![]() ![]() Ghostly narratives carry lessons for us, too, even if we’re not in imminent danger. This is true both for the characters within a story and for us, the audience of readers or viewers. ![]() ![]() The mistake only becomes apparent once it’s too late. It is, of course, a common trope in ghost tales and horror films: We know the outlines of the story, we tell it to spook our friends, but we haven’t really listened. ![]() The young people-actors, all, though it didn’t seem that way at first-discount their interviews with locals (“Do you remember something that Mary Brown said the other day?” one of them asks her companions, before muttering to herself, “Fuck, I wasn’t listening to her because I thought she was a lunatic.”), only to find themselves the witch’s next victims. Take the horror film The Blair Witch Project, the 1999 cult blockbuster by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez that purports to tell the true story of three filmmakers who disappeared while working on a documentary about the legend of the Blair Witch, a ghost that haunts the forests near Burkittsville, Maryland. That, at least, is the message of many a ghost story. Sometimes we don’t pay close enough attention to the stories we’re given. ![]()
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