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Joost : We've been doing it since high school. We're those annoying guys: "Come on, you don't have to film this. It's not interesting. Schulman : So [Nev] gets involved with this 8-year-old girl who's a painter. She's obsessed with his photos, he's a ballet photographer in New York, he's a dance junkie. He's a straight dance junkie, which is a good situation to be in.

I was already filming him, because I'm always filming him. I thought, "This looks like a friendship and sort of business relationship," because she starts painting and selling the paintings based on his photos, and they split the proceeds. It develops, and he meets her older sister, and they start to fall in love, and we're like, "Oh, that sounds like a longer short film about Internet romance, and it will end when they meet," and that's just the first act of the movie, and it takes a pretty severe degree turn from there.

Joost : We had no idea where it was headed. It was this soap opera unfolding in our office. It was engrossing. Ariel started filming it, and he's been wanting to make a movie about his brother, because separate from the movie, his brother is incredible, a real-life character and always attracting drama and people. He's a really charismatic person, and he has no filter, and he just wades into things. MTV : You mentioned that things take a serious turn. Were there moments when Nev wanted you guys to stop rolling?

Schulman : It was his life in front of the lens, and it gets pretty hairy. We have a couple arguments, and that's in the movie. There were times when I didn't want to go through with it, [Nev] didn't want to go through with it, [Joost] didn't want to go through with it.

The tables turned, and Joost : Ultimately, it became Nev's journey to find out the truth. He ended up convincing us to keep going at different points; each of us sort of chicken out at different points. Joost : It is a documentary in that it's something that actually happened and we filmed it and none of it is staged or fake. Schulman even doctored a photo to look like the two of them were posing together. I'm not going to reserve the fact that I really do like her and that I'm hoping it works out," he said.

Schulman was ready to meet Megan and a photo assignment in Vail, Colo. Schulman was planning a trip to Vail to shoot a dance performance and decided he'd make the hour drive from there to Megan's home in Michigan to finally see her face-to-face. But before the meeting could take place, Schulman learned something disturbing. Spoiler alert: The twists and turns of the movie "Catfish" are revealed in the remainder of this article.

He, his brother and Joost found song lyrics Megan claimed she and her mother had written together actually belonged to another artist. The rendition was nearly identical to a version Megan had sent them. But the discovery didn't keep Schulman from continuing with plans for his trip from Vail to Michigan's upper peninsula.

Now, however, the journey -- to be undertaken with his brother and Joost by his side -- would be about finding answers. If nothing else, don't you want to get -- find out what's real here?

Who these people are? After a 1, mile journey from Vail, they arrived at the house. Sure enough, they found Megan's mom, Angela, and her younger sister Abby. But there were also Angela's two handicapped stepsons -- who Schulman had heard nothing about. Megan, meanwhile, was nowhere to be seen, while Abby acted confused when Nev Schulman asked her about her paintings.

It turned out that Angela -- full name: Angela Wesselman -- was the artist. She would later divulge that after facing snide comments about her paintings online, she began posting them as 8-year-old Abby -- and found the critics to be much kinder.

Nev turned out to be the kindest of all -- and he became the inspiration for another Wesselman alter-ego: Megan. Megan became the core of Wesselman's growing cast of characters. She created online profiles for at least 21 relatives and friends to round out Megan's social circle, she said, because "it's not normal for just one person to be on Facebook To bring these characters to life, Angela assumed all of their identities.

She posted messages on Facebook in the voice of Abby, Megan, their brother and friends. She said she had no problem navigating such a complex fantasy world.

I don't think I have multiple personalities in normal life, really. I just think I have the ability to create a lot of illusions for people. But whether Nev, his brother and Joost really were outsmarted by Wesselman has become a point of contention. Some have questioned whether the whole movie was a hoax.