In the office of Exploration and Discovery TV's American Channel, senior producer Tom Beteg opened a package from Los Angeles and took out a videotape and a letter.

Tom Beteg put the video tape aside first, opened the letter and started reading it.

The package was mailed by former colleague Garcia Rodriguez, who was working on ABC. The other party had previously mentioned the package. When Garcia attended the St. Dennis Film Festival, he found someone selling a video. The photographer was three college students who went to Maryland to explore, but the three disappeared. The people who searched and rescued them only found the relevant items and the remaining cameras.

However, the video tape in the camera is damaged and is still under repair. I can only edit a part of it and send it to see if it is valuable.

I also hope to help the three missing college students.

Tom Beteg subconsciously felt that this was not normal, but the first thing he remembered was not to verify the authenticity, but whether this video clip had the value of playing it.

Many documentaries on the Discovery Channel are films specially filmed with the title of documentary.

Nowadays, there are not too many so-called real documentaries.

Tom Beteg came to the workbench and played the video tape. At the beginning of the screen, a subtitle appeared: This was taken from a lost camera in a forest...

Then there were three college students asking residents of a small town. The residents of the town frequently mentioned that there was a terrifying Blair girl nearby, and many people have disappeared in the town over the years.

Three college students entered the mountain woods where witches might exist...

Witches are widely circulated in the West, and Tom Beteg has also heard of many stories about witches, especially in the eastern United States, where there are many long-standing witch legends.

There is a market for this video!

Tom Beteg made a quick judgment, which should be attractive, after all, the legend of the witch is extremely widely circulated among the people.

Three college students disappeared because of exploring the secrets of the witch, which is such a big gimmick.

What if something goes wrong later? Tom Beteg doesn't believe that these three people were missing because of the witch, and even thinks that the videotape itself has some problems.

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

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

As for the authenticity...

Tom Beteg quickly came up with an idea. If it was fake, I would like to discuss the secrets of the witch legends and so on, revealing the falsehood of these legends.

Only five or six minutes of videotape was put at the end, and three college students disappeared in the dense forest, and finally subtitles appeared, as if they were the address of the website.

As a senior producer of the American Channel, he has a lot of power in his hands and makes a quick decision.

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

The assistant named Hart took the video and immediately went to the fifth program team.

Tom Beteg took out Garcia Rodriguez's letter and read it again, then came to a secluded place in the corridor and called Garcia. The two chatted for a long time and agreed to get together during a business trip to Los Angeles.

On an ordinary weekend, Kirkland finished supper and went out for a walk, went home and turned on the TV, connected to the cable station, changed to his favorite Exploration and Discovery Channel, and waited until the new episode of "Exploration and Investigation" program started.

This is a mystery program. The previous episodes have talked about the Bermuda Triangle, the treasures of Pirates of the Caribbean, the fierce great white sharks and the Amazon Piranha, which is quite attractive.

Because I like this show very much, Kirkland checked it on the Internet. The ratings of the show are quite good. Not long after it started, the audience ratings increased by 2 million.

This is a pretty remarkable achievement for the documentary program of cable stations.

"Hello everyone, I'm Carrie Byron, welcome to this episode of "Exploration Investigation" program..."

When the time came, the show started on time. The blonde host wearing a cowboy hat stood in front of a dense forest and said, "Look behind me, there is an ancient stone tablet erected in front of this forest, and the words on it are warnings."

The camera is closer, and the words engraved on the stone tablet are vaguely visible: "Be careful of the witch, stay away from the woods!"

The host pointed to the signature at the back of the text and said, "This stone tablet was erected in 1824. It was Mr. Johnson Seaton, the first mayor of Bourne City, Maryland. In many legends on the East Coast, due to the church's pursuit, many witches from Europe came to North America with the colonization and development, hiding in the mountains and forests of the East Coast of the United States. To this day, Maryland, Delaware, Friquia, Massachusetts, etc., there are many witch names and stories circulating, among which the Blair Witch is one of the most well-known and widely circulated."

Seeing this, Kirkland is very interested. This episode is obviously about witches. Although his home is in the west, he has listened a lot about legends about European and American witches since he was a child.

Even most of the horrifying memories of childhood were contracted by the legend of the witch.

His grandmother said that when his great-great-great-grandfather lived in the middle, he served as a sheriff in a small town. A gypsy woman fell in love with the daughter of a wealthy businessman in the town. The wealthy businessman despised the gypsy people very much and took people to kill the gypsy women. Unexpectedly, the gypsy woman knew how to do witchcraft. Before she died, she cursed the rich businessman, and the rich businessman's family died of serious illness...

This also made him think that the Gypsies were bad guys for a long time.

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

On the TV, Kirkland's attention was brought back to the show: "We received a videotape some time ago. Someone accidentally picked up a camera and some personal belongings in a dense forest. After inspection, it was found that it was the relics of three missing college students. According to the person who had seen these three college students in the end, these three wanted to explore the secrets of the Blair Witch."

The host's speech speed is accelerating: "Since the videotape is still being repaired urgently, we can only edit the pictures of the intact parts of it..."

The program screen changes, the host disappears, and a videotape with severe camera shaking begins to play.

"In October 1994, three film students disappeared in the jungle near the small town of Buzizville, Maryland, USA. At that time, they were filming a documentary about the ancient local legend "The Witch Blair". A year later, their backpack was discovered, and the audio tape, hi-8 camera, and 16mm camera clearly recorded the last journey of the three..."

The videotape was not long, just five or six minutes, but Kirkland widened his eyes. It was obvious that the three college students took selfies with the DV camera. There was absolutely nothing wrong. They were actually looking for the witch crazy?

Kirkland thought of the legend of those witches, and couldn't help but shivered and ran to the jungle to find the witch. Isn't this asking for trouble?

Then, another thought appeared in my mind. Are these three college students missing? Have you found them now? Even if you can’t find a living person, can’t you still find a dead person?

Could it be that he met a witch?

Kirkland quickly drew a cross on his chest.

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

The names of the witch and the three college students were entangled in their minds for a night, which led to Kirkland being a little inattentive when he was dating the next day.

"What's wrong with you?" asked his girlfriend Harley with concern.

Kirkland told the truth: "I watched a show on the Discovery Channel last night. Three college students ran to the woods in the mountains to look for the witch, but they disappeared."

"real?"

"It should be true." Kirkland recalled yesterday's program and said: "Someone picked up videos of the three college students taking selfies with DVDs and sent them to the Exploration and Discovery Channel."

Halle was very curious: "I won't be killed by a witch, right? I heard my father talk about witches, and it is said that some witches eat people."

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

At the end of the day's date, when Halle returned home, she met Lisa from her neighbor's house. The two of them walked towards the community while chatting. For some reason, Halle mentioned what Kirkland said in the morning.

"Yesterday, the TV said that three college students went to find a witch, but they disappeared, and they were not seen in life or death."
Chapter completed!