THE BLAIR WITCH

Here is an American urban legend.

The mysterious story about the Blair Witch or "Blair Witch" goes back to the time of the colonial wars in the USA (1775-1783).

Later, at regular intervals, the myth reappeared about every 60 years. The incident happened in an area called the Black Hills Forest in Maryland. In 1630, a colonel named Blair undertook an expedition to this area. He asked a native-native tribal chief to assist him in his endeavor. This, however, threatened sabotage and disappeared. Despite this setback, Blair and his men set up a fort to defend the colonies of Lord Calvert against Indian tribes from the East.

About 150 years later, in 1785, Blair children accused Irish-born Elly Kedward of witchcraft. She was convicted and banished to the Black Hills Forest in the middle of winter. It was believed that she froze or starved to death. The following winter, 1786, all her prosecutors and half the children from the city had disappeared. As the weather improved, the rest of the people fled Blair for feeling haunted by the witch's curse. It was vowed never to pronounce the name Elly Kedward again.

What remained was a kind of ghost town for 40 years. During this time, a handwritten book called The Blair Witch Cult was also published. There is only one surviving copy of this book, which was in the Baltimore Historical Museum until 1991 and is now privately owned.

In 1820, the city of Blair returned to its center of interest when a man named Burkitt bought up the remnants of the government. He renovated the remaining buildings and rebuilt some of them. Burkittsville was founded in 1820. Four years later, an incident occurred around a little girl named Eileen Traecle. The girl walked through a very shallow river on the outskirts when suddenly a "white spirit hand" appeared and she pulled underwater. This incident was witnessed by dozens of witnesses. Although the water at this point was only half a meter deep, the girl disappeared. Her body was never found ...

4 weeks after this incident strange wooden figures appeared in the forest. The river's water had become thick and inedible.

In 1886, a little girl named Robin Weaver disappeared as she walked through the woods. A hundred were sent to look for them. After the men left for the forest, the girl returned to the city. It reported how it met in the forest of a woman who seemed to float. She took Robin by the hand and brought her to her house in the woods. She brought the girl to the basement, told her that she would return soon and disappeared. Robin waited a long time in the dark basement, but the woman did not come back. Finally, Robin got scared and ran away. Eventually she was able to reach Burkittsville again. The search team did not have that much luck; she never returned to the city. Another group was sent to search for the missing. They found the men at Coffin Rock, near the river where Eileen Traecle once disappeared. They were undressed and tied to the rocks. Someone had taken their bodies from their bodies and severely mutilated them. On hands, arms, legs and chest cryptic symbols were carved into the skin. They hurried back to town for reinforcements, but on their return the bodies had disappeared. Only remnants of fetters, blood and the smell of death remained behind ...

In 1940, children from the area around Burkittsville began to disappear again; the police were at a loss. There were no useful witnesses or references. At that time there was a hermit named Rustin Parr. He was repeatedly abused by his father and decided to live as a hermit in the solitude of the Black Hills Woods.

The Blair Witch

One day Rustin came to town and told everyone he met, "I'm done!".

When asked what he meant, he kept repeating this sentence.

Finally, the sheriff intervened and Rustin led the authorities to his old cabin in the Black Hills Woods. In the cellar the authority found numerous indications for torture and killing offenses. At a short distance from Parr's hut were found seven small tombs marked with flagstones. The graves were opened and found the bodies of the children. They were as degenerate and mutilated as the victims of Coffin Rock. Symbols were carved deep into their faces, bodies, hands and feet, organs were torn out.

Parr admitted, but said that the voice of an old woman had forced him to the murders and then told him that he was now free. He was sentenced to death by hanging and his house was burned to the ground.

But one question remained: Why was the eighth child not killed? Could this child have been involved in the killings? After a closer look at Brody's life, some interesting facts came to light; none of the children knew the other, except for Brody, who knew everyone. As a teenager, he quickly got on the wrong track and became a criminal. He was convicted and spent a decade in the institution for "schizophrenic criminals" in Maryland.

In 1969, a documentary film ("White Emanel") was shot, which had the living conditions of some mental hospitals in the US on the subject. However, the focus of the report was on the same clinic in which Brody was inmate. In old recordings that were used for this film, there is a spot that Brody showed while singing "Never Given". The same words Parr screamed the night before his execution. Other parts of the film show Brody writing and painting on a large sheet of paper. As he zoomed closer, he could see that he was writing in "Transitus Fluvii" - the "language of witchcraft". This was later confirmed by an expert. In the picture Kyle can be seen how he writes this language correctly - from right to left.

Finally, in 1999, the movie "The Blair Witch Project" was released. Of course, the film is purely fictional, but among other things served him the facts presented here as a basis.

Ironically, the cameraman of the Blair Witch Project, Neal L. Fredericks, drowned in 2004 when filming his new movie Cross Bones.