# Blair Witch Project-fact or fiction?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blair-witch-project-fact-or-fiction/1986>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 11, 1999, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blair-witch-project-fact-or-fiction/1986 "1999-07-11T22:44:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 1999, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blair-witch-project-fact-or-fiction/1986/21 "1999-07-16T14:28:00Z")

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I concede, it is all a fake. Sorry, there was a sidebar in the July 11, article in the Washington Post, which is not in the archive, that led me to believe that part(the missing students)of the myth was true.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 1999, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blair-witch-project-fact-or-fiction/1986/22 "1999-07-16T15:24:00Z")

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I read the review of the movie (with its synopsis) on MSN yesterday and I have to tell you, just reading it scared the bejesus out of me. Especially when I got up this morning (in the dark) and it popped into my head. I WON’T be going to see it…my imagination is overactive as it is!

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