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This is a White House email release covering February 1998 to August 2000. It is a set of Exchange mail records with attachments. One item is the President's February 19, 1998 remarks to a DNC dinner in West Orange, New Jersey, which includes a joke that young people think seeing a UFO is more likely than drawing Social Security. Other items are a joke 'Redneck Driver's License Application', an AP story about Chilca, Peru, where locals credit UFOs for the mud's powers, a Blair Witch Project article, and a Baltimore Sun article forwarded by the White House Situation Room about UFO FOIA requests to the NSA.
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we would leave them notes, little pieces of direction
as simple
as 'You leave the tent, and you can't believe what you see.'
And
then while they were sleeping, we would scurry around setting up
the
scenes that would hopefully frighten them. In essence, we were the
Blair
Witch, harassing them as they got more and more lost and
disoriented
in the woods."
When "The Blair Witch Project" was picked
up by Artisan
Entertainment, the directors and their production
team, who together
form Haxan Films, put their efforts into codifying
the Blair Witch
mythology. They issued publicity material on the
history of the Blair
Witch myth and set up a Web site (www.blairwitch.com)
where all sorts
of Blair Witch documentation, including Heather's
journals and
portions of an obscure 1809 book called "The Blair
Witch Cult," can
be found, along with police photographs.
At 10 p.m. ET Monday, a television program detailing how Sanchez
and
Myrick got the original team's footage will air on cable's Sci-Fi
Channel.
A book, "The Blair Witch Dossier," will be published next
month.
All of it is bogus.
The myth, Myrick is proud to say, has already
taken on a life of
its own, showing up on numerous urban legend
Web sites and being hotly
debated in chat rooms, where some people
steadfastly maintain the film
is actually a hoax within a hoax.
("Has anyone actually seen any of
the so-called actors in real
life?" challenges one posting.)
"We're like the biggest liars
in the world," says Myrick, who
adds that his only concern is that
the film itself, which he describes
as "moviemaking on an idea
and a shoestring," could be overwhelmed Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 28 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.