Blair Witch Project

[J Byrd]

Saw Blair Witch Project last night, and let me say it's a little unnerving. Great film though! Not really scary but the tension built throughout the film will get ya in the end. I not going camping for a while. J. Byrd

[phlyster]

I haven't seen it, and I probley won't for camping's sake, maybe all the campers will stay at home, and give me peace. My mom's friends son saw it, and let me tell you, he was a military man, college educated, non-emotional type, loves to go camping, and camped a lot, loves the outdoors, amd then he saw the movie, and he says that he'll NEVER go camping again, EVER!

But I dunno, it's just a stink'in movie!

Stay home campers, I would love not to hear you make noise all night, and then the next afternoon keep all the fish I just released! hehehe

Stay home and off my crik!(As Owl says)

[jeffg]

I am seeing it tomorrow night.What is wild(and what my bro found disturbing) is that we grew up in Boonsboro MD area which is right on the other side of the mountain of Burkittsville (where the movie is flimed/taken place), we camped up there off the Applachian Trail etc..
They actually filmed lots of it more down in Seneca area, and that is supposedly the Patuxent those guys are fishing in, which is a c/r trout stream.
But "Spook Hill" was right there where you put your car in neutral and the dead civil war soldiers push you up the hill, the screaming tunnel, ghost dog of south mt, the snalligaster stories started there, the ghosts of the battle of south mountain etc... tons of ghost stories up there in those neck of the woods.good setting for a witch story.

[BeeDub]

Hmm... Never expected to get involved in movie reviews here in NGTO, but if you'll allow me to play Siskel to J Byrd's Ebert (oops, one of the two just passed away - no disrespect intended), I'll be the thumbs down one. I went wanting to be scared, like with the original Alien, or Predator, or The Thing. My 2 cents worth... BWP was a complete waste of time and money - and not even scary - just mostly tastless, unnecessary vulgarity and camera work so shaky it is reportedly making some people sick. I don't doubt it. The fact that I wasted $6.75 made me sicker, though.

[J Byrd]

I've heard that, if you are looking for big time special effects scary monsters this is not your movie. It's more like Psycho, plays with your mind a little. I've heard you either love it or hate it. J. Byrd

[NiteOwl]

jeffg,
snallig...what ?

Tell us some of those stories...


why would dead soilders want to push my car ? http://www.georgia-outdoors.com/ubbngto/smile.gif hahaha


Go ahead, it's "my" forum and I say you can post ghost stories here.



Owl
I wade the serious to get to the funny

[jeffg]

Up on South Mountain is where the Snalligaster lives. It is a monster that had assumed many different forms and shapes as the tales have been told year after year.
When I first heard it was when I was in Boy Scouts (age 8) while we were all camping out on the Appalachian trail(which runs along the spine of south mountain in MD).
Supposedly the Snalligaster would sneak into peoples houses and/or snag children out of the fields. It had a taste for the young and is said to still haunt the mountain.(it made us young'ns be home before dark!)

Spook Hill is right down the hill going to Burkittsville from Cramptons Gap (also on South Mountain). Here is where the Corresponders Arch is located. The Arch was built to commerate the loss of life of corresponders covering American Wars ( I think Brady of Civil War Pic Fame is the one that generated the idea)..
Anyways....Spook Hill is supposedly the location of a Confederate Battery during the battle of South Mountain (The Feds came out of Middletown marching towards Sharpsburg and their were only 3 gaps in the mountain to take a Army through; The Gap where the old Nat'l Hwy went thru, Cramptons Gap, and the one formed by the Potomac River.
The Confederate battery in charge of protecting Cramptons Gap was annihilated by the Feds as the tried to retreat whith their canons up the hill.
Ever since that day it has been local lore that the Reb's are still trying to push those canons up the hill and will mistake your car for their canon and push you up the hill.

Then: at the first gap (old natl hwy) is an old stone church (very beautiful) that was a hospital during the Battle of S. Mountain and is haunted by the soldiers who died there. Supposedly when they were remodeling the church they found upward of 15 skeletons of both feds and rebs buried under the church. People have claimed to see latterns lights and heard screams coming from the church.
Then you have the bridge over the Antietam, Burnside Bridge (used to be a good trout hole) that when you wade under it you are supposed to be able to hear the voices of The Burnside Brigade charging and dying on the bridge...
That whole area up there is full of ghost stories. Some as old as the towns themselves, others from the Civil War/War Between the States(for our southern kin) and just other tales. Neat area to grow up in if you like ghost stories.

[Banker In Space]

War Between the States? I was always told it was the War of Northen Aggression!

http://www.georgia-outdoors.com/ubbngto/smile.gif

Glad I can post "nonsense" in the Owl's nest!

[BeeDub]

Or, as Granny Clampett referred to it, "The War Between the Yankees and the Americans."
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[jeffg]

When I visited older relatives in Macon and Jacksonville, they always stated it was "The War Between the States". I was always reprimanded for calling it the Civil War.
So is it the War Between the States, War of Northern Agression, or the Civil War??
Or is it all dependent on where you grew up and what you were taught in history/civics classes?>?>
Just curious...
Remember there aint nothing civil about war....

[The Ole Man]

Or as it was frequently referred to: "The Recent Unpleasantness"

[PeterG]

My grandmother, who was born in the 1880's, always said you could tell where someone was from by what they called that event. "Atrue southerner," she said, "would never refere to it as the Civil War, because that implies a war within a country. As far as the South was concerned, the countries were separate. Only a Yankee would call it the Civil War."

So yes - it depends on where you were raised.

[NiteOwl]

Oel Man, I can just hear someone's cousin "Mabellene" sayin that right that in th' hills of Southarn Ten-na-see !

Wowie, jeffg....so did you guys( Yankee talk) have plenty of "shrinks" in them thar parts er whut? http://www.georgia-outdoors.com/ubbngto/smile.gif haha

Never heard of one place havin so many ghost stories. Althogu ( Sorry Snowwhite! http://www.georgia-outdoors.com/ubbngto/smile.gif ) Alabama has it's share....but that's a whole dog-gone state, man ! http://www.georgia-outdoors.com/ubbngto/smile.gif


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