HWI 186

Hollywood What If Chapter 186

Just as he expected, that night, ABC news tackled The Blair Witch. 

-- A group of college students went missing in Burkittsville, Maryland. The police tried to locate them but they failed to find them. Instead, the police only found a camera and films. We are still trying to fix the footage. For now, we only fixed a film worth of one minute video.'

The newscaster seriously explained, perhaps clueless about the truth as well. 

Then, the news showed the footage. 

The scene was quite dark and shaky. The audience realized that the one holding the camera was running away from something. Suddenly, a blood-curdling scream happened, then another person cried. The footage became pitch black after that. 

-- Rest assured, our team will try its best to fix the footage to get more clues about the missing people. 

The news went to another topic but the story about the Witch stirred the hearts of some people who believed in paranormal. 

"... I call that bullshit."

Kazir Grey muttered after watching the program. He won't fall for that trick since he knows that this is nothing but a movie.

He grabbed the remote and turned off the television. He touched his chin and thought about it seriously. 

The Blair Witch Project was an important movie in the history of cinema. It was the first of its kind that gained a good box office. 

However, Kazir didn't like the fact that they deceived so many people into believing that a witch was real. 

On top of that, Kazir didn't like Miramax. This film company was owned by the Weinstein brothers. Particularly, he hated Harvey Weinstein. That guy went to prison because of an obvious crime. To be honest, it was questionable why he was only imprisoned in 2018 even though his crimes started 1970s. 

The man had sexual abuse allegations back in the 1970s but he was only reprimanded in 2018. Almost as if he was protected by the higher-ups of Hollywood. Almost as if everyone turned a blind eye to the crimes he did. 

Note that over 80 women stood up about the allegations of sexual abuse and rape against Harvey Weinstein. This incident sparked the #MeToo movement in social media. 

Obviously, everyone knows about Harvey Weinstein's crimes but they were just chill as fuck. Just like what they did to Jeffrey Epstein. 

For Kazir, this was a disgusting move. From the bottom of his heart, he felt like it was unfair that people would buy tickets for The Blair Witch only to get deceived by Harvey Weinstein and Miramax. It didn't sit well with him. 

With a cold gaze at the ceiling, Kazir Grey decided to fuck the timeline more. 

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While people started talking about the missing students, another batch of movies were released in the theaters. 

On July 9, seven movies were released at the same time. However, only one movie got a good reception. It was none other than American Pie. 

An R-rated comedy with strong sexuality and foul language. Yet this movie got $18 million at the box office in its first week. It seemed that Universal Pictures had a good comedy movie to milk this time. Perhaps they were salty that Grey Pictures never sold any comedy script to them. 

The news channels realized that many people were interested in the missing students and the mythical Blair Witch in Burkittsville, Maryland. 

One news channel sent a team to interview the people in Burkittsville, Maryland but they were clueless about the missing students. There were some stories about witches in their community but no one actually believed they were real. Even the police tried to inspect the hill but they found none. 

But now that the news about the Blair Witch was getting stronger, the people of Burkittsville, Maryland decided to stay in their houses just to make sure. 

The team from the news channel decided to enter the hill where the missing students were last found. However while walking deeper into the woods, the team felt strange, and the felt like someone was looking at them... Erm, perhaps it was because of a placebo effect. Their minds believe that there was indeed a witch hiding in the woods. 

While traversing the deeper, one of their members was injured. Suddenly, crows started flying around them and cawed! 

The team became scared and started running away from the woods! 

Everything was recorded by the cameraman... When this story was released in the media, the fear of the witch further strengthened. 

Histories about witches became topics of many TV shows, just to join the hype.

Back in the 16th century, thousands of people died because of witch-hunts, mostly females. They were either hanged or burned to death. 

In the month of July, almost every topic in the streets would be related to witches. 

On top of that, some people were interviewed by the media, stating that their relatives were killed by witches. 

These small stories formed a trend, until almost everyone was interested in the footage that the missing students left behind in the woods. 

-- This is Wanda Rinn of ABC News, our team fixed another segment of the footage. We are here to present the video to you. We want to warn our viewers that the scene you will see might be inappropriate for some ages.

The video started airing. This time, the video showed a group of people chatting around the bonfire. They were the missing students. Suddenly, a scream-like caw from the crows echoed. The students stood up and became alert. 

The one responsible for holding the camera pointed the camera at the woods, there was a shadow forming in the dark, as if there was a person there!

-- Unfortunately, our team only fixed this part. Rest assured, after we fixed all of the footage, we will release it in the cinema for the people to watch. 

Then, the TV program ended again, leaving the people curious and terrified!