The Blair Witch Project

As some of my readers may know I love fiction I love anything that can send a chill down my spine, and leave me full of wondering. The new movie The Blair Witch Project did exactly that.
As always before I watch a movie I like to do a little research (don't ask it's just something I do). Thinking it was just another made up story. What I found shocked me.
The Blair Witch Project wasn't just a movie made for fun it was actually made by three collage students that disappeared. I wanted to find out more. For those who don't know of the Blair Witch I will tell you.
It supposedly started with a woman named Elly Kedward in 1785 accused of witchcraft. Several children accused her of taking them into her house to draw blood. Kedward was banished from the village and the village assumed that the cold harsh winter took her life. Only a year later Kedwards accusers and many children vanished. The townspeople fearing a curse fled Blair and vowed that they would never say Elly Kedwards name again.
About three centuries later a book was written called The Blair Witch Cult. The book tells about town cursed by a witch. This book though was declared fiction.
Eleven years after the publishing of the book eleven witnesses say to see a pale woman’s hand reach up and pull ten-year-old Elieen Treacle into Tappy East Creek. The body was never recovered but about thirteen days later sticks clogged the river.
Almost fifty years later eight-year-old Robin Weaver was reported missing and a search party was formed. Weaver returned though but the search party did not. There bodies were found murdered and disembowel at Coffin Rock.
Burkittsville, which was located where Blair was, had Emily Hollands, and a total of seven children disappear near their town.
These are just a few of the stories of the Blair Witch. I will have a link for more reading later on.

Now reading just those few passages I was fired up. How interesting, I had to find out more. So I clicked on the link "Filmmakers". That’s when things got interesting.
October 20, 1994 three collage filmmakers Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael Williams decided to make a documentary about the Blair Witch. So they start there documentary by interviewing some Burkittsville locals. Mary Brown, an old and insane woman who has lived in Burkittsville all her life says of seeing the witch. She said it was in the form of a hairy, half-human, half-animal beast.
On October 21, 1994 Heather interviews two fishermen who tells her that Coffin Rock on twenty minutes away from town easily accusable near an old logging trail. So the filmmakers hike into Black Hills Forest and where never to be seen again.
Four days later APB find Josh’s car parked on Black Rock Road. A day later police launch a search of the Black Hills area. The search lasted ten days, aided by hundred men, helicopters, dogs, and even Department of Defense Satellite.
After much search and no success the case on June 19, 1995 was declared inactive and unsolved.
Then in October 16, 1995 students from the University of Maryland’s Anthropology discover a duffel bag. The bag contained film cans, DAT tapes, videocassettes, a Hi-8 video camera, Heather's journal and a CP-16 film camera. Even more the bag was found buried under a 100-year-old cabin. When the evidence was examined it was annocounced that the film and the other things found in the bag did indeed belong to the three filmmakers.
October 16, 1997 the footage of the children’s last days were given to their families.

After reading that now I had chills down my spine and my imagination was going. But there was more. Besides the video evidence there was also Heather Donahue’s journal. I had to know what it said. That also made goosbumps trailed my arms.
As I looked at the ragged paperback journal on the website, I saw the crude words that said “Heather” scratched up at the top. The inside was even more chilling, she wrote about children’s voices, and she constantly wrote about how she desperately wanted to catch the thing that was following her on film. In her words she sounded desperate and almost insane, like she was losing it. If you wish to read it click here.
Though I haven't watched the movie yet, just by reading a little about it makes we itch to pop it in the DVD player and watch it. But I have promised myself to watch on Halloween, I can't wait to see this mind-chilling story.

If you want to read more on the Blair Witch Poject click here. Or if you want to learn about the three flimmakers click here, or click here for some of the footage that was shot by the flimmakers.

One Shelter a 100 animals

As some of my readers may already know, I am a major tree hugger. I care for the environment, recycle and have a major soft spot for animals. So I am part of a Roots & Shoots program, Roots & Shoots is kind of like Global Issues but Roots & Shoots focus more on helping with the community. Well were asked to tackle a problem that we know of, I picked Animal Shelter. Some others also wanted to join, and so we started crackin'. As some may know, the Gulf has a major cat problem, and there are cats breeding by the thousands. There are also stray dogs, chickens, donkeys, and yes, even bulls. When pet owners don't want or don't know what to do with their pets they usually abandoned them. Tying them to a post and leaving them to die. Well, one shelter couldn't stand to let this happen. So up came Qatar Animal Welfare Society. I got the special privilege and my other group members to go and visit the shelter. 

Far down, were there are no cars and towering buildings lays a quite farm with a good cause. They house a lot of the abandoned animals in Qatar. They have dogs, cats, chickens, roosters, donkeys, bulls and some other animals that I sadly didn't catch in my recordings. I must say the cages were nice, no concrete flooring, but nice cool tiles for the dogs to lie and sleep. The dogs, I think, were quite happy to have new visitors. They barked, and yelped in joy as each of us passed their cages. Their long snouts almost seemed to be pulled up in a grin. The cats were not as esthetic to meet us though. They lay in their cages coolly, flashing velvet paws and shinning coats. Some were even a little camera shy. A small, black and white kitten, no bigger than a child’s hand, cuddled it's self up to it's brothers or sisters (I couldn't tell) and they fell into a gentle sleep. The donkeys, unlike the cats, were eager to be on film and flashed wide grins at the camera. The bull, much like the cats, turned his back. This only made me laugh. 

With all these people are doing for these animals only motivated me to help, even more when I was told that they are running out of space to hold animals and are in dying need of the space. So we wrote down what we needed to do a get to help this great shelter. I am glad to say, that they animals were healthy, putting on weight, and the people were nice to. If you want to adopt from this shelter, or just want to learn more, please click here. I will soon be posting the video that I am making of the shelter. Remember, one small change can make a huge difference.

Happy National Punch Day!

Starting September 20th National Punch Day is being celebrated. Didn't now there was such a day? We'll there is! Also happy National Cheeseburger Day (18th) and happy Elephant Appreciation Day(22nd)! Now I have listed some fun ideas on how you can celebrate these wacky holidays!

National Punch Day

A very popular drink at parties and sure to make your party a big hit!

• Invite some of your friends over and celebrate the day with big bowls of punch, and maybe ask them to bring over some of their own punch. 
• You can make all different flavors of punch, like Fruit Punch and Slush Punch, a good Party Punch, a Floating Island Punch, Banana Slush Punch, and a Lemonade Punch. There are may but these are only a few. 
• With all your friends over just have a party, drink some punch, dance, have fun whatever.

• You can even have a game were you blindfold one person and you give them a taste of punch and they have to guess what type of punch it is. 
• Have fun!

National Cheeseburger Day

One of Americas favorite food, no wonder it as its own holiday. Well here are some suggestions to help you kick of this tasty holiday.

• Invite some friends over a B-B-Q!
• If you want, send out some Hamburger shaped invitations to some friends telling about the holiday and when you want them to come over.
• Serve sodas, chips, dip, maybe some veggies and dip and of course lots and lots of Hamburgers!
• Click here for good Hamburger recipes. 

Elephant Appreciation Day

This is a great day to appreciate one of Earths many creatures. Here are some good tips of for to celebrate this holiday. 

• Create a flyer with some interesting Elephant facts and pass them out to family or friends.
• Get some friends together and give each a piece of paper and a pen, ask them to place the paper on their heads and try to draw an elephant. The one that looks the closest to a Elephant wins!
  
• Have fun!

Enjoy this months wacky holidays. You want to celebrate some more, well them click here. 

Le Espérer

Okay, I am like having a hard time with making up a name for my blog. But I really like the one I that I have come up with, Le Espérer. Le Espérer is French for The Hope. Why would I pick Hope? I will tell you why.

I beilive there is still Hope in the world, even with the wars, the loss, disease I still beilive there is Hope. And I still think that everyone relies on Hope it is the one thing that keeps us going. The people who survived  Katrina were hoping to be saved from thier death and they clang onto that Hope till they were saved. There is always hope. Like the great Greek Legend of Pandora. It was she that opened the jar that she was told not to open, but as she did she released all evil on earth, plague, war and hatred, but with all the evil that spewed from the jar there was still one thing left, Hope. Hope lay at the bottem of the Jar it being the only thing that conquer all of the evil. It was that one thing, that one thing that coud probably help Mankind. That story, I think, ties in with today with the war and disease Hope is the only thing that can defeat it. And that is why I picked Hope or Le Espérer.

Mom!...

I know you all have mothers (at least I hope) and I bet it is a constant, "Mom, where are my flip-flops?" "Mom, where is my shirt?" "Mom!" "Mom!" and I bet your mother would agree with this. And I also bet that your Mom does a lot for you, even showing you how to cook? Well, I was sent this funny comic strip today and it is pretty accurate for this entry.

             

Accurate, yes?

Can't see it, click here.

Comic strip from:

www.arcamax.com