This is the article I stumbled across in my research—the one that triggered my lengthy investigation into the Eileen Treacle portion of the Blair Witch legends.

What the article doesn't say is that Tappy East Creek is very shallow—only a few feet deep. How does a 10-year-old girl drown in such a small amount of water?

"Cold spots," areas of strange, intense chill, have historically been attributed to the presence of some supernatural entity or force. At first, I suspected that the unusual cold snap Cecilia and her group experienced on their trip had been caused by the presence of the ghost of Eileen Treacle—or the Blair Witch.

But apparently not. These documents show it was brutally cold all across Maryland that spring, with record low temperatures, courtesy of Mother Nature.

Check out the words Anna Treacle used in this 1826 newspaper article to describe her drowned daughter. Words like "lonely" and "playmates" are eerily similar to the words Lukas Graham used during the camping trip. Coincidence? I'm not sure.

Lukas may have actually spoken to the ghost of Eileen Treacle. On the other hand, he could have been faking it. Perhaps he somehow read the details from this news article before embarking on the camping trip.

I'd be surprised, however, if a seventh-grader had access to this source. I found it stored in the rare manuscript vault at the Maryland Historical Society.