this day

[@moth8775]

The human centipede

[@akmalidham]

You should try Noroi curse

[@kingcobra2858]

I find the movie to be boring tbh. But looking at it with pseudo reality lens it is pretty dangerous.

[@TheBreadMan25]

I unfortunately haven't seen Blair witch yet (maybe this Halloween?) but I watched a play through of the most recent Blair witch video game, and that genuinely scared me/gave me the creeps. I can only assume that the movie is as creepy

[@icannotpretend5834]

Totally one of my favs too

[@Green_Guy]

These videos and game events make october the best month of the year.

[@Loneyganstagaminggansta]

Deepwoken coming soon bois

[@Iamafafr]

How is this comment 2 days old, when this video is only released 3hours ago?

[@Green_Guy]

@@Iamafafr Patreon.

[@Iamafafr]

*Chuckles* I'm in Danger

[@Loneyganstagaminggansta]

@@Iamafafr time travel

[@jonnejaaskelainen]

The real horror is the shape of the state of Maryland on the map. Seriously.

[@lunammoon8503]

The Chesapeake bay makes it sexy

[@bobcumsley6798]

Ur mad bc our flag is sexy

[@whtbobwntsbobget]

Hell yeah it's def the weirdestly shaped state. By far.

[@Rickshaw_Bohammer]

The DMV is a jungle

[@scallopohare9431]

Hmmmph! The northern boundary is part of the Mason-Dixon line. I think the west is a river. The east is the bay,and then the Atlantic Ocean, and Delaware. Maryland probably has the most varied terrain of any state.

[@adamgax7374]

I would simply call her mommy and then survive cause I'm built like that

[@africheeseyoutube]

Yo? 👀

[@martintaillon6558]

You’re just built different

[@thetasty5246]

Imagine being built different

[@ratbat1072]

You would simply not die

[@thetasty5246]

You got me there

[@Daniel-wy2kx]

I feel like this entire thing could have been avoided with copious amounts of firepower. Got a witch? Napalm. Got a lich? Napalm. Got a Windigo? Napalm.

[@backyardshenanagins1720]

People: Use Napalms *Half the fucking forest burning down Meanwhile: We got em!

[@ethannugent6704]

@@backyardshenanagins1720 forest can't be haunted if there is no forest

[@backyardshenanagins1720]

@@ethannugent6704 yeah, but then it's a haunted field.

[@Whitewolf_6969]

@@backyardshenanagins1720 not if the field gets napalmed too

[@danielzerich2179]

Got a napalm? Napalm.

[@johnuselmann2704]

This really blurs the lines between reality and fiction... very spoopy.

[@realkingtv7885]

Choazzup

[@Stonktradomus]

Very spoopy, indeed.

[@typicalrara123]

spoopy indeed

[@bigbando9437]

spoopy

[@allicide166]

Spoop-tastic

[@greatfunana6053]

You make this lore much scarier than it actually is. The current media from this film has done nothing to capture the horror and sense of dread the first film creates, especially seeing it in the theaters opening weekend before the cat was out of the bag on what happened.

[@andrewquick4176]

AGREED! This video is absolutely fantastic

[@xBINARYGODx]

Well, I originally thought that BW (prior to seeing it in theaters), was real footage, but that got spoiled for me before I went to see it (whether you got that spoiled was random - did your news talk about it? Did you engage with the internet in the late 90's like I did and dig around?), and it will still cool movie-going experience. So the real crime is not that you can have it spoiled for you, it's that you cannot do that today. THAT SAID - people believe all sorts of stupid and false shit they read online, PERHAPS you can MORE EASILY do this today.

[@toxik1769]

Just do a mainstream ARG, non-argonauts get confused and scared

[@Sara3346]

@@toxik1769 So something even more confusing than I Love Bees then? (Also, it's good to see a fellow awful hospital fan around here)

[@ryangoyette3570]

The original Blair Witch was the most effective because it was a first. I was in high school when it came out, and i remember the short period of time before it was known whether it was actual “real found footage” or not. I remember when i saw it in the theater, with the way it ended, everyone just sat quiet for a few minutes... not knowing what to think. Pretty cool.

[@realkittykatluvr]

it took me a moment to realize that this video wasnt going into detail about real events that inspired the series

[@c_amo]

it took me this comment to realize that lol

[@chriscorona1813]

this is basically the original slender man stabbing case, where people take advantage of some superstition to commit their crimes

[@TheBHNetwork]

None of these crimes are real cheif

[@dissuede6949]

@@TheBHNetwork chief* 🧐

[@vantave9946]

IIRC those girls weren't using slenderman as an excuse, one of them had real mental health issues and believed it was real, the other girl was pressured/manipulated into it by the first girl. Also nothing in this video is real lol

[@sh4rkstooth340]

One issue with that, the Slenderman case was real unfortunately

[@michaelthompson7217]

@@dissuede6949 chef

[@dnkypnch7442]

I was 13 when the original Blair Witch Project came out. My dad and I went and saw it when it was still "real." Scared the crap out of me so what does my dad do? We went camping 2 days later. Miss him.

[@leopardcubpupkryky6940]

So what

[@vunknownvictory]

Damn your dad has a balls to that?

[@zMoogii]

He loves you. Awesome father, have a great start to your week.

[@aprilransom4776]

The guy who played Mike eventually became a guidance counselor and is such a great person, he is the main reason why I was able to get through some of the hardest years of my life

[@var1an_0nline]

Wait really :0

[@ladyluna457]

That's awesome, i hope you're doing fine April 👍

[@AndreAsunte]

He seemed very warm and level-headed in interviews. Glad he was able to be a positive presence in your life👍🏾

[@leopardcubpupkryky6940]

This isn't about you though.

[@Rysysys]

@@leopardcubpupkryky6940 it's kinda funny seeing You trying hard to act like a jerk multiple times, same time as I read comments. You surely are sad man and this it pathetic way to spend time. Also sad thing that it is popular way od trolling at internet nowadays. Trying to make someone sad. Yuck.

[@rodneypayne4827]

People thought this was real which I think is the whole point.The actress that played Heather appeared in a number of TV shows as extra characters. Talented cast and crew for all of the movies, creative storytelling filled with lore, those were the days.

[@xenon3990]

Yes, spread the truth brother. For the emperor.

[@jamesbenson2090]

Given the time period and where the internet was back then I have to commend the people who came up with the marketing campaign behind the original film for how ingenius it was.

[@MrSpookyLover]

the only one ive seen again is Josh he was in a movie with Mark Duplass and also was in the thriller 'Unseen' with Claire foy its pretty good.

[@kristennoelle9447]

She owns a pot farm now in Humboldt😉

[@rodneypayne4827]

@David the films were, the mythos isn't. Every myth has a basis of fact, the event(witch origin story) may have been true, just embellished over time, people believe what they want to believe. More than likely that the people who disappeared just got totally lost, were unprepared, and died of starvation and or exposure. The Black hills area is notorious for being treacherous even to experienced hikers, with steep ravines, thick brush and old gold mine vertical shafts. It also doesn't help that there's naturally occurring magnetic rock everywhere that interfere with compasses. In a number of shots in the original movie you can see the film crew in the background, right at the edge and in the distance,breif half to one second as they step out of the lense

[@sayittomyfaceidareyou8629]

Damn why do I always come across these at night while laying down with my light off.

[@chndlr18]

You're afraid of a video talking about a movie? Weak sauce.

[@annlanzi3590]

Life hack, if you listen to these videos as you fall asleep you can’t be haunted, cus the ghosts are to scared to jump out at you lmaoo

[@alexzanteson4688]

I’m moving and have no light to turn on

[@amp4105]

@@annlanzi3590 cant be good for your mental health listening to videos like this as you sleep lool

[@annlanzi3590]

@@amp4105 I had depression anyway lmaooo. But also i’m kinda a weird. My favorite author as a kid was a tie between Oscar Wilde and Poe (I was like 10 years old) so i’m pretty numb to psychological horror lmao. My poor mom, I came up tk her once and was like “look at this book I found! It was really good!” And it was “Poe’s famous works” and it was the “fall of the house of usher” and “the tell tale heart”.

[@Z-Man7]

I love the original movie because they understood less is more when it comes to horror. I didn't bother to watch the 2016 film because it looked like they tried to Hollywood the whole thing.

[@sleepysartorialist]

Didn't Blumhouse produce that one?

[@akmalidham]

Don't bother they really hollywood it, even showed the real witch

[@michaelwilson5114]

@igor greksky I actually kinda liked that whole "voodoo doll" thing - but yeah, the film as a whole was not good.

[@xenon3990]

What about the Horror Game?

[@akmalidham]

@@xenon3990 that shit's really scary and good

[@MidnightVentures]

While i was much younger then, this movie made me scared to go into the woods for a long, long time. Not only because of the horrid witch but also how frightening the cast made getting lost in the woods seem. The hysteria and panic of that alone was played and acted well as the crew walked in circles.

[@moguera]

Fun meta fact. Elly Kedward is an anagram for Edward Kelly (or Kelley depending on how some people spell his name), the 16th Century occultist best known for his work with more well known English occultist, and adivser to Elizabeth I, John Dee (whom Lovecraft credited with being the one to translate the infamous Necronomicon into English).

[@Imbracenight]

The connection to Lovecraft is interesting! Thanks! I love learning occult history!

[@nont18411]

And Rustin Parr is you know, Rasputin

[@JARedwolf100]

He was also a known and convicted scam artist who had both his ears cut off as punishment. He met his end when he and John Dee tried to swindle the eccentric Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II who believed he was demon possessed and Kelly along with Dee claimed they could help him by creating the Philosopher’s Stone. An object said to be so powerful it can control the devil himself. Kelly threw himself from the prison tower he was locked in trying an escape when he was waiting sentencing for swindling the Emperor. He died of his injuries shortly thereafter. Dee however was banished under painful death by torture should he ever return.

[@ExxylcrothEagle]

Edward Kelly was actually Sir Francis Bacon hahahahah... just one of his many disguises !!!

[@danporter1176]

@@JARedwolf100 I thought that was Nicholas flamel

[@richardmattocks]

The BWP was the movie I spent my 1st date with my 1st proper girlfriend at. 1999 was a strange time. If you didn’t see it at the time you can’t ever really fully understand the effect it had, a bit like being there for the 1st showings of Star Wars. It changed the film landscape.

[@simonlewis3801]

True statement!

[@Z-Man7]

I watched it on VHS when I was a kid, good times.

[@sleepysartorialist]

It was the year I started high school. My mom wouldn't let me go and wouldn't go with me. I'm still mad about it lol 😂

[@chadsimmons6347]

I wanted to get it on with witch chic

[@CynAnne1]

Rich - My sister and I went to the 'Midnight Premiere' of "TBWP" the weekend it opened...and by the end of the movie, the *entire audience* was silent, until we saw Mike in the corner, and then Heather's camera hit the ground. A collective "Ohhhh..." of dismay, uttered as we realized their fate was sealed. 😨

[@gianluigijequinto]

*Gets kicked out of town* Elly Kedward: So you have chosen curse

[@anthonyporche8110]

I actually had no idea the Blair Witch Project became so extensive as a franchise with lore and mythology. Interesting.

[@ryllo2886]

The scariest Blair Witch media was the Curse of the Blair Witch documentary on SciFi that gave us the iconic terrifying tree head painting.

[@awesomesauce5974]

@@ryllo2886 yup, and then there was the computer games that came out in the early 2000s that contributed to the lore.

[@christopherwall2121]

@@awesomesauce5974 and indirectly connected the Blair Witch to Bloodrayne, and if that's not a bizarre thought, I don't know what is

[@maxwellstylo7906]

Fun fact there was an actual event in Tennessee where a family in the 1800s believed they were being haunted/ attacked by a witch named The Bell Witch.

[@LuisTheFilmHack]

She was mentioned the "The Curse of the Blair Witch".

[@dorianrawles5033]

“Are you hearin voices now Rustin?” lol damn

[@JohnSmith-lp1kd]

The great thing about this movie is it can’t happen again, I was a senior in high school the internet was still taking off (omg feel old) no one had cell phones - you couldn’t look it up it debunk it they also did that awesome 1hr special like an episode of current affair leading up to it. It’s Probably the best marketing of a movie ever

[@joyfuldude4538]

I kinda hate how nowadays you couldn’t do somethin like BW cuz it’s just so easy to check if somethin is real or not. Ruins the fun

[@starwarsnerd100]

I don’t know, people on the internet will believe anything. I’ve seen people believe creepy pastas or Slenderman or even the SCP Foundation are real

[@toadstyle101]

Yeah I remember the hype when it first came out, the internet still in it's infant stages & with the way they advertised it on their own site with a made up missing poster etc for the actors. Some thought it was real, but even though I didn't, I wanted to believe it. That adrenaline rush you get from a creepy "true" horror story back then can't be matched quite the same today. Sometimes having easy access to information isn't always a good thing, or at least as fun.

[@sleepysartorialist]

Yeah even when Cloverfield came out everyone had already learned to debunk stuff. Ruins the experience. Folks gotta suspend their disbelief and have fun.

[@legathar8558]

@@sleepysartorialist wait, are you saying there WASN'T a kaiju in the middle of New York? noooo....

[@Triumphantinwarandpeace]

Did you know someone was almost murdered because the criminal believed slender man was real so she tried to murder her friend So yeah “I kInDa hAtE” nowadays that fact checkers and people with extensive knowledge about things, rUiN shit.

[@egggnome6266]

I remember everyone playing "at what point did you realize it was fake" after watching this in '99. When it was my turn I said, "When Heather lost her cigarettes, and then later found them. No smoker would NOT be able to find their cigarettes if they're actually there somewhere." :)

[@welchsgrapejuice4094]

Goddamn right lmao ima know exactly where them damn Newport’s are or were last at and back track my steps to my cigs 🤣🤣🤣

[@AnActualRedPanda]

There is a game called Blair Witch that came out in August of 2019. A psychological experience where you play as an ex police officer with bad PTSD joining a search to find a boy that went missing in the Black Hills forest. Your character starts to lose his mind, and the lines between what is real or a trauma-related hallucination gets real blurry. Good game. Would recommend.

[@austinjohnson6642]

I was looking for a good spook ty

[@Rabbit_585]

If I remember correctly, the protag was also a war vet

[@richardhands904]

It's a boring game, that's has cheap gameplay.

[@sleepysartorialist]

Ooo can I get it on Steam?

[@jongyon7192p]

18:06 fireEmoji

[@sushiqt07]

Can we please talk about how much lore has been put into this? I mean cmon its brilliant

[@willomerzz]

I’ll always have respect for this movie and the impact it had

[@leopardcubpupkryky6940]

And what impact was that?

[@ku1747]

Hearing her story made me sad. She went through so much, poor soul

[@philipkhan7715]

*Geralt would like to know your location

[@timsandoval1745]

Feels like a witcher dlc

[@pr0phet_196]

"Burning the wooden shrines will lurk the beast out"

[@nitikasheoran9861]

I'll toss a coin in

[@a1kev]

We need dudu

[@Orbitinbloom19018]

Me thinking this was a docu until he started covering the blair witch movie as a real event

[@ns0557212]

"AWWWW Mike What are you doing in the CORNER!!!" - best line from The Blair Witch Project

[@saltyhasnochill5249]

I haven’t watched it yet does it actually say this lmao

[@ns0557212]

@@saltyhasnochill5249 yes and at not as cringy as it sounds but once you know that its SPOILER the end line said by her of the movie and also look back after watching it a few times and its so cringy and funny. Like she's screaming in a 3 story dilapidated building and sees him in the corner to stop and yell this at her friend who is in, you guessed it, the corner lol.

[@Scrooge042]

​@@ns0557212 I laughed way too hard at this, kudos man

[@ns0557212]

@@Scrooge042 thanks!

[@Giganisgreat666]

There is no baby! There is no fucking baby!

[@isaiahburnett6331]

I am so happy that you decided to cover the Blair witch project. I've always been so curious about the ins and outs of how the witch works.

[@seanfritz7999]

I was just looking for a video about everything blair witch since i just beat the game the same day you uploaded this. Some people might be unhappy with the direction the mythos went but im personally very satisfied since i grew up with this movie, i always had my own theories about the film and im so happy it was confirmed by the recent game and film.

[@skinsnation4404]

I remember watching the Blair Witch Project as a 13 year old. Scared the shyt out of me even though I lived in a different party of Maryland. In my area we had the story of the Goat Man. This is what sparked my curiosity in scary local folklore. It was genius

[@SHLVideos]

I've listened to this like 3 times in the past day, just absorbing the information. Really great job, team. I remember going to the first movie in theatre. I went back to my apartment, turned on every single light, plus the radio and the TV, and still saw a body standing in the corner of the room every time I closed my eyes for about a week.

[@Mcaark]

Horror becomes more effective when a bigger story gets told with less information. You want to make a monster less scary? Show it off completely. You want to end a mystery? Find the answer. The question of why should always exist in one form or another. Because without the question “why” the strongest fear (fear of the unknown) cannot exist. Effective horror lasts. It sticks with you. There isn’t all that match to the Blair Witch. But the story has been told like Dark Souls Lore. Peace meal. With connections unclear or even contradictory to each other. Keep the audience engaged, wondering and guessing as to what will happen next.

[@jaimebernardovg]

11:56 you say the "Foundation" My mind: call an MTF with thaumaturgic training

[@JustMe-rm2pw]

There’s a ghost story around our town than a coven of witches lives at our farm in our woods. We actually just put a bunch of spooky shit in our woods so people would stop trespassing and camping on our property.

[@wendycarter7506]

Keep doing it. Start leaving even more creepy things, like real animal skulls and ribbons in the trees. Make it so realistic people have no choice but to believe the witches are real. In time, once the legend is firmly planted, it may be recorded for all time.

[@1pgcb3]

Lmao

[@marclayne9261]

I lived in Hagerstown, in 1970s.....As I explored western Maryland....on foot & by car, things seem to change, back into the early pioneer days....

[@jaredmartinez1597]

11:55 "The bag was buried beneath the Foundation-" Me: WHAT WHAT WHAT DID SOMEONE SAY THE FOUNDATION? "-the foundation of the home" Oh

[@SwayNotZay]

I don't get it

[@postsingluarity6159]

@@SwayNotZay it's a joke on the SCP Foundation, a fictional organization/internet writing project that The Exploring Series usually covers.

[@mizi3180]

I've been in love with this mythology since childhood. Always had a thing for witches and dark forests. It could have been a wonderful franchise, hadn't it been mishandled so much. The 2016 movie was rubbish.

[@alison4786]

“Always has a thing for witches” sounds kinda sus to me

[@ladybugcowgirl3]

it was alright, not the best but definitely had some type of fear factor that gave somewhat of an adrenaline rush

[@watchmehope6560]

I enjoyed the 2016 ver. Hope we get more media in the coming years.

[@docrussian1806]

Ur scp vids are my bread and butter but these one offs u been doin are awsome.

[@suburbjorn]

I saw this movie when it first came out on video. It was horrifying and at this point we still thought it was a documentary. Also my friend who was watching it w us at my house, her mom came to pick her up and rang the doorbell while we were watching 😂😂😂 I’ve never screamed so loud

[@alexmendoza9645]

I was wondering where you were this morning hope everything's all right

[@agerestricted2549]

Things are good how about you

[@alexmendoza9645]

@@agerestricted2549 getting better every year.

[@agerestricted2549]

@@alexmendoza9645 same

[@mchjsosde]

:)

[@livingcorpse5664]

CZS World: Tell me what horror series you want me to cover next. Us: The Blair Witch Project. The Exploring Series: I'll do it.

[@CoobyPls]

Any time this subject comes up all I can think of is Meatwad from the Broodwich Episode of ATHF saying: *THE BLAIR WITCH IS HERE?!*

[@CynAnne1]

Meatwad's got a heart of gold...but the brain of a hamster. 🐹

[@surkularsinisism1989]

After I saw this movie as a kid, my mind played with me and for about a month, I would hear the “click” sounds of the stones that is heard throughout the movie. I’d always wake up in the morning and expect to see piles of stones outside of the door.

[@PleasantWhale]

17:25 In my head canon, her motives are something along the lines of her telling herself, "There's deeper meaning to my killings... No really, there totally is. I'm a totally deep person. I kill cuz uh... Cuz... Humanity bad and uhhh... Ha ha pathetic humans. Yeeeeah, I'm deep."

[@sigmacademy]

Like, reasons. ;) :P

[@PleasantWhale]

@@sigmacademy hahah, yeah. bro that's so deep tho.

[@toasttmax]

This turned me into a found footage junkie, can't get enough

[@CynAnne1]

Me too...they're one of my 'guiltiest pleasures'. 😏

[@heidihawthorne]

Hard same

[@SeanMcG]

Any recommendations? REC TBP and Grave Encounters are some of my favorites, struggled to find many nearly as good

[@toasttmax]

@@SeanMcG VHS is a particular favourite of mine, also Cloverfield

[@stevepalpatine2828]

@@SeanMcG Cannibal Holocaust. The original found footage movie. Just know the title tells you all about what you're about to see.

[@Blank55600]

Everyone saying how good October is: The moon suddenly getting bigger every night: *coming to a earth near you*

[@CynAnne1]

"If you're afraid, we can look together..." 🌚

[@shanedevine2419]

*distant screams*

[@Leighroii]

This was truly a movie that benefited from its time - the Internet was new and all the mockunentaries, the found footage style, promo interviews etc made this so real and so terrifying! They honestly struck gold! Will always be my fav horror film

[@gustajuy5983]

This certainly seems like something you’d hear in an SCP exploration log or tale.

[@Ronnie06spartan]

Great video. Love the lore of the Blair Witch series. I always thought that picture of the Blair Witch at 16:49 was creepy when I saw it when I was younger in Curse of the Blair Witch lol

[@JasonFoxTheGreat]

You missed an important piece of lore. If you have played the video games you know the "Blair Witch" is actually a demon native to the Black Hills named Hecaitomix. Also, in Book of Shadows when one of the characters is possessed by the entity it mocks another character who asks if she, or rather it is Ellie or the Blair Witch stating "is that what you think? I'm so much more."

[@leopardcubpupkryky6940]

Video games are for losers and that has nothing to do with the movie.

[@Rysysys]

Yeah, I recently refresh games and movies to myself and thought same at the end of this material - actually games extend whole mythology in brilliant way, it is makes sense. It's not just some witch alone. Didn't seen/play those in like 20 years and those could better then I remember, at least stories, including second film, especially that I know now that it's ruined not by director or scenario but by the greed of Artisan. Would love to see director's cut. And that ending in volume 1 game, maybe 30 seconds dialogue beetween Stranger and Elspeth, at first I was like "well, it's not really satisfactory ending" but then, when You realise that Elspeth could end it for good, or at least for thousand years as Asgaya said, going after Hecaitomix to make sure, and Stranger said that theres no need to... And we know that it came back to black hills becouse of the movie. And Asgaya said that he is the last one who has the knowlenge to build the Twanas. Brilliant, even tho the games were makes at hurry and doesn't got equal quality. In fact I'm thinking about making some video about those but in Polish (also sorry if that comment is not write well, by the years I learned English mostly myself ;)). Nonetheless, games should be considered as canonical for sure, and I feel that Book of Shadows also doing that, as You said.

[@PaperMario64]

The early days of the internet were beautiful. The Blair Witch creators and JJ Abrams really took advantage of those days and made their stories come alive beyond the screen.

[@alivingcoralreef609]

This video: (Exists) Me who had no idea there was a mythology for the Blair Witch: [Confused Living Reef Noises]

[@sigmacademy]

The first movie kinda hinted at it... but the lore was expanded in the video games. :/

[@phartley]

Dude, stop roleplaying in the comments..

[@big_pb]

These videos help me so much. I went through Covid and lots of family problems and your videos really helped me pull through. Thank you

[@dsagent]

I was so disappointed with the recent game. I wanted them to go into the lore more. Instead we got some guys story.

[@irateradioarchive]

The 3 volume games from 1999 were better.

[@o__math]

@@irateradioarchive oh yes, I remember in vol. I almost shitting myself back in the days. Played recently, it is so goofy, but a great game. I played a bit of vol. II but never played vol. III. So so good.

[@irateradioarchive]

@@o__math I did not like vol. III back then because the art style was a bit cartoony compared to 1 and 2 but when I replayed the games vol. III was so rich with the Blair Witch lore I would have liked it that it was canon. I also enjoyed reading a file there called Ancient Evil in the New World which talks about the history of the founding of Burkitsville and the Blair Witch legend. Seems like the place was already haunted way before Europeans arrived and the natives were frightened of the place and blamed it on evil god called Hecaitomix.

[@natwalpole2263]

Spoilers for the game: Its a really weird choice to have a protagonist who is a former soldier who accidentally got his squad killed, but also killed a non combatant, but also later was a cop who shot a kid. Like, I am sure you can make a character with any one of those backstories and deal with those themes, but its a hat on a hat on a hat. And also just not at all scary.

[@ghastlyjibberish1314]

I enjoyed the newest Blair Witch game for what it was trying to be. The game is said to be canonical with everything else in the Blair Witch universe and they were taking a huge approach to show that not only can the Blair Witch affect you physically through her manipulation of time and space, but also psychologically as she has done to Ellis for almost all of his life. The Blair Witch has always wanted Ellis ever since he first stepped into the Black Hills Forest of Maryland along with his childhood friend. They got lost in the woods and are terrorized by Carver (Ellis’ future version of himself, who succumbed to the Blair Witch’s tricks and gave in to her). Ellis’ friend is taken by the Blair Witch while Ellis somehow makes it out of the woods but not without damage to his psyche that would haunt him for the rest of his life and cause him to be impacted negatively through the rest of his life before he along with his dog Bullet finally goes back into the woods to find Peter Shannon.

[@Cory69222]

I'd actually love some kind of experimental anthology TV version of Blair Witch that serves as prequel and sequel to the film. Like one season could be a dramatized version of all the historical events. You could have a season shot found footage style similar to BW2016 but better. Like 3 or 4 short seasons that just expand on the lore and universe. I think it'd have a better shot of being better than the film sequels.

[@skxlter5747]

This movie was so scary that even Stephen king couldn't finish watching it himself

[@Bee-li8ox]

That was probably the drugs amplifying how scary it was 😂

[@Rick_Cleland]

@@Bee-li8ox 😱😱😱

[@leopardcubpupkryky6940]

Hear that on CNN?

[@mothergoldendeer176]

Down where i live, a decent sized town now, there used to be a cult back when it was a tiny town at about the turn of tge 19th century. The cult leader held up in the large forest and the name of her was black jeannet. When the cult was eventually arrested for witchcraft over a murder it all stopped. But there still is something in that forest today.

[@f1urps]

y'know, you'd be really good at creepypasta readings. You should make a channel of that kind of content!

[@TrenchMan93]

Imagine a 4th film where the whole town is abandoned and quarantined with woodland trees growing quickly in the town while black hills slowly dies? A Team of professional journalists are sent in with armed escorts as they see insane things happen including some people who shouldn’t be in town with various time period clothes. A silent hill style blair witch movie would work as a book end.

[@porkchopulator]

Y'know, I don't know if I've ever seen this movie. '99 was so long ago. This is the second time I've watched or listened to something involving the Blair Witch and the second time it's made me want to watch it.

[@thebromiester]

It's a good watch

[@sleepless9994]

DUDE! I love the content this channel has and it’s definitely going to blow up. This explained things is what I was really looking for.

[@benfrancois7856]

I liked all the Blair Witch movies and games another interesting thing about the Blair Witch is how I could possibly tie into the missing 411 phenomenon i would love to see the blair which missing 411 movie that would be awesome

[@EagerStripedTiger-og7vw]

That would be epic

[@benfrancois7856]

I know right 😅​@@EagerStripedTiger-og7vw

[@Utonian21]

I think what makes the movie so great is the fact that the lore was well thought out, the marketing made it seem real, and the film itself left so much open to interpretation, and your imagination.

[@E.K939]

The game where you venture around with you dog trying to find some child is really good.

[@mrsteralee]

The only reason I knew it was fake was because I live in Florida and the cast went to UCF. During filming they were given less and less food and sleep, also messed with so they would legit be ‘off’ and appear more frightened. Also no actual script just instruction on the scene. Best found footage movie ever. Really started the genre as far as I’m concerned.

[@car0ndelet]

Yes, I love the mythology behind the original film.

[@vitoriturriaga3468]

My personal headcanon in regards to the 2019 video game is that all the endings are canon. We already know the witch can manipulate time to the point of creating paradoxes, so it wouldn't be surprising that the video games mc is stuck in a timeloop with different outcomes.

[@jeremybuxman7555]

This mythos could fit well into Candyman's, where the idea of something calling people to be caught in the woods and scare/eat them so the story is remembered and stronger.

[@nightstreak]

A prequel or miniseries going over the backstory of everyone involved would be fantastic

[@67marlins81]

I lived in Maryland at the time, and I recall a great deal of TV advertising for the movie, it really seemed like it was creating its own momentum that Summer....

[@Darkangel-A-c8z]

The scene with he kids laughing was terrifying in the cinema with the surround sound, it doesn't come out well on the DVD. I was 23 and this film spooked me, ended up curling up next to the guy sitting next to me

[@theworldisnotending1]

Fun fact I was about ten when this came out, and my friend had me absolutely convinced that it was real. Now this isn’t all that odd ten year olds are pretty gullible and not to hard to scare but about a month after that I went camping with family and straight up the most scared I’ve ever been. Did not sleep at all the entire weekend I’d stay near the tents/ truck and every so often go make sure the road was still there. At night I’d sit in the middle of the tent with a mag light, box of batteries, and my knife basically a nervous wreck jumping at every breeze and twig snap. Probably why I’m such a calm person now.

[@brianahoneybee2487]

I really really appreciate you putting this together as if it was real and not fictional. It makes it a lot more real and interesting like the part with Blair witch movie. Ugh so good

[@PIO.X]

Well we can always Napalm Strike the whole forest with a touch of Holy Nova 6 soooo

[@darinlunderman8063]

A napalm strike wouldn't work since the Witch can alter time and space within her domain. Its even hinted that the group in the first film entered another dimension since although a search party was looking for them in the same area at the same time, neither group saw each other or even detected any sign of one another's presence. Whatever damage is done to the area in the normal world does not affect the Witch's realm in the slightest.

[@PIO.X]

@@darinlunderman8063 welp

[@ThePresidentofMars]

@@darinlunderman8063 though that may be true, i feel like this other dimenion has a gateway, like walking between any 2 trees. I personally dont see the dimension being a bubble comprising the perimeter of the woods.

[@darinlunderman8063]

@@ThePresidentofMars Well, the witch apparently has _absolute control_ over the area. She can decide who enters, remains, and leaves for seemingly however much time(forwards *and* backwards) she pleases. That Lane dude and his girlfriend from Blair Witch were stuck in the woods for 6 days despite only several hours having passed for everyone else. Then, in the abandoned house, Lane had been there for months or even years in the span of an hour from the main character's perspective. The footage of the original team was found buried within the foundation of the house, something impossible due to the soil and structure being unchanged, so the witch can even alter matter across time. We never see her but she is truly OP for a supposed green-skinned hag with a pointed hat.

[@leopardcubpupkryky6940]

Derp

[@andrewquick4176]

FANTASTIC VIDEO... ABSOLUTELY PERFECT I wish HBO MAX would make a series out of this

[@hhjhj393]

The reason why blaire witch still scares me even as an adult. Is that I have been in the mountains alone at night, no cell service, miles and miles from anyone. Scariest times of my life. The complete feeling of helplessness, and powerlessness. Watching the movie reminds me of that.

[@Hunter-di5eb]

I live in Maryland and I got chills even though I know this isn't real

[@TheBreadMan25]

As far as WE know, my fellow Marylander

[@ericapape5160]

Are the cookies good?

[@teknomax7883]

Fantastic video!

[@hugoguzman4985]

This is one of those videos where I'd really like to hear your theories and thoughts about the Lore you share with us.

[@nobody2021]

I like how the backstory for the movie and the lore of the witch sounds so plausible and realistic. Not that that stuff could actually happen, but that it's so believable that it could be a local legend somewhere. It doesn't sound like somebody came up with it like how movies are. If I'd never heard of The Blair witch and I saw the same KZbin video but it didn't mention the movie or that this was fiction and just framed it as this being part of the local folklore of a small region of Maryland, well at least with the stuff that happened long ago prior to the events of the movie, I wouldn't believe that the supernatural stuff happened, but I could believe that the people there believe that it might have happened superstitiously.

[@yoshimitsuzk]

The exploring series is SCP object class Euclid.

[@HoneySun16]

?

[@loyaltyisroyalty5616]

I was hiking on the AT section that went through burkittsville and one of those little stick witch thingys fell from an overhead tree limb and hit my shoulder. It was legit terrifying. Fall of 2020

[@theyeastwiththeleast4718]

I think the original movie is a lot better when viewed as the 2 guys messing with heather and eventually killing her, I think that’s a lot creepier than some old ghost witch, but maybe that’s just me

[@julyol119]

Fun fact: The actors/crew of the original BWP movie had hardly any contact with the production team. Myrick and Sanchez would leave notes to them, telling them what to do on any given day, but wouldn't talk in person. They'd just find these notes in the morning. Other then that the actors were actually hiking the forest and the production team would try to actually scare them to the best of their abilities. Putting the stick figures into the trees, making stone circles around their tents and sending other actors in costumes, who'd wander the woods etc. The actors didn't know which part was made by the production team and what was just a part of their environment. Their reactions were of course more intense this way, because they didn't know what to expect, pretty isolated in the woods. Even without being scared deliberately, people would get spooked. But this was something else. Those tears were as real as you can have them in a horror flick. (It's some time ago since I've heared about this, so I might have some details confused, but that's the nitty-gritty.)

[@monsterno.definablenever.3484]

13:37 So she's powerful enough to control time. Greeeeaaaat...

[@matthewalegria574]

just found this channel while watching from KZbin’s recommended videos, great content man!

[@nicbro3831]

I've been obsessed with the blair witch and the backrooms lately, same vibes

[@George-xb5ey]

I remember we had a satellite box when I Was a kid around 9 or 10 and we could watch Any channel around the world, somehow one night it was just me up watching TV and the Blair witch came on one the channels, at first it seemed like an interesting documentary, after the forest part and the Voodoo dolls I freaked out and went to bed with the light on. I remember having to face the hallway with all the dark rooms and my mind freaking me out lol

[@KevinMAbraham]

who would win: Witches in the forest or Capitalism mining industry forest goes brrr

[@nickmaatjes5611]

this is fantastic dude, love every minute of it!!!!

[@ieatmice751]

Do more videos on Sarkicism, they’re really interesting