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Heather's journal?

posted 8 years ago by kali-samlal
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Back when the Blair Witch Project came out, there was a section that included the contents Heather's journal. It said it was found "buried beneath a 100-year-old cabin in the woods."

http://www.blairwitch.com/project/journal.html

That witch's house would be much older then 100 years old since she was cast out of Blair in the 1700s, and in this movie James says the police (or search parties?) never found the house anyway.

It also couldn't be Rustin Parr's house since James says that it was burned down after he was charged with murder which was back in the 1940s. It wouldn't be old enough anyway since Parr built it himself, but it would be closer to 100 years than the witch house.

I don't recall there being another cabin that they dropped by in the first movie...
So where the hell did the journal come from?

Is it just a case of botched mythos?

[–] IMDbGigalo 8 years ago

Botched mythos. There would still be a foundation even if the house burned down.

[–] abstract-sunflower 8 years ago

It's canon. Heather's journal was found in a duffel bag along with the original footage, beneath the foundation.

Here's a screenshot: https://s26.postimg.org/kgvhai1q1/duffel_bag.jpg

[–] IMDbGigalo 8 years ago

Yeah, I read the post wrong.

[–] macedoniall 8 years ago

Pretty sure this movie just retconned the journal and the Secret Confession of Rustin Parr book. That's why the connection makes little sense. Basically anything made after the Blair Witch Project (other than this movie) has been retconned and is no longer canon. There was surprisingly quite a bit of extra material after the first movie came out. I remember seeing the young reader Blair Witch book series at book fairs when I was in elementary school.

I will not fear, fear is the mind killer

[–] gljbradley 8 years ago

THIS!!!^