With all due respect, this was in one of your links: "i spoke w/ someone at my local video store about this and he told me that he had heard (rec.movies.urban.legends)..."
It's little more than one person hearing something from another person. If you've ever played the game "Grapevine" in school, you would know how quickly and easily a simple fact or assumption can be distorted.
Unless this footage can ever be found and seen, it's all academic.