What if some accidental deaths aren't actually accidents? It's a classic horror and crime trope, finding malice and agency behind what appears to be random or natural violence.
"Unauthorized Drowning" (part 1, part 2) posits an evil force behind a series of drownings. It's a short work, around 18 minutes.
The style is fictional documentary, a straight-faced hoax. So much is evident from the videos themselves:
The YouTube description field goes further. In Web 2.0 storytelling style, it adds supplementary material in the form of text-based background story:
Part One of the Directors Proof Dub of the pulled Canadian documentary on Drowning. I was able to get this off a file-sharing site. This is the one that the CBC pulled off the air because of the Morris family and UC Davis
And yet I can't find anything else on the Web about "Unauthorized". Is this a would-be viral project, a la Blair Witch, but which never took off?
(thanks to my dear wife)
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