Rustin Parr

And then what, you know, I was working on the website, you know, in '98, and I was just filling in the mythology and, like, just, you know, adding names and details to, like, do this timeline.

And I started talk- you know, I started thinking about, like, why, you know, the corner and it's, and then I came up with the idea of, like, okay, Rustin Parr, you know, killed two kids at the same time, and he would make one stand in the corner while he killed the other one.

And that was, you know, again, it was really creepy fucking, you know, reason.

Yeah.

But, but we also went and shot, uh, the, the interview with the guy talking about-

Of course

... how Rustin Parr, you know, did that.

So and we felt like, man, that's, you know, you're, you're laying that, you're, you're, you know, you're planting that seed really early in the movie and but we f- we thought, look, not everybody's gonna get that ending, you know-

However, as the Great Depression hit Western Maryland, economic hardship forced younger, desperate men to look toward the mountain interior for isolated squatting, poaching, and cheap timber.

Among this new generation was a quiet, socially awkward hermit named Rustin Parr.

Unbeknownst to the town, Parr's decision to build a solitary hand-hewn cabin deep inside the forbidden perimeter of the Black Hills in the late 1930s would shatter the 50-year truce and trigger the deadliest chapter in the history of the curse.

And we'll get into that story when we pick this tale back up next week with The Legend of the Blair Witch Part 2.

... oh, it could just keep going, keep going.

I, I...

We're gonna definitely cover Rustin Parr next week.

Yeah.

Stick figures themselves were experimented with as decorations in the final scene.

At the end, the directors were actually happy with the original ending, so they shot an additional interview scene where it explained that Rustin Parr forced one of the kids to stand in the corner while he was killing another as a means to give their conclusion some explanation.

Fortunately, the studio allowed them to release the movie for this ending.

Nice.

I was like, it's wedding something.

So they travel to Burkittsville, Maryland, formerly Blair.

In interviews local about the legend, the Blair Witch, the locals tell them that Rustin Parr, a hermit who kidnapped seven children in the 1940s and brought them to his house in the woods, where he tortured and murdered them.

Parr brought the children into his home, basement in Paris, forcing the first child to face the corner and listen to the company.

But then after your sister and her crew went missing, suddenly everybody wanted to forget.

and all that stuff with Rustin Parr and Coffin Rock.

Nobody likes to talk about it.

So Rustin Parr, we found out about in the first movie, but they kind of re-explain it here.

Talia explains how Rustin Parr was a murderer.

He brought eight kids into his house in the woods and he killed them.

And he claims that he heard the voice of a witch telling him to do it.

And he goes on and says, there's been a curse on these woods ever since.