The film begins with the following text describing the urban legend:
"Black-Eyed Kids:
A contemporary urban legend consisting of paranormal creatures that resemble children with pale skin and black eyes who are reportedly seen hitchhiking, panhandling, or are encountered on doorsteps of residential homes.
Although labeled an urban legend, there have been hundreds of documented cases of individuals across the world coming into contact with these creatures...
...who have never been seen or heard from again."
"Black-Eyed Kids:
A contemporary urban legend consisting of paranormal creatures that resemble children with pale skin and black eyes who are reportedly seen hitchhiking, panhandling, or are encountered on doorsteps of residential homes.
Although labeled an urban legend, there have been hundreds of documented cases of individuals across the world coming into contact with these creatures...
...who have never been seen or heard from again."
Based on the modern urban myth of black-eyed children, which are paranormal creatures that resemble children between ages 6 and 16, with pale skin and black eyes, who are reportedly seen hitchhiking or begging, or are encountered on doorsteps of residential homes. While tabloid coverage of these creatures has claimed that tales have existed since the 1980s, most sources indicate that the legend originated from 1996 postings written by Texas reporter Brian Bethel on a "ghost-related mailing list." Bethel describes encountering two such children in Abilene, Texas in 1996, and claims that a second person had a similar, unrelated encounter in Portland, Oregon.