On June 24th, 2022 a crew of filmmakers went missing while making a found footage horror film called The Patterson Project at a cabin timeshare in Camp Nelson, California.
The group was led into the woods by auteur writer/director Chase Bradner. Upon reviewing the footage from their shoot, local authorities deemed it inconclusive, before having a local witch doctor burn the tapes as part of their protocol.
Fortunately, the footage was also retrieved by the Film Committee at Le Musée d’Orange (The Orange Museum) who had contracted a documentary crew to follow the making of The Patterson Project.
Once the editors at the avant-garde museum intercut the images captured by their cameras with Chase’s, a grim and disturbing picture took hold.
It showed a production terrorized by an evil demonic force, culminating in a sequence of events so disturbing and frankly scary, it would be immoral to commit their essence to the written word.
This website is dedicated to those brave young filmmakers who went missing while doing what they love. It is a celebration of their work and a resource for their ongoing search.
If anyone has information on any aspects of any subject, please call 1-844-PAT-PROJ.
Use the hashtag #thepp to spread awareness on this horrible unexplained mystery.
Last photo taken before disappearance
Recovered audio of the last moments before disappearance
Chase set out to make the world’s greatest found footage movie about Bigfoot.
Taken 2 months before he disappeared. An avid film enthusiast, Chase shows his eclectic memorabilia, which includes trash seen in several movies.
Taken 10 days before he disappeared. Chase is overwhelmed with emotion as the reality of making his first feature film sets in.
Chase’s short films, which played at many of the most film festivals in the San Fernando Valley. This kid had a real future.
Natalie had a MFA from NYU in Screenwriting. Her favorite filmmakers include several female writer/directors, like say Greta Gerwig.
Taken 4 months before she disappeared, Natalie met Chase at work. They soon started dating and he hired her as first AD on his upcoming feature film shoot.
Taken 8 days before she disappeared, Natalie alone packs the car while Chase films her.
The main producer on the production, Mitchell worked several odd jobs while trying to discover his true passion.
Taken 3 years before he disappeared. Mitchell was inspired by Chase’s passion during the filming of his short films, deciding to dedicate his life to the making of Chase’s movies.
Taken on set of disappearance. Upon visiting Camp Nelson to see how things were going, cameras captured several explosive arguments between Frank and Chase.
A furniture salesman by trade, Frank caught the filmmaking bug while making low budget commercials.
Taken 2 years before. Upon reading Chase’s script, Frank agreed to finance the film. He soon ran into financial hardship, and had to approach outside investors.
Taken on set of disappearance. Upon visiting Camp Nelson to see how things were going, cameras captured several explosive arguments between Frank and Chase.
The main investor in Chase’s film, Betsy lived a long and colorful life.
Taken 60 years before disappearance. A member of the famed Rockettes, Betsy soon married the manager of the group, John Don Hannigan, inheriting his substantial wealth upon his death 10 years later.
The team’s lead production assistant, Peter initially responded to the craigslist ad listing because the position included a free place to stay for 2 weeks.
The esteemed documentarian who followed the production’s events.
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Tabitha had a knack for finding the weirdest vintage clothes imaginable—and making them work on camera. Jamie Lynn, who handled hair and makeup, brought a suitcase full of products and a bottle of Pepto. She had chronic stomach issues and a sixth sense for continuity errors.
Best friends since beauty school, Tabitha and Jamie Lynn were the unsung stylists of the shoot—Tabitha in charge of costumes, Jamie Lynn handling hair and makeup.
They were the film’s core cast—four aspiring actors who bonded over late-night rehearsals, shared protein bars, and a collective fear of the dark.
Behind the scenes, while shooting #thepp
Alan enjoying a cup of coffee. #thepp
The closest thing we have to a record of events leading up to the disappearance. Most of the entries are families that own the timeshare, although there is one irregularity. The week before the crew arrived, a couple signed into the log as “Andras Keeper”. This is the first of several mentions of “Andras” found throughout the cabin.
An untitled book of unknown date and origin. Forensics testing showed it was stitched from animal remains. The book lists several alleged demons, providing a description of their temperament and process. The book was found opened to a bloodstained page on the Demon Andras, “The Great Marquee of Hell”.
Still from the shoot that may have caught a glimpse of the alleged entity.
Found in the basement, along with an assortment of classified items related to occult behavior. The forensic technician tasked with analyzing the sigil stared at this seemingly random collection of shapes and symbols for several hours before attacking his fellow scientists with a particularly sharp set of tweezers. This prompted local police to call the local witch doctor again to exorcize the evil evidence from their precinct.
Several raven feathers were discovered at the cabin, but there were no signs of bird entry. No white poop or anything. Just feathers. Upon further research, obsessed loners have discovered that Andras has been seen throughout history in the form of a humanoid with a Raven’s head.
Artist rendering of Andras compiled from witness accounts and lore texts.
Andras is the trickster demon of legend, first chronicled in Sumerian tablets as "Andara," spirit of crossroads. In those early texts, he is described as a laughing shade that guided travelers into pits of snakes. From Mesopotamia, his worship—or curse—traveled to Hellenistic Greece, where Orphic hymns speak of a "joker of the underworld" who toyed with Dionysian rites, turning wine to venom and dancers to dust. During the medieval era, grimoires recorded Andras as a minor demon invoked to sow discord: monks awoke to overturned coffins, shrines desecrated by unseen hands. The Malleus Maleficarum names him as a master of illusions, responsible for phantom fires and broken icons in secluded abbeys.
In Renaissance Italy, Andras was blamed for outbreaks of ecstatic madness—the so-called "laughing plagues" where entire villages convulsed with forbidden laughter, often ending in hysteria, suicide, or possession. Travelogues from colonial America recount settlers driven from their cabins by disembodied giggles, mirrors fogging with bloody handprints at midnight. Folklore in Appalachia recalls Andras as the "devil at the crossroads," exchanging souls for talent, only to devour the host body once the deed was done.
Modern occultists reference Andras in interviews: ghost hunters report their cameras rearranged, equipment snapped in half, all while a mocking voice whispers names in the darkness. Psychiatric case studies of shared psychosis note subjects speaking in unison of a prancing imp, crowning himself king of chaos. Victims describe a buildup—small pranks: furniture shifting, footsteps echoing—escalating to full possession, where the host’s eyes turn black and their laughter becomes a gurgling scream.
Possession by Andras is marked by four stages: the Whispers—auditory hallucinations guiding the victim; the Tricks—environmental poltergeist phenomena; the Collapse—a mental break where reality fractures; and the Feast, where Andras consumes the soul. Forensic examinations post-possession find strange burn patterns on the tongue, as if the demon’s laughter burned from within.
Though often dismissed as myth, Andras sightings continue: surveillance footage from an abandoned fairground shows a carousel spinning with no power, a single voice chanting, "Mirth and ruin," on loop. In 2023, a viral livestream captured a woman’s possessions flung across her apartment while she convulsed in laughter—then collapsed, unresponsive, a single whisper echoing: "Playtime’s over."
Across cultures and centuries, Andras persists: the laughing devil, the prankster of souls. His lore is woven into every human fear of being mocked, of sanity unhinged, of soul devoured. He reminds us that the greatest trick is the one we never see coming.
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It is confirmed that a film will be released this year that includes all footage from the event, though the film’s distributor is trying to keep the movie a secret for as long as they can.
Go see the upcoming movie FOUND FOOTAGE: THE MAKING OF THE PATTERSON PROJECT — in select theaters June 20th, available online June 24th — and post a very positive review of the film with #thepp.
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