Cast of "Blair Witch Project" Missing Since 1999

Written by Chad Messer

Friday, 20 June 2008

Blair Witch Disappearance “In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary...a year later their footage was found.” So goes the tagline for the 1999 film “The Blair Witch Project”, which went on to become one of the most successful independent films of all time. In a case of bitter, bitter irony, the lead actors in a film where the characters disappear, never to be seen again have not been seen since the movie that made them famous was released.

Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams did a good job portraying a cast of doomed documentarians, and the movie going public was excited to see what the cast of talented actors were going to do for a follow-up. Shockingly enough, none of the actors have been heard from since then, and people are starting to doubt whether “Blair Witch” was truly a work of fiction.

“There they are, so alive on the screen,” said movie historian and film buff Dave Helms. “Then the characters die gruesome deaths, and no one ever sees the actors again. It seems like a real case of life imitating art. Somebody ought to check those woods and hunt down a witch!”

Rumors persist that the actors appeared on some late-night television talk shows just after the release of the movie, but Helms asserts that they looked like “crappy actors or automatons”, and believes that Miramax sent them out to create plausible deniability on their part.

“I do hear that there are some films out there in which the actors can be seen post-‘Blair Witch’,” says legendary film critic Roger Ebert. “But I chalk that stuff up to the urban myths like the ghost appearing in “Three Men and a Baby” and the man hanging himself in “The Wizard of Oz”. It’s nice to think that the sprits of these young actors loves on in new films, but there has been no real evidence to support such claims. I’ll believe that they’re alive when I see them with my own eyes.”

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Jamie Moldenhauer - I wonder if they are alive or if they had really b

|2008-08-12 14:26:42

dear To the person who wrote this,
My name is jamie. I am from Colorado.
I
love the movie that those people made. It was scary and intense for my taste. To
me iwas real enough. But I also do wonder if they are still alive and if so
where are they now. They should be historically famous now for making that
movie. I do wonder if they are really missing or alive somewhere hiding?? What
is ur take? write me back if u can. Jamue