Frank Hunter's first email to me rambled a bit, and it wasn't even signed. But when he mentioned the Black Hills (a.k.a.: Blair Witch territory) he got my attention.

Two children died suddenly after appearing in Lilith Roderick's dreams. One, an 11-year-old boy, was hit by a bus. The other was Lilith's own baby sister, Tina.

Is there any way, as Lilith believed, that she was actually responsible for these deaths? The record is fuzzy on Tina, clearer about Timothy. We may never know the whole truth, but we do know that Lilith suffered from terrible guilt for years. She never forgave herself for handing her baby sister over to the "Dream Woman" who regularly inhabited her nightly visions.

Was the "Dream Woman" really the Blair Witch? Hard to say, but their methods (the taking of children, bloodletting) are eerily similar.