This is Birketsville, formerly Blair.

It is a small, quiet, Maryland town, much like a small, quiet town anywhere.

No more than 20 families laid their roots here over 200 years ago, many of whom remain,

either on this hill or in the town below.

There are an unusually high number of children laid to rest here,

most of whom passed in the 1940s.

Yet no one in the town seems to recall anything unusual about this time, to us anyway.

Yet legend tells a different story, one whose evidence is all around us, etched in stone.

Welcome to Now Playing's Blair Witch Project Retrospective Series.

Hosted by Arnie, Stewart and Jacob.

These podcasts contain detailed plot spoilers and harsh language.

The Sinner Discretion is advised.

Today we're discussing Blair Witch, starring James Allen McHughan,

Kelly Hernandez, Brandon Scott, Valerie Curry, directed by Adam Wingard.

This is Arnie, coast of Now Playing, and you guys want this?

This is on you, Stewart and LA.

This is Jacob, and this looks familiar.

We've been podcasting in circles.

I know, like a year ago, three film fans went into the Birketsville Woods to talk about a retrospective

and a year later, new footage pops up.

What is this?

Had we known we would have done Blair Witch all three this year, but...

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