Where did the rumors of the cursed videotape come from?
Katie said that she and her friends accidentally made the tape while trying to record a football game, which leaves us with two possible scenarios: (1) They returned to school and promptly told everyone within earshot about the tape. (2) Theirs was not the master (primary) copy, and the rumor already existed. Remember that by Katie’s seventh day, the videotape had already become a rumor. For the first theory to be true, it would mean that Katie and her friends told so many people that the rumor had spread to at least one other high school — and yet somehow Becca had failed to hear of her close friend Katie’s involvement. Similarly, it would mean that those hearing the rumor had already forgotten who had had made the tape just a few days previous; no names were mentioned in the story that Becca told, which hardly seems plausible if those spreading the rumor had been telling a story about themselves. There’s also the fact that the rumor would had to have mutated at an impossibly fast ra
