Chapter 98： Life is close

In the office of the Discovery and Discovery TV station American Channel, senior producer Tom Beteiger opened a package from Los Angeles and took out a video tape and a letter from it.

Tom Beteiger put the tape aside first, opened the letter and read it.

The package was mailed by Garcia Rodriguez, a former colleague who was working at ABC. The other party had said about the package before. When Garcia attended the Saint Denis Film Festival, he found that someone was selling a video. It was three college students who went on an expedition to Maryland, but the three were missing. The people who searched for them only found related objects and left-over cameras.

However, the videotape in the camera is damaged and is still being repaired, so I can only edit a part of it and post it to see if it has any value.

also hopes to help the three missing college students.

Tom Betag subconsciously felt that this was not normal, but the first thing he remembered was not to verify the authenticity, but to see if the video clip was worth playing.

Many documentaries of 　　 Discovery Channel are themselves filmed with the title of the documentary.

In these years, the so-called real documentary, not too much hands and feet.

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

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

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

Witches are very popular in the West. Tom Bethegg has also heard of 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 Beteiger quickly made a judgment that it should be attractive, after all, the legend of witches is extremely widespread among the people.

Three college students disappeared because they were exploring the secrets of witches. What a big gimmick.

What if something goes wrong later? Tom Beteiger doesn't believe that these three people have disappeared because of the witch, and even thinks the video tape itself has something wrong.

But Garcia Rodríguez visited him specially, and he owed Garcia a little favor back then. The video tape itself was also very popular, and it was a pity to give up.

can not only return favors, but also attract the audience, it is best to broadcast.

As for true and false...

Tom Beteiger quickly got an idea. If it is fake, there will be a show later, called Exploring the Secrets of Witch Legends, to expose the falsity of these legends.

There are only five or six minutes of video tape at the end. Three college students disappeared in the dense forest, and finally subtitles appeared, which seemed to be the address of the website.

As a senior producer on the American channel, he has a lot of power and makes quick decisions.

"Hart, come here." Tom Beteiger called in his assistant and handed the tape to him: "Send to the fifth program group and tell them that they will be on the show this week."

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

Tom Beteiger took out Garcia Rodríguez’s letter and read it again. Then he went to the quiet part of the corridor and called Garcia. The two chatted for a long time and agreed to go to Los Angeles on a business trip. Gather together.

On an ordinary weekend, Kirkland finished dinner, went outside, turned on the TV at home, connected to the cable station, switched to his favorite Discovery Channel, and waited until the new issue of the “Discovery Investigation” program started.

This is a mystery program. The previous installments talked about the Bermuda Triangle, Pirates of the Caribbean, the ferocious great white shark and the Amazon piranha. It was quite attractive.

Because I like this program very much, Kirkland specifically checked it on the Internet. The program’s ratings are quite good. Not long after it was broadcast, the audience reached two million.

For the documentary program of the cable station, this is quite a remarkable achievement.

"Hello everyone, this is Carrie Byron, welcome to this issue of "Exploratory Investigation"..."

When the time came, the show started on time. The blonde hostess wearing a cowboy hat stood in front of a dense forest and said: "Behind me, there is an ancient stone monument in front of this forest. The text on it is a warning."

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

The hostess pointed to the inscription at the back of the text, and said: "This stone monument was erected in 1824. The inscription was Mr. Johnson Sidon, the first mayor of Burun, Maryland. In many legends on the East Coast, due to the church’s After hunting down, many witches from Europe came to North America along with the colonization and hid in the dense mountain forests on the east coast of the United States. Up to now, many witches have spread in Maryland, Delaware, Frigia, Massachusetts, etc. The name and story of the witch, among which the Blair Witch is a very well-known and popular one."

Seeing this, Kirkland is full of interest. This episode is obviously about witches. Although his home is in the west, he grew up and listened to legends about European and American witches.

Even, most of the horrible memories of childhood are contracted by the legend of the witch.

His grandmother said that when his great-great-grandfather was still living in the central part of the country, he served as a sheriff in a small town. There was a gypsy woman who fell in love with the daughter of a wealthy businessman in the town. Sai woman, I did not expect the gypsy woman to be able to witchcraft. Before she died, she cursed the rich businessman. The family of the rich businessman fell seriously ill...

This also made him think Gypsies are badass for a long time.

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

The words on the TV brought Kirkland’s attention back to the show: "We received a video tape some time ago. Someone accidentally picked up a video camera and some personal belongings in a dense forest. After inspection, it was the relics of three missing college students. According to the person who met the three college students last, the three wanted to explore the secrets of the Blair Witch."

The host’s speech speed is accelerating: “Since the video tape is still being repaired urgently, we can only edit the intact part of the picture first...”

The program screen changes, the host disappears, and a video tape with severe camera shake begins to play.

"In October 1994, three film students disappeared in the jungle near the small town of Butzizeville, Maryland, USA. At the time, they were shooting a documentary about the ancient local legend "Blair the Witch." One year later, Their backpacks were discovered, and the tapes, Hi-8 cameras, and 16mm cameras inside clearly recorded the last journey of the three of them..."

The video tape is not long, which is five or six minutes, but Kirkland's eyes widened. It is obvious that the three college students took selfies with DV cameras. There is absolutely nothing wrong with them. They went crazy looking for witches?

Kirkland thought of the legends of those witches couldn't help but shudder, and went to the jungle to find the witches. Isn't this asking for trouble?

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

Could it be that I 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 the witch and the three college students. After all, life is at stake.

The names of the witch and three college students lingered in his mind all night, which caused Kirkland to lose concentration when he was dating the next day.

"What's wrong with you?" Girlfriend Hallie asked caringly.

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

"Really?"

"It should be true." Kirkland recalled yesterday's show and said: "Someone picked up a DV selfie video of those three college students and sent it to Discovery Channel."

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

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

At the end of the day’s date, when Hallie came home, she met Lisa from the neighbor’s house. The two chatted and walked towards the community. Not knowing what was going on, Hallie mentioned what Kirkland said in the morning.

"Yesterday it was said on TV that three college students went to find a witch, but they disappeared. No one was born or dead."

This is a country of religious belief, and materialism is not the mainstream. Lisa immediately asked: "Really? Which TV station shows? There are no witches in the world, right?"