Is the Blair Witch Project based on a true event?

Did the three filmmakers actually disappear ?Is the Blair Witch Project based on a true event?
No the movie is not real in fact the girl is in a another movie that just came out about a year ok. The sequel also stats how it was just a movie, however the idea and concept is based on actual facts. There is a Blair Witch her name was Elly Kedward and when she died she haunted a man (Rustin Parr) and told him to kill children. That is based on stories from around the area of where the movie takes place.





Really it can be considered an urban legend but some believe she was real. The movie and the three hikers however is not real and all of them are alive and well.Is the Blair Witch Project based on a true event?
Not a true event, no. But it is based on the idea of three amateur filmmakers going to a place supposedly haunted by the very real Bell Witch. I'll quote Wikipedia:





';According to the legend, the first manifestation of the haunting occurred in 1817 when John William Bell, Sr. encountered a strange animal in a cornfield on his large farm in Robertson County, on the Red River, near Adams, Tennessee. The animal, described as having the body of a dog and the head of a rabbit, vanished when Bell shot at it. This incident was quickly followed by a series of strange beating and gnawing noises manifesting outside and eventually inside the Bell residence. Betsy Bell, the family's younger daughter and the only daughter still living at home (Bell's oldest daughter Esther married Alexander Bennett Porter July 24, 1817), claimed to have been assaulted by an invisible force.





John Bell Sr., later in life, suffered frequent facial seizures, often rendering him speechless. John Bell, Sr. died on December 20, 1820. A small vial containing an unidentified liquid he allegedly ingested was found near the body. When some of the contents were force-fed to the family cat, the animal died. The vial was then disposed of in the fireplace.





Pat Fitzhugh's retelling of the Bell Witch legend concludes with a statement to the effect that some people believe that the spirit returned in 1935, the year when the witch claimed it would return (';one hundred years and seven'; past 1828), and took up residence on the former Bell property. Other sources say that 1935 brought nothing out of the ordinary to the Bell descendants or the surrounding community.';
No, it is a scripted low-budget film that became a sleeper hit in 1999, none of it is true. It was just a concept...








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The concept was scripted..





they told the actors what was going to happen, the dialogue was improv, but the events were scripted....
Actually it wasn't scripted, the main actors used improv throughout the film.
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