The history of the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in Kentucky and Tennessee is in a morbid way fascinating on its own terms, as under president John F. Kennedy, about 2,700 locals had to be forcefully removed from the area to create two big lakes by damming up the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, thus artificially creating a natural retreat, with the descendants of those refused still angered by the events back when. Anyways, what would any speck of land be without its own urban legends, the most popular of which is possibly the BLB Massacre that tells about a family of four that came out camping early in the season, and they were brutally butchered - nobody knows by who or what, but it might have been a dogman. Problem is, there's absolutely no record of that quadruple murder, not in the year it's supposed to have happened nor any other year - but then of course there's always the possibility of a cover-up, and the fact that a survivor of the massacre popped up years later adds some credibility to the story - or indeed does it? What has really been happening is that shortly after the massacre, a contractor company has been sent into the area to hunt and kill boars wholesale as the boar population has grown out of proportion - but that could of course have been part of the cover-up, right? What is a fact though is that since the massacre many locals claim to have had encournters with a dogman - claims that can't be debunked if for the mere fact that nobody can conclusively prove they're not true, but that still makes them nothing more than claims ...

... and this is where this documentary (like many other cryptozoological documentaries by Seth Breedlove) succeeds, it doesn't try to win the audience over with its stance of whatever subject but approaches its topic with an oral history point of view where it collects stories - some of which the film's presenters Aaron Deese and Shannon LeGro discuss and even openly dismiss - to present the audience with an urban myth-like phenomenon rather than an absolute truth and actually spins a rather fascinating yarn out of it that's highly entertaining and even educational, no matter what your stance on the topic is, as it leaves the audience to come up with their own conclusions while watching a very well-made documentary.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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